# Whisper Down the Lane - Hardcover

by **Clay McLeod Chapman** (Author)

**"A diabolically creepy hybrid of horror and psychological suspense that thrills as much as it unsettles. You'll keep turning the pages even as your hands shake."--Riley Sager, _New York Times_ best-selling author of _Home Before Dark_  
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**A pulse-pounding, true-crime-based horror novel inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the '80s.**

Richard doesn't have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage, a first chance at fatherhood, and a quiet life as an art teacher in Virginia. Then the body of a ritualistically murdered rabbit appears on his school's playground, along with a birthday card for him. But Richard hasn't celebrated his birthday since he was known as Sean . . .

In the 1980s, Sean was five years old when his mother unwittingly led him to tell a lie about his teacher. When school administrators, cops, and therapists questioned him, he told another. And another. And another. Each was more outlandish than the last--and fueled a moral panic that engulfed the nation and destroyed the lives of everyone around him.

Now, thirty years later, someone is here to tell Richard that they know what Sean did. But who would even know that these two are one and the same? _Whisper Down the Lane_ is a tense and compulsively readable exploration of a world primed by paranoia to believe the unbelievable.

### Author Biography

**Clay McLeod Chapman** writes novels, comic books, and children's books, as well as for film and TV. He is the author of the horror novels _The Remaking_ and _Whisper Down the Lane_. Visit him at claymcleodchapman.com.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 9.1 x 6 IN

**Publication Date:** April 06, 2021

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