Works by
Jack Ketchum
(aka Dallas William Mayr)
(Poet, Writer)
[1946 - ]

Fiction

• Mantis Syndrome (Date?)

• Off Season (1980)
  In season, there's the tourists. Off season, there's only the locals--and visitors like Carla. She's on a working holiday, editing a book, but first she's got to clean up the house and play host to a bunch of friends. Nearby, a family of barbarous humans lurks in the woods, watching, waiting to feed their unnatural hunger...And within the next few hours, a group of sophisticated people will learn just how small a step it is from civilisation--to savagery...

• Hide and Seek (1984)

• Cover (1987)
  A signed limited hardcover edition of the long out-of-print Jack Ketchum classic COVER. This is the story of the disintegration of a Vietnam War veteran and the havoc that ensues as only Jack Ketchum can tell it. Rave review in Fangoria!! This edition is signed by Jack Ketchum and includes material not in the out-of-print paperback. Ketchum writes an introduction dealing with research. And there's material Ketchum wrote at the time the story took place, NOT when he actually wrote the book, called EPHEMERA.

• The Dust of the Heavens (1988)

• Trail to Nowhere (1991)

• Road Kill (1994)

• Joyride (1995)

• Only Child (1995)

• Stranglehold (1995)

• Ladies Night (1997, revised 2000) with Neal McPheeters, Illustrator
  Released for the first time as a mass market trade paperback, Ladies Night is vintage Jack Ketchum that ranks with the author's best work. Not for the faint of heart, but very much for the Ketchum fan.

• The Dust of the Heavens (1997)

• Right to Life (1998, revised 1998 with two additonal stories) with Neal McPheeters, Illustrator
  Novella

• The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard (1998) by Matt Johnson, ed. with Alan Clark, Illustrator
  Short stories

• The Girl Next Door (1998)
  SOMEBODY'S KNOCKIN'...Suburbia in the 1950s. A nice quiet simpler time to grow up—unless you count the McCarthy trials and red-scares and the shadow of the Bomb and the Cold War, unless you could see the dark side emerging. And on a quiet tree-lined dead-end street, in the dark damp basement of the Chandler house, it's emerging big-time for teenage Meg and her crippled sister Susan—whose parents are dead now, who are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distant Aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons—and finally an entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruet, tortuous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make. Between love and compassion, and lust and evil.

• Broken on the Wheel of Sex - Signed (1999, Revised 2006)
  These stories, written from 1976 to 1981, and appearing in various men’s magazines and other outlets, offer Ketchum readers a look into this author’s formulative years. This is where Jack Ketchum honed his writing craft that has become so well known with his novels The Girl Next Door, The Crossing, Off Season and The Lost. Collected here is his character simply known as the "Stroup" stories written under the pseudonym Jerzy Livingston, which are rare and difficult to locate almost thirty years after the original publications gave them life.

• Ephemera (2000)
  A very short limited edition chapbook of 200 copies given as a premium to buyers who purchased 'Cover' by Ketchum directly from Gauntlet Press. Contains several poems by the author.

• Station Two (2001) with J. K. Potter, Illustrator

• The Lost (2001)
  It was the summer of 1965. Ray, Tim, and Jennifer were just three teenage friends hanging out in the campgrounds, drinking a little. But Tim and Jennifer didn't know what their friend Ray had in mind. And if they'd known, they wouldn't have thought he was serious. Then they saw what he did to the two girls at the neighboring campsite--and knew he was dead serious.
  
  Four years later, the 60s were drawing to a close. No one ever charged Ray with the murders in the campgrounds, but there was one cop determined to make him pay. Ray figured he was in the clear. Tim and Jennifer thought the worst was behind them, that the horrors were all in the past. They were wrong. The worst was yet to come.

• Red (2002) with Neal McPheeters, Illustrator
  The old man hears them before he sees them, the three boys coming over the hill, disturbing the peace by the river where he's fishing. He smells gun oil too, too much oil on a brand-new shotgun. These aren't hunters, they're rich kids who don't care about the river and the fish and the old man.
  
