Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum is an American novelist known for writing horror novels. Stephen King has said that “the only novelist working today that is writing more important fiction is Cormac McCarthy” which is high praise from the king of horror. Jack Ketchum is actually a pseudonym for novelist Dallas Mayr. He has won numerous Bram Stoker Awards for his work. While some books have become adapted for film such as Red and The Lost. One of his biggest successes on the international level was for The Woman which was also made into a film co-written and directed by Lucky McKee. Off Season is the first book in the Dead River series. The book takes place in September at the quiet beach town of Dead River, Maine. It is the offseason and an editor from New York heads off to a cabin to meet her sister and some friends. What she doesn’t realize is there is a family of flesh eating cannibals in the woods that are watching her. Before too long she meets these people and the characters in this story find out just how far they are willing to go to survive.