Jack Ketchum

Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, damp basement of the Chandler house, Meg and Susan are left captive to the savage whims and rages of a distant aunt who is rapidly descending into madness. It is a madness that infects all three of her sons and finally the entire neighborhood. Only one troubled boy stands hesitantly between Meg and Susan and their cruel, torturous deaths. A boy with a very adult decision to make.

September. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River—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... And before too many hours pass, five civilized, sophisticated people and one tired old country sheriff will learn just how primitive we all are beneath the surface...and that there are no limits at all to the will to survive.

When Sara Foster is kidnapped in front of an abortion clinic in broad daylight, taken off a busy Manhattan street by a pair of total strangers—Stephen and Katherine Teach—she is three months pregnant with her married lover's child. Her abductors seem to know that. They also seem to know where she lives, where she teaches, where she was born, who her lover is—even where her father plays golf on the weekends. They tell her about a mysterious worldwide Organization devoted to white slavery and what happens to those slaves who try to run away. What happens to their families and those they love. That's what Sara is now. Their slave. They show her what happens if she tries to disobey. She sleeps in a coffin-like box in the basement. She's fed according to their whim. Abused according to their whim. They involve her in a brutal murder. That's just the beginning. Because Stephen and Katherine Teach have terrible plans for Sara. And her baby. Like his novels Joyride, Stranglehold, The Girl Next Door, and Cover, Right to Life is a descent into madness and human evil which is all the more harrowing because it's based on fact. Sara's ordeal really happened to somebody just like you and me and it's one that is vividly rendered. So consider yourself warned. This is disturbing, graphic writing. Not for the timid. Like life.

It was the summer of 1965. Ray, Tim, and Jennifer were just three teenage friends hanging out in the campgrounds, drinking a little. But Tim and Jennifer didn't know what their friend Ray had in mind. And if they'd known, they wouldn't have thought he was serious. Then they saw what he did to the two girls at the neighboring campsite--and knew he was dead serious. Four years later, the 60s were drawing to a close. No one ever charged Ray with the murders in the campgrounds, but there was one cop determined to make him pay. Ray figured he was in the clear. Tim and Jennifer thought the worst was behind them, that the horrors were all in the past. They were wrong. The worst was yet to come.

At the heart of this psychological suspense novel is the haunting depiction of a family’s fall and the extraordinary gifted dog, Caity, who knows the truth. As the drama unfolds Caity evolves from protector to savior, from scapegoat to prop, and eventually, from avenger to survivor. She is an unselfish soul in a selfish world—and she is written with depth and grace by authors Ketchum and Mckee, who display a profound understanding of a dog’s complex emotions. With her telling instincts and her capacity for joy and transformative love, Caity joins the pantheon of great dogs in contemporary literature. Eleven year old actress Delia Cross is beautiful, talented, charismatic. A true a star in the making. Her days are a blur of hard work on ­set, auditions and tutors. Her family—driven, pill­-popping stage mother Pat, wastrel dad Bart, and introverted twin brother Robbie—depends on her for their upscale lifestyle. Delia in turn depends on Caity, her beloved ginger Queensland Heeler—and loyal friend—for the calming private space they share. Delia is on the verge of a professional break through. But just as the contracts are about to be signed, there is a freak accident that puts Delia in the danger zone with only Caity to protect her.

The first collection of collaborations between Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. Ladies' Night is a non-stop rollercoaster ride of sheer nerve rattling terror, previously deemed too violent for mass market publication. In this modern tale of the ages-old battle of the sexes carried to the extreme, Jack Ketchum again provides readers with an excursion into horror as relentless as a John Woo film. Tom Braun and his wife Susan aren't exactly a picturesque couple. Thus it comes as no surprise that Tom continually spends late evenings in bars and cheats on his wife. Unfortunately, their son Andy is caught in the middle of his parent's childish banter and family chaos. One life-altering evening turns this family's, along with most of New York's, perceptions on the nuclear family and male/female relationships upside down. When a tanker trunk with "Ladies Inc." emblazoned on the side crashes in a quiet area in New York, an area it doesn't have authorization to be in, it liberally spills its contents all over the road and into the surrounding atmosphere. The local authorities deem the contents of the spill to be safe, based merely on the assumption that products coming from a women's label are more than likely benign. Moreover, the smell emanating from the spill is one of sweet cherry, similar to lollipops, which must of course be harmless if not favorable. This aforementioned assumption proves fatally incorrect. The chemical load the truck was hauling procures a discomfiting, bestial effect in women, forcing them to savagely attack males in their vicinity. Be they former friend or foe. Tom, while at a local bar, absorbs the evening's strange turn of events with traumatizing clarity as he witnesses first hand the metamorphosis of surrounding women into gruesomely instinctual brutes and mantis-like predators. He must get home to his son Andy, who is currently alone with his wife Susan. Hopefully before it is too late.

