Fever House
Part One of the Fever House Duology
Published on 17. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-1-80553-000-8 (ISBN)
Description
When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client's refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: Dark-op government agents who have been desperately hunting for the hand are on Hutch's tail, more of the city's residents fall under its brutal influence, and suddenly all of Portland stands at the precipice of disaster. . . .
But it's all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her estranged husband-suicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her agoraphobic, shackled within the confines of her apartment. Her son, Nick, has moved home to care for her, quietly making his living working for Hutch's boss.
When Hutch calls Nick in distress, looking for someone else to take the hand, Katherine and Nick are plunged into a global struggle that will decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life they've built. Mother and son must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful government agents while exorcising family secrets that have risen from the dead-secrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to humanity's survival.
But it's all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her estranged husband-suicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her agoraphobic, shackled within the confines of her apartment. Her son, Nick, has moved home to care for her, quietly making his living working for Hutch's boss.
When Hutch calls Nick in distress, looking for someone else to take the hand, Katherine and Nick are plunged into a global struggle that will decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life they've built. Mother and son must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful government agents while exorcising family secrets that have risen from the dead-secrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to humanity's survival.
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
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Edition
0th 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
978-1-80553-000-8 (9781805530008)
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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.