Chasing the Boogeyman

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It's written with Chizmar as one of the main characters in the book, a recent journalism graduate living at home for a few months before getting married and moving to another city. The author makes you believe everything he is saying happened way back when he was a young man fresh out of college.

Chizmar not only has coauthored a novella with him (Gwendy’s Button Box), but he’s also mentioned ad nauseam throughout the story.

and james renner, master of both of these balancing-act skills, is the perfect fellow to virgil a reader into its pages.

They represent a duality that runs through the whole novel: a night and day cycle that seems to represent the alternation between the conscious and unconscious mind. A meticulously remembered, beautifully crafted hometown nightmare that reminds readers that nostalgia cuts both ways; sure, it can keep our past alive, but it can also be the shadow man standing at the foot of your bed…. He has adapted the works of many bestselling authors including Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Bentley Little. Told from the first-person point of view of fictional Richard Chizmar, the reader gets to intimately get to know Edgewood, the serene neighborhood setting, and its residents.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. I was intrigued by the premise - a thriller novel set as a true crime investigation - and execution, but by the end I was skim reading to finish. 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….

As the killer, known as “The Boogeyman” for how he seems to disappear without a trace, begins to kill young women, Edgewood is plunged into darkness and suspicion. average rating on Goodreads and the majority of my friends have all loved this so please know that I am an outlier in my opinion. For your own safety, you should… The Boogeyman will soon enter the pantheon of suburban legends that fill our backyards like summer fireflies, his name whispered into ears all over. I’m also proud to say that upon finishing this book, it was my 10/10 book for my 2021 Reading Challenge on Goodreads!To be fair, they were underneath the title in a much, much smaller font (yes, I am only trying to make myself feel better for my foolishness). During the first chapters, I was so captivated and so convinced that I started to doubt and I went back to Goodreads to make sure that it was fiction - as the story is based on true events, I just wanted to know what those events were exactly. Absolutely riveting… Richard Chizmar’s keen ability to tell the small-town-tale, investigative insight, and captivating eye for detail, come together in this perfect storm of true crime horror.

Police and lawyers can speculate on what happened but only the perp and the victim actually know the truth and one of them is dead and the other isn't talking. As a fan of true crime it was very hard to believe that this is a work of fiction throughout the whole read. I was really engaged with the first half, and I was especially enjoying the supernatural elements of the book, but then I feel like it just never went anywhere?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. Chasing the Boogeyman messed with my head a little, but definitely in a good way, I knew this was a work of metafiction, but it really reads more like true crime.