Peaceable Kingdom

Peaceable Kingdom

This landmark collection gathers more than thirty of Jack Ketchum’s most thrilling stories. Gone and The Box were honored with the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. 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
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Publisher

47North
Year

2013
Format

Paperback
Pages

415
Country

USA
ISBN

978-1477840548

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