The Devil By Name
Part Two of the Fever House Duology
Published on 2. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-1-80553-001-5 (ISBN)
Description
Five years after the event that drove most of the global population to madness, the world is overrun with the "fevered"--once-human, zombielike creatures drawn indiscriminately to violence and murder. In a campaign to restabilize the country, the massive corporation known as Terradyne Industries has merged with the U.S. government in a partnership of dubious motives, quarantining major American cities behind towering walls and corralling the afflicted there with the hope, they say, of developing a vaccine.
In Portland, where it all began, guilt-ridden detective John Bonner scours the city's darkest corners for clues to humanity's redemption. In New England, Katherine Moriarty mourns the devastating losses of her husband and son while in hiding from Terradyne. And across the ocean in France, a sixteen-year-old girl named Naomi Laurent discovers she has a disturbing and powerful gift--which may just be the key to the world's salvation.
Equal parts gruesome and beautiful, The Devil by Name is a heart-stopping, breakneck saga of survival. As its characters' paths inevitably collide across the ravaged landscape of a post-apocalyptic America, they are united by the desire to not just escape death but to carve out some way to live anew.
Everything starts and ends in the fever house.
In Portland, where it all began, guilt-ridden detective John Bonner scours the city's darkest corners for clues to humanity's redemption. In New England, Katherine Moriarty mourns the devastating losses of her husband and son while in hiding from Terradyne. And across the ocean in France, a sixteen-year-old girl named Naomi Laurent discovers she has a disturbing and powerful gift--which may just be the key to the world's salvation.
Equal parts gruesome and beautiful, The Devil by Name is a heart-stopping, breakneck saga of survival. As its characters' paths inevitably collide across the ravaged landscape of a post-apocalyptic America, they are united by the desire to not just escape death but to carve out some way to live anew.
Everything starts and ends in the fever house.
Reviews / Votes
PRAISE FOR THE FEVER HOUSE DUOLOGYA WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (Fever House)
An ESQUIRE and PASTE MAGAZINE and PARADE BEST HORROR OF 2024 (The Devil by Name)
"Exciting, suspenseful, horrifying. . . Read them now and you can thank me later"
- Stephen King
"Pulp Fiction meets a punk-rock Da Vinci Code . . . awesomely blood-soaked"
- C.J. Tudor
"Read this duology as one single grand, mutating epic"
- Esquire
"Exciting, suspenseful, horrifying, and written at a flurry-of-punches pace' 'If you liked Justin Cronin's vampire trilogy. . . you'll love Fever House and The Devil By Name, a kind of zombie/Stand hybrid"
- Stephen King
"Literary horror at its finest"
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Impulsive and tremendously exciting"
- The New York Times
"A thrill-a-minute joyride"
- Library Journal
"Fever House is like being electrocuted with an awesome story and sharp, snapping prose"
- Chuck Wendig
"Exactly the face-shredding follow-up to Fever House you were hoping for"
- Nat Cassidy
"A punk rock prince of darkness remapping The Stand for our modern times"
- Clay McLeod Chapman
"There are very few writers as consistently daring, imaginative, and unexpected as Rosson"
- Nick Cutter
"So rock and roll. Rosson remains the king of cool"
- CJ Leede
"Extraordinary. . .Keith Rosson is a master"
- Richard Price
"The top tier of apocalyptic novels"
- Wendy N. Wagner
"The tension is wire-tight - I couldn't put the book down"
- The Wall Street Journal
"[A] whirlwind mystery . . . that hurls [Rosson's] genre-slashing ambition into the stratosphere"
- NPR
"Keeps the stakes high until the very last sentence"
- San Francisco Chronicle
"An epic nightmare of a book"
- Kelly Link
"The unsettling darkness of Joe Hill meets the cryptic mystery of The X-Files"
- Delilah S. Dawson
"[A] nasty, fun-to-read indulgence"
- Kirkus Reviews
"Fever House is awesome. . . . Great writing . . . also scary as Hell!"
- Robert R. McCammon
"Rock and roll, horror, and noir in a blender. . . A bullet of a wild ride straight to Hell"
- Alma Katsu
"Feels so real I had to check the headlines to make sure it was a novel"
- Elizabeth Hand
"Devilishly relentless"
- Hailey Piper
"The most ferocious, terrifying zombie novel since The Living Dead"
- Philip Fracassi
"The most metal novel of all time"
- Brian Castleberry
More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
115 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80553-001-5 (9781805530015)
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Keith Rosson is the author of the critically acclaimed Fever House duology, and novels Smoke City, Road Seven, and The Mercy of the Tide, as well as the Shirley Jackson Award-winning story collection Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family.