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Chasing the boogeyman : a novel / Richard Chizmar.

Chizmar, Richard, 1965- (author.).

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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 suburb, 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.

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  • ISBN: 9781982175160
  • ISBN: 1982175168
  • ISBN: 9781982175177
  • ISBN: 1982175176
  • ISBN: 9781668062692
  • Physical Description: xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Gallery Book edition
  • Publisher: New York : Gallery Books, 2021.

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Foreword / by James Renner -- Introduction: "What kind of monster does that?" -- Town -- First girl -- Kacey -- Suspicion mounts -- July -- House of mannequins -- Maddy -- Boogeyman -- October country -- Aftermath -- Memorials -- Shotgun summer -- Questions -- April 2, 1989 -- Afterword: September 2019.

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