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Original Title:	The Keeper (Keeper Series, Book #1)
ISBN:	0061173029 (ISBN13: 9780060872908)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Keeper #1
Setting:	Maine(United States)

The Keeper (Keeper #1)

Sarah Langan

Paperback | Pages: 382 pages

Rating: 3.32 | 2093 Users | 218 Reviews

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Title	:	The Keeper (Keeper #1)
Author	:	Sarah Langan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 382 pages
Published	:	August 29th 2006 by Harper Torch 2006-09-01 (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Horror. Fiction. Fantasy. Paranormal. Thriller

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Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed. Its bloody past, endless rain, and the decay of its downtown portend a hopeless future. With the death of its paper mill, Bedford's unemployed residents soon find themselves with far too much time to dwell on thoughts of Susan Marley. Once the local beauty, she's now the local whore. Silently prowling the muddy streets, she watches eerily from the shadows, waiting for . . . something. And haunting the sleep of everyone in town with monstrous visions of violence and horror. Those who are able will leave Bedford before the darkness fully ascends. But those who are trapped here-from Susan Marley's long-suffering mother and younger sister to her guilt-ridden, alcoholic ex-lover to the destitute and faithless with nowhere else to go-will soon know the fullest and most terrible meaning of nightmare.

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3.5 starsHas an early King feel, but heavier on atmosphere than plot.A little overstuffed, but it would be a good prestige TV series.

Bedford, Maine, is a town with one industry: the paper mill. Its been poisoning the water and air for generations, and workers have all sorts of physical complaints from breathing sulfur and other toxic fumes, but if anyone thought about it, theyd know that the recent closing of the mill probably dooms their town.But no ones thinking about the mill and the towns economy. Instead, theyre all focused on Susan Marley. Shes a silent, beautiful woman in her mid-20s who lives in squalor, turning a

One of the saddest horror stories I've read. Essentially a ghost story, the ghost in Sarah Langan's excellent debut novel is a twenty-three-year-old woman long ago abandoned (and in the case of her father, abused) by her parents, slipping into dementia sometime after high school. She wanders the town and is a known fixture in the local bar and on the sidewalks, where she ambles along, not speaking, giving everyone in town a real case of the creeps.The other ghost is the town itself, once known

Rain and zombies come to a small town in Maine. Scary stuff. But why do things like this always happen in Maine? I tell you what... I read this book while on vacation in Utah. Someone should write a horror novel about a small town in that state. Snow and zombies in Park City. That would really be scary.

This book is a hard one to describe. It's set entirely in a small city called Bedford, Maine. Its inhabitants are mostly lower middle class, small town people. They drink, they gossip, they work. Recently their main source of income, the paper mill, was shut down, leaving many of them jobless and with very little to do. Most leave, but some stay. Haunting the town is Susan Marley, a clearly crazy girl who, quite frankly, creeps everyone out. Roughly halfway through the book, Susan dies. Then,

Back in Horror's heyday, the masters (Straub, King, et al.) would crank out 500 to 800 page apocalyptic tomes, usually set in some small town filled with secrets, that never seemed to end. At the end of these novels, everything would blow up. I was never a huge fan, not because I didn't like horror (I love it), but because for me, horror works best with a tighter, smaller focus, with an emphasis on atmosphere (I'm a Ramsey Campbell fan). Give me dread over explosions any day. Langan's Keeper is

This is my second Langan read, after Audrey's Door, and I do think Langan's stories have a particular flavor. Troubled young women struggling with mental illness are featured in both. Both books are quite dark and can be difficult to read at times. There are definitely moments in both of them that are gut-wrenchingly sad. But Langan writes in a readable style that keeps me going throughout no matter what. She shines at character development. People in her books are very realistic and many times,