Rosemary's Baby (novel)

Rosemary's Baby
Cover of 1967 first edition
AuthorIra Levin
LanguageEnglish
GenreHorror
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
March 12, 1967
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback) and Audio Book
Followed bySon 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]

  1. ^ Harry Edwin Eiss (editor), Images of the Child, p. 38 (Bowling Green State University Press, 1994). ISBN 0-87972-653-9
  2. ^ "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)