Hoping to escape from her abusive ex-husband, a woman and her lover successfully carry out their plot to murder him, only to find themselves at the mercy of an obsessive, twisted stranger who witnessed the crime. Original.

Se acaba el verano y Dead River, un pueblecito costero de Maine, vuelve a la normalidad y a la tranquilidad. Carla ha conseguido que sus jefes le dejen alquilar una cabaña en el campo (cerca de Dead River) para terminar su libro. Ella ha invitado a varios amigos a pasar su primer fin de semana en esta casa idílica. Jim, Nick, Laura y Marjorie, la hermana de Carla, viajan desde Nueva York. Nadie imaginaba que la cabaña era uno de los escondrijos de una familia de salvajes caníbales que vive en una cueva sobre un acantilado desde hace algún tiempo y que es la responsable del gran número de desapariciones de personas de la zona, que traen al jefe de policía Peters de cabeza.

ATENȚIE: Fata din vecini îți va zdruncina încrederea în omenire. Întreabă-te mai întâi dacă ai curajul s-o deschizi. Doar că, indiferent de răspunsul tău, nimic nu te poate pregăti pentru ceea ce urmează. David, un băiat de 12 ani, trăiește într-un orășel liniștit din America. Viața lui ia o întorsătură sinistră atunci când în casa vecină se mută Meg și Susan, două surori orfane. La prima vedere, Ruth, mătușa fetelor, pare o femeie cumsecade, dar dincolo de aparențe se ascunde o jivină diabolică. Pe parcursul unei veri toride, Ruth, cei trei fii ai ei și copiii vecinilor se transformă, încet-încet, în protagoniștii unui joc fără reguli, care sfidează limitele naturii umane. Povestea, inspirată dintr-un caz real care a șocat America, este o incursiune hipnotică în tenebre, constituind de-a lungul anilor subiectul mai multor cărți de nonficțiune, documentare de televiziune și al unui studiu sociologic despre sacrificiul uman. Romanul Fata din vecini a fost ecranizat în 2007. JACK KETCHUM este unul dintre maeștrii genului horror, de patru ori laureat al premiului Bram Stoker. În 2011, a primit World Horror Convention Grand Master Award, o distincție acordată autorilor care au avut contribuții marcante în domeniul literaturii de groază, cum ar fi Stephen King, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz, Harlan Ellison sau Dan Simmons.

The old man hears them before he sees them, the three boys coming over the hill, disturbing the peace by the river where he's fishing. He smells gun oil too, too much oil on a brand-new shotgun. These aren't hunters, they're rich kids who don't care about the river and the fish and the old man. Or his dog. Red is the name of the old man's dog, his best friend in the world. And when the boys shoot the dog -- for nothing, for simple spite -- he sees red, like a mist before his eyes. And before the whole thing is done there'll be more red. Red for blood...

»Ihr erster Gedanke war, dass man sie lebendig begraben hatte. Dass sie sich in einem Sarg befand. Unter ihrem Rücken spürte sie Holz, und dicke Bretter auch zu ihrer Linken und zu ihrer Rechten, so nah, dass sie gerade noch den Arm heben konnte, um zu erfühlen, dass auch über ihr Holz war. Nie zuvor hatte sie Angst vor engen Räumen gehabt. Doch dieser Raum machte ihr große Angst.«