A chilling debut Maler man.. keeps us tinglingly on edge with his cool, merciless storytelling. This earns comparisons to Hitchcock The Birds , as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan Carroll. Kirkus Reviews starred review Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future where an unimaginable, incomprehensible, and invisible foe lurks in the shadows now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition Something is out there. Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. But the journey ahead will be terrifying twenty miles downriver in a rowboat blindfolded with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them.