Tor UK acquires two novels from ‘horror heavyweight’ Josh Malerman
Tor UK, part of Pan Macmillan, is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Incidents Around the House (+1 untitled novel) by New York Times bestseller Josh Malerman. Editorial director Sophie Robinson acquired UK and British Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada from Jenny Meyer at Jenny Meyer Literary Agency. North American rights were sold to Del Rey US, at PRH.
Tor UK, part of Pan Macmillan, is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Incidents Around the House (+1 untitled novel) by New York Times bestseller Josh Malerman. Editorial director Sophie Robinson acquired UK and British Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada from Jenny Meyer at Jenny Meyer Literary Agency. North American rights were sold to Del Rey US, at PRH.
Sophie Robinson comments: ‘Josh Malerman is one the great horror heavyweights and Incidents Around the House just shows he’s getting better with every book. It has to be the most insidious, creeping supernatural horror I’ve ever read, and my nerves were shredded by the end. It’s an honour to welcome Josh to Tor Nightfire UK and I can’t wait to publish this masterclass in terror next year.’
Author Josh Malerman says: ‘I realize I live a life of letters, but it's difficult to articulate how ebullient I am at the prospect of working with Sophie Robinson and Tor UK. It's the stuff fantasies are made of, but here: it's come true. The goal now is to scare readers so deeply, they believe the books long after the last page.’
Agent Jenny Meyer says: ‘I couldn’t be more delighted by the enthusiasm we’ve found for Josh’s work from Sophie Robinson and her team at Tor UK. Incidents Around the House is going to scare the socks right off readers’ feet!’
Tor UK will publish Incidents Around the House on 27th March 2025.
About the author
Josh Malerman is a New York Times bestselling author and one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung, whose song "The Luck You Got" can be heard as the theme song to the Showtime show "Shameless". His book Bird Box was made into a Netflix film of the same name, starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich. He has been nominated for 10 Bram Stoker Awards and has written 40 books, many of those (14) prior to the publication of Bird Box, his debut. Incidents Around the House is his 13th published book. He lives in Michigan with his fiancee, the artist/musician Allison Laakko and their many brilliant pets.
About Tor UK
Tor UK specializes in speculative fiction and is a destination for the best in imaginative storytelling. A sister company to Tor Books in the US, Tor UK publishes an impressive array of award-winners, bestsellers, household names and talented debut authors. Tor’s mission is to publish out-of-this-world genre fiction and bring readers books that spark joy. It strives every year to increase the diversity of its list, publishing authors from minority backgrounds and increasing positive representation of gender issues through fiction.
Launching in Spring 2025, Nightfire is a boutique horror list at Tor, showcasing the very best of literary and commercial fiction. (www.panmacmillan.com/tor)
About Pan Macmillan
Pan Macmillan is an international consumer book publisher based in the UK, publishing a very broad range of books in all formats, including print, ebook and audio, for today’s readers. Its adult book imprints include Bluebird, Macmillan, Macmillan Business, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Collector’s Library, Mantle, One Boat, Pan, Picador and Tor. Children’s Book imprints include Macmillan Children’s Books, Campbell, Kingfisher and Two Hoots. (www.panmacmillan.com)
Pan Macmillan is part of Macmillan Publishers International Ltd (MPIL), a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (www.holtzbrinck.com), a large family-owned media company based in Stuttgart.