The What-U-Need Motel has exactly that. And if you've been driving fo hours and hours and hours by yourself, looking for a place to stay, it can seem like an oasis. All the owners ask is that you pay. On the Honor System.
Honor System is a 500 copy limited edition chapbook from Cemetery Dance Publications.
Now Available as a mass-market paperback from Leisure Press
Doom in a plain carboard box. A snake in the grass. A captive with a rose tattoo. The innocent-looking letter in your mailbox that can kill you or set you free. The rifle hidden away in a young boy's closet. Closing time in a Manhattan bar just days after 9/11. Punishment that actually suits the crime for a change. A parrot in a strip-joint. Sleazy bimbos and parted lovers. A UFO. A Western. A vampire for godsakes. Zombies. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, twins. Cats and dogs and a dancing lynx.
Welcome to the dark -- and
diverse -- world of Jack Ketchum.
Peaceable Kingdom is
the ultimate Jack Ketchum short story collection, gathering together
the complete contents of The Exit At Toledo Boulevard,
plus 20 additional classics.
Subterranean
Press has published two editions of Peaceable
Kingdom: 750 signed copies, bound in cloth, and 26
lettered copies signed, bound in leather, and traycased.
Check Subterranean's website for complete details!
dThe 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 the
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 sees red, like a mist before his eyes.
And before the whole thing is done there'll be more red. Red for blood...
Now available as a mass-market paperback by Leisure Press, also containing the novella Passenger.
Originally ublished
in 1995 by Headline Books in the UK, the first
American edition was published in May 2002 from Overlook
Connection Press in three versions:
STERLING EDITION. Only 100 Copies - Signed - Bound in Unique cloth, with unique endpapers and a specially signed signature page.
FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER
LETTERED EDITION - Silk Book Mark bound in, Unique Signature Page, Unique Endpapers. Bound in Full-Grain Leather.
When Sara Foster is kidnapped in front of an abortion clinic in broad daylight...she is three months pregnant with her married lover's child. Her abductors seem to know that. They also seem to know where she lives, where she teaches, where she was born, who her lover is -even where her father plays golf on the weekends. They tell her about a mysterious worldwide Organization devoted to white slavery and what happens to those slaves who try to run away. What happens to their families and those they love.
Right To Life was nominated for the prestigious Stoker Award, and has been shortlisted by Stephen King in his new book, ON WRITING, as one of the best books he's read over the past three or four years.
Signed, numbered, limited hardcover edition of 450. Signed, traycased, lettered edition of 26. Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998.
Trade Paperback edition from Gauntlet Press, with two exclusive short stories, Brave Girl, and Returns. Available now.
Station Two follows a not-so-typical night in a Greek restaurant somewhere in the city. Nice quiet dinners are interrupted Ketchum-style. Station Two is available as a limited edition chapbook from Camelot Books in three formats:
600 signed and numbered softcovers
75 signed and numbered hardcovers
7 signed and lettered copies, handbound with a custom handmade traycase.
Jack
Ketchum and Edward Lee team up again to bring you Eyes Left, a
story of what happens when a pair of friends end up cruising the
wrong girl. Delightfully twisted, and a lot of fun, it will definitely
make you think twice before considering that one night stand.
Eyes Left is now available from Cemetery Dance Publications as a limited edition chapbook of 500 copies.
Now available as a mass-market paperback from Leisure Press.
It's 1969, and the Vietnam War is raging. A rough time for most kids. You either work like hell to stay in school or hightail it to Canada or else Uncle Sam comes knocking at your door and the next thing you know you're slogging through the rice paddies and trying not to think about all those body bags shipping back to the World every day.
Not so for Ray and Tim. They've slipped through the cracks. They're neither college kids nor grunts. They're undraftable.
But Ray and Tim have their own problems. Murder, for one.
A murder Ray committed four years ago because he felt like it. A murder to which Tim, along with Ray's sometime-girlfriend Jennifer, are accomplices. A murder which -- for at least one world-weary cop -- simply won't go away. He knows Ray did it but can't prove it. Now, on the verge of quitting his job, with nothing much to lose, he decides to have one last shot at goading Ray into blowing his arrogant cool, into doing something really stupid.
Which Ray's already doing, just by being who he is.
