Jack Ketchum

Esta novela fue publicada en 1989 y con ella, Jack Ketchum revolvió los cimientos de la literatura de terror. Basada en una historia real, el asesinato de Sylvia Likens en 1965, la novela nos cuenta

Se acaba el verano y Dead River, un pueblecito costero de Maine, vuelve a la normalidad y a la tranquilidad.Carla ha conseguido que sus jefes le dejen alquilar una cabaña en el campo (cerca de Dead River) para terminar su libro. Ella ha invitado a varios amigos a pasar su primer fin de semana en esta casa idilica. Jim, Nick, Laura y Marjorie, la hermana de Carla, viajan desde Nueva York.Nadie imaginaba que la cabaña era uno de los escondrijos de una familia de salvajes canibales que vive en una cueva sobre un acantilado desde hace algun tiempo y que es la responsable del gran numero de desapariciones de personas de la zona, que traen al jefe de policia Peters de cabeza.

Septiembre. Una bella editora neoyorquina se retira a una solitaria cabaña, en la colina de una tranquila ciudad costera: Dead River, en temporada baja, donde espera la llegada de su hermana y amigos. Cerca, una familia de canibales salvajes esta al acecho en el sombrio bosque que la rodea, observando y esperando que salga la luna y caiga la noche Y en pocas horas, cinco personas civilizadas y sofisticadas, asi como un viejo y cansado sheriff aprenderan cuan primitivo somos debajo de la superficie, y que no existen limites ante el deseo de sobrevivir.

Steve avait les yeux révulsés, la tête penchée sur le côté, la bouche grande ouverte, un liquide sombre lui dégoulinant sur le menton. Le chien lui labourait le ventre. Je sentis tout à coup une odeu

Steve avait les yeux révulsés, la tête penchée sur le côté, la bouche grande ouverte, un liquide sombre lui dégoulinant sur le menton. Le chien lui labourait le ventre. Je sentis tout à coup une odeu

Los suburbios en una ciudad cualquiera de los Estados Unidos en los años 50. Calles sombreadas, con el césped bien cortado, árboles en líneas perfectas y casas acogedoras. Un lugar tranquilo y bonito donde crecer, siempre que no seas la adolescente Meg o su hermana tullida Susan. En una calle sin salida, en un oscuro y humedo sotano de la casa Chandler, Meg y Susan, cuyos padres han muerto, estan cautivas a manos de una tia lejana que esta cayendo progresivamente en la locura. Una locura que esta trasmitiendo a su familia, y finalmente al barrio entero.

What They Wrote is a collection of introductions, articles, and reviews by Jack Ketchum of various horror novels and collections. Included here are introductions for works by Edward Lee, Stanley Wiater, Barry Hoffman, Kealan Patrick Burke, Thomas Tessier, P.D. Cacek, Lucy Taylor, Tim Lebbon, T.M. Wright, and Rio Youers. Also included are reviews of two Stephen King novels, a John Carpenter movie, and a Richard Laymon novel.Contents of this collection:Edward Lees Quest for Sex, Truth and Reality - IntroductionOn The Haunting of Hill House - EssayMysteries of the Word - by Stanley Wiater - IntroductionThe Midnight Tour by Richard Laymon - ReviewJudas Eyes - by Barry Hoffman - IntroductionMonochrome Love - The Alchemy of Love - by Elizabeth Engstrom & Alan M. ClarkThe Painter Next Door - On Neal McPheeters, for an Unpublished Collection of his Work - IntroductionMidlisters - by Kealan Patrick Burke - IntroductionTessier and the Wolf - The Nightwalkers by Thomas Tessier - IntroductionIn the Spirit by P. D. Cacek - IntroductionBag of Bones by Stephen King - ReviewOn Chas. Balun: An Opinion of an Opinion - Introduction"Its the Dog Scene That Gets Me" - On John Carpenters The ThingOn Header, Needlepoint, and the Journal of American Medicine - Header by Edward Lee - IntroductionFatal Journeys - by Lucy Taylor - IntroductionWhite and Other Tales of Ruin - by Tim Lebbon - IntroductionDark Arts - Thomas F. Monteleone - IntroductionOn I am Legend by Richard Matheson - ArticleRobert E. Howards Typewriter - SHIFTERS by Edward Lee & John Pelan - IntroductionSome Seeds Take Strange Seed by T. M. Wright - IntroductionWhat Rio Sees - All That I See - by Rio Youers - IntroductionFrom a Buick 8 by Stephen King - ReviewA Short Peter Straub Companion - Written for the 2006 World Horror Convention Program Book

