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Nestlings Spiral-Bound | 2023-10-31

Nat Cassidy

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Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best with his horror novel Nestlings, harnessing the creeping paranoia of Rosemary's Baby with the urban horror of Salem's Lot.

Ana and Reid needed a lucky break.

The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling: with mobility, with her relationship with Reid, with resentment for her baby. That's about to change with the words any New Yorker would love to hear—affordable housing lottery.

They've won an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan's most revered buildings with beautiful vistas of Central Park and stunning architecture.

Reid dismisses disturbing events and Ana’s deep unease and paranoia as the price of living in New York—people are odd—but he can't explain the needle-like bite marks on the baby.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1250265258
Item Weight: 0.7 lbs
Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
Praise for Nestlings

"Like The Shining meets The Changeling. And whew, is it scary. . . . I think people are going to lose their minds over this book. Like Mary, it has all the makings of a classic." --Rachel Harrison, author of Cackle

"Couldn't put it down. Gimme gargoyles and insect babies any ol' day. I'll take them. Happily."--Clay McLeod Chapman, author of The Remaking

Praise for Mary

"Mary is a book unlike any other: a serial killer thriller that's half ghost story and half possession horror, featuring a labyrinthine mansion and a desert-dwelling cult... Mary is a late-life coming-of-age horror that shines a necessary light on a neglected character type through black humor and scenes of gloriously gross carnage."--Esquire

"Heads up, Nat Cassidy's debut novel is not for the faint of heart. It's gory and horrific, but underneath the blood-soaked pages is a commentary on society's view of older women and their place in the world."--The Seattle Times

"Razor-sharp horror debut.... Cassidy expertly twists the invisibility and disposability of society's most vulnerable into qualities ideally suited to a terrifying avenging angel. It's as scary as it is smart."--Publishers Weekly

"This tale of horror is a good read-alike for Stephen King's Carrie and Paul Tremblay's A Head Full of Ghosts."--Booklist

"A collision of supernatural and real-life horrors . . . Mary is absolutely riveting. I can't recommend it highly enough."--Jonathan Janz, author of The Siren and the Specter and The Raven

"Mary, Mary, quite extraordinary... How does your novel grow? With pillow cases hiding sliced off faces, and porcelain dolls all in a row. With an acidic sense of humor more barbed than any cactus, . . . Mary is a perfect blend of Stephen King's Dolores Claiborne and Frank De Felitta's Audrey Rose."--Clay McLeod Chapman, author of The Remaking

"Operatic and tremendously unsettling, there's a dangerous current churning beneath the pages . . . This is first class horror."--Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

"A classic horror novel of a middle-aged woman tormented by all the little-town horrors of her past . . .. Who is Mary, or better yet, what is Mary? She has been called home to find out. A fine read."--Elizabeth Engstrom, author of When Darkness Loves Us

NAT CASSIDY writes horror for the page, stage, and screen. His critically-acclaimed, award-winning horror plays have been produced across the United States, as well as Off- and Off-Off-Broadway. He won the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for his one-man show about H. P. Lovecraft and was commissioned by the Kennedy Center to write the libretto for a short opera (about the end of the world, of course). An established actor on stage and television (usually playing monsters and villains on shows such as Blue Bloods, Bull, Quantico, FBI, and Law & Order: SVU), Nat also authored the novelization of the hit podcast Steal the Stars, which was published by Tor Books and named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR. Mary: An Awakening of Terror was Nat's Nightfire debut. He lives in New York with his wife.