Product Description

A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel reveals the depravity of which we are all capable.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #246746 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.03" h x 4.26" w x 6.76" l, .40 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 370 pages

Review
" ... the thing that makes The Girl Next Door so disturbing: the fact that the reader, even though repulsed by the story, cannot look away. The Girl Next Door is definitely NOT for the faint of heart." -- -- Henry W. Wagner, Cemetery Dance

"... the closest thing we have to an American Clive Barker... " ". . . no writer who has ever read him can help being infulenced by him, and no general reader who runs across his work can easily forget him. He has become an archetype." -- -- Stephen King

"Realism is what makes this novel so terrifying ... the monsters ..are human, and all the more horrifying for it. -- Mike Baker, Afraid Magazine

"THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is alive...it does not just promise terror but actually delivers it.. it's a page-turner.." -- Stephen King, from the Introduction to The Girl Next Door

"This is the real stuff, horror embedded in genuine literature, an uncomfortable dip into the pitch blackness in the underside of the American literary tradition."-- -- Edward Bryant, Locus Publications

From the Publisher
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.