COMING SOON:
NAT'S NEXT HORROR NOVEL ...
WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME
Nat Cassidy, author of Mary and Nestlings, returns with When the Wolf Comes Home, an unabashed, adrenaline-fueled pop horror thriller, reminiscent of Dean Koontz and Stephen King, and inspired by The Lathe of Heaven and Terminator 2.
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, horrifying incidents of butchery follow them. At first Jess thinks she understands what they're up against, but she's about to learn there's more to these surreal and grisly events than she could've ever imagined.
And that when the wolf finally comes home, none will be spared.
WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD
APRIL 22, 2025
Nat Cassidy, author of Mary and Nestlings, returns with When the Wolf Comes Home, an unabashed, adrenaline-fueled pop horror thriller, reminiscent of Dean Koontz and Stephen King, and inspired by The Lathe of Heaven and Terminator 2.
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, horrifying incidents of butchery follow them. At first Jess thinks she understands what they're up against, but she's about to learn there's more to these surreal and grisly events than she could've ever imagined.
And that when the wolf finally comes home, none will be spared.
WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD
APRIL 22, 2025
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Praise for When the Wolf Comes Home:
Library Journal Starred Review
LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Paste Magazine's Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2025
Goodreads' Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2025
SheReads' Most Anticipated Books of 2025
CrimeReads' Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2025
"Original and thought-provoking . . . [Cassidy's] best to date. ... Full of action, adventure, blood, and twists, the tale is anchored by the evolving relationship between Jess and the boy, who are the beating heart at its terrifying center. Readers beware, as the text warns, 'no one will be spared,' but not in the way anyone will anticipate. The horrors encountered here will burrow deep, forcing a confrontation with the power fear holds over everyone."
- Becky Spratford, Library Journal (Starred Review)
"When FDR said 'the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,' he could never have imagined someone would take that thought to so logical—and extreme—conclusion as this, and yet Cassidy’s latest works well on every level. Cassidy’s protagonist is a struggling improv comedian working graveyard shifts at the local diner and wondering how she’ll make rent. Within the first few pages, she’s transformed into the protector of a lost little boy with terrifying enemies & even more terrifying powers. The conclusion feels shattering, inevitable, and completely of our time—by which I mean, very bleak indeed."
- LitHub, "Most Anticipated Books of 2025"
“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, NY Times bestselling author of My Best Friend's Exorcism and How to Sell a Haunted House
“Nat Cassidy delivers another new horror classic. Inventive yet satisfyingly nostalgic, brutal and terrifying yet poignant and heartfelt, an exhilarating thrill-ride with breakneck pacing that’s as entertaining as it is profound. When the Wolf Comes Home cements Cassidy’s status as one of horror’s all-time greats. His best yet.”
- Rachel Harrison, USA Today bestselling author of So Thirsty and Black Sheep
“When the Wolf Comes Home is an imaginative, adrenaline-fueled wild ride through the babysitting job from Hell. Brims with both horror and heart.”
- Tananarive Due, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Reformatory
"When The Wolf Comes Home is a sharp-edged metaphor for trauma and rage, for how they seep into us, how we carry them in us and how sometimes, we pass them on like a curse."
- Cassandra Khaw, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“When the Wolf Comes Home has the feel of a modern-day Twilight Zone episode. Conceptually daring, riveting on the page, shockingly intense in spots, the book is bound together at the heart by a relationship between two lost souls seeking peace. Equal parts scary and soulful.”
- Nick Cutter, bestselling author of The Troop and The Deep
“Straight out of the Twilight Zone, a page-a-minute horror thriller that delivers ALL THE FEELS. Heart-pounding and hearts-wrenching at the same time with a twist at the end that might cold-cock you. Nat Cassidy is proving to be a singular voice in horror—crazily imaginative and deeply human.”
- Alma Katsu, bestselling author of The Fervor and The Hunger
“When the Wolf Comes Home is somehow terrifying, utterly moving, and funny all at once. A rip-roaring (and sometimes simply roaring) journey through fear itself, it asks intelligent questions about what it takes to be brave when the world keeps unveiling horror after horror.”
