Daphne, Josh Malerman
Daphne, Josh Malerman
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Daphne

Author: Josh Malerman

Narrator: Patricia Santomasso

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2022

Synopsis

Horror has a new name: Daphne. 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.

“A superb serial killer novel and a great coming-of-age story.”—Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Paste

It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. The last summer before her life begins.

But 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. Some say she was murdered, others that she died by her own hand. And some say that Daphne is a murderer herself. They also say that Daphne is still out there, obsessed with revenge, and will appear to kill again anytime someone thinks about her.

After Kit hears the story, her teammates vanish, one by one, and Kit begins to suspect that the stories about Daphne are real . . . and to fear that her own mind is conjuring the killer. 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.

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.

About Josh Malerman

Josh Malerman is the acclaimed author of Bird Box and more than three dozen books, as well as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band the High Strung. He has been nominated for multiple Bram Stoker Awards and lives in Michigan.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nilufer

Daphne is a ghost… Daphne was a woman who lived in Samhattan in the '80s and '90s. She was a seven-foot social freak who had no friends and no family that anybody knew of. She gave creepy looks, staring at kids at food courts of the town mall, alerting parents because those kids reminded her of her s......more

Goodreads review by Gabby

Ahhh I'm so happy I finally loved another Josh Malerman. This one might be one of my top favorites from him too. Which is so wild because I almost DNF'ed this book at the beginning, the first 50 pages were so hard to get into and it felt like nothing was happening. Luckily, the audiobook helped me p......more

Goodreads review by Debra

It's the last summer before college. It should be a happy, carefree time. Time to spend with friends and family before venturing off into one's future. But it's not so happy nor it is carefree. Kit Lamb heard about Daphne before her last high school basketball game. One of her teammates tells the st......more

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“Daphne is a superb serial killer novel and a great coming-of-age story. Josh Malerman delivers one of his best novels yet, and one of the most memorable villains in recent history. 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

“Daphne is somehow both a terrifying serial killer story and a beautiful meditation on the psychic gulf between adolescence and adulthood. It left me sniffing for smoke and jumping at shadows.”—Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Violence

“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. 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

“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. 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

“A swift and fierce novel about collective forgetting, repression, anxiety, and fear—and above all a seemingly unstoppable villain . . . Sleek and scary, it looms larger and larger with every page.”—Brian Evenson, author of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

“If you don’t start your summer with a copy of this—crinkled spine, worn pages, crammed in the back pocket of your jeans—you’re doing it all wrong. Daphne will scare the bejesus out of you. This is Malerman at his best.”—J. D. Barker, New York Times bestselling author of A Caller’s Game

“Key author Malerman delivers another winner.  . . . A thought-provoking and honest conversation about anxiety wrapped around a Freddy Krueger-esque slasher . . . For fans of cursed small towns like in Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s Hex, or other fresh takes on the teen slasher like Jessica Guess’s Cirque Berserk.”—Library Journal

“Malerman, whose first published novel, 2014’s Bird Box, immediately established him as a horror voice to be reckoned with, outdoes himself here. A palpable feeling of evil permeates the book; like Kit, we are in a constant state of unease, wondering what is about to happen and whether Daphne really has returned, all these years later, to wreak havoc on the community. Genius at work.”—Booklist (starred review)

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