Only Child / Stranglehold
Originally published as Stranglehold in
the U.S. and Only Child in the UK
Arthur Danse doesn't live
by the normal rules. He knows he has been put on earth for a purpose
-to show people that the world is a dark and terrible place. To say
no to Arthur Danse is to receive a lesson in fear and pain. No matter
who you are.
Wife...lover...stranger...or
eight-year-old son...Lydia McCloud is one of life's givers. A nurse
whose own hard upbringing gives her a special sympathy for those
in need. Lydia doesn't discover the real Arthur until it's far too
late. Until she's married to him and their son Robert has become
the centre of her world. And she's forced into the battle of her
life for the sake of her only child...
Only Child is now available
in its first U.S. hardcover edition from Gauntlet
Press. There are three editions available:
- Signed Numbered Edition
- Signed Numbered/Slipcased Edition
- Signed Lettered, Leatherbound Traycased Edition
Published in 1995 by Berkley Books in the U.S.
Originally published as Joyride in
the U.S. and Road Kill in the UK.
Wayne keeps a record of
offences. The kids who trash his fence, the dog that dumps in his
yard, the guys who give him stress in the bar... He hasn't hit back
yet, though the urge is strong... He wonders why he hasn't dared.
So far.
Carole doesn't want to do
it but murder seems like the only solution. The only way to solve
the problem of her ex...On the sunny mountainside, above the creek,
that's where Carole has the courage to solve her problem. Her lover,
Lee, has the baseball bat, but she's the one with the rock -and the
nerve and desperation to crush a man's skull and pitch him off a
mountain...Wayne sees it all...It's the very best day of his life...it
points the way down the road for him. The killing road. And the way
he plans it, he and Carole and Lee are all going to do a little travelling
together...
Joyride is now available as a limited edition hardcover from Cemetery
Dance.
Published in 1994 by Headline Books in the UK.
Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek is now available as a trade paperback from Gauntlet
Press.
This edition features a new afterword from Jack, titled Risky
Living: A Memoir, in which Jack discusses some of the events in his life that
led to the writing of Hide and Seek.
Now available from Cemetery
Dance.
They were young. They were
looking for kicks. They decided to play an innocent game in a strange
old house. Hide and Seek. First it turned ugly, Then it turned brutal.
Finally, it became a nightmare of horror and violence. None of them
was ever the same again..
Hide And Seek is
now available from Cemetery
Dance Publications as a limited edition hardcover.
There are two versions available.
Version One: A signed,
lettered, traycased edition, bound in leather, with a satin page
marker and additional artwork.
Version Two: A signed
limited edition of 1000 copies.
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This is a chapbook exclusive
from Gauntlet
Press, to accompany their publication of Closing
Time.
Jack has written several
tributes to the late Richard Laymon, and they are collected here
together in this chapbook.
This chapbook is only availalbe from Gauntlet, as a promotion for
people who order Closing Time directly from them.
Closing Time and Other
Stories
Closing
Time and Other Stories is Jack Ketchum's new collection
of 19 stories that have never been published together before. The
book contains Closing Time (Ketchum's Bram Stoker Award
winning novella), hard-to-find recent stories and one original,
previously unpublished story, Hotline To further
enhance the collection, Ketchum has written an afterword for each story.
This will be a 500-copy signed numbered edition plus a 52-copy
signed lettered edition. Cover art is by Harry O. Morris, who worked
together with the author to create it.
Closing
Time and Other Stories will be published by Gauntlet
Press as:
500-copy numbered
edition for $40 (cover price is $50)
500-copy numbered plus bonded leather slipcase for $60
52-copy lettered traycased edition for $150
The lettered edition will contain four poems that will not appear in the numbered
edition
Lavendier
Books is offering a unique Jack Ketchum collectable, suitable
for framing in your home or office.
Olivia, is a monologue written by Jack Ketchum,
and illustrated by Katie Wynne. There are only 200 copies available.
This is a 13 by 20 inch Letterpress Broadside printed on Acid Free
Cotton Somerset Velvet Cover, signed by Jack Ketchum and Katie Wynne.
Olivia is a 500+ word monologue, illustrated by a woodcut print
Cemetery
Dance has recently published a new novella, Weed
Species, which Jack describes as "the
most vicious thing [he's] ever done."
The webmaster is inclined to agree.
WEED SPECIES: In ecology. An invasive species, also
called an invasive exotic, is an organism that is
intentionally or accidentally introduced to an area where it is not
native, and where it successfully invades and disturbs natural ecosystems,
displacing native species. The term is most often applied to, but not
limited to, plants. See also kudzu, water hyacinth, zebra mussel,
Burmese python, eco-tourism, sociopath.
