Let's Go Play at the Adams

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For a while Cindy even tires of having complete freedom, and considers releasing Barbara out of boredom and because she genuinely likes the young woman. Rather than going into the plot (I'd like for people to be able to read this with as few spoilers as possible.

I don’t want to say too much about the plot, because I think if you’re going to go on this journey, the less you know the better. If she was going to die and this was the only two times she would be experiencing sex, then she wanted at least one time to be enjoyable. The author appeared to be saying: actually, it's pretty easy for the right social pressures to turn normal kids into psychopaths.In the course of this novel, five children transform themselves into monsters and one young woman is transformed into a victim -- and, ultimately, an object. Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: Many of these kids, it is implied, wouldn't do things to Barbara on their own.

Well, at least they did until Jack Ketchum blew up the literary world with "The Girl Next Door" which was based on the horrible Sylvia Likens murder in Indiana by a bunch of neighborhood delinquents. Comparisons have been made to Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door which I haven’t read yet, as both books are apparently loosely based on the 1965 murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens. That's because where Ketchum's classic is a perfect blend of psychology, pathos, pacing, and grueling horror, Johnson's version is slow, repetitive, devoid of soul, and cruel for cruelty's sake. I both highly recommend it and also don't because it's a truly excellent piece of horror fiction which has been severely overlooked but it is also not something that I think most people will be able to stomach.It doesn't matter if you're into Stephen King, Octavia Butler, Jack Ketchum or Shirley Jackson, this is the place to share that love and discuss to your heart's content.