[COMPLETE] Cleanup: The House Next Door

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There are errors that need to be corrected on the book The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons.

1. First Edition Hardcover: The House Next Door (ISBN 9780671240189)

- The publication date is incorrect. It should just be 1978. I cannot find a specific month or day, but it was almost certainly not published on New Year’s Day.

- “First Edition” should only be listed in the Editions field once.

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed directly from the jacket:

The house next door to Colquitt and Walter Kennedy is haunted by an all-pervasive evil – an evil that takes away whatever the occupants hold dearest. Colquitt and Walter are about to become witnesses to an overwhelming force that will strip away the veneer of civilization that surrounds and protects them.

A stunning feat of architectural imagination and skill, the house is built by Kim Dougherty for his first clients, the Harralsons – newly married, rich, and expecting a baby. They become the first victims of an all-engulfing force they cannot comprehend. But the tragedy of the Harralsons is only the beginning, for the fabric of the Kennedys’ lives is also ripped apart. And when the Sheehands move in next door, the house destroys them too. But it is from the Greenes that it will take the ultimate prize.

Colquitt and Walter alone understand the subtle, awful toll the house exacts. Their warnings go unheeded, their fears are dismissed, and it seems that if they are to survive they must themselves destroy the house. But it is something more than they know, this extraordinary evil, and they must either be embraced by it or die.

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2. 1980s Ballantine Mass Market Paperback 1: The House Next Door (ISBN 9780345293305)

- “Mass Market Paperback” should be removed from the Editions field.

- The page count is missing. According to WorldCat, the page count should be 279: https://search.worldcat.org/title/610...

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back of the book:

It was an architectural masterpiece – every young couple’s dream house.

Suddenly, within it and everywhere around it, families began to suffer, to go mad… to die.

And then, with mounting terror, the family next door was struck with the paralyzing fear that they were next... that the pure horror of the house could not let them live…

that their salvation lay in fire and murder… and that to survive, they must enter and destroy –

THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR

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3. Large Print Edition: The House Next Door (ISBN 9781410405531)

- The publisher’s name is incorrect. It should be Thorndike Press.

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back of the book:

Thirtysomething Colquitt and Walter Kennedy live in a charming, peaceful suburb of newly bustling Atlanta, Georgia. Life is made up of enjoyable work, lazy weekends, and the company of good neighbors. Then, to their shock, construction starts on the lot next door, a wooded hillside they’d believed would remain undeveloped. Disappointed by their diminished privacy, Colquitt and Walter soon realize something more is wrong with the house next door. It seems to destroy the goodness of every person who comes to live in it. . .

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4. 1980s Ballantine Mass Market Paperback 2: The House Next Door (ISBN 9780345323330)

- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back of the book:

Colquitt Kennedy and her husband Walter lived in a peaceful neighborhood on a manicured street.

Colquitt was only mildly disconcerted when construction began on the McIntyre lot next to theirs. But a few months of bulldozers was nothing compared with what happened when the building was finished. For tragedy fell much too frequently on those who lived in the house next door.

Colquitt was a rational, intelligent woman, but she could not ignore the “horrible coincidences.” It was as if the house knew the essence of an individual, what made a particular person good, then proceeded to destroy it slowly, with cold calculation, driving its inhabitants to scandal, madness, even death.…

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Bumping the thread.

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Another bump.

[Patricia]

All done:)

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Much appreciated!