When the Wolf Comes Home

By: Nat Cassidy

Narrated by: Helen Laser, Nat Cassidy

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 Lineup

The 25 Best and Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2025—Men's Health
Most 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.

And when the wolf finally comes home, no one will be spared.

Other Books by Nat Cassidy
Mary, an Awakening of Terror
Nestlings

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.

Interesting take on fathers/trauma

I actually related quite a bit and enjoyed the analogy of shape shifting fathers/fear from rage. It was weird but I liked it well enough and really love Nat's writing. Can't wait for the next book!

read it now!

Exciting, interesting, thrilling, and crazy. I had a great time with this book. The less you know going in, the better. I had no idea where this story was going.

Love, love,love this story line!!!!

Excellent all the way up to the end. After such a excellent,and dramatic storyline, I wanted a more dramatic end!!!! but I thoroughly enjoyed the writers narrative in the end.

This is a #%!?ing masterpiece.

Wow. I really liked Nestlings. Mary was good, but this is far and beyond my favorite of the trio I’ve read by Nat Cassidy. I didn't want it to end, but I couldn't stop to reading it. I was very attached to Jessa and the boy. Her character was incredibly fleshed out and real. And likeable. Maybe there's a way to reprise her out of the nothingness? The narrator was perfect too. Ordered the paperback. I will definitely be reading this one again and again. I wish there could be some kind of sequel… just saying. Gosh, I did not see that ending coming.

who knew?

things in your past can be so real we imagine a different way to be and cope. this book was in the horror genre but also could be nonfiction as our past is never fully buried.