Synopses & Reviews
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, watching, waiting for the moon to rise and night to fall...
And before too many hours pass, five civilized, sophisticated people and one tired old country sheriff will learn just how primitive we all are beneath the surface...and that there are no limits at all to the will to survive.
Review
"Who's the scariest guy in America? Probably Jack Ketchum....If you read [Off Season] on Thanksgiving, you probably won't sleep until Christmas." Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
Review
"[A] novel of expert articulation and emotional truth....[N]ot only revives a horror classic...but also reminds us that, once upon a time, some of the most exciting genre writing came in paper covers." Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
Five friends from New York City escape to the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River for some rest and relaxation, only to be terrorized by a cannibalistic family with an unquenchable hunger for human flesh. Reprint.
Synopsis
In season, there's the tourists. Off season, there's only the locals and visitors like Carla. She's on a working holiday, editing a book, but first she's got to clean up the house and play host to a bunch of friends. Nearby, a family of barbarous humans lurks in the woods, watching, waiting to feed their unnatural hunger...
And within the next few hours, a group of sophisticated people will learn just how small a step it is from civilisation to savagery...
About the Author
Jack Ketchum is the author of the novels Hide and Seek, Cover, The Girl Next Door, She Wakes, Joyride, Stranglehold, Offspring, Red, Ladies' Night, The Lost, and arguably, Right to Life. His short fiction is collected in The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard, Broken on the Wheel of Sex, and Peaceable Kingdom, which received two Bram Stoker Awards in 2004. His novels have been translated into Japanese, French, Greek, Russian, and Italian. In 1994, his story "The Box" won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction, and his story "Gone" won the same award in 2000. He lives in New York City.