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Come Closer
By Sara Gran
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“What begins as a sly fable about frustrated desire evolves into a genuinely scary novel about possession and insanity. Hypnotic” (Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho).
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. Is she possessed by a demon, or is she simply insane? Described as “a new kind of psychological thriller” by George Pelecanos and “this year’s scariest novel” by Time Out New York, Come Closer has become a modern classic “with a kick that will stay with the reader for days afterward” (The Dallas Morning News).
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. Is she possessed by a demon, or is she simply insane? Described as “a new kind of psychological thriller” by George Pelecanos and “this year’s scariest novel” by Time Out New York, Come Closer has become a modern classic “with a kick that will stay with the reader for days afterward” (The Dallas Morning News).
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Sara Gran
Sara Gran is the author of Saturn’s Return to New York, Come Closer, Dope, as well as two previous novels featuring Claire DeWitt. Her work has been published in more than a dozen countries. Born in Brooklyn, Sara lived in New York City until 2004. She now lives in Los Angeles and has a successful career writing for television.
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Reviews for Come Closer
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is one of the most truly chilling books I have ever read. I found myself jumping at every small noise in my house for at least a week after I completed this novella and found myself scared of the dark for the first time since childhood.If you are a fan of psychological horror, such as I am, this book is HIGHLY recommended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Well written...an easy read and super-creepy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A short novella about a woman who's slowly being possessed by a demon. Creepy and psychological. I read this as a metaphor for mental illness, such as schizophrenia, and it how takes a person over.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Super creepy! This is a surprising little book. It seems benign in the beginning but quickly becomes unsettling. It's a fast read and the suspense keeps building until the thrilling conclusion. I would recommend this to fans of horror. Very good.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was the lightest read I have had all year. It was short, quick, and simply written. I started it this morning and finished it in the afternoon. Enjoyable read. A Woman who leads a normal life married to a great guy. She has everything going for her when she starts experiencing some weird things. you get to see the transition she goes through as she becomes posessed by this Demon.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Well written...an easy read and super-creepy.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was a decent little novella. I would recommend it to people who enjoy demon possession books. It's not nearly as graphic as many books in this genre - which I liked. But at the same time I felt like it was a bit of a slow start and nearly DNF'ed it after 30 pages. If you're on an airplane or at the beach, push through - it has a fairly satisfying ending.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a near-perfect demonic possession story. To be as short as it is, the plot is well-developed and paced. Some parts were a little hokey, but overall, a good, scary read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very creepy! Made me deeply uncomfortable at times...a great quick read!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I thought this book was gonna end up being that she had Multiple personalities but no it wasn't. It was a good short read. Spooky.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I would have preferred to hear more from Naamah because the main character was pretty boring, it was hard to get into and it shouldn't have been.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Descent into madness or actual possession? That's up to the reader to decide.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really loved this book funny really to say it’s a horror!!!! It was such a quick and easy read and I found myself not being able to put it down as it keeps you hooked…….I found myself asking the same question throughout reading the book “ how would you not know ?” Which found me getting agitated at Amanda and her husband Ed.
I’m not going to spoil it for anyone but the ending was a perfect conclusion to the book, granted it wasn’t the ending I would have preferred but that’s just my preference.
All in all it was a great read and I’ve now bought it in physical copy just so I can annotate it and unleash the agitation in the pages.
I will definitely be picking up more books from this author that’s for sure - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really liked the story as I wasn't sure what the outcome would be. It was chilling in its descriptions of someone unraveling.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sickeningly beautiful in a disturbing and poetic way.
I’ve never read someone’s point of view of demonic possession as it was happening….so that was interesting. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There were things I liked and things I could have liked more. It was a solid book. Nothing more, nothing less.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It was a good book slow at first but then picks up as you go on
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dayum.
Okay, takes a little bit to get going. Too much telling instead of showing early on. I found myself impatient for some action. But it picks up, and picks up more, and by the time books were burning in the fireplace I was well and truly gone.
Wonderful narration too. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Short and disturbing story of possession from the inside out; guaranteed nightmares ...
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I've never before met a book that was beautiful and terrifying at the same time; now I have. There are so many appeal terms that could be applied to this book: compelling (I read it in about 3 hours), frightening, thought-provoking, lyrical (I mean, seriously, a lyrically written horror novel, are you kidding me?!). It's just so many things. And then, of course, there's the demon possession thing. But it's so smoothly incorporated that you feel it slowly, much as the narrator does.
I picked this up as part of Women in Horror month, and I'm so glad I did. The only bad thing I have to say about it is that I wish I hadn't read it at night. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Keeps you up all night, can't wait for the next book. If you have some great stories like this one, you can publish it on Novel Star, just submit your story to hardy@novelstar.top or joye@novelstar.top
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oddly hypnotic - sucks you in until the very end. Interesting way of writing, very imaginative and does make you just a little paranoid, like all good thrillers. Nicely done.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was creeped out from page one, but as the possession went on I feel like it got less creepy and more sad. The last couple of chapters picked up again, though, and there were several places where I gasped out loud.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was spellbinding , I love this book, hard to put down!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Come Closer. Sara Gran. 2003. This book was billed as one of the “year’s scariest novel;” however I found it creepy, but not by any means as frightening as the reviewers did. It is a book about possession and very little else. That is the plot and there is very little character development. William Peter Blatty’s The Exorist and Legion were more scarier to me. It is short and suspenseful but obviously not for everyone.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A quick intense read worth a few hours. The story is tight and well crafted. As a horror story it stands on its own as a fine work. (Spoilers ahead) The power in this story is in the questions you ask yourself about it. As a straightforward account of a demon possession the story is what it is; fine. This story poses questions about powers that can dominate our lives; loneliness, needs that we do not fully understand how to address, our subconscious mechanisms for coping with pain, and self amongst others. Fun read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It was just...very disturbing and I while it was a quick read, I wonder if perhaps some it was a bit too surface level in terms of character development for my tastes.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Come Closer definitely kept me interested to keep reading and find out where the story would go. I'm not much of a reader but have wanted to read horror stories for a while now. I found it easy to digest, and though some of the language and events in the book are described basically, where they could go into more depth, it was a good read, and short enough length to get me back into reading without feeling intimidated by the number of pages. As someone who has not really found a horror movie that scared me I wouldn't say this is particularly scary, but it's definitely enticing, much like the demon.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5nice book. very nice book. recommended read. excellent book. yes indeed it is a splendid read
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It was a nice quick read, but not so great