When the Wolf Comes Home

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Get your claws into this one, horror fiends. It's terrific. . . . Sink your teeth into a classic.
-Stephen King

Crazy-good, balls-to-the-wall horror... When The Wolf Comes Home is so uniquely itself, comparisons are unhelpful. It moves, that's the important thing: it's full throttle from the first pages
-Joe Hill

This is the kind of great, big, epic horror novel we got back in the '80s that came out swinging for the fences and left everything on the field. Welcome back, you shaggy, bloody monster of a book!
-Grady Hendrix

When the Wolf Comes Home is an imaginative, adrenaline-fueled wild ride through the babysitting job from Hell. Brims with both horror and heart.
-Tananarive Due, author of The Reformatory

Nat Cassidy is quickly becoming one of those names in horror along with Tananarive Due, Keith Rosson and Silvia Moreno-Garcia that inhabit the go to' section of my brain with it comes to picking up new books. They always delight, intrigue and horrify. Guaranteed to deliver.
-Patton Oswalt

With fresh prose and nonstop movement, it's hard to put down.
-Variety

Plays explicitly like high-concept 80s King, a Twilight Zone episode meets Firestarter.
-You can see the movie.
-Chicago Tribune

Superb . . . wildly entertaining . . . After a fresh take on ghosts in Mary, his debut novel, a twist on vampires in Nestlings, and now a shapeshifting werewolf novel that's much more than it promises, it's clear that Cassidy wants to show that nothing is old if you make it new, and that no trope is too tired in the hands of a good storyteller.
-NPR

Cassidy's novel stretches and contorts into something far stranger, more audacious, and ultimately, both heartbreaking and triumphant. There's a big appetite for earnest, retro-horror right now, and mixing the heart and characterization of '80s Stephen King with the propulsive energy of Dean Koontz at his best When the Wolf Comes Home is proof that they can still write 'em like that, but with a contemporary flair all of its own.
-Vulture

When The Wolf Comes Home is a sharp-edged metaphor for trauma and rage, for how they seep into us, how we carry them in us and how sometimes, we pass them on like a curse.
-Cassandra Khaw, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth

When the Wolf Comes Home has the feel of a modern-day Twilight Zone episode. Conceptually daring, riveting on the page, shockingly intense in spots, the book is bound together at the heart by a relationship between two lost souls seeking peace. Equal parts scary and soulful.
-Nick Cutter

When the Wolf Comes Home is a big, brawling horror novel that moves with relentless velocity and pitiless fury. Even so, it's driven by a big red beating heart, full of compassion for its characters, if not mercy. Cassidy has raised the bar with this one. It deserves to be a bestseller.
-Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters and The Strange

Nat Cassidy's When the Wolf Comes Home reads like a movie-in-the-mind, with relentless action ratcheting up the fear and terror, and characters portrayed with real depth and nuance. This is horror at its best.
-Thomas Tessier, author of The Nightwalker

Ultimately, this was about the importance of stories, more importantly, the ones we tell ourselves, our internal becomes our external and shapes our reality, so make sure the story you tell yourself is a good one. It's about acknowledging your fears, giving them a little nod, and carrying on. It's clear from his third book that no one is spared when Cassidy puts pen to paper.
-Scream Magazine UK

When the Wolf Comes Home kicks so much ass! The less you know going in, the better, but I'll tell you this much-it's not at all what you're expecting! Full of heart and harrowing suspense, it belongs on the shelf next to Firestarter, and reminds me of one of my favorite short stories, which I can't reveal without spoiling the plot! Enough talk...just read it!
-Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Last Resort and Road of Bones

How can you outrun something that will never stop? Nat Cassidy gives us a werewolf novel that transcends horror, in which fear is not as simple as a hulking monster lurking in the shadows, but something much more complex. A thrilling journey through the darkness.
-Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Vanishing Daughters

When the Wolf Comes Home is a wildly inventive horror novel, and a ripping, bloody page-turner. But that's not all it is-in its beating heart there's a fierce, moving treatise about love, parenthood, and notions of familial indebtedness. I loved it.
-Keith Rosson, author of Fever House and The Devil By Name

