Amanda just isn't herself lately.  She must need more sleep.  Or have low-blood sugar.  Or be possesed by an ancient demon.  Now available in trade paperback, available soon in pocket size.

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"I read Come Closer on the train, in a snowstorm, on a cold December night. It was the right atmosphere for this perfectly noirish tale of madness and love. Author Sara Gran writes with scalpel-like clarity, expertly blending tones to create a new kind of psychological thriller. Days after finishing it, it has not left my mind. I loved this book." George Pelecanos

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 "An intelligent horror story, a literary creepshow. It worms its way under your skin and stays there. "Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng

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 [Gran's] detached and witty narration helps us believe, as she says, that 'what we think is impossible happens all the time.'" The New Yorker

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 "I picked it up at 7pm. By 7:10 I was locked into the cold isolation chamber of Gran's prose. It was too late to get out." Daily Telegraph (London)

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 "Sara Gran proceeds with such confidence that she makes [it] seem credible, even, at times, sinister." Chicago Tribune

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 "What begins as a sly fable about frustrated desire evolves into a genuinely scary novel about possession and insanity. 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." Bret Easton Ellis

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 "Sara Gran has a talent for finding the uneasy areas in daily life and massaging them into outright horror. She tells the story simply and colloquially?which makes the transformation all the more terrifying."Charlotte Observer

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 "Come Closer is the kind of novel that demands to be read on a wintry night in front of a log fire. It works insidiously, by undermining your sense of the world as something knowable and secure." Time Out

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 "The Yellow Wallpaper meets Rosemary's Baby in a slim, wonderfully eerie novel." Kirkus Reviews

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 "Gran's admirably concise and persuasive foray into the supernatural is the scariest book I?ve read in years, a classic slow-burner (or chiller)? a short, stylish book you?ll sprint through in a couple of hours. But the effects may linger longer. Debate whether or not you want to put your sleep at risk. Keep the holy water handy." Literary Review (London)

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"It's impossible to begin this intense, clever, beautifully written novel without turning every page. A wonderful accomplishment."Margot Livesey " 

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 "[A] sparsely constructed and compellingly succinct gem of a novel...Seductively menacing, alluringly sinister, Gran's ominous study of psychological and spiritual suspense heralds a refreshingly sophisticated and literate approach to an often-predictable genre." Booklist

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 "Deeply scary, blurring as it does the bounds between everyday life and completely unthinkable. Just don't read it alone in a house with noisy plumbing." The Times (London)

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"A quick read--but not one that the reader will quickly forget."Library Journal

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"A GRIPPING CONTEMPORARY TALE OF TERROR."Publishers Weekly 

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"'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. A sly, satisfying (fast!) novel of one young woman possessed not only by a demon but also by her own secret desires."Stewart O'Nan

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"Amazingly scary. A story that will frighten the toughest cynics, make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end and even keep you awake at night with fear."Coventry Evening Telegraph (UK)

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 "A terrifying psychological journey. Midsummer is the right time to read this novel. At least then, when the demons sidle off the page and into your head, there will not be too many dark hours through which you need to keep exhausted vigil, straining at the slightest eerie noise or trick of the light."Daily Mail (London)

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"Come Closer is sharp and strange and, best of all, at the moment of truth it doesn't flinch from its own mad logic."Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land