Things are converging. Something's going to crack. Something's going to break loose into a world of pain.
And who will be The Lost?
The
Lost is
now available in two hardcover versions from Cemetery
Dance Publications.
Version One: Limited Edition of 1,500 signed copies
Version Two: Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies (bound in leather, with satin ribbon page marker and additional full-color artwork)
Ladies' Night is a non-stop rollercoaster ride of sheer nerve-rattling terror, deemed too violent for mass-market publication. In this modern tale of the ages-old battle of the sexes carried to the extreme, Jack Ketchum again provides readers with an excursion into horror as relentless as a John Woo film.
A word of caution, this book contains scenes of extreme violence and is definitely not for the faint of heart.
Silver Salamander Press, 1997: 50 copies bound in leather, numbered 1-50; 300 copies bound in cloth, numbered 1-300; 500 copies, perfectbound, unnumbered.
Gauntlet Press, 2000: Mass Market Trade Paperback
Ephemera was offered as a premium by Gauntlet Press, in conjunction with their limited edition hardcover of Cover (much like the offer of The Fountain with purchases of Sleep Disorder) .
This limited chapbook contains pieces written by Jack around the time Cover takes place, and features a self-portrait on the cover.
In addition to the chapbook, Gauntlet also offered a 30 minute CD of Jack reading from Cover.
Ephemera could only be acquired through Gauntlet Press.
Cover is now available from Gauntlet Press in two versions.
Version One: a 1000 copy signed, numbered edition, including an interior illustration by Neal McPheeters, additional material written by Jack in the late sixties/early seventies called Ephemera, an introduction by Thomas Tessier, and -only if ordered directly from Gauntlet Press: a free chapbook of additional Ephemera (see above) .
Version Two: a 52 copy leatherbound, traycased lettered edition including everything mentioned above, plus an additional illustration from Neal McPheeters, additional Ephemera, a self portrait by the author, and a 30 minute CD of the author reading from the book.
The publisher has a limited supply of individual cd's for sale as well. Visit the link above, for more details.
Father And Son is a limited edition chapbook of a previously unreleased story, and it is only available through Camelot Books, free with a purchase of $24.95 or more.
This is a limited run of 600, is going fast. Make sure to check Camelot's Website from the link above for further details and availability.
Masks is a limited edition chapbook co-authored with Edward Lee produced for ChillerCon in October of 1999 by Sideshow Press. It has a print run of 52 signed and lettered copies in hardcover, and 350 signed and numbered copies in softcover.
Before there was Jack Ketchum there was Jerzy Livingston, a writer new at his craft but thoroughly jazzed to it, living in a very strange time in a very strange New York City, going straight to hell in a handbasket and loving every minute, writing stories for the likes of Swank, Cavalier, Genesis, Nugget, and High Society. Dark, black-comic stories mostly, the kind you might almost expect of the Ketchum who was waiting in the wings. The Sexual Revolution was lost by then -lost on all fronts- and only a few had noticed. He had. He was whistling in a graveyard.
Released by Sideshow Press in 1999, it has a print run of 350 signed and numbered hardcover copies, as well as a limited edition bound in latex featuring an additional story.
In addition, there was a very limited edition issued by Delerium, as part of their "Ultra Series".
The Dust Of The Heavens is a short non-fiction piece, written about one person's slow descent into madness. 26 deluxe hardcover, slipcased copies signed by the author, and 174 specially bound, signed, numbered copies. James Cahill Publishing, 1998.
(Webmaster's Note- The cover art has been slightly modified to improve visibility on the web. The 'black rectangle' surrounding the title does not exist on the actual book cover.)
The Exit At Toledo Blade Boulevard collects thirteen Ketchum tales, including six new stories never before published, an essay on the author's strange and wonderful experiences with the author Henry Miller, special new Ketchum introductions to each piece, and an introduction by master storyteller Richard Laymon.
Signed, numbered limited hardcover edition of 500 from Obsidian Books, 1998. Also available, a signed, lettered edition of 26, bound in red leather. Color cover featured on the front of the book, with a black leather tray slipcase. Inside of slipcase features a glossy black and white drawing of Jack Ketchum, with gold foil signature embossed underneath. Gold foil embossing of title and author on the front and spine of slipcase.
