"The Girl Next Door is alive. It does not just promise terror, but actually delivers it."

--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

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 of 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...