![]() ![]() She, no doubt, represents our protagonist’s panic attack. “But one evening, with all this in mind, Daphne, the seven-foot denim-clad madwoman, practically walked into my office unbidden. It’s believed Daphne’s ghost still walks the earth and will appear to kill again. The night before the big game, one of her teammates tells a story about Daphne, a girl rumored to be a murderer who went to their school many years ago and died under mysterious circumstances. “Daphne” (Del Rey $28) occurs during the summer prior to basketball star Kit Lamb’s senior year of high school. That was a gift I couldn’t have known I’d been handed at the time,” said Malerman. “The first scary movie I saw was (1983’s) ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie.’ Changed my life… It showed me right away by nature of the very different stories within, it showed me the elasticity of the genre. Influenced by the works of Stephen King, Alfred Hitchcock, and Agatha Christie, Malerman’s 2014 debut novel “Bird Box” became a Netflix movie of the same name in 2018 with Oscar winner Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side”), Oscar nominee John Malkovich (“In the Line of Fire”) and Golden Globe winner Sarah Paulson (“The People vs. “And that is the best feeling for a guy like me!” said Malerman, 48, an alumnus of West Bloomfield High School and Michigan State University, who lives in Ferndale with his fiancée Allison Laako. ![]() ![]() There were several scenes that even scared New York Times best-selling author Josh Malerman when he was writing his latest horror novel, “Daphne.” ![]()
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