Jack Ketchum - Meine besten Erzählungen

by Jack Ketchum

34 Erzählungen in deutscher Erstveröffentlichung. Geschichten voller Schrecken, die mehr als nur Unterhaltungsliteratur sind. Ketchum steigt tief hinab in die dunklen Abgründe der Psyche.

Für diese Festa-Sammlerausgabe hat Jack Ketchum noch selbst seine besten Erzählungen ausgewählt, bevor er im Januar 2018 überraschend starb.

Die Sammlerausgabe ist signiert von der Künstlerin Jana Heidersdorf, sowie nummeriert und limitiert auf eine einmalige Auflage von 999 Exemplaren.

Inhalt:
Jack Ketchum — Meister des (ganz alltäglichen) Grauens, Essay von Thorsten Hanisch
Die Schachtel
Die Rose
Schlangen
Das Gewehr
Das große Schäbige-Flittchen-Massaker von San Diego
Winterkind
Feuertanz
Die Ausfahrt am Toledo Blade Boulevard
Wenn der Penny fällt
Megan's Law
Pech
Vater und Sohn
Sonntage
Zwillinge
Für immer
Verschwunden
Das Spuklokal
Mutter und Tochter
Rückkehr
Abschnitt Zwei
Das tapfere Mädchen
Vertrauensbasis
Feierabend
Olivia: Ein Monolog
Monster
Meerlandschaft
Der Besucher
Hotline
Der Tyrann
Das Richtige
Oldies
Wach
Nachschlag
Der Gorilla in meinem Zimmer

544 pages, Hardcover

Published June 1, 2018

About the author

Dallas William Mayr, better known by his pen name Jack Ketchum, was an American horror fiction author. He was the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. His novels included Off Season, Offspring, and Red, which were adapted to film. In 2011, Ketchum received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award for outstanding contribution to the horror genre.

A onetime actor, teacher, literary agent, lumber salesman, and soda jerk, Ketchum credited his childhood love of Elvis Presley, dinosaurs, and horror for getting him through his formative years. He began making up stories at a young age and explained that he spent much time in his room, or in the woods near his house, down by the brook: "[m]y interests [were] books, comics, movies, rock 'n roll, show tunes, TV, dinosaurs [...] pretty much any activity that didn't demand too much socializing, or where I could easily walk away from socializing." He would make up stories using his plastic soldiers, knights, and dinosaurs as the characters.

Later, in his teen years, Ketchum was befriended by Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, who became his mentor.

Ketchum worked many different jobs before completing his first novel (1980's controversial Off Season), including acting as agent for novelist Henry Miller at Scott Meredith Literary Agency.

His decision to eventually concentrate on novel writing was partly fueled by a preference for work that offered stability and longevity.

Ketchum died of cancer on January 24, 2018, in New York City at the age of 71.