Chasing the Boogeyman

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Black and white photographs of the crime scenes and key players are even interspersed throughout the pages.

Overall, this is a creepy book that offers a sense of foreboding throughout and I read it fairly quickly wanting to know who had committed these murders and why. C. Approximately 5,419 years later, Richard Chizmar has invented an entirely new genre of literature with Chasing the Boogeyman. It was a clever story, reminding me of the author Anthony Horowitz inserting himself into his stories. This brilliant work of metafiction crafts a not-so-true crime story that feels ripe for a Netflix series….I see a lot of other reviewers saying this is a 5 star idea and a 2 star plot and I’d have to agree. because this book is also a love letter to edgewater, and chizmar knows every inch of this neighborhood; its geographical shortcuts and residents and history, and he brings it all to life down to the smallest details with the insights of someone intimately familiar with the physical terrain and social mores. If you like your horror/crime served up on a platter of I-don't-think-I can-sleep-tonight, then is definitely the book for you. Chizmar’s novel isn’t just a clever riff on genre; it’s a meditation on the dangers and darkness of home, on what happens when the place where we grew up finally grows up itself—or at least when it discovers the violence it’s capable of….

The year is 1988, and Richard Chizmar (the author) has just graduated college and moved back home to his parents house in Edgewood, MD in advance of his upcoming nuptials. And this is so: the “reality” of Chasing The Boogeyman augments the spine-tingling dread pervading the narrative. There are even crime scene photos included with every chapter, which further adds to the real and chilling atmosphere.

The harvest moon—swollen and magnificent, and so close on the horizon you could almost reach out and touch it—paid its annual visit and left you yearning for more.

But if we step back from how “real” it all feels and just look at it as a novel, for a second, there is brilliant work here. Chizmar was living there at the time and had spent his whole life as a resident of the city, giving him a unique perspective of the people and locations affected by the murders. at the time, he was a 22-year-old recently-graduated journalism major living back home with his parents waiting for his fiancée to finish her degree before embarking upon their espousèd life together.the phrase one always hears when it comes to popular narrative nonfiction is that "it reads like a novel. The character of the boogeyman was portrayed similarly to the Shape, Michael Myers, in that it didn't talk or make any noises where a normal human would react to pain being inflicted with pain. This is a book where I feel the Author's Note is a must since it helps clear up what is real in the story vs what is not. Richard Chizmar is the author of Gwendy's Button Box (with Stephen King) and A Long December, which was nominated for numerous awards.

Richard Chizmar is the coauthor (with Stephen King) of the New York Times bestselling novella Gwendy’s Button Box and Gwendy’s Final Task, and the solo novella Gwendy’s Magic Feather. it’s a successful genre mashup and brilliant tonal chimera, by turns lovely and unsettling, intense and meditative. J. Tudor, New York Times bestselling author) writing is on full display in this truly unique novel that will haunt you long after you turn the final page. Again, this felt like a memoir, and even though he was totally obsessed with the murders they still seemed to take a back seat to his reminiscing about his youth.Chizmar’s writing is on full display in this truly unique novel that will haunt you long after you turn the final page. the 1990 book ended with the crime still unsolved, and this updated version provides closure: an arrest, a confession, and an interview with the killer. The final revelation of the murderer was surprising, but only because there were no clues that would have led to that conclusion.