Hide and Seek by Jack Ketchum

It's a need that finds them at last in an old abandoned house at night, a house reputed to be haunted, where phantom lights burn in broken windows. And gradually becomes the fourth member of the group-the poor relation.īut the games need escalation. For Casey the thrill's the thing and the riskier the better.ĭan falls for her, hard. She's not opposed to stealing caviar or cars or running around naked in graveyards. The most daring of the three is a beautiful, troubled girl name Casey. When the college kids arrive, that changes. He works in a lumberyard hauling twobyfours and furring around all day with a forklift. And they do, in spades.ĭan's a local and didn't get a chance to go to college. So that when a trio of friends, rich college kids, arrive there on a forced march with their parents for summer vacation they have to make their own amusements. Even now, sixtyodd years later, there's not much to do, not much going on. The Great Depression hit hard and never let go.

Not ever.ĭead River's a sleepy little town on the coast of Maine without much going for it. Games you might even want to play yourself if you're with the right people. Hide and Seek, by Jack Ketchum (Unabridged)