This is a Cemetery Dance exclusive title—there
are currently no other editions of this book planned for anywhere in
the world!
Bloodletting
Press has published a 500 copy limited edition chapbook featuring
two stories about absinthe.
One by Jack Ketchum, and
one by Tim Lebbon.
Jack contributes a story
called Papa, and Tim's story is Bleeding Things.
dNow
available as
a massmarket paperback from Leisure Press...
The sequel to the one that
started it all, Off Season.
THE STORY BEHIND THE GRUESOME
LEGEND....
Twenty years ago....It shocked
horror fans everywhere -- Jack Ketchum's Off
Season , the brutal
and harrowing story of an inbred family of cannibals in present-day
Maine. Some readers were horrified, others outraged. Yet no one could
put the book down. An instant cult classic.
THE LEGEND LIVES ON!
The local sheriff of Dead
River, Maine, thought he'd killed them off ten years ago... a primitive,
cave-dwelling tribe of predatory savages. But somehow, the clan survived.
To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. Now the peaceful residents, who
came to Dead River to escape civilization, are fighting for their lives....
.
"Offspring may
well be the most horrifying book you will ever read."
-- Robert Bloch
dOffspring
is also
available from Overlook Connection Press, in a variety of formats:
1000 copy limited edition
100 copy slipcased edition
Trade Paperback
Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition
Now available, as a mass-market paperback from Leisure Press...
(From Douglas E. Winter's
Introduction to Off Season- The Unexpurgated Edition)
"They
had hunted every animal but there was no flesh like man's . .
.
"Welcome to Jack Ketchum's
ferocious and unforgettable first novel, Off Season.
Originally published in 1981, Off Season was a defining
moment of contemporary horror fiction, an instant classic whose impact
on the writing and reading of horror continues today.
"When I read Off
Season,
I knew that its writer was different; that he was working from that
raw and risky perspective known as personal vision, and that he had
written a novel that was his own, and not what a publisher wanted
or expected. Stocked in the shadows of bestsellers and a blur of
Stephen King wannabes, Off Season was issued as a paperback
original by Ballantine -- a publisher who has never shown much enthusiasm
for the fiction of fear. The cover was a minimalist triumph, its
title embossed in black on black, stained with a red thread of blood.
The author's name -- a pseudonym -- was reported in white block capital
letters, and the top of the cover announced: 'THE ULTIMATE HORROR
NOVEL.' The hyperbole was deserved. Off Season was
the genuine article, its horror insistent, visceral, and disturbing."
Off Season: The Unexpurgated
Edition restores
this classic to its original state, and includes material cut
from the original Ballantine publication.
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Off
Season: The Unexpurgated Edition is also available
from Overlook
Connection Press. in 4 different formats:
Version One: 52 Lettered,
black wood-boxed editions with pewter bones inlaid and two doors
to open. Leatherbound, foil embossed. Original end-paper artwork,
Original signature page. Signed by all contributors.
Version Two: 100
Sterling Editions, slipcased, original end-paper artwork, bound-in
book mark, original cover art by Neal McPheeters, original signature
page. Signed by all contributors
Version Three: 500
Limited Trade Editions, original cover art, original signature page.
Signed by all contributors.
A Trade Paperback edition is also available.
Dark Voices vol. 3: Forever & Father and Son
The third in a series of
signed chapbooks from Borderlands
Press, this edition collects two of Jack's stories
into a single volume, and comes with a compact disc of Jack reading
both stories!
The CD is professionally
produced, and features an original musical score as well. If you've
never heard Jack read before, this is an excellent opportunity.
If
you have heard Jack read before, this edition is a fantastic piece
to add to your collection.
click [here] to
hear a sample.
Now
available as a mass
market-paperback from Leisure
Press.
This edition finally brings
this nightmarish tale back to the masses, in a handsome,
new edition that finally gives the story a mass-market paperback
cover that it deserves. No more cheerleader!
(From the inside front
cover) Suburbia in the 1950's. A nice quiet simpler time to
grow up -unless you count the McCarthy trials and red-scares and
the shadow of the Bomb and the Cold War, unless you could see the
dark side emerging. And on a quiet tree-lined dead-end street,
in the dark damp basement of the Chandler house, it's emerging
big-time for teenage Meg and her crippled sister Susan -whose parents
are dead now, who 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 an entire
neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg
and Susan and their cruel, torturous deaths. A boy with a very
adult decision to make. Between love and compassion, and lust and
evil.
