“This book is actually a beautiful, adrenaline-fueled love story about the love of Malerman’s life, yes, but also the love of storytelling in all its forms. It’s exactly what you need to feel confident in your own artistic expression. Brimming with Malerman’s joy, vitality, and zeal for life, it’s a timeless resource and an immeasurable treasure.”—Sadie Hartmann, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered
“This is a love story, an exegesis, a time machine, an autopsy, a writing guide, a memoir, a prophecy, a hallucination. Above all else for me, it was weird in the best way, and inspiring from snout to tail.”—Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of The Staircase in the Woods
“A raw-throated, wild-eyed, pulse-quickening sermon on not just art—but passion and persistence. You’ll get an intimate tour of Josh Malerman’s creative mind with its many curious, romantic, funny, frightening, and charmingly digressive warrens. You’ll get a chronicle of a stubbornly expressive life that gives us an example of how to love with your whole heart and engage meaningfully with the movies, music, paintings, books, and people that surround us. This is a must-read book for creators of every kind. It will light an inspiring torch inside you and send you rushing to the keyboard or camera or canvas.”—Benjamin Percy, author of The Ninth Metal, Red Moon, Refresh, Refresh, and Thrill Me
“Josh Malerman’s Watching Evil Dead is a shout against the dark and a leaping, frenzied, joyous treatise on love, art, the power of cinema and horror. It is a love letter to film and a testament to the profound gifts available to those who embrace a creative life.”—Keith Rosson, author of Fever House and The Devil by Name
“Watching Evil Dead is a love letter to those of us who have loved a piece of cinema so much that it had the power to shape our entire lives. Beyond a simple reflection on Sam Raimi’s masterpiece and Malerman’s own growth as a writer, this book is a beautiful look at the world: Malerman’s Michigan is what California is to Didion. This is a must-read for fans and writers of the horror genre alike.”—Lisa Kröger, author of Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
“Josh Malerman’s Watching Evil Dead is a love letter to creativity in motion. Then again, everything he writes is a love letter to same. This is just the brightest yet from one of our brightest lights: deep, delirious, inspiring, overflowing with gnosis and joy. I could not possibly love it more.”—John Skipp, author of Book of the Dead
