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| Author | Ira Levin |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | March 12, 1967 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) and Audio Book |
| Followed by | Son of Rosemary |
Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 horror novel by American writer Ira Levin; it was his second published book. It was the best-selling horror novel of the 1960s, selling over four million copies.[1] The high popularity of the novel was a catalyst for a "horror boom"[clarification needed], and horror fiction would achieve enormous commercial success in its wake.[2]
- ^ Harry Edwin Eiss (editor), Images of the Child, p. 38 (Bowling Green State University Press, 1994). ISBN 0-87972-653-9
- ^ "Levin's frightening little book...triggered the whole modern boom in American horror fiction, making possible the success of William Peter Blatty's (much inferior) The Exorcist (1971), the Omen/Damien series of films, and the careers of novelists Stephen King and Peter Straub, among many others". David Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels. London, Grafton, 1988. ISBN 0246132140 (p.103-5)