Rosemary’s Baby: A Novel (50th Anniversary Edition)
In this new Fiftieth Anniversary edition of the classic masterpiece of spellbinding suspense, evil wears the most innocent face of all… Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come
In this new Fiftieth Anniversary edition of the classic masterpiece of spellbinding suspense, evil wears the most innocent face of all…
Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building, and despite Rosemary’s reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, her husband takes a shine to them.
Shortly after Guy lands a plum Broadway role, Rosemary becomes pregnant―and the Castavets start taking a special interest in her welfare. As the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castavets’ circle is not what it seems…
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Page turner central! I could not for a second put this book down. What a story! Now I see why it’s a well known horror classic, and why it’s so highly rated. I wish I’d read it sooner. I felt myself panicking for Rosemary way before she even panicked for herself. I had no prior knowledge to book and could see that Devil’s work was being done just from the way she mentioned sulfur after her dream, and not being able to have salt. I’m not sure how I knew, but I just did. I literally sat with my hand on my mouth at…
A Classic Well, well, well. I have been meaning to read this book for YEARS! YEARS! And I finally made it a priority to pick it up, sit down, and read it. And guess what? I’m impressed. For a book that is over 50 years old this was really good. Not the best or scariest book of all time, but really very good. You get a huge sense of foreboding when reading and had I not already seen the movie, these feelings would probably been much worse.Rosemary’s Baby is all about the buildup. Scary things…
Not scary but not bad Rosemary’s Baby is not very scary but it was pretty strange and I enjoyed it.Rosemary and her husband were really wanting to get into the Bramford apartment complex and right when they had signed a lease on another apartment it becomes available and Rosemary begs her husband Guy to get them out of the lease and into the Bramford. Wrong move on her part! :)Not real long after they had been living there they meet an old couple who really seems to take over their lives but…