Rosemary’s Baby (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Ira Levin
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—occult
- Time of Work: 1965-1966
- Setting: New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Magical and occult fantasy
- Subjects: 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, New York City, Pregnancy, Devils or demons, Satan or Satanism
- Locales: New York, NY
The Plot
Rosemary’s Baby, playwright and novelist Ira Levin’s most famous work, was his first effort in the horror- fantasy genre. The novel charts the course of its protagonist’s unusual pregnancy and her slowly dawning belief that she and her baby are the targets of a satanic conspiracy involving her neighbors, her doctor, and even her husband.
When Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into the Bramford, a beautiful Victorian apartment building in New York, Rosemary’s friend Edward “Hutch” Hutchins warns them of the building’s notorious past, a history...
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