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Title	:	The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Author	:	Laird Koenig
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 254 pages
Published	:	April 18th 1974 by Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. (first published 1974)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. Suspense

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

Laird Koenig

Hardcover | Pages: 254 pages

Rating: 4 | 1039 Users | 140 Reviews

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Alone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination, silent except for the mounting chords of a Liszt concerto, Rynn was preparing a solemn celebration. Until a knock at the door shattered sanctuary.

Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house at the end of the lane with her father-or so she says. No one had seen the poet, Leslie Jacobs, for a long time, and though the pungent aroma of Gauloise filled the parlor with intimations of his presence, no one was certain he was there:

Not Mrs. Hallet, the real estate agent who'd rented the old house to the eminent English poet and his daughter and whose formidable manner, product of her impeccable Long Island lineage, brooked no betrayals, especially not from a thirteen-year-old...

Not her son Frank, whose Halloween visit, intruding on Rynn's birthday rituals, had been more trick than treat and whose own insidious motives would soon lock them both in a perilous contest of will...

Not the local policeman who came to call and, lured by what he had seen, returned...

Not the shy young amateur magician who arrived on an errand-and stayed to become confidant and co-conspirator...

Who was the little girl who lived in such strange seclusion at the end of the leaf-swept land? Lonely and innocent seeking shelter from a hostile world? Or consummate liar? Each for his own reason, the Hallets were determined to find out. And it was then that the terrible secrets of the house at the end of the lane emerged.

Moving with swift and shocking turnabout to a profoundly disturbing denouement, here is a fine and freezing novel of suspense that probes the subtle bonds of innocence to evil.

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Original Title:	The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
ISBN:	0285621254 (ISBN13: 9780285621251)
Edition Language:	English

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Absolutely a creeper of a book. And that is a good thing!This book was also a movie. I was a big fan of horror back then. They did it better in those days I thinkAnyway like The Bad Seed, this book is about a little girl (who lives down the lane). She is reclusive and nobody really knows who she lives with as nobody has ever seen any member of her family.I have always found books about creepy little children to be more frightening then books about creepy adults but I digress..I am not going to

Sometimes the smallest stories have the biggest impact, the The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is among them. Adapted by Laird Koenig from from his play of the same name, the novel is a few tumultuous weeks in the life of Rynn Jacobs, daughter of the famous poet Lester Jacobs and aspiring metrist herself, who lives in quiet seclusion on Long Island. Her father never seems to be around no matter who asks for him, but since Rynn makes such plausible excusesThere's a paucity of characters:

I read this decades ago and loved it. All these years later it still holds a special place among books Ive read. Having lost or donated the hardback over the years, I was astonished to discover this out of print book available on Kindle, albeit far too pricey. Reading this again after so much time has passed I find it just as mesmerizing as I did when younger. While the protagonist is a 13 year old girl of striking intelligence, this is definitely not a book for younger children. In essence, it



One of my first reads set on Long Island, NY! A sweet teenage romance mixes with horror in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. There's also a bunch of sinister characters like the Hallets, Cora (a snooty blackmailer) and Frank (a child molester), but there are also wonderful guys like Mario and his police officer uncle.

I remember reading this when I was the title protagonist Rynn's age (13). Although Rynn does horrible things, it was hard for me not to identify with her character--she is cold, loves to be alone, feels alienated from children her own age, hates school, is entranced by words and poetry, has a pet rat, loves classical literature and music, and teaches herself foreign languages. I almost wish and still wish that she wasn't trapped in a thriller book but rather could be seen in a different, more

In 1976 Jodie Foster starred in a movie that scared the crap out of me. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. A thriller about a little girl who knew how to survive....how to take care of herself...no matter what. I had no idea that this creepy-cool film was based on a book by Laird Koenig until a few days ago. Remembering the movie that seriously creeped me out, I had to read the book. Luckily, a quick check of openlibrary.org turned up a scanned copy available online. This book is a serious