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Jack Ketchum

(Dallas William Mayr)

(1946 - 2018)

aka Jerzy Livingston

Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for a former actor, teacher, literary agent, lumber salesman, and soda jerk. He is also a former flower child and baby boomer who figures that in 1956 Elvis, dinosaurs and horror probably saved his life. His first novel, Off Season, an updating of the Sawney Beane story, prompted the Village Voice to publicly scold its publisher in print for publishing violent pornography. He has always wondered what they would think of The Girl Next Door His short story The Box won a 1994 Bram Stoker Award from HWA.

Genres: Horror

Series

Off Season
   1. Off Season (1981)
   2. Offspring (1991)
   Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition (1999)
   3. The Woman (2010) (with Lucky McKee)

Novels

   Hide and Seek (1984)
   Cover (1987)
   She Wakes (1989)
   The Girl Next Door (1989)
   Joyride (1994)
     aka Road Kill
   Stranglehold (1995)
     aka Only Child
   Red (1995)
   Ladies' Night (1997)
   The Lost (2001)
   The Crossings (2003)
   Old Flames (2008)
   I'm Not Sam (2012) (with Lucky McKee)
   Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road (2013) (with others)
   The Secret Life of Souls (2016) (with Lucky McKee)

Collections

   The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard (1998)
   Right to Life (1998)
   Peaceable Kingdom (2003)
   Sleep Disorder (2003) (with Edward Lee)
   Broken on the Wheel of Sex (2006)
   Father and Son and Forever (2006)
   Closing Time and Other Stories (2007)
   Triage (2008) (with Richard Laymon and Edward Lee)
   Book of Souls (2008)
   Triptych (2012)
   Notes from the Cat House (poems) (2013)
   What They Wrote (2014)
   Closing Time (2015)
   Garden of Fiends (2017) (with others)
   Gorilla In My Room (2019)

Novellas and Short Stories

   The Box (1994)
   Father and Son (1999)
   Station Two (2001)
   Weed Species (2006)

Non fiction show

Jack Ketchum recommends

Glass Children (2023)
Carlton Mellick III
"If you haven't read Mellick you're not nearly perverse enough for the twenty first century."

The Ecstacy of Agony (2023)
Wrath James White
"If Wrath doesn't make you cringe, then you must be riding in the wrong end of a hearse."

The Atrocities (2018)
Jeremy C Shipp
"Shipp's clear insistent voice pulls you down into the rabbit hole and doesn't let go."

More recommendations

Anthologies containing stories by Jack Ketchum

Chiral Mad 5 (2022)
(Chiral Mad, book 5)
edited by
Michael Bailey

Freedom of Screech (2019)
edited by
Craig Spector

Shivers VIII (2019)
(Shivers , book 8)
edited by
Richard Chizmar

More anthologies

Awards

	Bram Stoker Best Short Story winner (1995) : The Box
	Bram Stoker Best Novellette nominee (2000) : Right to Life [short story]
	Bram Stoker Best Short Story nominee (2001) : Gone
	Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (2002) : The Lost

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