- Clémence Michallon, internationally bestselling author of The Quiet Tenant
“An adrenalized, page-turning fairy tale of terror that hunts you down and reminds you that there's nothing more terrifying than fear itself. Cassidy's latest plunges the reader into a shape-shifting nightmare--When the Wolf Comes Home takes you in its jaws and shakes until you scream.”
- Ellie Marney, New York Times bestselling author of None Shall Sleep
”Nat Cassidy's When the Wolf Comes Home reads like a movie-in-the-mind, with relentless action ratcheting up the fear and terror, and characters portrayed with real depth and nuance. This is horror at its best.”
- Thomas Tessier, author of The Nightwalker
“A teeth-snapping, heart-racing, stomach-churning thrill ride. Fans of Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World will eat this one up, because that's what I did - devoured it in a single bite. Deliciously painful.”
- Ally Wilkes, Bram Stoker award-nominated author of All the White Spaces
“Ultimately, this was about the importance of stories, more importantly, the ones we tell ourselves, our internal becomes our external and shapes our reality, so make sure the story you tell yourself is a good one. It’s about acknowledging your fears, giving them a little nod, and carrying on. It’s clear from his third book that no one is spared when Cassidy puts pen to paper.”
- Scream Magazine UK
“When the Wolf Comes Home kicks so much ass! The less you know going in, the better, but I’ll tell you this much—it’s not at all what you’re expecting! Full of heart and harrowing suspense, it belongs on the shelf next to Firestarter, and reminds me of one of my favorite short stories, which I can’t reveal without spoiling the plot! Enough talk…just read it!”
- Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Last Resort and Road of Bones
“How can you outrun something that will never stop? Nat Cassidy gives us a werewolf novel that transcends horror, in which fear is not as simple as a hulking monster lurking in the shadows, but something much more complex. A thrilling journey through the darkness.”
- Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Vanishing Daughters
“When the Wolf Comes Home is a wildly inventive horror novel, and a ripping, bloody page-turner. But that's not all it is—in its beating heart there's a fierce, moving treatise about love, parenthood, and notions of familial indebtedness. I loved it.”
- Keith Rosson, author of Fever House and The Devil By Name
“Nat Cassidy's mind is insane, and I mean that as the highest compliment. Only he could come up with a story as unique and universally true as this. When the Wolf Comes Home deftly explores fear and the ways in which it can consume us in childhood and beyond. It's scary, it's wild, it's heartfelt, and there's nothing else like it. I promise you have no idea where this book is going, and you're going to love every page.”
- CJ Leede, USA Today bestselling author of Maeve Fly and American Rapture
“With this cinematic, reality-bending adventure that’s as terrifying as it is profound, Nat Cassidy solidifies himself as one of the most innovative minds in this genre today (and probably ever). When the Wolf Comes Home delivers one breathless, relentless rug-pull after another, increasing in intensity as we come to adore these characters. After the last page, I was still sitting there picking my jaw up off the floor, hoping it wasn’t really over and that there was yet another surprise lurking around the corner.”
- Liz Kerin, author of First Light and Night's Edge
“At a point it becomes clear Nat Cassidy has lost his mind, and I love it. When the Wolf Comes Home tears loose from the start. No sitting around—you're on the run with this book, driving off the ledge of full weird and into a wonderful shapeshifting fusion of terror and awe.”
- Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Light Most Hateful
“Raw, violent, and unrelenting ... An all-encompassing confrontation of fear itself, ... [Cassidy] crafts stories that last. ... [R]esonant, soul-changing, and a true masterpiece.”
- Anna Dupre, FanFiAddict
“A savage howl into the night, When the Wolf Comes Home achieves a rare depth that is Cassidy's signature style. Here lies horror, characters you care about, in situations you can barely fathom. First class.”
- Gemma Amor, Bram Stoker Award nominated author of Dear Laura and Full Immersion
“Nat Cassidy's When the Wolf Comes Home isn't just about the monsters that live under your bed, it's about the monsters that live in your heart. It's a killer.”
- Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse
"When the Wolf Comes Home is a wolf-headed chimera of a novel about monstrous fathers, the power of imagination, and the brutal chaos of creating—the terrors we ignite into being, intentionally and unwittingly, as parents, as children, as tender souls bound together by the pain and violence we can't stop inflicting on each other. This full-tilt, wildly imaginative creature feature moves like a four-legged beast hungry for revenge--it will rip your throat out and devour your heart. Nat Cassidy fans will be left howling for more."
