Yay! One of my favorite, smart, mind blowing reads is out today!🥳🥂📚Wowza! This is..... I cannot find a proper word how this precious gem made me feel! It’s certainly extraordinary, mind blowing metafiction is written like a true crime fiction! Extremely disturbing, spin tingling, nerve bending, twisty, outrageously surprising and truly explosive! This book haunted my soul! Its unique writing style, realistic chapters reminds you of documentary scripts, unconventional conclusion are truly hauntin...

In the summer of 1988 several girls go missing, and their dead bodies found posed in a small Maryland town. Richard Chizmar aspiring writer returns to his hometown right before the second murder. Drawn into figuring out who is terrorizing his town, Richard writes his personal account of the serial killer's reign of terror. Also, the killer seems to be taking an interest in him. Mysterious hangup calls and someone seems to be following him. Will they find out who the Boogeyman is before he kills

"It's like the guy sliced open a hole in the night," one state trooper complained off the record, "and disappeared back into it.”this book is a whole new thing; a gripping metafictional mélange of true crime and crime fiction, memoir and horror, and chizmar pulls off this ambitious undertaking seamlessly.the phrase one always hears when it comes to popular narrative nonfiction is that "it reads like a novel." this one is just the opposite—it's a novel constructed to read like narrative nonfictio...

5+ stars! Brilliant! Shocking! Clever! Terrifying! Engrossing! Phenomenal!! Best book I’ve read in a long time! All time favourites shelf!This is a unique and captivating genre mash up. Part true crime, part memoir, part psychological horror. This was insanely brilliant and refreshing! This was a large step outside of my usual reading genres and I LOVED EVERY SINGLE PAGE of it! I was quite literally addicted to this book from start to finish. When I had to stop reading (life really gets in the w...

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What is the purpose of fiction? Could it be to pull the wool over our eyes so completely that we forget we are reading something made up and totally false? Chasing the Boogeyman is a fictional account of the brutal killings that took place in the author's hometown of Edgewood during the late 1980s. Teenage girls would first go missing and then turn up mutilated and posed. Before long, the town is in a frenzy of fear and suspicion. While the police work feverishly to catch the serial killer, Rich...

Oh so clever!! How could I NOT give this 5 stars? The concept is brilliant!!And, so was the execution! Described as part memoir, part fiction that reads like TRUE CRIME, it is so believable that I kept thinking I misread something! I even googled the “crime” halfway through to see if it at least closely resembled an actual event!!Author Richard Chizmar grew up in Edgewood, Maryland, a town where each generation of children feared the “Rubberband Man” and where the “Phantom Fondler ” found his pr...

A solid 4 ⭐️!I loved the uniqueness of this book and the idea of bringing together fiction and non-fiction into the same book. I’ve never seen anything quite like that and it was innovative to say the least! The photos throughout were also a great touch and added more personality to the already individualistic book. There were parts that got painfully slow, but if you power through, it’s worth the wait. Although I was hesitant to give Chasing the Boogeyman a go given its peculiar nature, this wa...

Billed as suspense/horror, I feel as if I missed something. Despite the blurb comparing this story to Stephen King and Michelle McNamara, I failed to see a resemblance. Richard Chizmar, the author, writes this as part memoir/part fictional 'true crime'. He tells us this part is fiction up front, so this is not a spoiler. Richard recounts the details of murders that happened in 1988 when he was fresh out of college. His hometown of Edgewood, MD was in a state of panic after four young girls were

4.5⭐ A unique true-crime mystery. It is fiction though, right? 😯I love the format in this book. YES, it's fiction as said in the notes on the first page. Then comes the second page that threw me off balance and was confused again. Wait... there are many photos of the victims, the police, crime scenes, and detectives working the case. The house!! I betcha confused now too. 😂 Grab this book! Or audiobook which is also terrific.⚠️⚠️If you get the audiobook from the library, be warned, there are sai...

READ THIS BOOK! 'nuff said...….But if you want more, here it goes...Summertime, 1988The mutilated bodies of several missing girls how up in a small Maryland town. The Police believe that a serial killer is targeting those young women in their suburb utopia. But there are rumors that the killer may not be human. *gasp* If the killer is not human, that what is it? The police and FBI will tell you to not believe the rumor that the killer is in fact a human who is playing games with them.Richard Chi...

Hot smoking dang!!! My fingers were on fire, turning the pages as fast as I could!! This one is not just another horror story. It is a one-of-a-kind exciting READING EXPERIENCE!! Richard Chizmar is a genre blending genius and one brilliant author. He combines horror fiction, a small-town mystery, with true crime that uniquely defies any tired, overused tropes around murdered girls and small towns. He creates one of the most clever, haunting, and terrifying stories I have ever read. For this reas...

I expected to love this book, but honestly I’m not sure how I feel about it. I am struggling to verbalize what I didn’t like about this book. I just find it so strange that it’s a fictional story that reads like true crime and the author is the main character. I guess I just expected more? 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?I see a lot of other reviewers saying this is a 5...