Collected here in one volume are more than sixty poems from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jack Ketchum.Included in this collection:JOHNNIE MACK BROWNHOBOES MEMOIRWHEN I AM A BOYARTHURKUKU TWO11/11/87ANNOUNCEMENTBEASTCONTACTCATS HIDE NOTHINGSLEEPING WOMANFIREFLIESHEARTSFOR CAITYCHRISTMAS DAY, 1969TO LANCE AND CATHYS CHILD ON THE AFTERNOON OF HER BIRTH, JULY 9TH, 1970BILLYS DADBETHEL, NEW YORK, AUGUST 16, 1969A TERRIBLE THINGWINGSMICHOUAN HONEST WORDDREAMS THE LUNA MOTHMONDO CANEST. JOHNGREECESWORD AND SANDALCATS HAIKU FOR PAULA ON THE ROADQUESTIONSECOND VIRGINREHEARSAL, MARAT/SADE, 1969POETICTV GUIDEMATHEMATICSVINNITRAGEDYTHE TEACHER, 1969CRISISFOR CUJOM.D.WALKBETHEL, NEW YORK , AUGUST 16, 1969JANISA PROMISEMORNING STARIMPERATIVESON "THE GATES", NYCCATSKILL MORNING OBSERVATIONTHE LETTERCLOCKINGIMPERATIVES TWONOTEFOR ABBIE HOFFMANFOR JULIUS HOFFMANKU YOUFOR K.RITUALSTHAT MOMENTFOR PHILIP H. SCHREYER, 1924-2005OLD AGESUICIDE NOTE #1EMPATHY

Its 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 Gables Ferry has sprung up overnightlacking 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. Shes naked. Shes 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 DiabloMouth of the Devil.Its 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 Elenas sisters still there.

From Award-winning author and storyteller Jack Ketchum, a collection of bleak stories of loss, and pain. This is the authors newest collection, and includes his Bram Stoker Award-Winning novella - Closing Time.Also included:ReturnsDamned If You DoStation TwoElusivePapaThe FountainDo You Love Your Wife?At Home With the VCRThose Rockports Wont Get You Into HeavenOlivia: A MonologueBrave GirlHonor SystemLighten UpHotlineMonsterConsensualSeascapeSnarl, Hiss, Spit, Stalk

Jack Ketchums "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 an afterword by the author. These stories, written from 1976 to 1981, and appearing in various mens magazines and other outlets, offer Ketchum readers a look into this author s formulative years. This is where Jack Ketchum honed his writing craft that has become so well known with his novels The Girl Next Door, The Crossing, Off Season and The Lost.Collected here is his character simply known as the Stroup, as well as stories written under the pseudonym Jerzy Livingston, which are rare and difficult to locate almost thirty years after the original publications gave them life."Ive called these the Jerzy Livingston years because over half of them were written under that name and the rest under my real one. Somehow Jerzy seems more appropriate for this collection. My adoption of that particular pseudonym was both a joke a play on words and a nod to a very good writer, which I hoped some day to be" --Jack Ketchum, from the author s introduction.

For a very long time, Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee have followed their separate paths of line-crossing, gut-wrenching, no holds-barred storytelling. Now, those roads have drawn close and merged for a collection of five collaborative stories guaranteed to shock, amuse, disgust, and bring lovers of extreme fiction back for more. Along with the five stories, the authors have each included the first draft of one of their stories, showing the rough-base that becomes the foundation for their fiction, and giving readers a good chance at separating their voices in the collaborations.