- Luke Dumas, bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear
“Utterly relentless, this kinetic hot rod of a horror novel is pure adrenalized dread that starts and never stops and nothing will save you from its breakneck tension, bone-breaking horror, and heartbroken prose.”
- Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
“Pulse-pounding and heart-wrenching, Nat Cassidy has given us a new breed of terror. This is not your granny’s big bad wolf.”
- Lindy Ryan, author of Bless Your Heart
Library Journal Starred Review
LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Paste Magazine's Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2025
Goodreads' Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2025
SheReads' Most Anticipated Books of 2025
CrimeReads' Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2025
"Original and thought-provoking . . . [Cassidy's] best to date. ... Full of action, adventure, blood, and twists, the tale is anchored by the evolving relationship between Jess and the boy, who are the beating heart at its terrifying center. Readers beware, as the text warns, 'no one will be spared,' but not in the way anyone will anticipate. The horrors encountered here will burrow deep, forcing a confrontation with the power fear holds over everyone."
- Becky Spratford, Library Journal (Starred Review)
"When FDR said 'the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,' he could never have imagined someone would take that thought to so logical—and extreme—conclusion as this, and yet Cassidy’s latest works well on every level. Cassidy’s protagonist is a struggling improv comedian working graveyard shifts at the local diner and wondering how she’ll make rent. Within the first few pages, she’s transformed into the protector of a lost little boy with terrifying enemies & even more terrifying powers. The conclusion feels shattering, inevitable, and completely of our time—by which I mean, very bleak indeed."
- LitHub, "Most Anticipated Books of 2025"
“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, NY Times bestselling author of My Best Friend's Exorcism and How to Sell a Haunted House
“Nat Cassidy delivers another new horror classic. Inventive yet satisfyingly nostalgic, brutal and terrifying yet poignant and heartfelt, an exhilarating thrill-ride with breakneck pacing that’s as entertaining as it is profound. When the Wolf Comes Home cements Cassidy’s status as one of horror’s all-time greats. His best yet.”
- Rachel Harrison, USA Today bestselling author of So Thirsty and Black Sheep
“When the Wolf Comes Home is an imaginative, adrenaline-fueled wild ride through the babysitting job from Hell. Brims with both horror and heart.”
- Tananarive Due, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Reformatory
"When The Wolf Comes Home is a sharp-edged metaphor for trauma and rage, for how they seep into us, how we carry them in us and how sometimes, we pass them on like a curse."
- Cassandra Khaw, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“When the Wolf Comes Home has the feel of a modern-day Twilight Zone episode. Conceptually daring, riveting on the page, shockingly intense in spots, the book is bound together at the heart by a relationship between two lost souls seeking peace. Equal parts scary and soulful.”
- Nick Cutter, bestselling author of The Troop and The Deep
“Straight out of the Twilight Zone, a page-a-minute horror thriller that delivers ALL THE FEELS. Heart-pounding and hearts-wrenching at the same time with a twist at the end that might cold-cock you. Nat Cassidy is proving to be a singular voice in horror—crazily imaginative and deeply human.”
- Alma Katsu, bestselling author of The Fervor and The Hunger
“When the Wolf Comes Home is somehow terrifying, utterly moving, and funny all at once. A rip-roaring (and sometimes simply roaring) journey through fear itself, it asks intelligent questions about what it takes to be brave when the world keeps unveiling horror after horror.”
- Clémence Michallon, internationally bestselling author of The Quiet Tenant
“An adrenalized, page-turning fairy tale of terror that hunts you down and reminds you that there's nothing more terrifying than fear itself. Cassidy's latest plunges the reader into a shape-shifting nightmare--When the Wolf Comes Home takes you in its jaws and shakes until you scream.”
- Ellie Marney, New York Times bestselling author of None Shall Sleep
”Nat Cassidy's When the Wolf Comes Home reads like a movie-in-the-mind, with relentless action ratcheting up the fear and terror, and characters portrayed with real depth and nuance. This is horror at its best.”
- Thomas Tessier, author of The Nightwalker
“A teeth-snapping, heart-racing, stomach-churning thrill ride. Fans of Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World will eat this one up, because that's what I did - devoured it in a single bite. Deliciously painful.”
