Jack Ketchum

• Jun-1981
• / Suspense
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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, w...

• Oct-1987
• / General Fiction
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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....

• Nov-1991
• / Horror
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Confident that the inbred family of cannibals who ravaged the town of Dead River, Maine, ten years before are gone for good, the town's residents are ill-prepared for the return of the flesh-eating monsters. THE STORY BEHIND THE GRUESOME LEGEND…...

• Nov-1994
• / Horror
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• Feb-1995
• / Suspense
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Carole and her lover, Lee, knew there was only one way to get rid of Carole's abusive husband for good. They planned every detail. And they thought they had committed the perfect crime. But a stranger named Wayne saw what they did, and he was thrille...

• Sep-1995
• / Suspense
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As her husband descends into insanity, Lydia Danse becomes determined to protect her beloved young son from his father, but a possessive Arthur Danse refuses to give up on the boy he considers his property. Original....

• May-1998
• / Horror
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Slowly being tortured to death by their aunt, whose madness is infecting the entire neighborhood, Meg and her crippled sister, Susan, find themselves at the mercy of a troubled boy who can either end their misery or be their salvation. SOMEBODY'S ...

• Jun-1998
• / Erotica
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• Oct-2000
• / Horror
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A nighttime visit to the strange old Crouch house and a game of hide and seek become a nightmare of horror and violence for Dan, a handsome young local, and Casey, the reckless, bored vacationer with whom he becomes involved...

• Nov-2000
• / General Fiction
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Tom Braun is sitting in his neighborhood bar. His wife and his boy are at home in their apartment just a few blocks away. He's had yet another fight with her and is looking to steady his nerves and drown his sorrows and maybe--if he's lucky--snag a l...

• Mar-2001
• / Horror
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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 h...

• May-2002
• / Horror
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When Sara Foster is kidnapped in front of an abortion clinic in broad daylight, taken off a busy Manhattan street by a pair of total strangers -- Stephen and Katherine Teach -- she is three months pregnant with her married lover's child. Her abduc...

• Sep-2002
• / Horror
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A modern master of horror presents a collection of more than thirty terrifying stories, including the Bram Stoker Award-winning "Gone" and "The Box," as well as original works such as "Closing Time" produced for this anthology. Original....

• Dec-2002
• / Horror
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It all started with a simple act of brutality. Three boys shot and killed an old man's dog. No reason, just plain meanness. But the dog was the best thing in the old man's world, and he wasn't about to let it pass. He wanted justice, and he'd make su...

• Jun-2003
• / General Fiction
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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 Li...

• Sep-2004
• / Horror
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While visiting a historic tomb in Greece, Jordan Chase is plagued by nightmarish visions of the future, while a seductive, yet deadly, woman named Lelia, after leading a group of tourists to their deaths, prepares to feed off her human prey. Reprint....

• Nov-2006
• / General Fiction
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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, displ...

• Feb-2007
• / General Fiction
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The newest short story collection from award-winning author Jack Ketchum, including his Stoker-award winning novella CLOSING TIME. Ketchum has published acclaimed novels such as RIGHT TO LIFE, LADIES NIGHT and THE GIRL NEXT DOOR....

• Jan-2008
• / Thriller
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A stranger walks into a place of business...and starts shooting. Three of horror's most terrifying authors challenged each other to write a novella beginning with that simple idea. But where they each went from there would be limited only by their ow...

• Apr-2008
• / Horror
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When Lydia McCloud meets Arthur Danse at a wedding party in Plymouth, N.H., she thinks he's a man she could grow to love. When Arthur meets Lydia, he thinks that she's the sort of woman people would always want to protect -- and that he's...

• Jun-2008
• / General Fiction
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One of only 500 signed and numbered copies. Where does inspiration come from? What secrets lie at the heart of an author s stories and novels? What is written on the invisible ink between the lines of dialogue and description? Most writers will never...

• Jun-2008
• / Horror
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Burned again. Men never treated Dora well. This latest cheated on her and dumped her. The last decent guy she knew was her old high school boyfriend, Jim. He'd said that he loved her. Maybe he did. So with the help of the Old Flames Agency, Dora's fo...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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The OCP edition of Jack Ketchum's "Broken On The Wheel of Sex: The Jerzy Livingston Years" is the most complete edition of the "Stroup" stories ever collected together. Each story also features new afterwords by Jack Ketchum. These stories, written f...

• Jan-2011
• / Horror
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The Woman is the powerful story of the last survivor of a feral tribe of cannibals who have terrorized the east coast from Maine into Canada for years now. Badly wounded in a battle with police, she takes refuge in a cave overlooking the sea. Chri...

• Feb-2012
• / General Fiction
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Here's something 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 2nd century Panchatantra. And unless you're afraid of the elements, or of mice, th...

• Jul-2014
• / Horror
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The box is Jack Ketchum's 1994 Bram Stoker Award-winning story. It has been anthologized, reprinted, and now it is available for the first time in digital - along with a brand new afterword by the author....

• Apr-2015
• / Horror
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This short collection compiles three plays penned by award-winning and best-selling author Jack Ketchum. The first, KILL: A Confession for the Stage - is the final stage play Ketchum ever wrote. inspired by the Boston Strangler Case - it is powerful...

• Mar-2016
• / General Fiction
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The new breed of legends continues… If you came here to read short stories about tranquil lakes, run to the nearest exit. Run as far away as you can from Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, and our array of international voices...

• Aug-2017
• / General Fiction
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HOW DEEP DOES YOUR FEAR GO? Scarlet Galleon Publications and editor Mark Parker are here to help you find out. With thirty stories from thirty talented authors, aquatic terror has never been so chilling...or deep. FEARFUL FATHOMS: Collected Tales of ...

• Apr-2019
• / Horror
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Jack Ketchum is back with a brand new short story collection, full of the horror and terror we've come to love and expect from the author Stephen King has called, "one of the best in the business."What Ketchum has crafted in these stories are portray...

• / Historical
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When John Bristow, rangeboss to Alan Gardea, found Charley Schilling with a worn-out horse and a posse in hot pursuit, he led him to a place where they would be safe for a time. However, the posse was not to be so easily shaken off. Led by Sherriff C...