The goal is to raise “the world’s greatest engineers, scientists, and mathematicians.” Humans are not the result of procreation but quite literally grow on trees. In the meantime, we have “Inspection,” a novel whose premise is also claustrophobic and unsettling, but more ambitious than that of “Bird Box.” A married couple, convinced that “genius is distracted by the opposite sex,” create an elaborate world in the woods of northern Michigan where 26 boys are raised from birth in one tower and 26 girls in another neither group is allowed to know another sex exists. The novel became a frightening movie and then an even more terrifying cult phenomenon, as people began vying for Darwin Awards by doing stupid things while blindfolded - including, yes, driving.Ī sequel, “Malorie,” is set to publish in October. The brilliant elevator pitch behind that book? When you see it, whatever it is, you will kill yourself on the spot: hence, the mother’s need for the blindfold. This is must-read horror.Josh Malerman is best known for his disturbing, deeply original novel “Bird Box,” about a mother determined to save her two young children, even though it will mean rowing 20 miles down a river, blindfolded. The dark, fantastic tone will put readers in mind of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. The tales that follow dive further into Goblin’s many secrets while keeping up this off-kilter atmosphere, exploring the fallout from a friendship with a troubled loner (”A Man in Slices”), a sybaritic birthday party for Goblin’s most notorious big game hunter (“Happy Birthday, Hunter”), a gifted magician who refuses to share his secrets (“Presto”), the solving of an elaborate puzzle-maze (“The Hedges”), and more. Additionally, if Tommy misses the delivery window, or no one answers the door, he’s to destroy the package immediately. Though Tommy agrees to the lucrative assignment, he’s disturbed by the client’s odd instructions: the package is to be dropped off only between midnight and 12:30 a.m., and no attempt can be made to open it. “Prologue: Welcome” admirably sets the eerie tone, as truck driver Tommy is tasked with delivering a box to a resident of Goblin. Malerman ( Bird Box) tantalizes readers with this enigmatic linked collection of horror novellas, which interweaves six stories set in the unsettling city of Goblin, Mich.
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