Off Season: The Unexpurgated Edition
A Thriller, Horror, Fiction book. Black coffee's a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no...
"Who's the scariest guy in America? Probably Jack Ketchum, the outlaw horror writer whose terrifying first novel is finally available uncut from Overlook Connection Press. -- Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly, Nov. 19, 2004. When Off Season, a novel of horror and cannibalism in modern day Maine, was first released in 1980, it took readers by storm and sold over 250,000 copies However, the original edition was edited and content was removed from the story at the publisher's request. The whole effect of the book was deemed to intense, in particular the ending--which is completely restored in this edition. The Overlook Connection Press has released this edition in it's original unexpurgated state for the first time anywhere. The author's original vision can now be read. This book has not been available in the US for almost two decades in any edition. We have a special introduction by Douglas E. Winter, who has championed this novel for years. Also an Afterword by the author Jack Ketchum. Look...
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- ISBN: 9781892950109 / 1892950103
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Black coffee's a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin's. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes. Jack Ketchum, Off Season //
This was my first read from Jack Ketchum, and now I wonder what I was waiting on! From what I'd heard about Ketchum, I had an idea he was all gore and sex without much story beneath. Not sure exactly what gave me that impression, but his subject matter just seemed to indicate such. However, I seem to have been wrong.This was a really... For me, this is the horror book to end all horror books. It is the apex of terror tales. No book has come close to topping Off Season, and I doubt that any ever will.In a rural area off the coast of Maine live a tribe of cannibals. Over the decades travellers and townspeople have disappeared here, but these have been chalked up to the... I've been meaning to read this notorious 1980 horror novel for years, given its reputation. I suspected it was an antecedent to much in subsequent genre fiction, including splatterpunk. I was curious about why it was badly marketed and possibly censored (and so pleased to read the author's own edition here).Brief spoiler-free summary:...
