Brood
They should never have been born…
Adam and Alice Twisden are not ordinary children. Their parents used an experimental fertility treatment, and paid a horrific cost.
The twins’ aunt is determined to give them the love and stability that they have never known. But outside the refuge she is trying to create, dark forces are combining. Troops of other feral offspring roam the New York streets. And there are people out there who wish to destroy them… and others who see a way to profit from them.
As the city becomes a battleground, Adam and Alice must decide where their loyalties lie. They are determined to remain human – and yet their own unnatural urges are growing ever stronger…
Adam and Alice Twisden are not ordinary children. Their parents used an experimental fertility treatment, and paid a horrific cost.
The twins’ aunt is determined to give them the love and stability that they have never known. But outside the refuge she is trying to create, dark forces are combining. Troops of other feral offspring roam the New York streets. And there are people out there who wish to destroy them… and others who see a way to profit from them.
As the city becomes a battleground, Adam and Alice must decide where their loyalties lie. They are determined to remain human – and yet their own unnatural urges are growing ever stronger…
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Reviews
Praise for BREED
The best horror novel I've read since Peter Straub's Ghost Story. By turns terrifying and blackly funny, BREED is a total blast.
A nightmarish, yet sickeningly plausible world... An exceptional novel that's crying out for a movie adap
Novak puts an innovative spin on the idea that inside every parent lurks a monster, and delivers pulse-racing set pieces as a pervasive sense of dread blossoms into something poisonous. The result is a stylish parable of greed, peppered with plenty of dry urban humour
Delightfully entertaining... redolent of Roald Dahl at his creepy best
Above and beyond its fatality count BREED has originality on its side; the ending is a true shocker.
Chase Novak unleashes truly scary literary horror villains in BREED: Mom and Dad... a thrill to read
A slice of shivering dread
A gloriously ghoulish read
A richly imagined, hideous, surprising world...Who could ask for anything more?