The Girl Next Door

by Jack Ketchum, Neal McPheeters (Illustrator)

Overview

Suburbia in the 1950s, a dark side emerging in the Chandler house for teenage Meg and her crippled little sister Susan - captive to an Aunt, who is rapidly descending into madness. "The Girl Next Door is alive.... in a way most works of poplular fiction never attain; it does not just promise terror but actually delievers it. But it's a page-turner, all right; no doubt about that." - Stephen King

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780963339744
Publisher:	Overlook Connection Press, The
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.42(w) x 9.22(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for a former actor, singer, teacher, literary agent, lumber salesman, and soda jerk. He is also a former flower child and baby boomer who figures that in 1956 Elvis, dinosaurs, and horror probably saved his life. His first novel, Off Season, prompted the Village Voice to publicly scold its publisher in print for publishing violent pornography. He personally disagrees but is perfectly happy to let you decide for yourself. His short story The Box won a 1994 Bram Stoker Award from the HWA. He has written many novels, including The Girl Next Door, Off Season, and Stranglehold. His stories are collected in The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard and Broken on the Wheel of Sex.

Editorial Reviews

"The Girl Next Door is alive...it does not just promise terror but actually delivers it.. It's a page-turner." ---Stephen King

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