Jack Ketchum

dThe Girl Next Door is now available on DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment. The DVD is NTSC Region 1, Anamorphic Widescreen, and features DD 5.1. Audio. Bonus features include the theatrical trailer, Audio Commentary with Director Gregory M. Wilson, Producer Andrew van den Houten and Cinematographer/Producer William M. Miller, Audio Commentary with Novelist Jack Ketchum and Screenwriters Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman, Interviews With Cast & Crew, Screenplay (DVD-ROM), The Making Of The Girl Next Door.

dThe Lost will be released on DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment on March 18, 2008. The DVD is NTSC Region 1, Anamorphic Widescreen, and features Dolby 5.1 Surround and Dolby 2.0 Surround Audio. Bonus features include the theatrical trailer, Audio Commentary with Novelists Jack Ketchum and Monica O' Rourke, Audition footage, Outtakes, and a Storyboard Sequence.

Gauntlet Press has published the first U.S. hardcover edition of Only Child, aka Stranglehold.

About the Novel:
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...

This edition includes an exclusive Afterword by Jack about the woman who inspired Lydia, and an update on where she is now.

.Available in three editions:

1. Signed Numbered Edition
2. Signed Numbered/Slipcased Edition
3. Signed Lettered, Leatherbound Traycased Edition

Joyride (aka Road Kill) is now available as a limited edition hardcover from Cemetery Dance. This is the first U.S. hardcover edition of this book and features a special afterword entitled "On Writing Joyride" by Jack Ketchum.

About the Novel:
Howard deserved to die. For years, he abused his wife physically, verbally, and psychologically. Even after the separation, he kept coming back for more.

Carol and her lover, Lee, knew there was only one way to stop Howard for good. They planned every detail. And they thought they had committed the perfect crime.

But a stranger named Wayne witnessed what they did, and he was thrilled by what he saw. Now Wayne wants to be their friend. He wants to share the thrill of murder with them. He wants to take Carol and Lee on a road trip straight to hell so his new friends can enjoy his all-out killing spree that can only end one way...

Praise for Joyride by Jack Ketchum:
"Begins with a planned murder and explodes into a terrifying and believable killing spree... but be warned: Ketchum never stops, never flinches, never turns aside. He is, quite simply, one of the best in the business, on par with Clive Barker, James Ellroy, and Thomas Harris. Hey, want some good advice? Don't open this book unless you intend to finish it the same night. You may be shocked, even revolted, by Jack Ketchum's hellish vision of the world, but you won't be able to dismiss it or forget it."
—Stephen King

"Fans of Jack Ketchum's brand of staggeringly gory violence will appreciate the reissue of Joyride, the disjointed story of a would-be killer who goes over the edge after nearly choking his girlfriend to death and then witnessing an unrelated brutal murder. Sex, guns and deranged psychopathic conversation: who could ask for anything more?"
—Publishers Weekly

"Tautly-written, thoroughly excellent psycho-horror."
—Manchester Evening News

"...harrowing...relentless...terrifying. ROAD KILL (aka JOYRIDE) is just more proof that Ketchum is among the finest and most unique writers of suspense today."
—Edward Lee

"Ketchum's poetically brutal prose, as always, is boiled down to pure, intoxicating essence, without a hint of waste or dross left over. He's a storyteller and soulsearcher with a narrative as lean as Hemingway...."
—t. Winter-Damon

.Available in two states:
Limited Edition of 1,000 signed copies
Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker.

Triage is a collection of novellas by Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, and Edward Lee.

The three authors took a common premise ("a stranger walks into a place of business...and starts shooting"), and each went their separate directions. Jack's story features the return of "Stroup", the much loved/maligned character from a number of the stories in Broken on the Wheel of Sex. Originally published as a limited edition hardcover by Cemetery Dance in 2001, Triage makes its mass-market paperback debut in this new edition from Leisure Press.

 

 

Gauntlet Press is now shipping Jack's second novel, Hide and Seek as a trade paperback with all new artwork.

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...

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 name 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 the 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...

" In the early 1980s, Ketchum (the pseudonym of Dallas Mayr) published in paperback as gruesome and taut a horror novel as anyone had seen: Off Season. Perhaps because of the outrage the book engendered, Ketchum's second novel, Hide and Seek, received little support from its publisher when it appeared in mass market in 1984. That's a shame, not only because Mayr's career nose-dived commercially after that (though he's still writing and publishing), but because Hide and Seek is a good novel, strong and true, scary yet uplifting in the classic horror manner. Set during summer in the Maine coastal town of Dead River, the book divides into two parts. In the first, the narrator, local young man Dan, meets visiting college kids Casey, Kim and Steven; engages in some drinking and daring with them; falls for beautiful, wild Casey (they have sex in a graveyard) and learns what impels her to take risks: years ago, she was sexually abused by her fatherAabuse that led to the death of her younger brother. The book's second part provides the payoff to that meandering but tantalizing setup. In it, the quartet agrees to play hide-and-seek in a local haunted house. The game soon turns frightening, then deadly, as the four encounter the house's horrid inhabitants, not all human - a challenge that prompts Dan and others to grow up quickly. As in Off Season, the action is ultraviolent and shocking, but the point here, as there, isn't the grue but the spirit of those who must deal with it. Here, too, Ketchum writes with economy and power, in sentences that tighten like noose wire. Anyone who enjoys fine, hard horror will appreciate this novel."

-- Publishers Weekly

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