閉店時間 (Closing Time and Others) (Japan)
Japanese edition of Closing Time and Others, translated by Hiroshi Kaneko.
Old Flames
When her lover betrays her and dumps her coldly, Dora’s mind begins to crack.
She tracks down her old high school love to recapture what she might have had.
He’s married with a family now, but Dora isn’t about to let that stop her…
Morte Saison (Off Season) (France)
French edition of Off Season, translated by Benoît Domis.
Al Otro Lado del Río (The Crossings) (Spain)
Spanish edition of The Crossings, translated by Guillermo Daniel Galli.
Offspring
The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he had killed them off ten years ago – a primitive, cave-dwelling, tribe of cannibalistic savages. But somehow the clan survived. To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. And now the peaceful residents of this isolated town are fighting for their lives….
The Girl Next Door
Movie tie-in edition.
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. The Movie Tie-In Edition also contains a bonus interview.
Contents:
- The Girl Next Door
- Do You Love Your Wife?
- Returns
- We Have Permission (interview with Jack Ketchum by Quentin Dunne) – Movie Tie-In Edition only.
Only Child (Stranglehold)
Arthur Danse is one of Ketchum’s most dark and frightening creations. A user, a violent abuser and quite possibly much, much worse. And it fails to his wife Lydia to protect the life and sanity of both herself and her six-year-old son – their only child.
Joyride
Howard deserved to die. For years, he abused his wife physically, verbally, and psychologically. Even after the separation, he kept coming back for more.
Carol and her lover, Lee, knew there was only one way to stop Howard for good. They planned every detail, and they thought they had committed the perfect crime.
But a stranger named Wayne witnessed what they did, and he was thrilled by what he saw. Now Wayne wants to be their friend. He wants to share the thrill of murder with them. He wants to take Carol and Lee on a road trip straight to hell so his new friends can enjoy his all-out killing spree that can only end one way…
This edition features a special afterword entitled “On Writing Joyride” by Jack Ketchum.
Triage
A stranger walks into a place of business…and starts shooting.
Three of horror’s most terrifying authors challenged each other to write a novella beginning with that simple idea. But where they each went from there would be limited only by their own powerful imaginations. The results are incredibly varied, totally individual, and relentlessly horrifying. Prepare yourself for three very different visions of fear, each written specifically for this anthology and available nowhere else.
Contents:
- Triage by Richard Laymon
- In the Year of Our Lord: 2202 by Edward Lee
- Sheep Meadow Story by Jack Ketchum
La Chica de al Lado (The Girl Next Door) (Spain)
Spanish edition of The Girl Next Door, translated by Paz Fernández.
Beutezeit (Off Season) (Germany)
German edition of Off Season, translated by Friedrich Mader.
Une Fille Comme Les Autres (The Girl Next Door) (France)
French edition of The Girl Next Door, translated by Benoît Domis.
Offspring
Jack Ketchum’s ferocious first novel, Off Season, met with a lot of controversy when it was originally released in 1980. Nobody had ever seen a book with quite so many teeth before. But sales of over 250,000 paperback copies made this first-time novelist a major force in the horror and suspense genres.
Now Offspring, the sequel to that Off Season, written ten years later, has been released in this exclusive hardcover edition. Just when you thought the horror of Off Season was vanquished in their first outing, The Family lives on…continuing to terrorize the coast of Maine. And their zest for life, and for yours, continues on in that good old Family tradition.