Books & Films

The Woman

The Woman is the powerful story of the last survivor of a feral tribe of cannibals who have terrorized the east coast from 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 includes the short story, Cow, which takes place a year after the novel ends.

Gorilla in My Room

Jack Ketchum is back with a brand new short story collection, full of the horror and terror we’ve come to love and expect from the author Stephen King has called, “one of the best in the business.”

 

What Ketchum has crafted in these stories are portrayals of the starkest, darkest aspects of the human condition. These stories are enthralling, expertly constructed, and very very powerful. Some will put a lump in your throat. Some will have you squirming. Some might be so intense and disturbing that they leave you no choice but to put it aside for awhile, catch your breath, and finish when you’ve worked up the guts.

 

This is fiction that does far more than “entertain,” and it goes far beyond what we expect when we read “horror.” No haunted houses here, no pitchfork-wielding devils with horns on their heads. The only monsters are the very worst kind: humans.

 

Contents:

  • Gorilla Intro (by Edward Lee)
  • Gorilla in My Room
  • The Western Dead
  • Bully
  • Listen
  • Polaroids
  • Squarely Shirley (with Lucky McKee)
  • Group of Thirty
  • Winter Child
  • Cow (with Lucky McKee)
  • The Transformed Mouse
  • The Right Thing
  • Awake
  • That Moment
  • Oldies
  • Seconds

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)

Stranglehold

Lydia McCloud meets Arthur Danse at a wedding party in Plymouth, N.H., and she thinks he’s a man she could grow to love.

 

Arthur sees things differently. In Lydia, he sees the sort of woman people always want to protect. He decides he’s going to show her “she wouldn’t always be protected.”

 

Once their only child, Robert, is born, Arthur’s behavior worsens. When courts become involved, the nightmare really begins.

 

This scathing novel is an indictment of a justice system that makes a mockery of its very name.

Meine besten Erzählungen (Germany)

Für diese Festa-Sammlerausgabe hat Jack Ketchum noch selbst seine besten Erzählungen ausgewählt, bevor er im Januar 2018 überraschend starb. Leider hat er es nicht mehr geschafft, diese Ausgabe auch zu signieren.

 

34 Erzählungen in deutscher Erstveröffentlichung. Geschichten voller Schrecken, die mehr als nur Unterhaltungsliteratur sind. Ketchum steigt tief hinab in die dunklen Abgründe der Psyche.

 

Stephen King nannte Jack Ketchum den »furchteinflößendsten Autor Amerikas«. Seine Storys werden dich ängstigen und einige sind so verstörend, dass du das Buch einfach zur Seite legen musst, bis sich dein Pulsschlag wieder normalisiert hat.

 

For this  collector’s edition from Festa, Jack Ketchum personally selected his best stories before he unexpectedly passed away in January, 2018. Unfortunately he was unable to sign this edition. This book contains 34 stories published in German for the first time.

 

These stories are full of horrors that are more than just entertaining literature. Ketchum descends deep into the dark abyss of the psyche. Stephen King called Jack Ketchum “America’s most frightening author.”

 

These stories will not only scare you but some are so disturbing that you will have to put the book aside until your heart rate returns to normal.

 

Translated by Patrick Baumann

Illustrated by Jana Heidersdorf

 

Contents:

  • Jack Ketchum – Meister des (ganz alltäglichen) Grauens (Vorwart von Thorsten Hanisch)
  • Die Schachtel (The Box)
  • Die Rose (The Rose)
  • Schlangen (Snakes)
  • Das Gewehr (The Rifle)
  • Das große Schäbige-Flittchen-Massaker von San Diego (The Great San Diego Sleazy Bimbo Massacre)
  • Winterkind (Winter Child)
  • Feuertanz (Firedance)
  • Die Ausfahrt von Toledo Blade Boulevard (The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard)
  • Wenn der Penny fällt (When the Penny Falls)
  • Megan’s Law
  • Pech (Luck)
  • Vater und Sohn (Father and Son)
  • Sonntage (Sundays)
  • Zwillinge (Twins)
  • Für immer (Forever)
  • Verschwunden (Gone)
  • Das Spuklokal (The Haunt)
  • Mutter und Tochter (Mother and Daughter)
  • Rückkehr (Returns)
  • Abschnitt Zwei (Station Two)
  • Das tapfere Mädchen (Brave Girl)
  • Vertrauensbasis (Honor System)
  • Feierabend (Closing Time)
  • Olivia: Ein Monolog (Olivia: A Monologue)
  • Monster
  • Meerlandschaft (Seascape)
  • Der Besucher (The Visitor)
  • Hotline
  • Der Tyrann (Bully)
  • Das Richtige (The Right Thing)
  • Oldies
  • Wach (Awake)
  • Nachschlag (Seconds)
  • Der Gorilla in meinem Zimmer (Gorilla in My Room)
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