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Overlook
Connection Press 1996. 52 lettered editions, bound in
leather, with special endpapers, foil embossing on the cover and spine;
slipcased in a hardwood slipcase with a door, and door knob to open;
magnet inset into wood keeps the door shut tight.
The wood casing also
features a special plate with laser etching; signed. 500 limited
edtions, bound in cloth, with foil embossing on the cover and spine.
Original cover art by Neal McPheeters; signed by all contributors,
including Stephen King.
First trade edition- featuring
Stephen King's Introduction, bound in green Grand Levant.
Regular Trade Edition,
and Trade Paperback edition available as well.
Seascape was
published in a limited edition chapbook of 200 by Shocklines
Press, and designed and printed by Biting
Dog Press.
These chapbooks were not
released for sale, and were created for promotional purposes for
the 2005 World Horror Convention..
Now available from Cemetery
Dance.
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. Plying the river-trade across
the Colorado to the gold fields of California in the north, and war-torn
Mexico to the south, the town of Gable's Ferry has sprung up overnight
-- lacking only a church, a schoolhouse and a jail.
Though some would say that
only the jail was needed.
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 stumble upon Elena,
a fierce, young, badly wounded Mexican woman near the banks of the
Colorado. She's naked. She's been bullwhipped, knifed and branded.
And she tells them about the kidnap, rape and servitude she and her
sister have endured at the hands of las hermanas de lupo,
the deadly Valenzura Sisters and their henchman, the deserter Paddy
Ryan, at the well-manned slave-camp across the river aptly called Garanta
del Diablo -- Mouth of the Devil.
It's just three hundred
years since Cortez. Only three hundred years since the Old Gods of
Mexico were in their full and fearsome flower.
Tezcatlipoca, god of the
moon and the night. Tlazolteotl, Eater of Filth. Xipe,
Lord of the Flayed.
Blood for rain. Blood for
bounty.
For many, like the Valenzura
Sisters, they have never died.
And Elena's sister's still
there.
Two editions:
Limited Edition of 1,500
signed copies
Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies (bound in leather,
with a satin ribbon page marker)
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Now available as a mass-market paperback from Leisure
Press...
Greece. Ancient land of
mystery, legend and myth. It is here that businessman Jordan Chase
visits an historic tomb, only to experience a dark vision of the
future.
And it is here, amidst the
beauty of the landscape, that Lelia, a gorgeous but dangerous woman,
befriends a group of tourists...to lure them into a nightmare of
pain and terror.
She lives to seduce and
destroy, to feed off her human prey.
Lelia is more than myth,
more than superstition. Lelia is deadly.
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The author's approved edition
of this long sought after novel is also available in a limited edition
hardcover from Cemetery
Dance.
Jack's only supernatural
horror novel is available in two limited editions.
Limited Edition of 1,000 signed
copies
Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies (bound
in leather, with satin ribbon page marker and additional artwork)
From Biting
Dog Press...
Here's something new and
totally different from the delightfully warped mind of Jack Ketchum.
The
Transformed Mouse: A Fable .
That's right folks, a FABLE!
One for adults, though, adapted from the Indian 2nd Century Panchatantra.
And unless you're afraid of the elements , or of mice, there's nary
a scare in it. Just good wacky fun.
The numbered copies are limited to 250 copies, all handmade, bound
in suede. The book is hotstamped on the front with a mouse's tail hanging
out that can be used as a page marker. All the prints are are woodcuts
printed on Japanese paper.
The lettered copies are traycased, bound in Japanese silk, with a
hand drawn sketch by George Walker on the inside page. Limited to 26
copies, lettered A-Z.
The
Fountain is a short
story coupled with another story, The Piece
of Paper, by Edward Lee.
The two were printed together in a limited edition chapbook (802
copies) by Gauntlet Press.
This chapbook was given
as a premium to those who purchased Sleep Disorder (see below) directly
through Gauntlet, as a token of customer appreciation.
Sleep Disorder (with Edward Lee)
From Gauntlet
Press...
Sleep Disorder is the first
collection of collaborations between Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee
- and what a collaboration it is!
As Jack states in his Afterword,
"There's nothing in here that's going to change foreign policy or
save the whales or even break your heart. We did this just for fun,
folks. And for not other reason whatsoever."
Limited edition hardcover,
750 copies.
What better to put one in
the mood than curling up with your loved one for a night of David
Cronenberg movies?
At Home With The VCR makes
its appearance as a 100 copy limited edition chapbook from Camelot
Books.
