--- product_id: 12614473 title: "Bird Box: The Inspiration for the Film, a Gripping Post-Apocalyptic Thriller with a Heart-Pounding Twist" price: "¥3692" currency: JPY in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.jp/products/12614473-bird-box-the-inspiration-for-the-film-a-gripping-post store_origin: JP region: Japan --- # Bird Box: The Inspiration for the Film, a Gripping Post-Apocalyptic Thriller with a Heart-Pounding Twist **Price:** ¥3692 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Bird Box: The Inspiration for the Film, a Gripping Post-Apocalyptic Thriller with a Heart-Pounding Twist - **How much does it cost?** ¥3692 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.jp](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/12614473-bird-box-the-inspiration-for-the-film-a-gripping-post) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description “[A] chilling debut . . . Malerman . . keeps us tinglingly on edge with his cool, merciless storytelling. . . . This earns comparisons to Hitchcock’s The Birds , as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan Carroll.”— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat psychological horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future where an unimaginable, incomprehensible, and invisible foe lurks in the shadows—now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition Something is out there. Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. But the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children’s trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them. But is it man, animal, or monster? Engulfed in darkness, surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey of survival—a trip that takes her into an unseen world and back into the past, to the companions who once saved her. Malerman’s breathtaking debut novel is a horrific and gripping snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page. Review: Survival horror gem - You saw the movie and thought it was alright? Cool now ignore that and read this book. It's 12 times better. I wasn't a big fan of the movie, like I enjoyed it but I'm not like a huge fan yah know. I read a lot of books and I can't lie, this just stuck with me. It's one of my favorites. The movie does no justice to how good this book is. If you liked the concept of the movie, read this book. The plot given to you in words strikes so much hotter on the pan then the movie did. The nuiances in words and detail do more justice here in the book. Pull that trigger if your interested. Let it happen. It hits on some key points I look for in a story that fits my needs. It's got suspense, survival horror, tactical thoughts to resolve issues. I love stories where the characters in that universe react like intelligent normal humans. Thinking logically to what context they are dealing with. The story is told in an interesting past and present method that is easy to digest. You will predictably grasp it. Read this if your barely interested it's worth it. Review: A fine unique wine of a horror novel, where every sip will give you the cold shivers - Bird Box by John Malerman is absolutely one of the most tensely claustrophobic horror novels I've ever read. Some horror is based on fear of things you see. And some horror is based on fear of things you don't see. Bird Box has a different kind of horror going on - a fear of things that you must not see. Malorie lives in rural Michigan, in a run-down house with two small children. The three of them have not seen or spoken to another human being in four years. All of the windows and doors have been carefully covered over with blankets, tape, paper, tarps, anything to prevent any possibility of ever glimpsing anything outside the house, even by accident. When Malorie has to go outside, she wears a blindfold tied tightly in place. The children sleep with blindfolds in carefully covered pens. Because there are _things_ out there, and to see them, even for a second, means madness and painful torturous death. But the day has come when Malorie and the two children must leave the house, feel their way to a boat on the river, and then blindly make their way down the river, in the hope that maybe, just maybe, there's a place of safety that still exists in the world. The chapters alternate, sometimes in the present, more often in the past as we learn about the events of the preceding five years that led to Malorie's current situation. A lot of what makes Bird Box work is the atmosphere Malerman creates for the reader where he immerses you into a world where there's something out there, something that if seen, even by accident, even for a second, results in murderous insanity and death. Something that no one knows what it looks like because no one who sees it, even indirectly, survives intact to describe it. And you can feel Malorie's mounting apprehension early on in flashbacks as the outside world grows more and more ominous: "It is six months before the children are born. Malorie is showing. Blankets cover every window in the house. The front door is never left unlocked and never left open. Reports of unexplainable events have been surfacing with an alarming frequency. What was once breaking news twice a week now develops every day. Government officials are interviewed on television. Stories from as