Hide and Seek
by Jack Ketchum
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Author: Jack KetchumEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-11-05
ISBN: 188736899X
Number of pages: 173
Publisher: Gauntlet Pr
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Book Review: Ketchum Catches You
Summary: 4 Stars
Ketchum did it again, created a story so real that it draws you in and leaves you wondering. The "horror" of Ketchum is that he bases his stories on reality. No supernatural happenings here, just a little pushing of the reality envelope.
Dan is a young kid just floating through life in a sleepy little town, working at a lumber mill, and putting off attending college. Life for Dan is calm and easy until three rich kids from Boston arrive in Dead River. (What a name for a town where horrors live.)
Casey, (who becomes Dan's lover) Steve, and Kim take Dan into their fold and Dan's life becomes less than calm. The three college kids show Dan how to live life with a sense of entitlement by stealing caviar and cheese for picnics on the beach, creating their own nude beach, and shirking the responsibility of a job.
Dan's relationship with Casey is complicated by her hedonism and risk taking. During the course of the summer Dan comes to understand the tragedy in Casey's life that has formed her personality. He doesn't like what it has done to her, but out of his love/infatuation with her Dan goes along with Casey's crazy antics. One being the game of hide and seek in an old abandoned house at midnight. The house just happens to have a dark history, which Dan shared with Casey, Kim and Steve. And it is because of the houses history, which involves the eviction and disappearace of reculsive Ben and Mary Crouch, the removal of tens of abandonded dogs from the house, and the inability of anyone to live in the old Crouch home afterward, that prompts Casey's game. It turns into a very dangerous game for everyone, especially Casey.
Hide and Seek reminded me of The Girl Next Door and Red, other great books of Ketchum's books that have their terror based in reality. If you want to be scared by something other than ghosts, demons, and the such, and want your fright to come from society, read Ketchum.
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