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Spawned by Brendan Deneen's own experiences relocating to a New Jersey suburb with his young family, The Chrysalis combines chills, thrills, and a literal monster in the basement with commentary on love, marriage, and impending parenthood.Welcome to the dark side of suburbia.Barely employed millennials Tom and Jenny Decker have to grow up fast when they lose their cheap Manhattan apartment. Leaving "the city" is hard, but the blow is softened when they stumble upon a surprisingly affordable house in the suburbs. For Tom, the bills, the mortgage, and Jenny's unexpected pregnancy add up to terror. He's not ready for this kind of responsibility. Then he finds the thing in the basement. It makes him feel like a winner even as it scrambles his senses. A new job soon has him raking in the big bucks -- enough that Jenny can start making her entrepreneurial dreams come true.The Deckers' dream home conceals more than one deadly secret. As Tom's obsession with the basement grows, Jenny realizes that to save her family, she must expose everything. Before it destroys them all. No one ever really wants to grow up ... but sometimes behaving like an adult is the only way to survive."Creepy, powerful, wonderfully twisted."--New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry
About the Author
Brendan Deneen is the author of the award-winning novel THE NINTH CIRCLE as well as THE CHRYSALIS, a 2018 horror novel that was optioned by Paramount Pictures before it was published. He's also the author of the NIGHT NIGHT GROOT picture book series for Marvel (including FIRST DAY OF GROOT and the upcoming SNOW DAY FOR GROOT!) , the upcoming GREEN ARROW: STRANDED original middle grade graphic novel for DC, and the upcoming MORBIUS original horror novel for Titan/Marvel. His graphic novel work includes multiple volumes of FLASH GORDON, an original ISLAND OF MISFIT TOYS book, a CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST reboot, PHOENIX (with Jim Krueger) , SOLARMAN (a reboot of a Marvel/Stan Lee series) , and the original graphic novel SCATTERBRAIN. His short stories and essays have been published by St. Martin's Press, Reader's Digest Books, 13Thirty Press, and Necro Publications.
