Jack Ketchum and Stephen King - The Girl Next Door

Pros: Very well written, great characters, interesting concept, honest...
Cons: Very, very, VERY terrifying. Not for everybody.

"What if?" This question is at the center of Jack Ketchum's chilling novel The Girl Next Door (1989). It deeply examines the human psyche and the way people can be easily influenced, pressured, and in the end completely controlled. There have been ...

Pros: You will be affected, very well written
Cons: What goes on in this book is appalling.

Rating this book is one of the most difficult ratings I've done. On one hand, this is an extremely well written book. The characters feel real, you care about the ones you are supposed to care about, and genuinely loath those you aren't. The scenes are ...

Pros: Disturbing page turner.
Cons: N/A

Title: The Girl Next Door Author: Jack Ketchum Original Published Date: 1989 Genre: Horror PB The Girl Next Door is a highly disturbing book that will keep the reader turning pages till the very end. Graphic, bone-chilling and suspense are the ...

Pros: Horrifying
Cons: May be extremely upsetting for most, if not all, readers.

This novel is correctly categorized as being a horror novel. THe horror, however, is the fact that what happened in this book, while extreme, is not impossible, unlike the horrors in most other fiction. This novel begins with Meg and her sister ...

Pros: It is intense and not as much of a dud as some of Ketchum's others.
Cons: It isn't for everyone.

I went into this book with half way high expectations. I knew that it was going to be intense (gore wise) sense the people that I trust told me that it would be. It was. Mark one up for the good column. As a parent I was really moved by the plight of ...