"I have been haunted by Come Closer since it first came out more than 15 years ago, and often recommend it to horror fans, so it is great to see it back in print. Sara Gran has created a sly, satisfying (fast!) novel of one young woman possessed not only by a demon but also by her own secret desires.” “‘What we think is impossible happens all the time.’ So claims the beguiling narrator of Come Closer, and after reading this spare and menacing tale, the reader has to agree. George Pelecanos, author of Right as Rain Days after finishing it, it has not left my mind.” Author Sara Gran writes with scalpel-like clarity, expertly blending tones to create a new kind of psychological thriller. It was the right atmosphere for this perfectly noirish tale of madness and love. “I read Come Closer on the train, in a snowstorm, on a cold December night. David Slade, director of Hannibal and Thirty Days of Night I don’t know of a better novel that deals with the subject, making it not just a classic but THE contemporary classic of the genre. "To me, Sara Gran did for Demonic possession what Henry James did for the Ghost story when she wrote Come Closer. Come Closer combines the taut suspense of Patricia Highsmith and the acerbic, surreal wit of Ottessa Moshfegh." "A dark, seductive cocktail of a thriller, with a splash of black humour and a twist of horror. Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World "Sara Gran's Come Closer will have you questioning Amanda's reality and mind along with your own, and it will scare the pants off you.
Hypnotic, disturbing, and written with such unerring confidence you believe every word, Come Closer is one of the most precise and graceful pieces of fiction I've read in a long time.” “What begins as a sly fable about frustrated desire evolves into a genuinely scary novel about possession and insanity. "I could not stop until I reached the very last line." Men's Health 53 Best Horror Novels of All Time 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. 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.
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. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea. 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. Amanda-a successful architect in a happy marriage-finds her life going off kilter by degrees. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults.
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment.
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