Jedyne Dziecko (Only Child) (Stranglehold) (Poland)
Polish edition of Only Child/Stranglehold, translated by Bartosz Czartoryski.
Po Sezoně (Off Season) (Czech Republic)
Czech edition of Off Season, translated by Milan Žáček.
The Woman
The Woman is the powerful story of the last survivor of a feral tribe of cannibals who have terrorized the east coast of Maine into Canada for years now. Badly wounded in a battle with police, she takes refuge in a cave overlooking the sea.
Christopher Cleek is a slick, amoral -and unstable- country lawyer who, out hunting one day, sees her bathing in a stream. Fascinated, he follows her to her cave.
Cleek has many dark secrets and to these he’ll add another. He will capture her, lock her in his fruit cellar, and tame her, civilize her. To this end, he’ll enlist his long-suffering wife Belle, his teenage son and daughter Brian and Peg, and even his little girl Darlin’, to aid him.
So the question becomes, who is more savage?
The hunter or the game?
Also contains the short story, Cow
Triptych: Three Short Plays
This short collection compiles three plays. The first, Kill: A Confession for the Stage – is the final stage play Ketchum ever wrote…inspired by the Boston Strangler Case – it is powerful, and eerie. Also included in this are Drive-In Movie – which Ketchum also penned for theathre, and a short piece titled Olivia: A Monologue.
Królestwo Spokoju (Peaceable Kingdom) (Poland)
Polish edition of Peaceable Kingdom, translated by Piotr Pocztarek.
Potomstwo (Offspring) (Poland)
Polish edition of Offspring, translated by Bartosz Czartoryski.
Kobieta (The Woman) (Poland)
Polish edition of The Woman, translated by Mateusz Kopacz. Also features the short story, Cow, translated as Reproduktor.
Rudy (Red) (Poland)
Polish edition of Red, translated by Bartosz Czartoryski. Also features Right to Life, translated as Prawo Do Życia.
I’m Not Sam
Now I’m way beyond confusion.
Now I’m scared.
I’ve slid down the rabbit-hole and what’s down there is dark and serious. This is not play-acting or some waking bad dream she’s having. She’s changed, somehow overnight. I don’t know how I know this but I sense it as surely as I sense my own skin. This is not Sam, my Sam, wholly sane and firmly balanced. Capable of tying off an artery as neatly as you’d thread a belt through the loops of your jeans.
And now I’m shivering too.
In some fundamental way she’s changed…
Contents:
- I’m Not Sam
- Who’s Lily?
I’m Not Sam
Now I’m way beyond confusion.
Now I’m scared.
I’ve slid down the rabbit-hole and what’s down there is dark and serious. This is not play-acting or some waking bad dream she’s having. She’s changed, somehow overnight. I don’t know how I know this but I sense it as surely as I sense my own skin. This is not Sam, my Sam, wholly sane and firmly balanced. Capable of tying off an artery as neatly as you’d thread a belt through the loops of your jeans.
And now I’m shivering too.
In some fundamental way she’s changed…
Contents:
- I’m Not Sam
- Who’s Lily?
Turning Japanese: Articles, 1997 to 2007, for Asian Cult Cinema
Turning Japanese offers an insight into films that “pushed the edge of the envelope” as reviewed by Jack Ketchum in Asian Cult Cinema Magazine. Several films by Katsuya Matsumura, Yahuharu Hasebe, Ran Masaki, and Takashi Miike are covered. Among the titles reviewed are: the All Night Long series, Assault! Jack the Ripper, Snake and Whip, Audition, Visitor Q, and the Flower and Snake films.
The Girl Next Door: Collector’s Edition Screenplay
The Girl Next Door Collector’s Edition Screenplay is screenplay adaptation of the novel The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. The book is loosely based on true events surrounding the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Gertrude Baniszewski during the summer of 1965. Set in 1958, the screenplay follows the story of two adolescent girls, Meg and Susan who, upon losing their parents in an accident, are sent to live with their Aunt Ruth Chandler, a sadistic psychopath, and their three cousins. The screenplay was written by Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman.
