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Jack Ketchum

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Original publication by Borderlands Press2015

Cover Illustration by Gioconda Padovan

Copyright 2004 Dallas Mayr

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Jack Ketchums first novel, Off Season, prompted the Village Voice to publicly scold its publisher in print for publishing violent pornography. He personally disagrees but is perfectly happy to let you decide for yourself. His short story The Box won a 1994 Bram Stoker Award from the HWA, his story Gone won again in 2000and in 2003 he won Stokers for both best collection for Peaceable Kingdom and best long fiction for Closing Time. He has written twelve novels, arguably thirteen, five of which have been filmed The Girl Next Door, Red, The Lost, Offspring and The Woman, written with Lucky McKee. His stories are collected in The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard, Peaceable Kingdom, Closing Time and Other Stories, and Sleep Disorder, with Edward Lee. His horror-western novella The Crossings was cited by Stephen King in his speech at the 2003 National Book Awards. He was elected Grand Master for the 2011 World Horror Convention.

Bibliography

Novels:

Hide and Seek

Joyride

Ladies Night

Off Season

Offspring

Red

She Wakes

Stranglehold

The Girl Next Door

The Lost

The Woman (with Lucky McKee)

Novellas:

Im Not Sam (with Lucky McKee)

Old Flames

Right to Life

The Crossings

Non-Fiction:

Book of Souls

Turning Japanese

Collections:

Broken on the Wheel of Sex

Closing Time Collected Stories

Notes From the Cat House

Peaceable Kingdom

Sleep Disorder With Edward Lee

The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard

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NECON Fantasy #1 copyright 2015 by Dallas Mayr.

A Week in the Work-Life of a None-Essential Writer copyright 2000 by Dallas Mayr. Originally published in The Penn Writer, Sept.-Oct., 2000. Pennwriters Inc. Newsletter.

Barflies copyright 2001 by Dallas Mayr. Originally published in TheSpook.com #3, Dark Delicacies.

Remembering Charlie copyright 2013 by Dallas Mayr. The Jack Ketchum Official Website.

Afterword to Tales From a Darker State copyright 2004 by Dallas Mayr. Originally published in Tales from a Darker State, Garden State Horror Writers Press.

On Writing The Girl Next Door copyright 1990 by Dallas Mayr. Originally published in Mystery Scene magazine, March, 1990.

Afterword to the Movie Tie-In Edition of The Girl Next Door copyright 2004 by Dallas Mayr. Leisure Books.

Introduction to the filmscript of The Girl Next Door copyright 2013 by Dallas Mayr. Originally published in Moderncine.com.

On The Lost copyright 2015 by Dallas Mayr.

Foreword to Cover copyright 2000 by Dallas Mayr. Gauntlet Press

Afterword to Hide and Seek copyright 2007 by Dallas Mayr. Gauntlet Press

Afterword to Old Flames copyright 2008 by Dallas Mayr. Cemetery Dance Publications

On Writing Joyride copyright 1995 by Dallas Mayr. Originally published in Mystery Scene magazine, March/April

Afterword to Only Child aka Stranglehold copyright 2008 by Dallas Mayr. Gauntlet Press

Afterword to The Unexpurgated Off Season. copyright 1999 by Dallas Mayr. Overlook Connection Press

On Writing Offspring copyright 1991 by Dallas Mayr. Originally published in Mystery Scene magazine, October

Talked to God. copyright 2015 by Dallas Mayr.

Introduction to The Crossings copyright 2015 by Dallas Mayr.

Afterword to Sleep Disorder copyright 2004 by Dallas Mayr. Gauntlet Press.

Elvis Ku copyright 2015 by Dallas Mayr.

The Im Not Sam Blogs copyright 2012-2015 by Dallas Mayr. Originally published in various websites.

On John Carpenters The Thing. copyright 2014 by Dallas Mayr. Originally published on The Jack Ketchum Official Website

For Kevin Kovelant, webmaster and co-conspirator.

And nothing ephemeral about him.

Table of Contents

B eth wept into my shoulder.

Courtney he beats me, she sobbed. He makes me do filthy, disgusting things

We stood holding one another in the dark outside the perimeter. I could smell saugies roasting but it was me who was beginning to burn.

The stinking dirty rotten sonovabitch, I said. Ill get his artsy-fartsy little ass on a fucking plate for you, or my name isnt Jack Ketchum.

She looked up at me. Her eyes shimmering with tears. But she said, your name isnt Jack Ketchum.

Whatever, I said.

SUNDAY, June 18th, 2000

I sit in bed reading Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Burrows and Wallace for an hour. Learn that Peter Stuyvesant was probably not a major party animal.

Paula goes over the first draft of my novella The Passenger which Ive done for the Night Visions anthology. Tells me that while its basically okay, Ive got a staircase in the wrong place, a guy with apparently three arms, a scene in a parked car where people are waiting for somethingbut she cant figure out whatthat Ive got two guys who are similarly and thus confusingly named, and that basically I