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The Devil by Name

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The Devil by Name

By: Keith Rosson
Narrated by: Xe Sands
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Fever House and The Devil by Name are exciting, suspenseful, horrifying, and written at a flurry-of-punches pace. Read them now and you can thank me later.”—STEPHEN KING

No one expected the apocalypse would be broadcast via phone call. But in this chilling sequel to Fever House, anyone who managed to survive that doomsday call has a harrowing answer to the question, “Where were you when the Message came through?”

“Every scene, every chapter is more bananas than the one before. It’s impulsive and tremendously exciting.”—Joe Hill, The New York Times

Five years after the event that drove most of the global population to madness, the world is overrun with the “fevered”—once-human, zombielike creatures drawn indiscriminately to violence and murder. In a campaign to restabilize the country, the massive corporation known as Terradyne Industries has merged with the U.S. government in a partnership of dubious motives, quarantining major American cities behind towering walls and corralling the afflicted there with the hope, they say, of developing a vaccine.

In Portland, where it all began, guilt-ridden detective John Bonner scours the city’s darkest corners for clues to humanity’s redemption. In New England, Katherine Moriarty mourns the devastating losses of her husband and son while in hiding from Terradyne. And across the ocean in France, a sixteen-year-old girl named Naomi Laurent discovers she has a disturbing and powerful gift—which may just be the key to the world's salvation.

Equal parts gruesome and beautiful, The Devil by Name is a heart-stopping, breakneck saga of survival. As its characters’ paths inevitably collide across the ravaged landscape of a post-apocalyptic America, they are united by the desire to not just escape death but to carve out some way to live anew.

Everything starts and ends in the fever house.

©2024 Keith Rosson (P)2024 Random House Audio
Horror Post-Apocalyptic Suspense Emotionally Gripping Exciting Heartfelt
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Critic reviews

“Rosson continues to trace the spreading ripples generated by the first book’s cliff-hanger ending . . . with the same unpredictable energy and flights of comic-book excess. My advice: Read this duology as one single grand, mutating epic.”—Esquire, “The Best Horror Books of 2024”

“Rosson’s stellar sequel to 2023’s Fever House . . . is literary horror at its finest.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“This is an absolute skull-cracker of a novel, presenting what may be one of the most unique takes on the end of the world I’ve ever seen. It somehow manages to hit even harder than Fever House.”—Chuck Wendig, author of Black River Orchard and The Book of Accidents

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“The world grinds and dims and dirties everything. Time takes it all from you.”

“Fever House,” the first in Keith Rosson’s Fever House duology was ambitious, wild, gritty and darkly funny - I genuinely loved it but was also hankering for more resolution. The sequel, “The Devil By Name” brings that resolution by upping the ante on almost every level, going full-on apocalyptic, and contains more humanity and heart than its predecessor without losing that frenetic immediacy.

I don’t know if the decision to make this a duology was a commercial or a creative one, but even though the two books are tonally a little different, for me the best way to enjoy these would be back-to-back as a door-stopper, like “The Stand” meets The Ramones, but very much its own gory, yet beautiful beast.

Breakneck pacing, bold narrative, beautiful characterisation, and fiercely original storytelling, the “Fever House” duology is an epic masterpiece of end-of-the world cool. Bravo Keith, bravo.

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Another standout story

Follows Fever House and adds even more. Fantastic narration again really adds to it. Top tier horror

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