Spin a Black Yarn (preorder)

(preorder—to be published in December/January)

Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Ben Baldwin.

Published SST Publications.

Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Ben Baldwin

About the Book:

Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box, featuring the World Fantasy Award winning “Half the House Is Haunted”

BRAM STOKER AWARD FINALIST • AN ESQUIRE AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Josh Malerman is a master weaver of stories—and in this spine-chilling collection he spins five twisted tales from the shadows of the human soul:

A sister insists to her little brother that “Half the House Is Haunted” by a strange presence. But is it the house that’s haunted—or their childhoods?

In “Argyle,” a dying man confesses to homicides he never committed, and he reveals long-kept secrets far more sinister than murder.

A tourist takes the ultimate trip to outer space in “The Jupiter Drop,” but the real journey is into his own dark past.

In “Doug and Judy Buy the House Washer™,” a trendy married couple buys the latest home gadget only to find themselves trapped by their possessions, their history . . . and each other.

And in “Egorov,” a wealthy old cretin murders a young man, not knowing the victim was a triplet. The two surviving brothers stage a savage faux-haunting—playing the ghost of their slain brother—with the aim of driving the old murderer mad.

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
• 6.14” x 9.21” trim size
• 416 pages
• Offset printed on 100gsm Munken Print Cream
• Bound in full cloth
• Head and tail bands
• Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Full-colour endpapers
• Sewn binding
• Ribbon page marker
• Dust jacket artwork and interior illustrations by Ben Baldwin

From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review):

Bestseller Malerman (Bird Box) returns with a chilling volume of five horror novellas crafted with a perfect mix of intrigue, disgust, tension, and, of course, fear… Malerman’s narratives succeed through not revealing too much—there’s no excessive gore, no jump scares or cheap tricks. Instead, he allows pressure to slowly build and refuses to let it break even when the stories conclude… This is everything one wants out of a horror collection.”

From Booklist (Starred Review):

“Malerman invites readers to visit Samhattan, Michigan, home of Daphne, with five intensely unsettling and utterly original novellas… While vastly different in plot, each hooks readers by introducing unease in their first lines, taking on well-known tropes with fresh eyes, and pushing it all to the edge of expectation, sometimes even pitching it over the cliff. These are among the best novellas published yet this year.”

From Library Journal:

“Malerman has shown himself to be a genre chameleon, going from the apocalypse in Bird Box to Westerns in Unbury Carol, and he continues to evolve with this wide-ranging collection.”