
Added by 16 of our members
SOMEBODY'S KNOCKIN'...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 cruet, tortuous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make. Between love and compassion, and lust and evil.
Genre: Horror
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"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
"THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is alive...it does not just promise terror but actually delivers it.. it's a page-turner..." - Stephen King
"THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is alive...it does not just promise terror but actually delivers it.. it's a page-turner..." - Stephen King
Similar books by other authors
Used availability for Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door
Hardback Editions
December 1996 : USA Hardback
1996 : USA Hardback

Title: The Girl Next Door
Author(s): Jack Ketchum
ISBN: 0-9633397-2-9 / 978-0-9633397-2-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Overlook Connection Press
Availability: Amazon
Paperback Editions
September 2015 : USA Paperback
July 2011 : USA Paperback
December 2007 : USA Paperback
April 2005 : USA Paperback
July 2002 : USA Paperback
November 1989 : USA Paperback
Audio Editions
April 2016 : USA Audio CD
April 2016 : USA Audio CD
April 2016 : USA Audio edition
April 2016 : Australia Audio edition
April 2016 : Canada Audio edition
April 2016 : UK Audio edition
Kindle Editions
March 2013 : USA, Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition
May 2005 : USA, Canada Kindle edition