隣の家の少女 (扶桑社ミステリー) [文庫]

1958年の夏。当時、12歳のわたし(デイヴィッド)は、隣の家に引っ越して来た美しい少女メグと出会い、一瞬にして、心を奪われる。メグと妹のスーザンは両親を交通事故で亡くし、隣のルース・チャンドラーに引き取られて来たのだった。隣家の少女に心躍らせるわたしはある日、ルースが姉妹を折檻している場面に出会いショックを受けるが、ただ傍観しているだけだった。ルースの虐待は日に日にひどくなり、やがてメグは地下室に監禁されさらに残酷な暴行を―。キングが絶賛する伝説の名作。

SOMEBODY'S KNOCKIN'...Suburbia in the 1950s. A nice quiet simpler time to grow upunless you count the McCarthy trials and red-scares and the shadow of the Bomb and the Cold War, unless you could see the dark side emerging. And on a quiet tree-lined dead-end street, in the dark damp basement of the Chandler house, it's emerging big-time for teenage Meg and her crippled sister Susanwhose parents are dead now, who 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 sonsand finally an entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruet, tortuous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make. Between love and compassion, and lust and evil.
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This hardcover edition of The Girl Next Door includes the 3,000 word Introduction by Stephen King.
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Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for a former actor, teacher, literary agent, lumber salesman, and soda jerk. He is also a former flower child and baby boomer who figures that in 1956 Elvis, dinosaurs and horror probably saved his life. His first novel, OFF SEASON, an updating of the Sawney Beane story, prompted the Village Voice to publicly scold its publisher in print for publishing violent pornography. He has always wondered what they would think of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. His short story THE BOX won a 1994 Bram Stoker Award from HWA and he has written nine novels, the latest of which are JOYRIDE, STRANGLEHOLD and the sequel to OFF SEASON - OFFSPRING (coming 2003)- and RED.
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