Breed - Hardcover

Novak, Chase

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316198560 ISBN 13: 9780316198561

Publisher: Mulholland Books, 2012

Synopsis

Critically celebrated novelist Scott Spencer delivers a Rosemary's Baby-like novel of gothic horror, set against the backdrop of modern-day Upper East Side Manhattan.
Alex and Leslie Twisden lead charmed lives-fabulous jobs, a luxurious town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a passionate marriage. What they don't have is a child, and as they try one infertility treatment after the next, yearning turns into obsession. As a last-ditch attempt to make their dream of parenthood come true, Alex and Leslie travel deep into Slovenia, where they submit to a painful and terrifying procedure that finally gives them what they so fervently desire . . . but with awful consequences.

Ten years later, cosseted and adored but living in a house of secrets, the twins Adam and Alice find themselves locked into their rooms every night, with sounds coming from their parents' bedroom getting progressively louder, more violent, and more disturbing.

Driven to a desperate search for answers, Adam and Alice set out on a quest to learn the true nature of the man and woman who raised them. Their discovery will upend everything they thought they knew about their parents and will reveal a threat so horrible that it must be escaped, at any cost.

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Review

The best horror novel I've read since Peter Straub's Ghost Story. By turns terrifying and blackly funny, BREED is a total blast. (Stephen King)

Stuffed with everything a good horror novel needs - feral children, a hell-for-leather chase through the streets of New York and plenty of gross-out descriptions - BREED is chilling, gruesome and deeply, darkly stylish. Best of all, it's funny. (Sunday Times)

A nightmarish, yet sickeningly plausible world... An exceptional novel that's crying out for a movie adap (SFX)

Novak puts an innovative spin on the idea that inside every parent lurks a monster, and delivers pulse-racing set pieces as a pervasive sense of dread blossoms into something poisonous....a stylish parable of greed (Financial Times)

Delightfully entertaining...redolent of Roald Dahl at his creepy best (Washington Post)

Above and beyond its fatality count BREED has originality on its side; the ending is a true shocker. (New York Times)

Chase Novak unleashes truly scary literary horror villains in BREED: Mom and Dad...a thrill to read (USA Today)

A slice of shivering dread (New York Daily News)

Book Description

A fantastically creepy horror story about the darkness at the heart of an All-American family, from Chase Novak - the penname of critically acclaimed novelist Scott Spencer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mulholland Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0316198560
• ISBN 13: 9780316198561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310