From the author of The Girl Next Door and the co-author of The Woman, Turning Japanese offers an insight into films that "pushed the edge of the envelope" as reviewed by Jack Ketchum in Asian Cult Cinema Magazine. Several films by Katsuya Matsumura, Yahuharu Hasebe, Ran Masaki, and Takashi Miike are covered in Turning Japanese. Among the titles reviewed are: the All Night Long series, Assault! Jack the Ripper, Snake and Whip, Audition, Visitor Q, and the Flower and Snake films.

Ladies Night is a non-stop rollercoaster ride of sheer nerve rattling terror, previously 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.Tom Braun and his wife Susan arent exactly a picturesque couple. Thus it comes as no surprise that Tom continually spends late evenings in bars and cheats on his wife. Unfortunately, their son Andy is caught in the middle of his parents childish banter and family chaos. One life-altering evening turns this familys, along with most of New Yorks, perceptions on the nuclear family and male/female relationships upside down.When a tanker trunk with "Ladies Inc." emblazoned on the side crashes in a quiet area in New York, an area it doesnt have authorization to be in, it liberally spills its contents all over the road and into the surrounding atmosphere. The local authorities deem the contents of the spill to be safe, based merely on the assumption that products coming from a womens label are more than likely benign. Moreover, the smell emanating from the spill is one of sweet cherry, similar to lollipops, which must of course be harmless if not favorable. This aforementioned assumption proves fatally incorrect. The chemical load the truck was hauling procures a discomfiting, bestial effect in women, forcing them to savagely attack males in their vicinity. Be they former friend or foe.Tom, while at a local bar, absorbs the evenings strange turn of events with traumatizing clarity as he witnesses first hand the metamorphosis of surrounding women into gruesomely instinctual brutes and mantis-like predators. He must get home to his son Andy, who is currently alone with his wife Susan. Hopefully before it is too late.

In this intimate glimpse into the heart of his own creative spirit, Jack Ketchum shares his early career, literary influences, and some of the characters that formed the man he has become. From his early respect and admiration for Henry Miller to the tortured lives of friends, and the aftermath of 9/11 - these are the stories that define a career. This is the kind of book that opens windows into the soul. Step up and take a look.

Lydia McCloud meets Arthur Danse at a wedding party in Plymouth, N.H., and she thinks hes 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 hes going to show her "she wouldnt always be protected." Once their only child, Robert, is born, Arthurs behavior worsens. When the courts become involved, the nightmare really begins. This scathing novel is an indictment of a justice system that makes a mockery of its very name.

Una mujer y su amante consiguen llevar a cabo con éxito su plan de asesinar al abusivo ymaltratador marido de ella, tan solo para encontrarse a la merced de un obsesivo y retorcidoextraño testigo del crimen y quien les lleva consigo para compartir su indiscriminada olade asesinatos.

En una noche del verano de 1965, Ray, Tim y Jennifer están pasando el rato, bebiendo cervezas en el lago Turner, cerca de la ciudad de Sparta. Es una noche más hasta que Ray decide que va a matar a dos amigas que han acampado en las cercanias del lago, porque si, porque le da rabia que sean niñas pijas, que tengan dinero, que se esten consolando la una a la otra. Tim, su mejor amigo, y Jennifer, su novia, seran testigos, atonitos, del brutal asesinato. Ray sabe que a partir de ahora los tendra a su merced.Sparta, 1969. Estados Unidos esta cambiando y esta pequeña ciudad a las orillas de un lago, no es ajena a esos cambios. Los crimenes de Lisa Steiner y Elise Hanlon aun siguen sin resolver, a pesar de todos los esfuerzos llevados a cabo por los policias Ed Anderson y Charles Schilling.Ray, impune, no deja en presionar a sus amigos para conseguir lo que quiere en cada momento. Pero sus encantos no dan resultado con Sally y Kath, dos chicas jovenes que aparecen en su vida y a las que desea. Tampoco Jennifer esta dispuesta a seguir aguantando las continuas vejaciones a las que la somete Ray continuamente. Todo esto, sumado a la presion del teniente Schilling, llevara a Ray al limite.Una espiral de violencia y abuso que nadie se vio venir.