| Publisher | 47North |
|---|---|
| Year | 2015 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 309 |
| Country | USA |
| ISBN | 9781503950566 |
オンリー・チャイルド (Only Child) (Stranglehold) (Japan)
Japanese edition of Only Child / Stranglehold, translated by Yoshiki Arisawa.
The Girl Next Door
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.
Contents:
- The Girl Next Door
- Do You Love Your Wife?
- Returns
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Το κορίτσι της διπλανής πόρτας (The Girl Next Door) (Greece)
Greek edition of The Girl Next Door, translated by Nick Roussos.
(Nick Roussos later did a revised translation in 2011).
Off Season (UK)
This edition is slightly different than the original American edition, but not as complete as The Unexpurgated Edition.
From the Afterword to The Unexpurgated Edition (edited to avoid possible spoilers):
“There was one…change I made…for the British paperback.
At the very end of the original, [a character is] in the ambulance, shot up with painkillers and speculating through her haze on whether these people who are treating her are paramedics or doctors. She hoped they were doctors, reads the line.
A few months after the book was published I got a letter from a fan who said he’d enjoyed the read immensely. Until he got to that line.
He went on to say that he was in fact a paramedic and in [her] situation, she’d be far better off in the hands of a trained ambulance crew than with a bunch of doctors. I checked it out and he was right of course. Whoops. I hadn’t done my homework. I wrote back and apologized and thanked him for bringing the error to my attention and promised that if the book ever went into another printing anywhere I’d fix it.
In ’95 the Brits at Headline came along and I did.“