Order of Jack Ketchum Books
Jack Ketchum is an American novelist known for writing horror novels. Stephen King has said that “the only novelist working today that is writing more important fiction is Cormac McCarthy” which is high praise from the king of horror.
Jack Ketchum is actually a pseudonym for novelist Dallas Mayr. He has won numerous Bram Stoker Awards for his work. While some books have become adapted for film such as Red and The Lost. One of his biggest successes on the international level was for The Woman which was also made into a film co-written and directed by Lucky McKee.
Publication Order of Off Season Books
| Off Season | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Offspring | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Woman | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Laramie Plains | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Border Dawn | (1976) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hide and Seek | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dead or alive | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Guns of Amarillo | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Winchester pass | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Cover | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| She Wakes | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Girl Next Door | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Trail to Nowhere | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Joyride | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stranglehold | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Only Child | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Red | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ladies' Night | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Station Two | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lost | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Old Flames | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Secret Life of Souls | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
| The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Right to Life | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Broken on the Wheel of Sex | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Peaceable Kingdom | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Closing Time and Other Stories | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Triptych | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Night Terrors III | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What They Wrote | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Box | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gone | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Haunt | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Crossings | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Weed Species | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Book of Souls | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| I'm Not Sam | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Notes from the Cat House | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Gorilla In My Room | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Turning Japanese | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writers On Writing | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
If You Like Jack Ketchum Books, You’ll Love…
Off Season is the first book in the Dead River series. The book takes place in September at the quiet beach town of Dead River, Maine. It is the offseason and an editor from New York heads off to a cabin to meet her sister and some friends. What she doesn’t realize is there is a family of flesh eating cannibals in the woods that are watching her. Before too long she meets these people and the characters in this story find out just how far they are willing to go to survive.
Another powerful story by Ketchum is called Red. In this book there is an old man fishing with his dog, Red. He’s trying to relax and fish, but there are some loud boys coming over the hill that are making a ton of noise. He smells the gun oil on their brand-new shotugn and knows these boys are up to no good. He finds out exactly what they are up to when Red is shot and killed for no good reason. The man loses Red, but then he sees red and he’s ready to spill some red too to get his revenge against these boys.