| Publisher | Leisure Books |
|---|---|
| Year | 2008 |
| Format | Mass-Market Paperback |
| Pages | 381 |
| Country | USA |
| ISBN | 0-8439-6097-3 (Movie Tie-In Edition) |
The Girl Next Door
Movie tie-in edition.
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 or 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.
This edition also features the stories Do You Love Your Wife? and Returns. The Movie Tie-In Edition also contains a bonus interview.
Contents:
- The Girl Next Door
- Do You Love Your Wife?
- Returns
- We Have Permission (interview with Jack Ketchum by Quentin Dunne) – Movie Tie-In Edition only.
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Before there was Jack Ketchum there was Jerzy Livingston, a writer new at his craft but thoroughly jazzed to it, living in a very strange time in a very strange New York City, going straight to hell in a handbasket and loving every minute, writing stories for the likes of Swank, Cavalier, Genesis, Nugget, and High Society. Dark, black-comic stories mostly, the kind you might almost expect of the Ketchum who was waiting in the wings. The Sexual Revolution was lost by then -lost on all fronts- and only a few had noticed. He had. He was whistling in a graveyard.
Contents:
- The Hang Up
- The Heat
- Skin Game
- Bosom Buddies (aka The Burn Artist)
- The Rubdown
- Fixing Her Plumbing (aka Never Trust a Smart Cunt with Two First Names)
- Fish
- Dancing’ (aka Old Men Dancing)
- The Liar
- The French
- The Christmas Caller
- Head Games (aka East Side Story)
- Dead Heat
- The Making of a Religious Cult (lettered edition only)