Rosemary's Baby

It's almost fifteen years since Ira Levin's MWA-ward winning A Kiss Before Dying and this one promises to be the blessed event of the season and probably a good many more. Not since the late Shirley Jackson has there been quite this kind of spellbinder although Levin, a little less literary, a little less bizarre, grounds his saturnalia in the everyday - actually an old apartment house in New York city where Rosemary Woodhouse and Guy, an actor, move, not knowing that the Bramford has quite a history - a recent infanticide in the cellar, and longer ago, the Trench sisters lived there and conducted strange nutritive experiments. Then there's the little old couple who live next door to Guy and Rosemary and who may be responsible for Guy's becoming distrait and distant just when Rosemary becomes pregnant and has terrible pain's in her stomach and a craving for raw meat and- and- and- ....Well, Rosemary's Baby's a beautiful conception and you'll enjoy every maleficent minute of it. A witches' sabbathical for everyone. (Kirkus Reviews)