Off Season 35th Anniversary Edition

Off Season 35th Anniversary Edition

The 35th Anniversary edition of Off Season includes the author’s originally intended version of the novel (unexpurgated), a new short story based in the Off Season universe, a new afterword from the author, the novelette, Winter Child, five full-page interior illustrations by Tomislav Tikulin and stunning full color wraparound dust jacket artwork by David Stoupakis.

 

Contents

  • Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition
  • Afterword: from Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition
  • By Way of an Introduction (A preamble to Winter Child)
  • Winter Child
  • End Game (An original tie-in short story, and perhaps the last of Dead River)
  • Life Among the Cannibals (Reflecting on 35 Years of the Dead River Series)
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Publisher

Dark Regions Press
Limited Edition

26 lettered copies
500 numbered slipcased copies
Year

2017
Format

Hardcover
Pages

256
Country

USA

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Off Season (UK)

This edition is slightly different than the original American edition, but not as complete as The Unexpurgated Edition.

 

From the Afterword to The Unexpurgated Edition (edited to avoid possible spoilers):

 

“There was one…change I made…for the British paperback.

 

At the very end of the original, [a character is] in the ambulance, shot up with painkillers and speculating through her haze on whether these people who are treating her are paramedics or doctors. She hoped they were doctors, reads the line.

 

A few months after the book was published I got a letter from a fan who said he’d enjoyed the read immensely. Until he got to that line.

 

He went on to say that he was in fact a paramedic and in [her] situation, she’d be far better off in the hands of a trained ambulance crew than with a bunch of doctors. I checked it out and he was right of course. Whoops. I hadn’t done my homework. I wrote back and apologized and thanked him for bringing the error to my attention and promised that if the book ever went into another printing anywhere I’d fix it.

 

In ’95 the Brits at Headline came along and I did.“

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