Breed: A Novel

The best American horror novel since Scott Smith’s The Ruins, Breed is redolent of Roald Dahl at his creepy best.

The best American horror novel since Scott Smith’s “The Ruins,” “The Breed” is redolent of Roald Dahl at his creepy best.

The book is a delightfully nauseating read. And it's the perfect dark fairy tale for these times, when more than a few readers might secretly find themselves wishing that the world's elites would be brought so low as to start pooping in their own posh living rooms.

This is a gruesome book, a full-bore foray into the horror genre, so literary loveliness goes only so far.