Jack Ketchum
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- For the train-robber Black Jack Ketchum, see Tom Ketchum.
Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for horror fiction author Dallas Mayr. He was born in 1946. Praised by such literary icons as Stephen King,[1] Ketchum has also been condemned by a Village Voice[2] critic who once dismissed his work as violent pornography. A onetime actor, teacher, literary agent, and lumber salesman, Ketchum credits his childhood love of Elvis Presley, dinosaurs, and the horror genre for instilling him with the foundation to build a respectable career. His 1981 debut novel, Off Season, laid the foundation for a series of novels and short stories (sometimes inspired by real-life events) in which humankind proves to be the most dreaded beast of all. Most notable of these, his novel The Girl Next Door was inspired by the 1965 murder of young Sylvia Likens. Throughout the years, Ketchum has received numerous Bram Stoker Awards for such works as The Box, Closing Time, and Peaceable Kingdom. As his works gained in popularity, they began to be translated into feature films with such releases as The Lost, The Girl Next Door, and Red.
His short story Gone (which was first published in October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish) was nominated for the 2000 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction.
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[edit] Bibliography (by publication date)
- Off Season:
- original, edited paperback (1980)
- unexpurgated edition (1999)
- Hide And Seek (1984) [later reprinted in limited edition]
- Cover (1987) [later re-written for limited edition]
- The Girl Next Door (1989)
- She Wakes (1989) (later restored/re-written for Cemetery Dance Publications, 2003 ISBN 1-58767-065-8)
- Offspring (1991)
- Joyride [aka Road Kill {UK title}] (1994)
- Stranglehold [aka Only Child] (1995)
- Red (1995)
- Ladies' Night (1997)
- The Exit At Toledo Blade Boulevard (1998) (limited edition short story collection) (later reprinted in Peaceable Kingdom)
- "Right To Life" and 2 Stories (1998) (short story collection)
- Father And Son (1999) (limited edition chapbook)
- The Lost (2001)
- Station Two (2001) (limited edition chapbook)
- Peaceable Kingdom (2002) (short story collection)
- Sleep Disorder (2003) (limited edition) (short story collection) [with Edward Lee]
- Honor System (2002) (limited edition chapbook)
- The Crossings (2004) (limited edition)
- Weed Species (2006) (novella) (limited edition)
- Closing Time and Other Stories (2007) (limited edition short story collection)
- Old Flames (2008)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Stephen King's National Book Award Acceptance Speech (2003) http://www.nationalbook.org/nbaacceptspeech_sking.html
- ^ 1981