far east as Maine, as far south as Florida, have both sisters now taking precautions. Shannon, who visits dozens of blogs daily, fears a mishmash of ideas, a little bit of everything she reads. Malorie doesn't know what to believe. New stories appear hourly online. It's the only thing anybody talks about on social media and it's the only topic on the news pages. New websites are devoted entirely to the evolution of information on the subject. One site features only a global map, with small red faces placed upon the cities in which something occurred. Last time Malorie checked, there were more than three hundred faces. Online, they are calling it 'the Problem.' There exists the widespread communal belief that whatever 'the Problem' is, it definitely begins when a person _sees_ something. -- Malorie resisted believing it as long as she could. The sisters argued constantly, Malorie citing the pages the derided mass hysteria, Shannon citing everything else. But soon Malorie had to relent, when the pages she frequented began to run stories about their own loved ones, and the authors of these pages stepped forward to admit some concern. -- Cracks, Malorie thought then. Showing even in the skeptics. -- Days passed in which Malorie experienced a sort of double life. Neither sister left the house anymore. Both made sure the windows were covered. They watched CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News until they physically couldn't watch the same stories repeating themselves. And while Shannon grew more serious, and even grave, Malorie held on toe a pinch of hope that this would all simply go away. -- But it didn't. And it got worse. -- Three months into living like shut-ins, Malorie and Shannon's worse fears came true when their parents stopped answering their phone. They didn't answer e-mails either. -- Malorie wanted to drive north to the Upper Peninsula. But Shannon refused. -- "We're just going to have to hope they're being safe, Malorie. We're going to have to hope their phone was shut off. Driving anywhere right now would be dumb. Even to the store, and driving nine hours would be suicide." -- 'The Problem' always resulted in suicide. Fox News had reported the word so often that they were now using synonyms. 'Self-destruction.' 'Self-immolation.' 'Hari-Kari.' One anchorman described it as 'personal erasing,' a phrase that did not catch on. Instructions from the government were reprinted on the screen. A national curfew was mandated. People were advised to lock their doors, cover their windows, and, above all, not to look outside. On the radio, music was replaced entirely with discussions. -- A blackout, Malorie thinks. The world, the outdoors, is being shut down." What's even more remarkable about Bird Box is that it's Malerman's first novel. It was nominated this year for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, a nomination that was well deserved. Highly, highly recommended for anyone who enjoys a novel that will literally make you afraid to look up or turn around. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #55,656 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #211 in Science Fiction Crime & Mystery #274 in Holiday Fiction (Books) #388 in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 26,736 Reviews | ## Images ![Bird Box: The Inspiration for the Film, a Gripping Post-Apocalyptic Thriller with a Heart-Pounding Twist - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81emdVIJjoL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Survival horror gem *by B***S on January 1, 2026* You saw the movie and thought it was alright? Cool now ignore that and read this book. It's 12 times better. I wasn't a big fan of the movie, like I enjoyed it but I'm not like a huge fan yah know. I read a lot of books and I can't lie, this just stuck with me. It's one of my favorites. The movie does no justice to how good this book is. If you liked the concept of the movie, read this book. The plot given to you in words strikes so much hotter on the pan then the movie did. The nuiances in words and detail do more justice here in the book. Pull that trigger if your interested. Let it happen. It hits on some key points I look for in a story that fits my needs. It's got suspense, survival horror, tactical thoughts to resolve issues. I love stories where the characters in that universe react like intelligent normal humans. Thinking logically to what context they are dealing with. The story is told in an interesting past and present method that is easy to digest. You will predictably grasp it. Read this if your barely interested it's worth it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fine unique wine of a horror novel, where every sip will give you the cold shivers *by W***D on November 29, 2015* Bird Box by John Malerman is absolutely one of the most tensely claustrophobic horror novels I've ever read. Some horror is based on fear of things you see. And some horror is based on fear of things you don't see. Bird Box has a different kind of horror going on - a fear of things that you must not see. Malorie lives in rural Michigan, in a run-down house with two small children. The three of them have not seen or spoken to another human being in four years. All of the windows and doors have been carefully covered over with blankets, tape, paper, tarps, anything