Jack Ketchum Horror Pack - Jack Ketchum
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Jack Ketchum Horror Pack - Jack Ketchum

Written by Jack Ketchum
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Language: English

Hide and Seek

I don't believe in omens, but I think you can know when you're in trouble. Thus begins Jack Ketchum's riveting second novel Hide and Seek. It's a book about games. Reckless, dangerous games. Games you might even want to play yourself if you're with the right people. But shouldn't. Not ever. Dead River's a sleepy little town on the coast of Maine without much going for it. The Great Depression hit hard and never let go. Even now, sixty- odd years later, there's not much to do, not much going on. So that when a trio of friends, rich college kids, arrive there on a forced march with their parents for summer vacation they have to make their own amusements. And they do, in spades. Dan's a local and didn't get a chance to go to college. There was never the money. He works in a lumberyard hauling two- by-fours and furring around all day with a forklift. He's even more bored than he knows. When the college kids arrive, that changes. The most daring of the three is a beautiful, troubled girl named Casey. She's not opposed to stealing caviar or cars or running around naked in graveyards. For Casey the thrill's the thing and the riskier the better. Dan falls for her, hard. And gradually becomes the fourth member of the group -- the poor relation. But games need escalation. It's a need that finds them at last in an old abandoned house at night, a house reputed to be haunted, where phantom lights burn in broken windows. Where something lurks waiting in the dark. Published by Ballantine as a paperback original in 1984, Hide and Seek has been out of print ever since. Ketchum wrote it as a kind of homage to the works of James M. Cain -- using kids and a contemporary setting -- but Cain's feeling of events being out of his characters' control informs its very essence.

Ladies' Night


Released for the first time as a mass market trade paperback, Ladies Night is vintage Jack Ketchum that ranks with the author's best work. Not for the faint of heart, but very much for the Ketchum fan.

Off Season
Eighteen years after its mass market release by Ballantine, Ketchum's debut horror novel gains hardcover publication. It's about time. Though this merciless tale of human evil in the Maine woods went out of print soon after publication, its bleak vision and extreme violence still influence horror today. Only a novel of expert articulation and emotional truth can cast such a long shadow, and Ketchum's is both. Horror critic Winter calls the book one of "remarkable elegance," and indeed it's drum tight. Equally impressively, Ketchum uses the devastation of a group of tourists by a band of cannibals not to pander, as so many horror writers after him have done, but to explore with intelligence (and ferocity) the nature of evil and of the human spirit that can resist it. The novel's structure isn't original, modeled largely on the film Night of the Living Dead, but its events unfold with shocking energy and directness. The imagery is cruel--bloody battles between the tourists and cannibals, torture and consumption by the cannibals of their victims--as is the arbitrariness of who will live and who will die; but always Ketchum is in command. In an afterword, Ketchum details the rough history of the novel, explaining how he has reinserted cuts forced by Ballantine. This signed and limited edition not only revives a horror classic and offers some neat publishing lore, but also reminds us that, once upon a time, some of the most exciting genre writing came in paper covers. (Aug.) FYI: Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym of Dallas Mayr (Ladies' Night, etc.)

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