The Girl Next Door

233 Pages·2016·1.29 MB·English

by  Ketchum Jack

Table of Contents

Praise
Other Leisure books by Jack Ketchum:
Title Page
Copyright Page
Epigraph

I
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven

II
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen

III
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four

IV
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three

V
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-One
Chapter Forty-Two
Chapter Forty-Three
Chapter Forty-Four
Chapter Forty-Five
Chapter Forty-Six

EPILOGUE
Chapter Forty-Seven

Author’s Note: On Writing the Girl Next Door
Teaser chapter
HIGH PRAISE FOR JACK KETCHUP AND THE
GIRL NEXT DOOR!
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"The Girl Next Door is alive. It does not just promise terror, but actually delivers .”
—Stephen King

“Ketchum [is] one of America’s best and most consistent writers of contemporary horror fiction.”
—Bentley Little

“Just when you think the worst has already happened...Jack Ketchum goes yet another shock
further.”
—Fangoria
“This is the real stuff, an uncomfortable dip into the pitch blackness.”
—Locus

“The reader, even though repulsed by the story, cannot look away. Definitely NOT for the faint of
heart.”
—Cemetery Dance

“Realism is what makes this novel so terrifying. The monsters are human, and all the more horrifying
for it.”
—Afraid Magazine

“For two decades now, Jack Ketchum has been one of our best, brightest, and most reliable.”
—Hellnotes

“A major voice in contemporary suspense.”
—Ed Gorman
“Jack Ketchum is a master of suspense and horror of the human variety.”
—Midwest Book Review
Other Leisure books by Jack Ketchum:
SHE WAKES
PEACEABLE KINGDOM
RED
THE LOST

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“You got to tell me the brave captain
Why are the wicked so strong?
How do the angels get to sleep
When the devil leaves the porch light on?”
—Tom Waits

“I never want to hear the screams
Of the teenage girls in other people’s dreams.”
—The Specials

“The soul under the burden of sin cannot flee.”
—Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn