Itll debut this December exclusively on Netflix.

Make no mistake: there is no Prince Charming inUnbury Carol.

Shes gonna have to find her own way out.

Josh-Malerman

Credit: Brian Rozman; Penguin Random House

You hit on that sensation, that fear, of being buried alive.

She can put it in a mausoleum if she has to and its okay to lock the gate.

Could you handle seeing her slip into Howltown in the middle of dinner?

In the middle of the street?

He creates the suspense and I write to his beat.

At some point, you just gotta go by instincts, right?

You gotta feel the grip of the book itself and hope to God youre recording it well.

For that, the process hasnt been the same for the books that have followed.

But the lunatic joy has remained; the unbridled rush of writing the rough draft.

Bird Boxhas been adapted with an all-star cast.

I never felt like I didnt belong, but I didnt feel like big-man-on-campus either.

It was all unforeseeably natural.

I loved every second of it.

Any dream casting ideas forUnbury Carol?How about Reese Witherspoon as Carol?

Doug Jones as Rot?

Teatro ZinZanni and the Magic Castles Yevgeniy Voronin as Dwight.

That guy is brilliant.

The Thing in the way.

But hey, a witch in a chocolate hut sounds interesting, too.