Whisper Down the Lane: A Novel
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Whisper Down the Lane: A Novel

Whisper Down the Lane: A Novel

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Clay McLeod Chapman (Author)  

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A diabolically creepy hybrid of horror and psychological suspense that thrills as much as it unsettles. You ll keep turning the pages even as your hands shake. Riley Sager, New York Times best-selling author of Home Before Dark. A pulse-pounding, true-crime-based horror novel inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the 80s. Richard doesn't have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage, a first chance at fatherhood, and a quiet life as an art teacher in Virginia. Then the body of a ritualistically murdered rabbit appears on his school's playground, along with a birthday card for him. But Richard hasn't celebrated his birthday since he was known as Sean... In the 1980s, Sean was five years old when his mother asked him if his favorite teacher had ever been inappropriate with him. In the course of one conversation, Sean was led to tell a lie. When school administrators, cops, and therapists questioned him, he told another. And another. And another. Each fueled the fire of a moral panic that engulfed the nation and destroyed the lives of everyone around him. Now, thirty years later, someone is here to tell Richard that they know what Sean did. But who would even know that these two are one and the same? Gillian Flynn's Dark Places meets Riley Sager in this tense and compulsively readable novel from one of horror's most promising voices.
Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of the storytelling session The Pumpkin Pie Show and the author of rest area, nothing untoward, and the Tribe trilogy. He is the co-author of the middle grade novel Wendell and Wild, with Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick. In the world of comics, Chapman s work includes Lazaretto, Iron Fist: Phantom Limb, and Edge of Spiderverse, among others. He also writes for the screen, including The Boy (SXSW 2015), Henley (Sundance 2012), and late bloomer (Sundance 2005).
  • Contributor: Clay McLeod Chapman
  • Imprint: Quirk Books
  • ISBN13: 9781683692157
  • Number of Pages: 336
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Quirk Books
  • Release Date: 2021-04-06
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of the storytelling session The Pumpkin Pie Show and the author of rest area, nothing untoward, and the Tribe trilogy. He is the co-author of the middle grade novel Wendell and Wild, with Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick. In the world of comics, Chapman s work includes Lazaretto, Iron Fist: Phantom Limb, and Edge of Spiderverse, among others. He also writes for the screen, including The Boy (SXSW 2015), Henley (Sundance 2012), and late bloomer (Sundance 2005).

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