Only Child (hardcover)
Only Child (Lettered Edition)
Only Child (paperback)

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.

 

 

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Publisher

Gauntlet Press
Limited Edition

52 signed, numbered tray cased lettered Hardcover Edition
1,000 signed, numbered Limited Hardcover Edition
Paperback
Year

2008 (hardcover editions)
2012 (paperback edition)
Format

Hardcover and Paperback
Pages

404 (hardcover)
398 (paperback)
Country

USA
ISBN

1-934267-01-5 (hardcover)
1-934267-34-1 (paperback)

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