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Suburbia in the 1950s. A nice quiet simpler time to grow up - unless you count the McCarthy trials and red-scares and the shadow of the Bomb and the Cold War, unless you could see the dark side emerging. And on a quiet tree-lined dead-end street, in the dark damp basement of the Chandler house, it's emerging big time for teenage Meg and her crippled sister Susan - whose parents are dead now, who are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distant Aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons - and finally an entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, tortuous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make. between love and compassion, and lust and evil.
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The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum, Stephen King
- Language
- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- The Girl Next Door
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jack Ketchum, Stephen King
- Publisher
- Overlook Connection Press
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 244
- ISBN10
- 1892950618
- ISBN13
- 9781892950611
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Horror, Murders, Children, Psychological Thrillers, Adapted for Film, True Crime, America, Dark, Siblings, Based on True Events, Dread, Fear, Small Town, Pain, 1950s, Torture, Houses, Villas, Residences, Evil, Madness, Neighbors, Sadism, Orphanhood
- First published
- 1989
- Original title
- The Girl Next Door
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Suburbia in the 1950s. A nice quiet simpler time to grow up - unless you count the McCarthy trials and red-scares and the shadow of the Bomb and the Cold War, unless you could see the dark side emerging. And on a quiet tree-lined dead-end street, in the dark damp basement of the Chandler house, it's emerging big time for teenage Meg and her crippled sister Susan - whose parents are dead now, who are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distant Aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons - and finally an entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, tortuous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make. between love and compassion, and lust and evil.