Red – Ο θάνατος είναι το κατοικημένο σκοτάδι (Red – Death is the Living Darkness) (Greece)
Greek edition of Red, translated by Nick Roussos.
Broken on the Wheel of Sex (Ultra Edition)
Delirium Press released this edition of 26 copies as part of their “Ultra” series. Contains the extra Stroup story The Old Days, and four non-fiction pieces written for men’s magazines. Does not contain The Making of a Religious Cult, which appeared in the lettered edition from Sideshow Press.
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Hang Up
- The Heat
- Skin Game
- The Burn Artist
- The Rubdown
- Never Trust a Smart Cunt with Two First Names
- Fish
- Old Men Dancing
- The Liar
- The French
- The Christmas Caller
- East Side Story
- Dead Heat
- The Old Days
- Ugly George: Cable TV’s Prince of Pickup (non-fiction)
- Welcome to the Chateau (non-fiction)
- Flashers and Freaks (non-fiction)
- Bad Girls, Sad Girls in the Heart of Disco (non-fiction)
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.
Honor System
The What-U-Need Motel has exactly that. And if you’ve been driving fo hours and hours and hours by yourself, looking for a place to stay, it can seem like an oasis. All the owners ask is that you pay. On the Honor System.
At Home with the VCR
What better way to put one in the mood than curling up with your loved one for a night of David Cronenberg movies?
Peaceable Kingdom
Doom in a plain carboard box. A snake in the grass. A captive with a rose tattoo. The innocent-looking letter in your mailbox that can kill you or set you free. The rifle hidden away in a young boy’s closet. Closing time in a Manhattan bar just days after 9/11. Punishment that actually suits the crime for a change. A parrot in a strip-joint. Sleazy bimbos and parted lovers. A UFO. A Western. A vampire for godsakes. Zombies. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, twins. Cats and dogs and a dancing lynx.
Welcome to the dark — and diverse — world of Jack Ketchum. Peaceable Kingdom is the ultimate Jack Ketchum short story collection, gathering together the complete contents of The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard (minus Winter Child and Henry Miller and the Push) plus 20 additional classics.
Contents:
- The Rifle
- The Box
- Mail Order
- Luck
- The Haunt
- Megan’s Law
- If Memory Serves
- Father and Son
- The Business
- Mother and Daughter
- When the Penny Drops
- Rabid Squirrels in Love
- Sundays
- Twins
- Amid the Walking Wounded
- The Great San Diego Sleazy Bimbo Massacre
- The Holding Cell
- The Work
- The Best
- Redemption
- The Exit at Toledo Boulevard
- Chain Letter
- Forever
- Gone
- Closing Time
- The Rose
- The Turning
- To Suit the Crime
- Lines: or Like Franco, Elvis Is Still Dead
- The Visitor
- Snakes
- Firedance
The Crossings
It’s the Arizona Territory. The year, 1848. The year the Mexican War ended. Fate and blazing pistols have just thrown together reporter and part-time drunk Marion T. Bell and the very nearly legendary John Charles Hart, mustanger and scout, in the Little Fanny Saloon. Plying the river-trade across the Colorado to the gold fields of California in the north, and war-torn Mexico to the south, the town of Gable’s Ferry has sprung up overnight — lacking only a church, a schoolhouse and a jail.
Though some would say that only the jail was needed.
A rough place in a lawless era. About to become a hell of a lot more so one night when Hart, Bell and the easy-going giant Mother Knuckles stumble upon Elena, a fierce, young, badly wounded Mexican woman near the banks of the Colorado. She’s naked. She’s been bullwhipped, knifed and branded. And she tells them about the kidnap, rape and servitude she and her sister have endured at the hands of las hermanas de lupo, the deadly Valenzura Sisters and their henchman, the deserter Paddy Ryan, at the well-manned slave-camp across the river aptly called Garanta del Diablo — Mouth of the Devil.
It’s just three hundred years since Cortez. Only three hundred years since the Old Gods of Mexico were in their full and fearsome flower.
Tezcatlipoca, god of the moon and the night. Tlazolteotl, Eater of Filth. Xipe, Lord of the Flayed.
Blood for rain. Blood for bounty.
For many, like the Valenzura Sisters, they have never died.
And Elena’s sister’s still there.
The Crossings was cited by Stephen King in his speech at the 2003 National Book Awards, and won the Vincent Preis Award for Best International Fiction 2011, in Germany.
The Transformed Mouse
A fable, for adults, though, adapted from the Indian 2nd Century Panchatantra.
And unless you’re afraid of the elements , or of mice, there’s nary a scare in it. Just good wacky fun.
Peaceable Kingdom
This landmark collection gathers more than thirty of Jack Ketchum’s most thrilling stories. Two of them, Gone and The Box, were awarded the prestigious Bram Stoker Award, and three, including the novella Closing Time, are original to this book. Whether you are already familiar with Ketchum’s unique brand of suspense or are experiencing it for the first time, here is a book no aficionado of fear can do without.
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Rifle
- The Box
- Mail Order
- Luck
- The Haunt
- Megan’s Law
- If Memory Serves
- Father and Son
- The Business
- Mother and Daughter
- When the Penny Drops
- Rabid Squirrels in Love
- Sundays
- Twins
- Amid the Walking Wounded
- The Great San Diego Sleazy Bimbo Massacre
- The Holding Cell
- The Work
- The Best
- Redemption
- The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard
- Chain Letter
- Forever
- Gone
- Closing Time
- The Rose
- The Turning
- To Suit the Crime
- Lines: or Like Franco, Elvis is Still Dead
- The Visitor
- Snakes
- Firedance
- Afterword
She Wakes
This version contains the author’s preferred text.
Greece. Ancient land of mystery, legend and myth. It is here that businessman Jordan Chase visits an historic tomb, only to experience a dark vision of the future. And it is here, amidst the beauty of the landscape, that Lelia, a gorgeous but dangerous woman, befriends a group of tourists…to lure them into a nightmare of pain and terror. She lives to seduce and destroy, to feed off her human prey. Lelia is more than myth, more than superstition. Lelia is deadly.
The Girl Next Door
Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, damp basement of the Chandler house, Meg and Susan are left captive to the savage whims and rages or a distant aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons – and finally the entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, torturous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make.
This edition also features the stories Do You Love Your Wife? and Returns.
Contents:
- The Girl Next Door
- Do You Love Your Wife?
- Returns