Off Season - Unexpurgated Hard Cover Edition
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Off Season - Unexpurgated Hard Cover Edition
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Do I think they were right? No. I've sold copies. Not as many as I'd like (any author can say the same), but the response I get from readers tells me I made the right decision. I still don't get why I was told to change the ending. The ending that was suggested made zero sense when compared to the rest of the story.
And yet, somehow, this all made the book amazingly wonderful! How? How can something so vile and so horrible be great? Simple. It actually put me in the story. I felt it all, I experienced it! I didn't read it, I lived it! Never, let me repeat, NEVER have I ever been so engrossed, involved and terrified of a book before and because of that it has become the best horror novel and perhaps the best novel I've ever read. Why? That's easy to answer - food. They are cannibals and they know nothing besides breeding, hunting, killing and eating. Throughout his life, Ketchum read widely and voraciously, authors such as Robert Bloch, Charles Bukowski, Jim Harrison, Franz Douskey and Ernest Hemingway. Apart from his proficiency as a short-story and magazine writer and having a vivid imagination, reading was the essential tool in the writing kit that led Ketchum from his 7th Grade A-Minus Essay to the Magazines and, eventually, to Off Season and beyond. [12] The Jerzy Livingston years [ edit ] Ok. I am almost totally convinced now that a Splatterpunk novel that also happens to be a good book simply does not exist. This was disastrous. All of the characters are interchangeable. All of the dudes could be called Chad and all of the girls, Britney, and it'd be no harder to tell them apart than it already is. I mean literally, the only way I could tell one of the Chad's from the others is that Chad #2 wore glasses, and actually I think they broke at one point and now I'm not entirely sure he even wore them in the first place.
Co-author of Stoker Award-winning PAPERBACKS FROM HELL!
For the last 25 years, I have told anybody who would listen that IT by Stephen King is the best horror novel ever written. Right now, I’m not so sure anymore. This book simply blew my mind. Early-Installment Weirdness: Ketchum’s early work for men’s magazines is quite different than the horror fiction he is most known for. There are scenes of torture which are neither scary or harrowing just stupid due to the fact they're so over the top. The gore in this film is so crude, with bits of leg here and a rubber torso there. The fact it's done in such a straight way makes it even stupider because the whole thing just becomes laughable. The longer the film goes on the dumber it gets. It's just one ineffective scare or anticlimax after another. My partner got so bored she started doing a puzzle. I braved it through to the end and wished I hadn't. Except - and this is a big exception - events aren't quite so big, bold and nasty in the sequel. Published ten years after the original novel, I can't help but wonder if Ketchum mellowed a bit in the intervening decade. Terrible things still do happen - many of them to the sympathetic characters - but one only has to compare the endings of each novel to appreciate this possibility. In The Unexpurgated Edition of Off Season, the hero is killed at the eleventh hour. In Offspring, the hero miraculously survives in a moment that would likely give Lazerus pause. Breakout Villain: The Woman originally appeared as one member of a cannibal clan in the novel Offspring and died at the end of it. Pollyanna McIntosh's performance in the film adaptation was so impressive the ending was changed as a way to allow the character to appear in future installments. The Woman later become the central character of her own novel and McIntosh would go on to reprise the character for two more films.
Off Season is a tale of feral cannibals setting upon a cabin full of city folk in the Maine woods. That's pretty much the entire plot. It's a combination of survival horror and gore horror, particular emphasis on the gore. He was simply trying to write pulp slasher fiction and didn't care about character development and can't be judged too harshly for not doing it. After a little research into the author, I was intrigued. Ketchum is
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Of course, Ketchum likes to explore the darkness of humanity. Here we have Steve who is a scumbag. They have him go a bit over the top in that, but it doesn't hurt the film. There's an interesting scene with him in a cave with the cannibals, where he actually offers his wife to them. It is a bit too on the nose of comparing who is the real savage here, Steven or them. He does seem to be getting off on watching what they do his wife as well. 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 nature of an increasingly mobile, exploding population. People disappear every minute all over the world, don't they?
Author Appeal: Ketchum had several cats during his life and they often appear in his work. He also wrote a book of poetry that prominently features cats.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... Even though Ketchum novels are the most disturbing novels you would ever probably read, it does make you appreciate the fact that your life could have been similar to the characters in his novels. Dead River has almost put the massacre of more than a decade ago behind them. George Peters retired as Sheriff after that night. Now a widower, he is still haunted by nightmares of everything he had witnessed and done himself - you can never find peace if you keep blaming yourself.
So I, being the completeist reader, decided to start at the beginning with this nasty little tale of six Manhattanites staying in an isolated cabin on the Dead River in Maine. The cabin is just a short distance from the coast. Across from an island, formerly the location of a lighthouse with a long history of light keepers and their families meeting less than pleasant demises. There's a tiny town somewhere in America where a gang of cannibals are living in a cave on the beach. These cannibals all have clothes made of animal skin like cavemen, despite living close enough to civilisation to steal some clothes from a washing line every now and then. Also if you're making clothes out of animals why not eat them instead of people and if you're having to resort to cannibalism it might not be such a good idea stealing babies and making your group larger, stupid idiots. Anyway these guys talk in some stupid growly language and have names for each other like eartheater and other dumb crap like that. When they talk their growl language you get really rubbish looking subtitles come up on screen. All their dialogue is embarrassing tripe designed to make you cringe.La segunda mitad, es en realidad una única escena que no da respiro. De hecho, pensaba leer un rato, y terminé devorándolo de una sentada. This story starts off with a bang. If you don't know Ketchum's work, I think he was the first fearless horror writer. He doesn't sugarcoat it, or soften it, or even generalize it. He tells it exactly like this story was meant to be told. After a little research into the author, I was intrigued. Ketchum is a four time Bram Stoker Award winner and was named Grand Master of Horror in 2009. His mentor was Robert Bloch Bloch praised and supported Ketchum's writing. Their friendship began in the 1980s and continued until Bloch's death in 1994. Pretty strong credentials, Mr. Ketchum.
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