Nat Cassidy's mind is insane, and I mean that as the highest compliment. Only he could come up with a story as unique and universally true as this. When the Wolf Comes Home deftly explores fear and the ways in which it can consume us in childhood and beyond. It's scary, it's wild, it's heartfelt, and there's nothing else like it. I promise you have no idea where this book is going, and you're going to love every page.
-CJ Leede, author of Maeve Fly and American Rapture

With this cinematic, reality-bending adventure that's as terrifying as it is profound, Nat Cassidy solidifies himself as one of the most innovative minds in this genre today (and probably ever). When the Wolf Comes Home delivers one breathless, relentless rug-pull after another, increasing in intensity as we come to adore these characters. After the last page, I was still sitting there picking my jaw up off the floor, hoping it wasn't really over and that there was yet another surprise lurking around the corner.
-Liz Kerin, author of First Light and Night's Edge

At a point it becomes clear Nat Cassidy has lost his mind, and I love it. When the Wolf Comes Home tears loose from the start. No sitting around-you're on the run with this book, driving off the ledge of full weird and into a wonderful shapeshifting fusion of terror and awe.
-Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Light Most Hateful

Nat Cassidy delivers another new horror classic. Inventive yet satisfyingly nostalgic, brutal and terrifying yet poignant and heartfelt, an exhilarating thrill-ride with breakneck pacing that's as entertaining as it is profound. When the Wolf Comes Home cements Cassidy's status as one of horror's all-time greats. His best yet.
-Rachel Harrison, USA Today bestselling author of So Thirsty and Black Sheep

A savage howl into the night, When the Wolf Comes Home achieves a rare depth that is Cassidy's signature style. Here lies horror, characters you care about, in situations you can barely fathom. First class.
-Gemma Amor, Bram Stoker Award nominated author of Dear Laura and Full Immersion

An adrenalized, page-turning fairy tale of terror that hunts you down and reminds you that there's nothing more terrifying than fear itself. Cassidy's latest plunges the reader into a shape-shifting nightmare-When the Wolf Comes Home takes you in its jaws and shakes until you scream.
-Ellie Marney, New York Times bestselling author of None Shall Sleep

When the Wolf Comes Home is somehow terrifying, utterly moving, and funny all at once. A rip-roaring (and sometimes simply roaring) journey through fear itself, it asks intelligent questions about what it takes to be brave when the world keeps unveiling horror after horror.
-Clémence Michallon, internationally bestselling author of The Quiet Tenant

Nat Cassidy's When the Wolf Comes Home isn't just about the monsters that live under your bed, it's about the monsters that live in your heart. It's a killer.
-Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse

When the Wolf Comes Home is a wolf-headed chimera of a novel about monstrous fathers, the power of imagination, and the brutal chaos of creating-the terrors we ignite into being, intentionally and unwittingly, as parents, as children, as tender souls bound together by the pain and violence we can't stop inflicting on each other. This full-tilt, wildly imaginative creature feature moves like a four-legged beast hungry for revenge-it will rip your throat out and devour your heart. Nat Cassidy fans will be left howling for more.
-Luke Dumas, bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear

Utterly relentless, this kinetic hot rod of a horror novel is pure adrenalized dread that starts and never stops and nothing will save you from its breakneck tension, bone-breaking horror, and heartbroken prose.
-Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Pulse-pounding and heart-wrenching, Nat Cassidy has given us a new breed of terror. This is not your granny's big bad wolf.
-Lindy Ryan, author of Bless Your Heart

Straight out of the Twilight Zone, a page-a-minute horror thriller that delivers ALL THE FEELS. Heart-pounding and hearts-wrenching at the same time with a twist at the end that might cold-cock you. Nat Cassidy is proving to be a singular voice in horror-crazily imaginative and deeply human.
-Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor

PRAISE FOR NESTLINGS

Best Adult Books 2023-New York Public Libary NPR Books We Love 2023 Best Horror of 2023-Esquire, Den of Geek Best Horror of 2023 (Honorable Mention)-Paste

Nestlings is so f***ing good it makes me mad.
-Chuck Wendig, author of Wayward

The Deptford . . . is as memorable as literature's well-known Overlook Hotel and Hill House. Nat Cassidy is good at revealing just enough to disquiet, steadily ratcheting up dread and too late? anxiety until you don't know what the right choices are. This unusual vampire novel asks what is the price of belonging; how much is survival worth. No easy answers here.
-NPR's Books We Love

