The Stranger Beside Me. Poster of the 2003 movie and cover of the 1980 book
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The Stranger Beside Me
Ann Rule, 1980
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Paul Shapiro, 2003

Aspiring crime writer Ann Rule becomes friends with serial killer Ted Bundy while working at a women’s clinic in Seattle in the 1970s. Unknowingly, she spends time with Bundy and is unaware of his heinous crimes until he is arrested and she becomes the lead writer for the case.


Carrie. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the 1974 book
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Carrie
Stephen King, 1974
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David Carson, 2002

In the Maine town of Chamberlain, Carietta ‘Carrie’ White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own domineering and religious, but abusive, mother.