Watching Evil Dead
From the bestselling author of Bird Box and Incidents Around the House, an impassioned book about a night that changed the author's life and put into perspective the writing life—and how you can also be inspired to embrace your own creativity and do your best work.
One night Josh Malerman—then just an aspiring writer—watched Sam Raimi's Evil Dead with his fiancée and two friends. It was a gathering that could have been an unremarkable date night with a movie, but became, for Malerman, a life-changing landmark.
Over the course of the night, he reflects on his life, from his career as a musician to his stack of rough drafts. And on how meeting the love of his life, a fellow creative, opened him up to new experiences and new ways of viewing the world they now quest through together.
Malerman deploys his own story to help readers not only write their unwritten stories, but to celebrate their uncelebrated victories: to find their voice, their vision, and their joie de vivre. By simply describing an uncommon and uncanny night, Malerman guides aspiring writers beyond the blank page to the immortal life of the writer--to find the courage, fire, and passion to make their own deeply personal, beautifully strange art.
Watching Evil Dead is an artist speaking directly to the artist in all of us, and to the unique spark that’s at the heart of making art.
