The Girl Next Door
by:
Jack Ketchum (author)
A psychological horror novel in which an evil woman compels the neighborhood children to torture a young girl.
A psychological horror novel in which an evil woman compels the neighborhood children to torture a young girl.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781892950611 (1892950618)
Publish date: July 15th 2003
Publisher: Overlook Connection Press
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Adult,
Mystery,
Sociology,
Thriller,
Crime,
Horror,
True Crime,
Suspense,
Abuse,
Splatterpunk
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Ketchum was a man way ahead of his time. In 1989, he wrote The Girl Next Door. There was nothing on the shelves remotely like it by other authors. There was nothing as brutal, as gut-wrenching, or emotionally draining as The Girl Next Door. This kind of fiction wouldn't see the light of day for anot...
Jesus H., this book is dark. Dark dark dark dark. Jack Ketchum pulls no punches. His writing style is not fanciful; he gets in and gets out, giving the reader exactly what he or she needs — nothing more, or less. Perhaps that’s what makes this novel so unsettling (aside from the fact that it is ba...
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