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 Castevet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses … 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 Castevets start taking a special interest in her welfare. As the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castevets’ circle is not what it seems…more
This is one of those classics you have to read. Even if you’ve seen the movie, its still a treat.
This book still holds up over 50 years later. Totally creepy story.
One of the most creepiest books i have ever read!!!
Great book
I started reading scary stories fairly early in my life, so I was really disappointed in this book. Even the movie couldn’t keep me interested. I basically figured out right off what the other apartment dwellers were up to and it was such a let-down that I figured it out so quickly.
A creepy classic.
I read this book years ago now but I still often think of many scenes from it. It was as compelling as the movie and even scarier!
I enjoyed it. And I love the old movie.
Read this many years ago. Good story then but just as good now.
OMG, I saw the movie 2 weeks after giving birth and it scared the hell out of me. A few years later I read the equally frightening book.
A psychologically convincing story of a deal with the Devil
Classic horror.So good!
classic scary with out the gore!
I can’t imagine that there are too many people who don’t know about this book or the movie. But just in case you don’t. This is the real deal, beyond scary. It is written well enough to have become a Gothic classic.
Read this book 45 yrs. ago and went back and read it again recently. Wonderful characters and timeless.
Ira Levin is just the best in his genre. The best. I would read anything he writes. I will read this book again if I live long enough. The movie was good, but the book is the BEST.
I read it before I saw the movie. The creepy neighbors. The husband. Many 60’s images that date the story but still a great read. Rosemary stayed with me long after the book was finished.
What was so creepy about this story was that the constant gaslighting of the people around her is so realistic.
Rosemary must discern whether to trust her own perceptions and intuition about the people in her life. Or become sucked into a web of deceit and evil in the face of their constant denial.
You only think you know about Rosemary’ Baby via the movie. READ this book. Oh, it will take you places…. many of them nice and Dark!