to prevent any possibility of ever glimpsing anything outside the house, even by accident. When Malorie has to go outside, she wears a blindfold tied tightly in place. The children sleep with blindfolds in carefully covered pens. Because there are _things_ out there, and to see them, even for a second, means madness and painful torturous death. But the day has come when Malorie and the two children must leave the house, feel their way to a boat on the river, and then blindly make their way down the river, in the hope that maybe, just maybe, there's a place of safety that still exists in the world. The chapters alternate, sometimes in the present, more often in the past as we learn about the events of the preceding five years that led to Malorie's current situation. A lot of what makes Bird Box work is the atmosphere Malerman creates for the reader where he immerses you into a world where there's something out there, something that if seen, even by accident, even for a second, results in murderous insanity and death. Something that no one knows what it looks like because no one who sees it, even indirectly, survives intact to describe it. And you can feel Malorie's mounting apprehension early on in flashbacks as the outside world grows more and more ominous: "It is six months before the children are born. Malorie is showing. Blankets cover every window in the house. The front door is never left unlocked and never left open. Reports of unexplainable events have been surfacing with an alarming frequency. What was once breaking news twice a week now develops every day. Government officials are interviewed on television. Stories from as far east as Maine, as far south as Florida, have both sisters now taking precautions. Shannon, who visits dozens of blogs daily, fears a mishmash of ideas, a little bit of everything she reads. Malorie doesn't know what to believe. New stories appear hourly online. It's the only thing anybody talks about on social media and it's the only topic on the news pages. New websites are devoted entirely to the evolution of information on the subject. One site features only a global map, with small red faces placed upon the cities in which something occurred. Last time Malorie checked, there were more than three hundred faces. Online, they are calling it 'the Problem.' There exists the widespread communal belief that whatever 'the Problem' is, it definitely begins when a person _sees_ something. -- Malorie resisted believing it as long as she could. The sisters argued constantly, Malorie citing the pages the derided mass hysteria, Shannon citing everything else. But soon Malorie had to relent, when the pages she frequented began to run stories about their own loved ones, and the authors of these pages stepped forward to admit some concern. -- Cracks, Malorie thought then. Showing even in the skeptics. -- Days passed in which Malorie experienced a sort of double life. Neither sister left the house anymore. Both made sure the windows were covered. They watched CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News until they physically couldn't watch the same stories repeating themselves. And while Shannon grew more serious, and even grave, Malorie held on toe a pinch of hope that this would all simply go away. -- But it didn't. And it got worse. -- Three months into living like shut-ins, Malorie and Shannon's worse fears came true when their parents stopped answering their phone. They didn't answer e-mails either. -- Malorie wanted to drive north to the Upper Peninsula. But Shannon refused. -- "We're just going to have to hope they're being safe, Malorie. We're going to have to hope their phone was shut off. Driving anywhere right now would be dumb. Even to the store, and driving nine hours would be suicide." -- 'The Problem' always resulted in suicide. Fox News had reported the word so often that they were now using synonyms. 'Self-destruction.' 'Self-immolation.' 'Hari-Kari.' One anchorman described it as 'personal erasing,' a phrase that did not catch on. Instructions from the government were reprinted on the screen. A national curfew was mandated. People were advised to lock their doors, cover their windows, and, above all, not to look outside. On the radio, music was replaced entirely with discussions. -- A blackout, Malorie thinks. The world, the outdoors, is being shut down." What's even more remarkable about Bird Box is that it's Malerman's first novel. It was nominated this year for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, a nomination that was well deserved. Highly, highly recommended for anyone who enjoys a novel that will literally make you afraid to look up or turn around. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pulls You In *by J***O on August 27, 2026* This novel is hard to put down. The characters are fully formed, and the reader becomes part of a new, horrifying world. Equal parts frightening and awe-inspiring as Malorie and her housemates struggle to find safety in a world gone crazy. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.jp/products/12614473-bird-box-the-inspiration-for-the-film-a-gripping-post](https://www.desertcart.jp/products/12614473-bird-box-the-inspiration-for-the-film-a-gripping-post) --- *Product available on Desertcart Japan* *Store origin: JP* *Last updated: 2026-09-24*