The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
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The Girl Next Door

Author: Jack Ketchum

Narrator: Jack Ketchum

Unabridged: 7 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/19/2016


Synopsis

Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns, and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, damp basement of the Chandler house, Meg and Susan 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 the entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, torturous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make . . .

About Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum, a four-time recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, is the author of many novels and works of short fiction. Several of his books have been adapted to film. Jack lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mort on December 13, 2020

You should ask yourself only one thing: Are you ready for this book? No matter what you think, you probably won't be. The blurb reads as follows: 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......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on May 01, 2021

That´s so freaking hardcore because it´s based on a true story that shows the slow escalation from mental abuse to the worst things possible done to a human, especially from perpetrators one wouldn´t assume able to do such things to helpless and innocent kids. Another underrated, or let´s say too dis......more

Goodreads review by Tracy on May 24, 2022

I get this feeling when there’s something important I know I’ve forgotten, or when I sense that something is gravely wrong in my little world. It starts slow. I’d call it butterflies in my stomach, but that implies things much more light-hearted than what I speak of here. As I worked my way through......more

Goodreads review by Johann (jobis89) on November 21, 2018

"My mom says Meg's the lucky one," he said. "My mom says she got off easy." In 1950s suburban America, two teen girls are left in the care of their aunt following the death of their parents. The story is told through the eyes of David, the boy who lives next door and who is witness to the escalating......more