Incidents Around the House (preorder)

(preorder—to be published this Spring)

Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Ben Baldwin.

Published by SST Publications.

“Deeply discomfiting, imaginatively ripe, yet ruthlessly efficient [with] claustrophobic terror that almost transcends articulation . . . Simply put—and I do not say this lightly—Incidents Around the House is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read.”—Neil McRobert, Esquire

A young girl’s troubled family is haunted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy” in this chilling tale from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box.

“This book is the monster that lives inside your closet.”—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House

COMING SOON AS THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OTHER MOMMY, STARRING JESSICA CHASTAIN • LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE

To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: “Can I go inside your heart?”

When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her family will soon pay.

Other Mommy is getting restless, stronger, bolder. Only the bonds of family can keep Bela safe, but other incidents show cracks in her parents’ marriage. The safety Bela relies on is about to unravel.

But Other Mommy needs an answer.

Incidents Around the House is a chilling, wholly unique tale of true horror about a family as haunted as their home.

Signed Limited Hardcover Edition:

• Limited to only 500 signed and hand-numbered copies
• Signed by Josh Malerman and Ben Baldwin on a specially designed full-colour illustrated signature page
• 14” x 9.21” trim size
• 440 pages
• Offset printed on 100gsm Munken Print Cream
• Bound in full cloth
• Head and tail bands
• Featuring six interior illustrations printed in full-colour on a special silk art stock & tipped into the book
• Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Full-colour endpapers
• Sew binding
• Ribbon page marker
• Dust jacket artwork and interior illustrations by Ben Baldwin

Praise for Incidents Around the House:

“Bela’s naive narrative voice is the book’s best feature, freshening up the familiar story beats and enhancing the creeping sense of dread. Malerman’s fans will want to check this out.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Malerman (Spin a Black Yarn, 2023) is back with a new novel that begins uneasily and relentlessly builds to full-out, feel-it-in-your-gut terrifying.”

—Booklist

“In this novel, Malerman (Spin A Black Yarn) explores the idea of a family, rather than a house, being haunted. This is intensified through the use of Bela as the novel’s narrator and the fact that her family is nearly her entire world.”

—Library Journal

“Deeply discomfiting, imaginatively ripe, yet ruthlessly efficient . . . Simply put—and I do not say this lightly—Incidents Around the House is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read.”
—Esquire, “Best Horror Books of 2024”

“A disturbing bedtime story told by a broken child, this book IS the monster that lives inside your closet.”
—Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House

“A gleeful, mean, old-school scare machine . . . You just have to turn the first page to set it off.”
—Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Horror Movie