I waited what felt like an hour until I could no longer hear the footsteps, and then counted to fifty inside my head just to be sure before making a frantic break for the road. Yes, the old cliché holds true: my friends and I walked a mile to and from school every day until we were old enough to drive. In the summer of 1988, the mutilated bodies of several missing girls begin to turn up in a small Maryland town.

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Furious because the frame of his bike—a recent birthday present from his parents—was twisted into an ugly and clearly unrepairable pretzel shape, he let loose with a barrage of colorful language. Amid preparing for his wedding and embarking on a writing career, he soon finds himself thrust into a real-life horror story.I was fifteen, and my friends and I had spent a long, chilly afternoon sledding on the series of hills surrounding Cedar Drive Elementary School just down the street from our houses. There is a John Milton quote that I think of often while driving the streets of my hometown: “Innocence, once lost, can never be regained.

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before pulling the trigger and blasting the dirt where our friend’s feet had stood only seconds earlier. He said a few more nice things and the nicest thing that he said was, 'They'd be fucking stupid to release this on streaming and not in cinemas. Although the population of Edgewood was a mere three-dozen full-time residents in 1878, the railroad and neighboring countryside’s lush farmland contributed to eventual growth.There was a wrong side of the tracks to live on, and places where you didn’t want to find yourself alone after dark. I know it sounds disgusting and far-fetched in equal measure, but I was there to witness it—and what an astounding sight it was to behold. The overflow of new residents, coupled with the completion of Route 40, a four-lane highway cutting through Edgewood, spurred further economic development. As the story draws to its shattering conclusion, only one person holds all the answers—and he just may be the most terrifying monster of them all.