Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- A Note to Readers -- Foreword -- Introduction: "What kind of monster does that?" -- Chapter One: The Town -- Chapter Two: The First Girl -- Chapter Three: Kacey -- Chapter Four: Suspicion Mounts -- Chapter Five:...
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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- A Note to Readers -- Foreword -- Introduction: "What kind of monster does that?" -- Chapter One: The Town -- Chapter Two: The First Girl -- Chapter Three: Kacey -- Chapter Four: Suspicion Mounts -- Chapter Five: July -- Chapter Six: The House of Mannequins -- Chapter Seven: Maddy -- Chapter Eight: The Boogeyman -- Chapter Nine: October Country -- Chapter Ten: Aftermath -- Chapter Eleven: Memorials -- Chapter Twelve: Shotgun Summer -- Chapter Thirteen: Questions -- Chapter Fourteen: April 2, 1989 -- Afterword: September 2019 -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright. "There was the bad; the unimaginably, indescribably bad, hovering above all those wonderful memories like an angry, slate-gray thunderstorm sky." 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 subrurb, 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. Chizmar's writing--combining the storytelling of Stephen King with the relentless suspense of Michelle McNamara--is on full display in this truly unique novel that will linger in your memory long after you turn the final page. --
