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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.. "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. "The Stephen King of TikTok" -- The LineupMost Anticipated Horror of 2025 -- Paste Magazine, LitHub. 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.
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Born in North Carolina, raised in Arizona, and currently residing in New York City, Nat Cassidy in an award-winning playwright, novelist, actor, and musician. As an actor, he has appeared on television shows such as "The Good Fight" (CBS) , "Quantico" (NBC) , "Law & Order: SVU" (NBC) , "Bull" (CBS) , "Blue Bloods" (CBS) , "The Following" (Fox) , "Red Oaks" (Amazon) , "High Maintenance" (HBO) , "The Last O.G." (TBS) , as well as on stages Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and across the country. You can watch him battle giant mutant cockroaches and twentysomething malaise in the horror-comedy film "They Will Outlive Us All," available for streaming on this very site.As a playwright, Nat is known as "one of New York City's rising playwrights, with numerous productions and awards, critical acclaim, and a reputation for producing intelligent, bold, darkly comic plays with one foot in horror and the other in literary allusion" (Usher Nonsense) . He writes thrilling, emotionally compelling horror stories about demons, zombies, Old Gods, ghosts, serial killers, werewolves, cannibals, mutants, and all kinds of ends of the world, and his work has been produced and/or developed at places such as The Kennedy Center, Washington National Opera, Primary Stages, The Flea, and numerous other companies throughout New York City and regionally. His scripts have been published by Samuel French, Broadway Play Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Applause Books, NYTE, and Indie Theatre Now. Nat is an alumnus of Primary Stages' ESPADrills and was commissioned by The Kennedy Center as part of the inaugural American Opera Initiative to write a libretto with composer Scott Perkins, which the Washington Times called "brilliant" and "remarkable." Nat was named one of NYTHEATRE.COM's People of the Year in 2011 and is an inductee in the Indie Theater Hall of Fame.Nat is also a member of the multimedia production company, Gideon Media, most recently responsible for the hit podcast STEAL THE STARS, produced alongside Tor Labs (an imprint of Tor Books) . Nat played the character of Lloyd in the podcast and wrote the novelization of Mac Roger's audio scripts, which will be published by Tor Books in November 2017.Nat's currently at work on several more horror novels, screenplays, and radio plays.
