The classic novel of spellbinding suspense only the mind of Ira Levin could have imagined. She is a housewife - young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor - charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home - a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare...

Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin - where terror is as near as your new neighbours and where evil wears the most innocent face of all....

Ira Levin was born and lives in New York City. His novels - A Kiss Before Dying, Rosemary's Baby, This Perfect Day, The Stepford Wives, The Boys from Brazil, and Sliver - have all been international bestsellers. Mr. Levin also wrote the longest-running thriller in Broadway history, Deathtrap, and the lyrics of the Barbra Streisand classic "He Touched Me" A two-time winner of the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award, he recently received the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for lifetime achievement.

Mia Farrow, in addition to extensive stage work on Broadway and the West End, starred on television in Peyton Place, and in such films as Rosemary's Baby, The Great Gatsby, Hannah and Her Sisters, Alice (Golden Globe award), and Reckless; she is the author of the memoir What Falls Away.