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