The Girl Next Door - Softcover

Ketchum, Jack; King, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 1892950618 ISBN 13: 9781892950611

Publisher: Overlook Connection Pr, 2003

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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

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This hardcover edition of The Girl Next Door includes the 3,000 word Introduction by Stephen King.

About the Author:

Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for a former actor, 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, an updating of the Sawney Beane story, prompted the Village Voice to publicly scold its publisher in print for publishing violent pornography. He has always wondered what they would think of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. His short story THE BOX won a 1994 Bram Stoker Award from HWA and he has written nine novels, OFF SEASON and the sequel OFFSPRING. and RED. Coming in Summer 2007 BROKEN ON THE WHEEL OF SEX.

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