Malorie

晨光下，世界一片破敗荒涼，一個蒙著眼的女人帶著兩個蒙著眼的孩子划船順流而下。

他們要去哪裡？他們在躲避什麼？

五年前，電視上出現奇怪的新聞，人們突然發狂然後離奇死亡，據說他們死前都看見了某種「生物」。在一無所知的情況下，恐懼的人們開始封鎖家中的每扇窗，不再出門，不願看向屋外，再也沒人見過世界變成什麼模樣。懷孕的梅樂莉眼見姊姊以詭異的方式結束了自己的生命，她決定去尋找在報上刊登分類廣告的那些人──加入他們，在安全的大房子裡想辦法活下去。

某天夜裡，一個男人帶著一個公事包敲響了大門。大夥接納了他。但梅樂莉無法信任他，她偷來了公事包，裡頭有本筆記本，上頭寫著：人類就是他們自己所恐懼的生物，會發瘋全是自己害的……梅樂莉不寒而慄。他怎麼知道？他見過那種「生物」嗎？他說的是真的嗎？一切都是人們的腦袋在作祟……

作者以潛伏的怪物為隱喻，探討人類面對末日與未知的態度，超現實的恐怖情節富有哲學意涵，安靜的文字間充滿了飽滿的情緒張力。國際書評將其譽為恐怖驚悚大師希區考克的《鳥》與史蒂芬．金的《迷霧驚魂》之綜合體。

In the thrilling sequel to Bird Box, the inspiration for the record-breaking Netflix film that starred Sandra Bullock and “absolutely riveted” Stephen King, New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman brings unseen horrors to life.

“This sequel is as tense and harrowing as the original, with a new depth that raises the stakes.”—Riley Sager, author of Lock Every Door

Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence.

There remains no explanation. No solution.

All Malorie can do is survive—and impart her fierce will to do so on her children. Don’t get lazy, she tells them. Don’t take off your blindfold. AND DON’T LOOK.

But then comes what feels like impossible news. And with it, the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope.

Someone very dear to her, someone she believed dead, may be alive.

Malorie has already lost so much: her sister, a house full of people who meant everything, and any chance at an ordinary life. But getting her life back means returning to a world full of unknowable horrors—and risking the lives of her children again.

Because the creatures are not the only thing Malorie fears: There are the people who claim to have caught and experimented on the creatures. Murmerings of monstrous inventions and dangerous new ideas. And rumors that the creatures themselves have changed into something even more frightening.

Malorie has a harrowing choice to make: to live by the rules of survival that have served her so well, or to venture into the darkness and reach for hope once more.