I imagine it is. Because things like Sabre's Call and Apeshit establish that you're in a world where anything can happen and often will, an environment that thrives on sexual dysfunction. But, The Girl Next Door is in our world. If you watch a porn movie, you expect to see two women having sex with a cable guy, but if you walked into your house and two women you didn't know were having sex with a cable guy, you'd be surprised and perhaps frightened. Probably frightened. The Girl Next Door has two things going for it that realist horror benefits from: familiarity and our assumptions about how our world works and what happens in it.
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Horror and Bizarro novelist and editor
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