"From award-winning author and storyteller Jack Ketchum comes nineteen bleak stories of loss and pain. This is the author's newest collection, and includes his Bram Stoker Award-winning novella "Closing Time." Also included: "Returns," "Damned If You Do," "Station Two," "Elusive," "Papa," "The Fountain," "Do You Love Your Wife?", "At Home with the VCR," "Those Rockports Won't Get You Into Heaven," "Olivia: A Monologue," "Brave Girl," "Ho ..."
Stranglehold by JackKetchum Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2018 by Crossroad Press ISBN-13: 978-1-941408-76-6, ISBN: 1-941408-76-1
"Lydia McCloud meets Arthur Danse at a wedding party in Plymouth, N.H., and she thinks he's a man she could grow to love. Arthur sees things differently. In Lydia, he sees the sort of woman people always want to protect. He decides he's going to show her "she wouldn't always be protected." Once their only child, Robert, is born, Arthur's behavior worsens. When the courts become involved, the nightmare really begins. This scathing nove ..."
The Girl Next Door by JackKetchum Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by 47North ISBN-13: 978-1-5039-5056-6, ISBN: 1-5039-5056-5
"A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel reveals the depravity of which we are all capable.This novel contains graphic content and is recommended for regular readers of horror novels."
Off Season(Reprint) by JackKetchum Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 2013 by 47North ISBN-13: 978-1-4778-4052-8, ISBN: 1-4778-4052-4
"September. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River off season awaiting her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting for the moon to rise and night to fall...And before too many hours pass, five civilized, sophisticated people and one tired old country sheriff will learn just how primitive w ..."
Offspring(Reprint) by JackKetchum Paperback, 293 Pages, Published 2013 by 47North ISBN-13: 978-1-4778-0622-7, ISBN: 1-4778-0622-9
"The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he had killed them off ten years ago—a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of cannibalistic savages. But somehow the clan survived. To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. And now the peaceful residents of this isolated town are fighting for their lives…"
The Crossings A Terrifying Novel of the Old West by JackKetchum Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2016 by Crossroad Press ISBN-13: 978-1-941408-88-9, ISBN: 1-941408-88-5
"It’s the Arizona Territory. The year, 1848. The year the Mexican War ended. Fate and blazing pistols have just thrown together reporter and part-time drunk Marion T. Bell and the very nearly legendary John Charles Hart, mustanger and scout, in the Little Fanny Saloon in the town of Gable’s Ferry. A rough place in a lawless era. About to become a hell of a lot more so one night when Hart, Bell and the easy-going giant Mother Knuckles stu ..."
The Lost by JackKetchum Paperback, 394 Pages, Published 2008 by Leisure Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8439-6154-6, ISBN: 0-8439-6154-6
"It was the summer of 1965. Ray, Tim, and Jennifer were just three teenage friends hanging out in the campgrounds, drinking a little. But Tim and Jennifer didn't know what their friend Ray had in mind. And if they'd known, they wouldn't have thought he was serious. Then they saw what he did to the two girls at the neighboring campsite--and knew he was dead serious. Four years later, the 60s were drawing to a close. No one ever ch ..."
"A gripping family drama that brilliantly explores the relationship between a young girl and her dog―and the mysteries that lie within. At the heart of this psychological suspense novel is the haunting depiction of a family’s fall and the extraordinary gifted dog, Caity, who knows the truth. As the drama unfolds Caity evolves from protector to savior, from scapegoat to prop, and eventually, from avenger to survivor. She is an unselfish s ..."
Hide and Seek by JackKetchum Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2014 by 47North ISBN-13: 978-1-4778-3338-4, ISBN: 1-4778-3338-2
"Hide and Seek is 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. In a small Maine town, a group of thrill seeking college kids finds a game of hide and seek in an abandoned house turning into a reality of stark terror."
Red(Reprint) by JackKetchum Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2014 by 47North ISBN-13: 978-1-4778-3341-4, ISBN: 1-4778-3341-2
"The old man hears them before he sees them, the three boys coming over the hill, disturbing the peace by the river where he's fishing. He smells gun oil too, too much oil on a brand-new shotgun. These aren't hunters, they're rich kids who don't care about the river and the fish and the old man.Or his dog. Red is the name of the old man's dog, his best friend in the world. And when the boys shoot the dog—for nothing, for simple spite—he ..."
