The Girl Next Door

Suburbia in the 1950s. A nice quiet simpler time to grow up — unless you count the McCarthy trials and red-scares and the cold 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 little sister Susan — whose parents are dead now, who are now 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 lingering, cruel, tortuous death. One boy with a very adult decision to make. Between love and compassion, and lust and evil.

This is the road to terror Jack Ketchum wants you to walk with him, the human darkness he wants you to peer into. Peer into the bedroom window at nighttime from the trees behind the house. Peer into the basement, lit only by a candle, where unspeakable things are happening. Where innocence is dying. Where pain lives. Where there are no limits to the darkest possible imagination.

And thus begins the descent into real terror that Jack Ketchum takes you.

A novel so intense that you will never forget it.

Never.

Signed Trade Paperback Edition

Limited Edition- Limited to 500 signed, numbered and slipcased copies hardcovers.  Signed by Jack Ketchum, Stephen King, Christopher Golden, Lucy Taylor, Edward Lee, Phillip Nutman, Stanley Waiter and Neal McPheeters