  Or his dog. Red is the name of the old man's dog, his best friend in the world. And when the boys shoot the dog -- for nothing, for simple spite -- he sees red, like a mist before his eyes. And before the whole thing is done there'll be more red. Red for blood...

• Peaceable Kingdom (2003)

• She Wakes (2003)

• The Crossings (2003)

• Offspring: The Sequel to Off Season (2006) with Neal McPheeters, Illustrator
  "Who's the scariest guy in America? Probably Jack Ketchum, the outlaw horror writer whose terrifying first novel is finally available. That would be Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition." -Stephen King. Now OFFSPRING, the sequel to Off Season, has been released in this unique edition. Just when you thought the horror of Off Season was vanquished in their first outing, The Family, lives on... years later continuing to terrorize the coast of Maine. And their zest for life, and yours, continues on in The Family tradition. The local sheriff of Dead River, Maine, thought he'd killed them off ten years ago... a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of predatory savages. But somehow, the clan survived. To breed. To hunt. To kill and eat. Now the peaceful residents, who came to Dead River to escape civilization, are fighting for their lives....

Written with Edward Lee

• Masks (1999)

• Sleep Disorder (2003)
  If ever two authors were ideally suited for one another, it’s Ketchum and Lee. The five stories and two original versions (one by Ketchum and one by Lee) that make up SLEEP DISORDER prove how well they work together. The title story is newly penned by the duo and was written expressly for this collection. And, as with all of our other titles, we’ve added a few extras. Ketchum provides an insightful Afterword, and cover and interior art is by Harry O. Morris. Plus, you can first read the collaborations, and then take a look at the two original stories (one from each author) written before the collaboration. It's truly a unique glimpse at how these two authors blend their tremendous talents.

Anthologies

• Skull Full of Spurs: A Roundup of Weird Westerns (2000) by Jason Bovberg, ed.
  With Allen G. Douglas, Brian Hodge, Jack Ketchum, Kirk Whitham, Richard Laymon, Yvonne Navarro and more.

• Night Visions 10 (2001) by Richard T. Chizmar, ed., with David B. Silva, Jack Ketchum, John Shirley
  Nearly twenty years ago, the legendary Night Visions series was conceived by Dark Harvest Press as a showcase for the outstanding short fiction being produced today by the best of the established authors and the most talented of the new writers in the fields of horror and dark fantasy. Now, from the grave, Night Visions returns with original novellas by Jack Ketchum and John Shirley, and five new stories by David B. Silva...
  
  A nightmare creature, buried by children, returns to claim them as adults.
  
  A woman's flat tire turns into a memorable stretch of bad luck as she becomes a passenger in a car bound for Hell.
  
  A man spends his life trying to forget the misdeeds of his past.
  
  A small group of teenagers must overcome an ancient evil.

• Scars (2001) by Gina Osnovich, ed.
  A Limited Edition anthology chapbook of 1,000 copies created to benefit survivors of 9/11. Collected stories are by New York City horror writers, including Adam Pepper, Gerard Houarner, Gordon Linzner, Jack Ketchum, Linda Addison, Michael Laimo, Monica O'Rourke, and Nicholas Kaufmann

• Triage (2001) by Matt Johnson, ed. with Edward Lee, Jack Ketchum, and Richard Laymon

• Damned: An Anthology of the Lost (2004) by David G. Barnett, ed. with Erik Wilson, Illustrator
  12 stories about Heaven and Hell, angels and demons, good and evil from the best names in modern horror: Brian Hodge, Charlee Jacob, Doc Solammen, Edward Lee, Gary Braunbeck, Gerard Houarner, Jack Ketchum, Jeffrey Thomas, John Everson, Mehitobel Wilson, Patrick Lestewka, and Tom Piccirilli

See also:

• Studies in Modern Horry 1 -- A Scholarly Journal for the Study of Contemporary Weird Fiction With Jack Ketchum: A Selected Bibliography (2003)