SynopsisThe Bram Stoker Award-winning author explores the darkest corner of human nature in this novel--based on a true story--about a woman who enlists her own children to torture a helpless girl she is hiding in her basement. Includes two bonus short stories. TPL Overlook Connection Press., 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 popular fiction never attain; it does not just promise terror but actually delivers it. But it's a page-turner, all right; no doubt about that."--Stephen King, A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel reveals the depravity of which we are all capable.