Incidents Around the House.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nAfter a magical night out on the town with her boyfriend Jack, Emily wakes alone in a huge bed in a beautiful, well-lit room. But the pink ceiling, the mauve walls, and the deep, dark corners are nothing like the hotel she and Jack rented.<\/p>\n
More worrisome yet: Emily has no memory of this place from the night before. <\/p>\n
Where is she?<\/p>\n
A woman\u2019s voice directs her to remain in bed. <\/p>\n
Just so . . .<\/em><\/p>\nAnd beyond the end of the bed, a picture frame upon an easel\u2014a frame with no canvas, no painting, no art.<\/p>\n
Only . . . there is<\/em> the silhouette of a person Emily does not recognize. A person emanating demand, danger, evil. And the way the woman talks . . . and the things she says . . . She\u2019s acting as if Emily herself is<\/em> the painting. The still life. The art.<\/p>\nEmily is as scared as she is confused. But it\u2019s immediately clear Jack\u2019s life is on the line with her own. And if she attempts to escape the bed and the wood frame of this nightmare masterwork, neither will survive the experience.<\/p>\n
Emily is fierce, independent, brilliant, but to get out of this, she\u2019ll have to think like an artist herself.<\/p>\n
The clock is ticking.<\/p>\n
For Emily.<\/p>\n
For Jack.<\/p>\n
For being forever trapped.<\/p>\n
Josh Malerman\u2019s unforgettable and terrifying Incidents Around the House<\/em> became an instant classic of horror\u2014and now Malerman has done it again. Pictures of You <\/em>is a tale of thrilling terror that will chill you until the last page\u2014and have you thinking of the heroine\u2019s search for love and the meaning of art long after.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Malerman and the Wow Town players will be presenting the national release of Malerman’s new novel: Pictures of You on Thursday, Sept. 8,\u00a0 doors open at 6:30pm play begins at 7pm followed by a book signing\u00a0at Ant Hall in Hamtramck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[814,659],"tags":[901,740,375,1009],"class_list":["post-75049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-signings-lectures","category-detroit-writer","tag-book-signings","tag-horror-fiction","tag-josh-malerman","tag-wow-town-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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