It's a novel of New York, of antisemitism, of a marriage in disarray. Each of these elements is written with an enthusiasm that bounds off the page. . . . But there are also things waiting in the bowels of The Deptford for which no amount of horror reading could prepare you.
-Esquire, Best Horror of 2023

. . . Cassidy gracefully and viciously goes right for the throat . . . It's another elegant dance of terror from a great horror storyteller, and it'll keep you hanging on every word until the very last page.
-Paste Magazine

A truly creepy story of urban and bodily unease. Nat Cassidy has created a terrifyingly claustrophobic world, and his clean, beautiful prose manages to make the horrific events he describes here feel dismayingly plausible. You'll certainly never look at a gargoyle the same way again.
-Scott B. Smith, Bestselling author of The Ruins and A Simple Plan

I've read both Mary and Nestlings and highly recommend them both. Horror fans who enjoy edge-of-your-seat suspense, humor, colorful characters, old-school horror vibes, and cinematic tension complete with jump scares and puke-inducing body horror . . . jump in!
-Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror)

Nestlings is more than a novel; it's a journey into the heart of horror. It's a visceral plunge into the abyss, an exploration of the darkest corners of the human psyche. .
-Medium

Cassidy's exercise in horror houses the raw pain of grief . . . and, ultimately, whether one is ever out from under grief's weight,-ShelfAwareness

Nestlings is a creature that buries deep beneath your skin only to sink its bloody fangs deep in your system.
-FanFiAddict

An absolute triumph of a book. Propulsive and eerie . . .There's a furious grief to the book, a heartbroken rage that threads the pages together.
-Cassandra Khaw, best-selling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth

Ruthlessly terrifying, with the relentless pace of New York City itself. Nestlings will utterly possess you. You've been warned.
-Liz Kerin, author of Night's Edge

This book will mess you up, and you'll be glad. Pitch-perfect creeping horror with heart (and viscera) in spades.
-Kiersten White, #1 NYT bestselling author of Hide

Step into the Deptford, if you dare! Equally parts Rosemary's Baby and Salem's Lot, I was squirming with shivers and reading this behind my fingers!
-Erin A. Craig, #1 NYT Bestselling author of House of Roots & Ruin and Small Favors

Nestlings cleverly pays homage to classic horror while also filling its Manhattan highrise with post-2020 frights and concerns. Nat Cassidy has written a creepy page-turner where the scariest things of all are what reside in the human (or inhuman) heart.
-Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.

Nestlings builds on the success of Nat Cassidy's first novel, the strong Mary: An Awakening of Terror. An impressive accomplishment in its own right, Nestlings shows Cassidy expanding his range as a writer with skill and confidence, with this gripping twenty-first century take on some old terrors.
-John Langan, author of The Fisherman

Delectably dark, gorgeously gory, and hypnotically engrossing. With its strong Rosemary's Baby vibe and contemporary sensibilities, Nestlings brings the Manhattan gothic to a triumphant new level.
-Zoje Stage, bestselling author of Baby Teeth and Mothered

Nat Cassidy is a master of creeping fear, of urban unease, of uncanny dread and outright horror. In Nestlings he brings his considerable imagination to bear on a creature we may think we're all too familiar with and imbues it with new life, reclaiming it for terror. It's a triumph and a vision you won't soon forget.
-Ramsey Campbell, award-winning author

Oh you like Rosemary's Baby? 'Salem's Lot? Just wait until you read Nestlings by Nat Cassidy. It's about the curse and revelation of survival. About the intense emotional complexity of family. It's also about super weird superstar vampires. And it's just so funny and smart. This is the horror book of the year.
-Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse

Finished Nestlings by Nat Cassidy and have already been recommending it left and right. So, so creepy. Well placed dashes of dark humor. Kept me on my toes till the very end!
-Erin E. Adams, author of Jackal

I just finished reading Nestlings and Nat Cassidy has done it again, folks. Steeped in modern fears with old school horrors lurking behind every door. Go read it now!
-Brian McAuley, author of Curse of the Reaper

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