Incidents Around the House

the Other Mommy.

I, I have started reading, uh, Incidents Around the House-

Mm-hmm

... which is the 2024 Josh Malerman book that has been adapted into Other Mommy.

Especially [laughs] you're not starting and you're like, "I'm gonna write 50 books that none of them read like each other at all." And you won't be able to tell who wrote any of them.

Like, I have no doubt if somebody read Unbury Carol Bird Box, Incidents Around the House, and Watching Evil Dead, all four, and it's just the four I'm looking at, all four of those without a name on the cover, they would not think that was the same author.

No.

That's, I don't think that's something you set out to do.

And Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is mostly their living room.

But it doesn't have to be, like, so contained, but that sort of era of, like, where it was still, like, if you loosened your tie, you were rebellious.

Like, I, I still, there is a side of me that, that I don't wanna say, like, Hitchcockian era necessarily, but there is a side of me that's really drawn to that sort of, like, like, I think Incidents Around the House, um, and Bird Box are operating from a place of, like, an undercurrent of dread versus a spectacle.

Yeah.

Mm.

I haven't done Incidents Around the House yet, have I?

I don't think so.

Okay.

Um, well then, I would like to recommend Incidents Around the House, which is another book 'cause I'm trying to read.

Um, this is in fact the book that is the source material for the upcoming horror movie, Other Mommy-

Ooh

But one of them is like a little bit in the zeitgeist right now.

And it is a book called Incidents Around the House by Josh Mallerman.

It is the horror book that inspired the Jessica Chastain horror movie Other Mommy.

Oh.