Josh Malerman Gets Shushed by a Ghost

Today’s guest is Josh Malerman, a New York Times-bestselling author, who’s debut novel, Bird Box, was the inspiration for the hit Netflix movie. His follow up to Bird Box, MALORIE, has just been published, but what we’re here for are his spooky REAL LIFE ghost stories! AND I can’t wait to tell you about the what happened at the Eloise Asylum!  PLUS Lisa Morton has an all new Ghost Report. Let’s go boo!  Josh is also, the singer/songwriter of the Detroit rock band The High Strung, Josh toured the country for six years, as the band played an average of 250 shows a year, The song "The Luck You Got" from The High Strung album Moxie Bravo is featured as the theme song to the US version of the show Shameless. and Malerman wrote many of the rough drafts for his novels in the passenger seat between cities on tour. He says this about those days: “I never saw the books with dollar signs in my eyes. It was no hobby, that’s for sure, it was the real thing and always has been, but I was happy, then, simply writing, and while I blindly assumed they’d be published one day, I had no idea how something like that occurred.” As the pile of rough drafts grew, so did the questions as to what he was planning on doing with them. Bird Box (2014, ECCO/HarperCollins)[17] Black Mad Wheel (2017, ECCO/HarperCollins) Goblin (2017, Earthling Publications) Unbury Carol (2018, Del Rey/Penguin Random House) On This, The Day of the Pig (2018, Cemetery Dance) Inspection (2019, Del Rey/Penguin Random House) Carpenter's Farm (2020, serialized on joshmalerman.com) Malorie (2020, Del Rey/Penguin Random House) All of Josh’s books seem to have a creepy paranormal tone to them and we are about to find out where his love for the genre began, what inspires him and of course some real life paranormal encounters.   JOSH MALERMAN https://joshmalerman.com Twitter / Instagram @JoshMalerman Facebook @jmalerman   Ghost Magnet Podcast Links Facebook: @GhostMagnetTV Instagram: @ghost_magnet_podcast YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/yxk5t53z Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ghost-magnet-with-bridget-marquardt/id1451559688 Libsyn: https://ghostmagnet.libsyn.com NEW - The Ghost Magnet Shop: https://www.cafepress.com/ghostmagnet   Bridget Marquardt Bridget Marquardt is best known to television audiences and pop-culture connoisseurs as the sweet and brainy star of E! Networks’ wildly popular reality show “The Girls Next Door.” After moving out of the Playboy mansion in January 2009, Marquardt hosted “Bridget’s Sexiest Beaches,” a sixteen-episode series on The Travel Channel in which she traveled the globe searching for the world’s best surf, sand, and sun in countries including Croatia, Jamaica, Thailand, Spain, Australia, and the United States.  Instagram: @BridgetMarquardt Twitter: @Bridget  Facebook: @BridgetMarquardt   Lisa Morton - The Ghost Report Everyday is Halloween to award winning horror author and Ghost Reporter Lisa Morton. She has published four novels, 150 short stories, and three books on the history of Halloween. Her most recent releases include Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writer 1852-1923 (co-edited with Leslie S. Klinger) and Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances. www.lisamorton.com