Synopses & Reviews
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A woman is haunted by voices and impulses she cannot control in this modern horror classic, named one of Book Riot's 50 Scariest Books of All Time.
This 20th anniversary reissue includes a chilling new postcript that traces the dark history of possessions that followed in the wake of Come Closer's publication.
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.
A new voice in Amanda's head tells her to talk to strange men in bars, steal things, hurt people. As she struggles to wrest back control of her life, she discovers 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.
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A woman is haunted by impulses she cannot control in this modern horror classic - with a new postscript addressing the novel's cursed afterlife.
Esquire 50 Best Horror Books of All Time * NPR 100 Favorite Horror Stories of All Time * Book Riot 50 Scariest Books of All Time A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. A new voice in Amanda's head tells her to talk to strange men in bars, steal things, hurt people. As she struggles to wrest back control of her life, she discovers a book on demon possession that suggests that offers clues to what might be happening. As the violence of her erratic behavior increases, Amanda knows that she must act to put her life right, or see it destroyed.
Synopsis
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.