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When the Wolf Comes Home

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Nat Cassidy, author of the acclaimed horror Mary, returns with When the Wolf Comes Home, an unabashed, adrenaline-fueled pop horror thriller where the darkest fears can become reality.
A USA Today bestseller!
ABA Indie Bookseller bestseller!

"Get your claws into this one, horror fiends. It's terrific. . . . Sink your teeth into a classic."—Stephen King
"A crazy-good, balls-to-the-wall horror novel . . . 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
Best Books of 2025—Vulture
The 25 Best and Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2025—Men's Health
Most Anticipated Horror of 2025—Paste Magazine, LitHub
One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives.
As they attempt to evade the boy's increasingly desperate father, Jess slowly comes to a horrifying understanding of the butchery that follows them—the boy can turn his every fear into reality.
And when the wolf finally comes home, no one will be spared.
Other Books by Nat Cassidy
Mary, an Awakening of Terror
Nestlings
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    • Library Journal

      January 1, 2025

      Cassidy, author of the multi-best-booked Nestlings, returns with a horror thriller that receives a 125K-copy first printing. Jess finds a five-year-old boy hiding outside her apartment one night, and after a violent encounter with his father, she and the boy find themselves on the run, where they'll encounter even more horrors. Prepub Alert.

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      Starred review from March 1, 2025
      When diner waitress and struggling actress Jess finds a five-year-old boy alone and frightened outside her apartment one night, she brings him inside and feeds him leftover pizza while she tries to find out his name. When the boy's father shows up not long after, the child is clearly terrified of him. A bloodbath ensues, and Jess and the boy go on the run. Violence follows unrelentingly in their wake as Jess tries to keep the boy safe while also trying to unravel how she feels about the recent death of her estranged father and deal with the fact that she recently pricked her finger on a used needle while cleaning the diner bathroom. Cassidy plays with and subverts readers' expectations in delightful and surprising ways in this twisty, gory horror thriller that's also a moving, insightful examination of grief and obligation and the nature of fear. Recommend to readers who enjoyed the twists and emotional resonance of Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street (2021) or the chase-based plots of Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt (2022) or Blake Crouch's Run (2024).

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from February 24, 2025
      Cassidy (Nestlings) balances gut-wrenching horror and jaw-dropping twists in this stellar outing. Jess, an unsuccessful actress who works at an L.A. diner, has a history of putting her compassion for others over her personal happiness and safety. So when she discovers a terrified little boy in her backyard being attacked by birds, she invites him inside and out of harm’s way. But as she’s figuring out her next steps, a naked man appears outside; he seems to be after the child, who panics when the two make eye contact. Jess and the boy watch through the window as the stranger gets into an argument with two of Jess’s neighbors, who are then attacked by a huge, wolflike creature that breaks into Jess’s home. She escapes with the boy, the start of a desperate flight for survival that leads to a shocking revelation about the neglected child: whatever he fears becomes manifest in the real world. There’s a wonderful Twilight Zone feel to this clever conceit, but even as the threat level rises, Cassidy keeps Jess’s choices plausible and grounded, making the nightmare she’s found herself in all the scarier. This is a hair-raiser.

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