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Father & Son

Father & Son is a limited edition chapbook of a previously unreleased story, only available through Camelot Books, as part of a promotion.

Ephemera

Ephemera was offered as a premium by Gauntlet Press in conjunction with their limited edition hardcover of Cover.

This limited edition chapbook contains pieces written during the summer of 1969 and features a self-portrait on the cover.

Contents:

on the circumstance of marat/sade
rehearsal in situ
Notes: October 31, 1968 (Graffiti?)

In 1984, the legendary Night Visions series was conceived by Dark Harvest Press as a showcase for the outstanding short fiction being produced by the best of the established authors and the most talented of the new writers in the fields of horror and dark fantasy.

In 2001, the series was resurrected by Subterranean Press with Night Visions 10, featuring original novellas by Jack Ketchum and John Shirley, and five stories by David B. Silva.

Jack’s contribution, The Passenger, follows the story of a woman who gets a flat tire, leading to a stretch of bad luck as she becomes a passenger in a car bound for Hell.

The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard

The Exit At Toledo Blade Boulevard collects thirteen Ketchum tales, including six new stories never before published, an essay on the author’s strange and wonderful experiences with the author Henry Miller, special new Ketchum introductions to each piece, and an introduction by master storyteller Richard Laymon.

Contents:

Chain Letter
The Rifle
The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard
If Memory Serves
Snakes
The Great San Diego Sleazy Bimbo Massacre
To Suit The Crime
The Rose
When The Penny Drops
Mail Order
Winter Child
The Visitor
Henry Miller and the Push (non-fiction)

Broken on the Wheel of Sex

Before there was Jack Ketchum there was Jerzy Livingston, a writer new at his craft but thoroughly jazzed to it, living in a very strange time in a very strange New York City, going straight to hell in a handbasket and loving every minute, writing stories for the likes of Swank, Cavalier, Genesis, Nugget, and High Society. Dark, black-comic stories mostly, the kind you might almost expect of the Ketchum who was waiting in the wings. The Sexual Revolution was lost by then -lost on all fronts- and only a few had noticed. He had. He was whistling in a graveyard.

Contents:

The Hang Up
The Heat
Skin Game
Bosom Buddies (aka The Burn Artist)
The Rubdown
Fixing Her Plumbing (aka Never Trust a Smart Cunt with Two First Names)
Fish
Dancing’ (aka Old Men Dancing)
The Liar
The French
The Christmas Caller
Head Games (aka East Side Story)
Dead Heat
The Making of a Religious Cult (lettered edition only)

The Lost

It’s 1969, and the Vietnam War is raging. A rough time for most kids. You either work like hell to stay in school or hightail it to Canada or else Uncle Sam comes knocking at your door and the next thing you know you’re slogging through the rice paddies and trying not to think about all those body bags shipping back to the World every day.

Not so for Ray and Tim. They’ve slipped through the cracks. They’re neither college kids nor grunts. They’re undraftable.

But Ray and Tim have their own problems.

Murder, for one.

A murder Ray committed four years ago because he felt like it. A murder to which Tim, along with Ray’s sometime-girlfriend Jennifer, are accomplices. A murder which — for at least one world-weary cop — simply won’t go away. He knows Ray did it but can’t prove it. Now, on the verge of quitting his job, with nothing much to lose, he decides to have one last shot at goading Ray into blowing his arrogant cool, into doing something really stupid.

Which Ray’s already doing, just by being who he is.

He’s a possessive, egotistical, compulsive liar. He’s dealing drugs. But mostly he’s chasing skirts. He’s all but dumped Jennifer and is courting not one new girl but two, doing anything and everything he can to impress them. One girl finds his weird posturing repulsive, but Ray refuses to hear that. The other’s playing with him — and might be just as dangerous as he is, moving him further and further into waters way over his head. It doesn’t help that both girls are college-bound and Ray isn’t, or that one of them’s the cop’s best friend’s secret lover. It doesn’t help that Jennifer’s turning into a drugged-out booze-hound in front of his very eyes. It doesn’t help that Tim sees this as a pretty good time to make his move on Jennifer. And it sure doesn’t help that Ray’s got a rage inside him that could make a cyclone look like a breezy summer day.

Things are converging. Something’s going to crack. Something’s going to break loose into a world of pain.

And who will be The Lost?

Eyes Left

A story of what happens when a pair of friends end up cruising the wrong girl. Delightfully twisted, and a lot of fun, it will definitely make you think twice before considering that one night stand…

Triage

Never-before-published, full-length novellas of terror, suspense, weirdness, and erotic darkness by Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, and Edward Lee. All three novellas start with the same premise… a stranger walks into a place of business, pulls out a gun, and opens fire…

Triage is an exploration of mankind’s dark side, and all copies are signed by Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, and Matt Johnson.

Contents:

Triage by Richard Laymon
In the Year of Our Lord: 2202 by Edward Lee
Sheep Meadow Story* by Jack Ketchum

*A new story featuring Stroup, the “hero” of many of the stories in Broken on the Wheel of Sex

Station Two

Station Two follows a not-so-typical night in a Greek restaurant somewhere in the city. Nice quiet dinners are interrupted Ketchum-style.

Sleep Disorder

Sleep Disorder is the first collection of collaborations by Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee – and what a collaboration it is. As Ketchum states in his Afterword, “There’s nothing in here that’s going to change foreign policy or save the whales or even break your heart. We did this just for fun, folks. And for no other reason whatsoever.”

Let the fun begin.

Contents:

I’d Give Anything for You
Love Letters from the Rain Forest
Masks
Eyes Left
Sleep Disorder
Good Seeing You (by Jack Ketchum)
I Would Do Anything for You (by Edward Lee)
Afterword (by Jack Ketchum)

Lettered edition also contains an interview with both authors by Tom Piccirilli

The Fountain

The Fountain is a short story coupled with another story, The Piece of Paper, by Edward Lee.

This chapbook was given as a premium to those who purchased Sleep Disorder directly through Gauntlet, as a token of customer appreciation.

Studies in Modern Horror #1

Studies in Modern Horror: A Scholarly Journal for the Study of Contemporary Weird Fiction, edited by NGChristakos. Issue #1 was a dedicated author issue, focused on Jack Ketchum.

Contents:

Editorial by NGChristakos
Monsters Among Us: An Introduction to the World of Jack Ketchum by Larry Roberts
The Ordinary and the Otherworldly by NGChristakos
Hanging Out in the Weird West with Jack Ketchum by Valarie Thorpe

Jack Ketchum: A Selected Bibliography

This bibliography was published as a limited edition chapbook (250 copies) by Seele Brennt Publications in 2003.

It is a listing of works done solely under the guise of Jack Ketchum; pieces credited to Dallas Mayr, Jerzy Livingston, Bruce Arthur, Dallas Ketchum, or that were published uncredited are not listed unless said works were later published under the Jack Ketchum nom de plume. Books only list publication dates in the United States, unless foreign publication predated first U.S. printing. Online, non-print sources are not cited.