Daphne is both a new spin on the slasher genre and a deeply rewarding novel about the nature of the horrors inside us.” -Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds

“Welcome to Samhattan, Michigan, a place where Kit’s ever-looming anxiety of senior year and the threat of a monstrous ghost stalking her teammates are equally real and terrifying. You’ll be triple-checking the locks and sleeping with all the lights in the house on bright, too afraid to close your eyes.” -Peng Shepherd, USA Today bestselling author of The Cartographers “This terrifying little book will get you just like Daphne does-first with curiosity, then fascination, and before you know it, you’re sucked in deep, and it’s too late. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Violence It left me sniffing for smoke and jumping at shadows.” -Delilah S. “ Daphne is somehow both a terrifying serial killer story and a beautiful meditation on the psychic gulf between adolescence and adulthood. This is the literary equivalent of a defibrillator, and the shock will leave you feeling alive and wanting more.” -Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home

Josh Malerman delivers one of his best novels yet, and one of the most memorable villains in recent history. “ Daphne is a superb serial killer novel and a great coming-of-age story. Mixing a nostalgic coming-of-age story and an instantly iconic female villain with an innovative new vision of classic horror, Daphne is an unforgettable thriller as only Josh Malerman could imagine it. Now it’s a race against time as Kit searches for the truth behind the legend and learns to face her own fears-before the summer of her lifetime becomes the last summer of her life. and to fear that her own mind is conjuring the killer. They also say that Daphne is still out there, obsessed with revenge, and will appear to kill again anytime someone thinks about her.Īfter Kit hears the story, her teammates vanish, one by one, and Kit begins to suspect that the stories about Daphne are real. And some say that Daphne is a murderer herself. Some say she was murdered, others that she died by her own hand. The last summer before her life begins.īut the night before the big game, one of the players tells a ghost story about Daphne, a girl who went to their school many years ago and died under mysterious circumstances. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college.

“A superb serial killer novel and a great coming-of-age story.”-Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box.

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