- Ally Wilkes, Bram Stoker award-nominated author of All the White Spaces
“Ultimately, this was about the importance of stories, more importantly, the ones we tell ourselves, our internal becomes our external and shapes our reality, so make sure the story you tell yourself is a good one. It’s about acknowledging your fears, giving them a little nod, and carrying on. It’s clear from his third book that no one is spared when Cassidy puts pen to paper.”
- Scream Magazine UK
“When the Wolf Comes Home kicks so much ass! The less you know going in, the better, but I’ll tell you this much—it’s not at all what you’re expecting! Full of heart and harrowing suspense, it belongs on the shelf next to Firestarter, and reminds me of one of my favorite short stories, which I can’t reveal without spoiling the plot! Enough talk…just read it!”
- Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Last Resort and Road of Bones
“How can you outrun something that will never stop? Nat Cassidy gives us a werewolf novel that transcends horror, in which fear is not as simple as a hulking monster lurking in the shadows, but something much more complex. A thrilling journey through the darkness.”
- Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Vanishing Daughters
“When the Wolf Comes Home is a wildly inventive horror novel, and a ripping, bloody page-turner. But that's not all it is—in its beating heart there's a fierce, moving treatise about love, parenthood, and notions of familial indebtedness. I loved it.”
- Keith Rosson, author of Fever House and The Devil By Name
“Nat Cassidy's mind is insane, and I mean that as the highest compliment. Only he could come up with a story as unique and universally true as this. When the Wolf Comes Home deftly explores fear and the ways in which it can consume us in childhood and beyond. It's scary, it's wild, it's heartfelt, and there's nothing else like it. I promise you have no idea where this book is going, and you're going to love every page.”
- CJ Leede, USA Today bestselling author of Maeve Fly and American Rapture
“With this cinematic, reality-bending adventure that’s as terrifying as it is profound, Nat Cassidy solidifies himself as one of the most innovative minds in this genre today (and probably ever). When the Wolf Comes Home delivers one breathless, relentless rug-pull after another, increasing in intensity as we come to adore these characters. After the last page, I was still sitting there picking my jaw up off the floor, hoping it wasn’t really over and that there was yet another surprise lurking around the corner.”
- Liz Kerin, author of First Light and Night's Edge
“At a point it becomes clear Nat Cassidy has lost his mind, and I love it. When the Wolf Comes Home tears loose from the start. No sitting around—you're on the run with this book, driving off the ledge of full weird and into a wonderful shapeshifting fusion of terror and awe.”
- Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Light Most Hateful
“Raw, violent, and unrelenting ... An all-encompassing confrontation of fear itself, ... [Cassidy] crafts stories that last. ... [R]esonant, soul-changing, and a true masterpiece.”
- Anna Dupre, FanFiAddict
“A savage howl into the night, When the Wolf Comes Home achieves a rare depth that is Cassidy's signature style. Here lies horror, characters you care about, in situations you can barely fathom. First class.”
- Gemma Amor, Bram Stoker Award nominated author of Dear Laura and Full Immersion
“Nat Cassidy's When the Wolf Comes Home isn't just about the monsters that live under your bed, it's about the monsters that live in your heart. It's a killer.”
- Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse
"When the Wolf Comes Home is a wolf-headed chimera of a novel about monstrous fathers, the power of imagination, and the brutal chaos of creating—the terrors we ignite into being, intentionally and unwittingly, as parents, as children, as tender souls bound together by the pain and violence we can't stop inflicting on each other. This full-tilt, wildly imaginative creature feature moves like a four-legged beast hungry for revenge--it will rip your throat out and devour your heart. Nat Cassidy fans will be left howling for more."
- Luke Dumas, bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear
“Utterly relentless, this kinetic hot rod of a horror novel is pure adrenalized dread that starts and never stops and nothing will save you from its breakneck tension, bone-breaking horror, and heartbroken prose.”
- Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
“Pulse-pounding and heart-wrenching, Nat Cassidy has given us a new breed of terror. This is not your granny’s big bad wolf.”
- Lindy Ryan, author of Bless Your Heart
Also coming to the UK, courtesy of Titan Books.
