Fever House
‘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
A 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)
A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency.
And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.
Welcome to the FEVER HOUSE. When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find in the 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 are on Hutch’s tail, 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. Now agoraphobic and shackled within her apartment, she is looked after by her son, Nick, who is quietly making his living working for Hutch’s boss.
When Hutch calls Nick in distress, Katherine and Nick are plunged into a global struggle that will decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life they’ve built. They must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful government agents while exorcising family secrets — secrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to humanity’s survival.
Keith Rosson
Keith Rosson is the author of the critically acclaimed Fever House duology, Coffin Moon, 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. IG: @rossonkeith; BLUESKY: @keithrosson.bsky.social; TIKTOK: @keithrosson
