Mary, Nat Cassidy
Mary, Nat Cassidy
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Mary
An Awakening of Terror

Author: Nat Cassidy

Narrator: Susan Bennett

Unabridged: 15 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/19/2022

Synopsis

Nat Cassidy’s highly commercial, debut horror novel Mary, blends Midsommar with elements of American Psycho and a pinch of I'll Be Gone in the Dark.

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself.

But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can’t look in a mirror without passing out, and the voices in her head have been urging her to do unspeakable things.

Fired from her job in New York, she moves back to her hometown hoping to reconnect with her past and inner self. What she finds instead are visions of terrifying, mutilated specters come with increasing regularity, she begins auto-writing strange thoughts and phrases, and her investigations reveal that these experiences are echoes of an infamous serial killer.

Then the killings begin again.

Mary’s definitely going to find herself.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.

About Nat Cassidy

NAT CASSIDY writes horror for the page, stage, and screen. His acclaimed novels, including Mary: An Awakening of Terror and Nestlings, have been featured in best-of lists from Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, NPR, the Chicago Review of Books, the NY Public Library, and more, and he was named one of the "writers shaping horror’s next golden age" by Esquire. His award-winning horror plays have been produced throughout New York City and across the United States. He won the NY Innovative Theatre Award for his one-man show about H. P. Lovecraft, another for his play about Caligula, and was commissioned by the Kennedy Center to write the libretto for a short opera (about the end of the world, of course). You've also likely seen Nat on your TV, playing various Bad Guys of the Week on shows such as Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Bull, Quantico, FBI, and many others ... but that's a topic for a different bio. He lives in New York City with his wife.

About Susan Bennett

Susan Bennett is University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception (1997, 2nd edition), Performing Nostalgia (1996), and Theatre & Museums (2013). Among her edited volumes are Shakespeare Beyond English (co-edited with Christie Carson, 2013) and Performing Environments: Site-Specificity on the Early Modern Stage (co-edited with Mary Polito, 2014). She was editor of Theatre Journal from 1997-2001 and has also edited or co-edited special issues of other theatre and performance journals.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nat

Yeah, I'm probably biased. But in fairness, I have read this book a whole buncha times, so I'm kind of an expert on it, right? Anyway, I hope you enjoy it! If you like things like serial killers, ghosts, the desert, unreliable narrators, metaphysics, etc., I think you will. The Author's Note at the b......more

Goodreads review by Jenny

I was really surprised to find that this was written by a guy because it's a very good tale of horror centering around mid-life womanhood.......more

Goodreads review by Sydney Books

This will NOT be a book for everyone but it really worked for me. I especially appreciate the Authors Note in the beginning as well as the Afterward. I’m gonna miss Mary 🥹......more

Goodreads review by Katie

Reading Vlog: [URL not allowed]-Lc The little girl with beetles crawling out of her mouth?!?! I need a movie ASAP! This is stunning in so many ways. The writing is descriptively grotesque while eerily beautiful at the same time. You want to look away but you can't. You're mesmerized but terro......more

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