"Josh Malerman is a master at unsettling you-and keeping you off-balance until the last page is turned."-Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Blackbirds J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. J is one of only twenty-six students, all of whom think of the school's enigmatic founder as their father. J's peers are the only family he has ever had. The students are being trained to be prodigies of art, science, and athletics, and their life at the school is all they know-and all they are allowed to know. But J suspects that there is something out there, beyond the pines, that the founder does not want him to see, and he's beginning to ask questions. What is the real purpose of this place? Why can the students never leave? And what secrets is their father hiding from them? Meanwhile, on the other side of the forest, in a school very much like J's, a girl named K is asking the same questions. J has never seen a girl, and K has never seen a boy. As K and J work to investigate the secrets of their two strange schools, they come to discover something even more mysterious: each other.
Josh Malerman (Southfield, Michigan, Estados Unidos, 1975) es un escritor, músico y cantautor estadounidense, reconocido principalmente por sus novelas de terror, suspenso y ficción especulativa. Antes de dedicarse por completo a la escritura, fue el vocalista y compositor de la banda de rock The High Strung, con la que realizó numerosas giras y publicó varios álbumes. Su experiencia artística ha influido en el ritmo narrativo y la atmósfera de sus obras literarias.
Alcanzó fama internacional con su primera novela, Bird Box (2014), un thriller de terror psicológico que se convirtió en un éxito de ventas y fue adaptado al cine por Netflix en 2018, protagonizado por Sandra Bullock. Posteriormente publicó la secuela Malorie (2020), además de novelas como Black Mad Wheel (2017), Inspection (2019), Pearl (2021), Daphne (2022), Incidents Around the House (2024) y We Were Never Here (2025). Sus historias se caracterizan por crear una tensión constante, explorar los miedos humanos y combinar elementos sobrenaturales con conflictos psicológicos. Considerado una de las voces más importantes del terror contemporáneo, Josh Malerman continúa escribiendo obras que han sido ampliamente elogiadas por la crítica y los lectores por su originalidad y capacidad para generar suspenso.