Chasing the boogeyman : a novel / Richard Chizmar.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982175160
- ISBN: 1982175168
- ISBN: 9781982175177
- ISBN: 1982175176
- Physical Description: xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Gallery books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / by James Renner -- Introduction: "What kind of monster does that?" -- The town -- The first girl -- Kacey -- Suspicion mounts -- July -- The house of mannequins -- Maddy -- The boogeyman -- October country -- Aftermath -- Memorials -- Shotgun summer -- Questions -- April 2, 1989 -- Afterword: September 2019. |
Summary, etc.: | "There was the bad; the unimaginably, indescribably bad, hovering above all those wonderful memories like an angry, slate-gray thunderstorm sky." In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies of several missing girls begin to turn up in a small Maryland town. The grisly evidence leads police to the terrifying assumption that a serial killer is on the loose in the quiet subrurb, and soon a rumor begins to spread that the evil stalking local teens is not entirely human. But law enforcement and members of the FBI are certain the the killer is a living, breathing madman--and that he's playing games with them. For a once peaceful community trapped in the depths of paranoia and suspicion, it feels like a nightmare that will never end. Recent college graduate Richard Chizmar returns to his hometown just as a curfew is enacted and a neighborhood watch group is formed. In the midst of preparing for his edding and embarking on a writing career, he soon finds himself thrust into a real-life horror story. Inspired by the terrifying events, Chizmar writes a personal account of the serial killer's reign of terror, unaware that his time back home will continue to haunt him for years to come. A clever, terrifying, and heartrending work of metafiction, Chasing the Boogeyman is the ultimate marriage between psychological horror and true crime. Chizmar's writing--combining the storytelling of Stephen King with the relentless suspense of Michelle McNamara--is on full display in this truly unique novel that will linger in your memory long after you turn the final page. -- From dust jacket |
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Genre: | Horror tales. Fictional Work Horror fiction. Thrillers (Fiction) Thrillers (Fiction) Horror fiction. Novels. Romans. |
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- 18 of 20 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kent Library Association - Kent.
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Kent Library Association - Kent | F CHI (Text) | 33410147733762 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |