Jack Ketchum "The Girl Next Door" Signed Lettered Edition "EE" of 52, Wooden Slipcase Box

Personally signed by Jack Ketchum, Stephen King, Christopher Golden, Lucy Taylor, Edward Lee, Philip Nutman, Stanley Wiater, and Neal McPheeters.

Signed Lettered Edition of only 52.

"... the closest thing we have to an American Clive Barker... " ". . . no writer who has ever read him can help being infulenced by him, and no general reader who runs across his work can easily forget him. He has become an archetype." - Stephen King

Overlook Connection Press 1996. Jack Ketchum "The Girl Next Door". Signed Lettered Edition of only 52. This is lettered "EE". Personally signed on the limitation page by Jack Ketchum, Stephen King, Christopher Golden, Lucy Taylor, Edward Lee, Philip Nutman, Stanley Wiater, and Neal McPheeters.

• 3,000 word Introduction by Stephen King!
• Signed lettered edition of only 52 produced
• Exclusive end-paper art
• Housed in a mahogany hand-made slipcase box with door.
• Signed by eight contributors

Suburbia in the 1950s, a dark side emerging in the Chandler house for teenage Meg and her crippled little sister Susan --captive to an Aunt, who is rapidly descending into madness. "The Girl Next Door is alive.... in a way most works of poplular fiction never attain; it does not just promise terror but actually delievers it. But it's a page-turner, all right; no doubt about that." - Stephen King

Introduction by Stephen King. Since this novel, published for the first time in hard cover in 1996, has propelled Mr. Ketchum to a cult following. Once you read this book, you will never forget it. If you havent read Ketchum... you NEED to!

In 2007 The Girl Next Door was being released on DVD in an original movie. Stephen King (Fall, 2007) was able to see an advance of the film. Here is what he had to say:

"The first authentically shocking American film Ive seen since Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer over 20 years ago. If you are easily disturbed, you should not watch this movie. If, on the other hand, you are prepared for a long look into hell, suburban style, The Girl Next Door will not disappoint. This is the dark-side-of-the-moon version of Stand By Me."
- Stephen King.

The Girl Next Door

Somebody’s Knocking’…

Suburbia in the 1950s. A nice quiet simpler time to grow up – unless 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 Susan – whose 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 sons – and finally an entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, tortuous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make. Between love and compassion, and lust and evil.

About the Author

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, OFF SEASON and the sequel OFFSPRING. and RED. Coming in Summer 2007 BROKEN ON THE WHEEL OF SEX.

From Wikipedia:

Dallas William Mayr (November 10, 1946 – January 24, 2018), better known by his pen name Jack Ketchum, was an American horror fiction author. He was the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. His novels included Off Season, Offspring, and Red, which were adapted to film. In 2011, Ketchum received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award for outstanding contribution to the horror genre.