They were young. They were looking for kicks. They decided to play an innocent game in a strange old house.
First it turned ugly. Then it turned brutal. Finally it became a nightmare of horror and violence.
None of them was ever the same again.
| Publisher | Ballantine |
|---|---|
| Year | 1984 |
| Format | Mass-Market Paperback |
| Pages | 194 |
| Country | USA |
| ISBN | 0-345-31237-6 |
The Dust Of The Heavens is a short non-fiction piece, written about one person’s slow descent into madness.
The story behind the gruesome legend…
It shocked horror fans everywhere – Jack Ketchum’s Off Season, the brutal and harrowing story of an inbred family of cannibals in present-day Maine. Some reader were horrified, others outraged. Yet no one could put the book down. An instant cult classic.
Now the legend lives on.
A new generation of terror.
The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he’d killed them off ten years ago – a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of predatory savages. But somehow, the clan survived. To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. Now the peaceful residents who came to Dead River to escape civilization, are fighting for their lives. And there’s only one way to do it:
Unleash the primal savagery lurking in their own hearts.
The 35th Anniversary edition of Off Season includes the author’s originally intended version of the novel (unexpurgated), a new short story based in the Off Season universe, a new afterword from the author, the novelette, Winter Child, five full-page interior illustrations by Tomislav Tikulin and stunning full color wraparound dust jacket artwork by David Stoupakis.
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