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The Girl Next Door

By: Jack Ketchum
Narrated by: Jack Ketchum
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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....

©1989 Dallas Mayr (P)2016 Tantor Horror Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Tear-jerking

Critic reviews

" The Girl Next Door is alive...it does not just promise terror but actually delivers it.... It's a page-turner." (Stephen King)
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My favourite book I have read this year. But I never want to read it again.

Thrilling

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A book that will haunt you for a long time. Very upsetting. It was really difficult to finish.

I am in tears after this book.

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This is a wonderful novel with depth and high interest. Well read by the author.

But it is brutal. Definitely look for a review/synopsis first and decide if it’s for you. The descriptions are graphic and painful to hear.

Not for faint-hearted

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An important but upsetting listen. It shows the depth of human cruelty and those who shape it. Will definitely longer with fears and questions for any listener, but an accomplished portrayal based on true crime.

A harrowing glimpse at abuse

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Shocking, disturbing, compelling and completely engrossing. to imagine the pain that the abused suffer. very nearly brought me to tears.

Disturbing look into the pain of the abused.

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