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The Bad Seed

Written by: William March
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
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The best-selling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything - even murder.

There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers a series of terrible accidents, her mother begins to wonder: Why do bad things seem to happen when little Rhoda is around?

Originally published in 1954, William March's final novel was an instant best seller and National Book Award finalist before it was adapted for the stage and made into a 1956 film. The Bad Seed is an indelible portrait of an evil that wears an innocent face, one which still resonates in popular culture today.

©1954 W. E. Campbell LLC; copyright renewed 1982 by W. E. Campbell LLC (P)2018 Tantor
Classics Genre Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Psychological Suspense Tie-in Scary Fiction Horror Fiction
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Loved it, great narrator, used different voices for different characters! Favorite line, "You still have Rhoda!", yikes!

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Great book, lousy narrator

This book is a chilling classic. The narrator is horrible....whiney and grating voice. If you can get past that, I would recommend

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