Chasing the Boogeyman (The Boogeyman Series)

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Our parents and brothers and sisters would grow old and eventually we’d have to say goodbye to them, too.

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Other times, we’d practice responsible gun safety by pointing at each other’s shoes and yelling, “Jump! Every house, as far as I could see, on both sides of the street, was lit up by multicolored Christmas lights, many of them blinking cheerily.Dented and battered beyond recognition from hundreds of errant throws—high and inside to my imaginary right-handed batters—it barely managed to cling to the wall with a pair of bent and rusty nails.

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I spent countless summer evenings on that porch—reading comics and paperback books, sorting baseball and football cards, or playing board games with friends. Soon, gentlemen sportsmen from northeastern cities as far-ranging as New York and Boston traveled to Edgewood to take part in the hunt. Underneath were tidy stacks of pre-cut lumber, a number of plastic buckets, and a couple of old stepstools. Yes, the old cliché holds true: my friends and I walked a mile to and from school every day until we were old enough to drive.

However, Richard’s lifelong interest in the macabre comes knocking on his parents’ door when, three days before his arrival in town, a young girl is taken from her bedroom three blocks from where they live.

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No one was more relieved than my folks when I finally gave up the habit for good only a short time before I left for college. We’d spend long afternoons hunting for crows and vultures in the woods or shooting at empty cans and bottles.The terrifying sequel to the acclaimed New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling novel Chasing the Boogeyman, which was hailed as “genuinely chilling and something brand-new and exciting” (Stephen King) and “unforgettable” (Harlan Coben). Chasing the Boogeyman perfectly captures the feeling of growing up in a small town facing an existential threat from real evil. The garage’s remaining wall space was taken up by sheets of leaning plywood, old furniture awaiting repair, and large, dangerous-looking machinery: a table saw with gleaming metal teeth, a twin-belt sander, a router, and drill press.

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A riveting, haunting sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller Chasing the Boogeyman—a tale of obsession and the adulation of evil, exploring modern society’s true-crime obsession with unflinching honesty, sparing no one from the glare of the spotlight. Old Edgewood Road and Hanson Road bisected the sprawling development, and both roadways were soon dotted with commercial establishments. There was a lengthy period of time when I think my flabbergasted father fully believed I was heading for reform school or maybe even prison due to my addiction.

She’s a geography teacher and he’s a restaurateur, though the pandemic has made it really hard to keep a business afloat in the latter industry. But with every boom there comes the inevitable bust—and in the years following the United States military’s involvement in Vietnam, a number of weapons testing programs at Edgewood Arsenal were either downsized or canceled altogether. I’d start slowly with a series of mundane incidents, building the narrative gradually, sprinkling interesting tidbits along the way, and timing the pace so that the most awful and terrifying shocks would occur just as we were passing close to the house.