When Off Season returned to print in , sponsored by a new and less squeamish publishing house, Ketchum put back much of the disputed material. In its first incarnation, it was filled to the brim with blood, but now its cup truly runneth over with gore. If you want more plasma and hemoglobin, you would need to rob a blood bank. In , Jack Ketchum published his first novel "Off Season". Stephen King said in his acceptance speech at the National Book Awards that "Off Season set off a furor in my supposed field, that of horror, that was unequaled until the advent of Clive Barker/5(). Off Season. 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, Format: Paperback.
Jack Ketchum, Offspring (Leisure, ) Ketchum returns to the small town in Maine that housed his first novel, Off Season. He also returns to the plot, the characters, and just about everything else. I don't even need to offer a plot synopsis; if you've read Off Season, you've read Off Spring. Off Season by Jack Ketchum If you like Texas chainsaw massacre and the hills have eyes then this is the book for you although its very gory and very detailed it makes you think that you would never want to be in the position these characters were great disturbing well written story 1 person found this helpful. Off Season is a horror novel written by Jack Ketchum and initially published by Ballantine Books in It was Ketchum's first novel and was partially based upon the legend of Sawney Bean, which also inspired Wes Craven's cult classic horror film The Hills Have Eyes. - reviewed by Zo.
When Off Season returned to print in , sponsored by a new and less squeamish publishing house, Ketchum put back much of the disputed material. In its first incarnation, it was filled to the brim with blood, but now its cup truly runneth over with gore. If you want more plasma and hemoglobin, you would need to rob a blood bank. Before his death earlier this year, I had not read anything by Dallas Mayr, better known by the pseudonym Jack Ketchum. This was foolish. Ketchum () was a highly respected name in horror, described by Stephen King as “the scariest guy in America” and the winner of four Bram Stoker Awards and the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award. Following his death, I read several glowing assessments of his work and decided to try his debut novel, Off Season, first published in by. But Off Season, the first novel from Jack Ketchum (long-standing pen name of Dallas Mayr) and published in July by Ballantine, features some of the most primal images of human fear in the starkest terms - just like that cover art - so primal that they are nearly mythic.
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