Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin

Oct 2005 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Mia Farrow

About this audiobook

The classic novel of spellbinding suspense only the mind of Ira Levin could have imagined

She is a housewife—young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor—charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sin-filled apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is their dream home—a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare...

Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin—where terror is as near as your new neighbors... and where evil wears the most innocent face of all...

Ratings and reviews

I've seen a few people mention how this book has a very predictable plot. It certainly does, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth reading. We all know how Romeo and Juliet ends but that doesn't stop people from enjoying it. Both it and the movie based upon it (which is religiously accurate to the book) were written during the Satanic Panic and are certainly a relic of it. In my opinion, the true horror of this book comes from the gaslighting of the main character and her treatment as a female in the 1960s and less from the horrors of spooky old people. Truly a classic, and a quick one at that, I recommend it.

Absolutely love the movie, the book was just as amazing!¡

About the author

Novelist and playwright Ira Levin (1929-2007) was a native New Yorker whose books include A Kiss Before Dying, Rosemary's Baby, This Perfect Day, The Stepford Wives, The Boys from Brazil, Sliver, and Son of Rosemary. His plays include No Time for Sergeants, Critic's Choice, and the longest-running thriller in Broadway history, Deathtrap. An alumnus of New York University, Levin also wrote the lyrics of the Barbra Streisand classic "He Touched Me," and was the recipient of three Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America (including 2003's 'Grand Master'), as well as the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for lifetime achievement.

Mia Farrow, in addition to extensive stage work on Broadway and the West End, starred on television in Peyton Place, and in such films as Rosemary's Baby, The Great Gatsby, Hannah and Her Sisters, Alice (Golden Globe award), and Reckless; she is the author of the memoir What Falls Away.