Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition

(From Douglas E. Winter's Introduction to Off Season- The Unexpurgated Edition)

"When I read Off Season, I knew that its writer was different; that he was working from that raw and risky perspective known as personal vision, and that he had written a novel that was his own, and not what a publisher wanted or expected. Stocked in the shadows of bestsellers and a blur of Stephen King wannabes, Off Season was issued as a paperback original by Ballantine -- a publisher who has never shown much enthusiasm for the fiction of fear. The cover was a minimalist triumph, its title embossed in black on black, stained with a red thread of blood. The author's name -- a pseudonym -- was reported in white block capital letters, and the top of the cover announced: 'THE ULTIMATE HORROR NOVEL.' The hyperbole was deserved. Off Season was the genuine article, its horror insistent, visceral, and disturbing."

Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition restores this classic to its original state, and includes material cut from the original Ballantine publication