Off Season
The best entry point for reading the complete Dead River series.
Author guide
Jack Ketchum Books in Order
Jack Ketchum was the pen name of Dallas William Mayr, an American writer of horror, thriller, dark fantasy, and western fiction. His work is known for spare prose, extreme violence, and moral scrutiny of human behavior. He also wrote memoirs, essays, poetry, plays, and collaborative fiction, and received four Bram Stoker Awards and the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award.
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The Girl Next Door
A defining standalone example of Ketchum's psychological horror.
Read in order
Books by series
series · complete
Dead River
A completed trilogy following the cannibal family first introduced in Off Season and returning in Offspring and The Woman.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (15)
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Hide and SeekAmazon ↗novel · 1984
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CoverAmazon ↗novel · 1987
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She WakesAmazon ↗novel · 1989
- The Girl Next DoorAmazon ↗
novel · 1989
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JoyrideAmazon ↗novel · 1994
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StrangleholdAmazon ↗novel · 1995
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RedAmazon ↗novel · 1995
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Ladies' NightAmazon ↗novel · 1998
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Right to LifeAmazon ↗novella · 1999
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TriageAmazon ↗novella collection · 2001
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The CrossingsAmazon ↗novella · 2003
- Weed SpeciesAmazon ↗
novella · 2006
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Old FlamesAmazon ↗novella · 2008
- I'm Not Sam and Who's Lily?Amazon ↗
novella collection · 2012
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The Secret Life of SoulsAmazon ↗novel · 2016
Nonfiction (3)
Short fiction (5)
- The Exit at Toledo Blade BoulevardAmazon ↗
short story collection and memoir · 1998
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Broken on the Wheel of Sex: The Jerzy Livingston YearsAmazon ↗short fiction collection · 1999
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Peaceable KingdomAmazon ↗short story collection · 2003
- Closing Time and Other StoriesAmazon ↗
short story collection · 2007
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Gorilla in My RoomAmazon ↗short story collection · 2017
Essays and speeches (3)
Poetry (2)
Plays (2)
Collaborations (1)
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Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron RoadAmazon ↗collaborative novel · 2013
Other (12)
- MasksAmazon ↗
chapbook · 1999
- Father and SonAmazon ↗
chapbook · 2000
- Eyes LeftAmazon ↗
chapbook · 2001
- Station TwoAmazon ↗
chapbook · 2002
- The Transformed MouseAmazon ↗
fable · 2003
- Honor SystemAmazon ↗
chapbook · 2003
- At Home with the VCRAmazon ↗
chapbook · 2003
- The FountainAmazon ↗
chapbook · 2003
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Sleep DisorderAmazon ↗chapbook · 2004
- SeascapeAmazon ↗
chapbook · 2005
- AbsintheAmazon ↗
chapbook · 2006
- The BoxAmazon ↗
graphic work · 2013