Author: jackketchum

THE STORY: A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River, during off season; awaiting her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting for the moon to rise and night to fall. This novel appears for the first time in its original unexpurgated of the authors … vision. The original publisher refused to publish it in this version in 1980. Now available only in this edition with an introduction by Douglas E. Winter.This novel…

From a Bram Stoker Award–winning author hailed as “the scariest guy in America” (Stephen King): After a night of carousing in an abandoned house, four friends decide to play an innocent game of hide and seek… “Anyone who enjoys fine, hard horror will appreciate this novel” (Publishers Weekly).

A teenage girl is held captive and brutally tortured by neighborhood children. Based on a true story, this shocking novel reveals the depravity of which we are all capable.This novel contains graphic content and is recommended for regular readers of horror novels.