January M**der by the Book Club: When the Wolf Comes Home

Old Town Books' M**der by the Book Club is free and open to the public. While buying the book at OTB is not required to attend, we would greatly appreciate it to help keep our free literary programming sustainable! Buy your copy of When the Wolf Comes Home in store or online and note "book club" to get 10% off.

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About the book:

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!
Best Horror of 2025— Men's Health, Vulture, IGN
Editors' Pick—Page Six
NPR Books We Love

“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

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.

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