Come Closer Binding: Paperback

Come Closer Binding: Paperback

• Demonic possession or psychic break? One of Esquire's Top 50 horror novels of all time delves deep into the terrifying consequences of losing control.
  
  A perfect horror novel.—Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World
  
  A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda—a successful architect in a happy marriage—finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea.
  
  The new voice in Amanda's head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. A book on demon possession suggests that the figure on the shore could be the demon Naamah, known to scholars of the Kabbalah as the second wife of Adam, who stole into his dreams and tricked him into fathering her child. Whatever the case, as the violence of her erratic behavior increases, Amanda knows that she must act to put her life right, or see it destroyed.
  
  This new edition of the cult classic features a brand new post-script by the author and an Are You Possessed? questionnaire.Praise for Come Closer
  
  NPR 100 Favorite Horror Stories
  Esquire 50 Best Horror Books of All Time
  Men's Health 53 Best Horror Novels of All Time
  Book Riot 50 Scariest Books of All Time
  
  “Sara Gran's Come Closer will have you questioning Amanda's reality and mind along with your own, and it will scare the pants off you. It is a perfect horror novel.”
  —Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World
  
  “What begins as a sly fable about frustrated desire evolves into a genuinely scary novel about possession and insanity. Hypnotic, disturbing, and written with such unerring confidence you believe every word, Come Closer is one of the most precise and graceful pieces of fiction I've read in a long time.”
  —Bret Easton Ellis
  
  “Stunning.”
  ―Los Angeles Review of Books
  
  “A dark, seductive cocktail of a thriller, with a splash of black humour and a twist of horror. Come Closer combines the taut suspense of Patricia Highsmith and the acerbic, surreal wit of Ottessa Moshfegh.”
  —Francine Toon, author of Pine
  
  “To me, Sara Gran did for Demonic possession what Henry James did for the Ghost story when she wrote Come Closer. I don’t know of a better novel that deals with the subject, making it not just a classic but THE contemporary classic of the genre.”
  —David Slade, director of Hannibal and Thirty Days of Night
  
  “I read Come Closer on the train, in a snowstorm, on a cold December night. It was the right atmosphere for this perfectly noirish tale of madness and love. Author Sara Gran writes with scalpel-like clarity, expertly blending tones to create a new kind of psychological thriller. I loved
• Gran, Sara
• ISBN: 9781641295246