Horror Book Club (November)

Name: Horror Book Club (November)
Start: 2025-11-10T17:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-10T18:30:00-06:00
Location: 14 S. Commercial Alley, Mason City, IA, United States, Iowa 50401

Schedule

Mon Nov 10 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

14 S. Commercial Alley, Mason City, IA, United States, Iowa 50401 | Mason City, IA

Let's get spooky, gory, and scared! Welcome to the newest book club at Three Bells, Horror Book Club. We will meet every 2nd Monday of the month at 5:30 pm. Our book for November is Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin. Meetings last about an hour and discussions are led by one of our staff bookworms. This is a casual, no-commitment book club. There is no fee but we'd appreciate you buying the book club book from us or making another purchase of your choice while you're here. This will help us keep events like this going. Books are available now in the store. You can also reserve your copy online here: https://threebellsbooks.com/item/GMGlN5VrDzCB__0MdOT-6g
About the book:
One of the best-selling books of all time, Rosemary’s Baby is a foundational work of suspense and psychological horror which remains as powerful and chilling as the day it was written. Hailed by Truman Capote as a “darkly brilliant tale” and adapted with near-total fidelity into the monumental film starring Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby ushered in the era of contemporary horror as we know it, opening the floodgates to later works such as The Exorcist and The Omen. Levin ingeniously fused gothic literary tradition with modern-day New York, creating an enduring classic which the New York Times placed on its recent list of “The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years.”
Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling-actor husband Guy are thrilled to move into the Bramford, a sought-after Manhattan apartment building prized for its Victorian details and gargoyled facade. Yet as they learn of a darker side to the building’s history—and become acquainted with their overly attentive neighbors, the Castevets—unspoken tensions enter into the young couples’ relationship. Matters improve when Guy lands a major role, and Rosemary at last becomes pregnant. But as her pregnancy takes frightening turns, Rosemary begins to question if her neighbors’ heightened interest is strictly innocent, or if their motivations—and those of Guy himself—portend terrifying consequences for her, and her unborn child. Is Rosemary “…going mad, or going sane”?