The Lost(Reprint) by JackKetchum Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2014 by 47North ISBN-13: 978-1-4778-3342-1, ISBN: 1-4778-3342-0
"It was the summer of 1965. Ray, Tim, and Jennifer were just three teenage friends hanging out in the campgrounds, drinking a little. But Tim and Jennifer didn't know what their friend Ray had in mind. And if they'd known, they wouldn't have thought he was serious. Then they saw what he did to the two girls at the neighboring campsite—and knew he was dead serious.Four years later, the 60s were drawing to a close. No one ever charged Ray ..."
Cover(Reprint) by JackKetchum Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2014 by 47North ISBN-13: 978-1-4778-3337-7, ISBN: 1-4778-3337-4
"A battle-scarred Vietnam vet has been living alone deep in the woods, but when a group of weekend campers enter the area his fragile grasp on reality breaks and he believes he’s back in the jungle…surrounded by an enemy he needs to kill.This novel contains graphic content and is recommended for regular readers of horror novels."
Peaceable Kingdom(1st Edition) by JackKetchum Paperback, 415 Pages, Published 2013 by 47North ISBN-13: 978-1-4778-0654-8, ISBN: 1-4778-0654-7
"This landmark collection gathers more than thirty of Jack Ketchum's most thrilling stories. "Gone" and "The Box" were honored with the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. Whether you are already familiar with Ketchum's unique brand of suspense or are experiencing it for the first time, here is a book no aficionado of fear can do without. This novel contains graphic content and is recommended for regular readers of horror novels."
"A gripping family drama that brilliantly explores the relationship between a young girl and her dog―and the mysteries that lie within. At the heart of this psychological suspense novel is the haunting depiction of a family’s fall and the extraordinary gifted dog, Caity, who knows the truth. As the drama unfolds Caity evolves from protector to savior, from scapegoat to prop, and eventually, from avenger to survivor. She is an unselfish s ..."
""Make sure your health insurance covers psychiatric counseling before reading this book, because you're gonna need it. The experience of this collection may be likened to getting run over by a 666-car locomotive engineered by Lucifer. This is the cream of grotesquerie's crop, a Whitman's Sampler of the heinous, and an absolutely gut-wrenching celebration of the furthest extremities of the scatological, the taboo, the unconscionable, and ..."
I'm Not Sam(1st Edition) by JackKetchum, Lucky Mckee Hardcover, 175 Pages, Published 2012 by Cemetery Dance Pubns ISBN-13: 978-1-58767-353-5, ISBN: 1-58767-353-3
"Now I'm way beyond confusion.Now I'm scared.I've slid down the rabbit-hole and what's down there is dark and serious. This is not play-acting or some waking bad dream she's having. She's changed, somehow overnight. I don't know how I know this but I sense it as surely as I sense my own skin. This is not Sam, my Sam, wholly sane and firmly balanced. Capable of tying off an artery as neatly as you'd thread a belt through the loops of your ..."
The Woman(1st Edition) by JackKetchum, Lucky Mckee Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Dp ISBN-13: 978-1-4285-1114-9, ISBN: 1-4285-1114-8
"The Woman is the last of her kind, the lone survivor of a tribe of feral cannibals who have terrorized the Maine coast for years. She is wounded and weak, but she's found refuge in a cave overlooking the sea. Christopher Cleek is an amoral-and unstable-lawyer who sees her bathing in a stream one day while he's out hunting. He follows her to her cave. Cleek has dark, cruel secrets and he will now add one more. He will capture the Woman, ..."
Joyride(Reprint) by JackKetchum Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by Leisure Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8439-6371-7, ISBN: 0-8439-6371-9
"Hoping to escape from her abusive ex-husband, a woman and her lover successfully carry out their plot to murder him, only to find themselves at the mercy of an obsessive, twisted stranger who witnessed the crime. "
The Girl Next Door by JackKetchum Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2008 by Leisure Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8439-6097-6, ISBN: 0-8439-6097-3
"Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns, and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, damp basement of the Chandler house, Meg and Susan are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distant aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons and finally the entire neighborhood. ..."
Old Flames by JackKetchum Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2008 by Leisure Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8439-5999-4, ISBN: 0-8439-5999-1
"Featuring a special afterword by the author explaining the origins of the story!When her lover betrays her and dumps her coldly, Dora's mind begins to crack.She tracks down her old high school love to recapture what she might have had.He's married with a family now, but Dora isn't about to let that stop her...."