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) |    |
| Offspring | (1991) | |
| The Woman | (2010) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Laramie Plains | (1974) | |
| Border Dawn | (1976) | |
| Hide and Seek | (1980) | |
| Dead or alive | (1982) | |
| The Guns of Amarillo | (1982) | |
| Winchester pass | (1982) | |
| Cover | (1987) | |
| She Wakes | (1989) | |
| The Girl Next Door | (1989) | |
| Trail to Nowhere | (1991) | |
| Joyride | (1994) | |
| Stranglehold | (1995) | |
| Only Child | (1995) | |
| Red | (1996) | |
| Ladies' Night | (1997) | |
| Station Two | (2001) | |
| The Lost | (2001) | |
| Old Flames | (2008) | |
| The Secret Life of Souls | (2016) | |
Publication Order of Collections
| The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard | (1998) | |
| Right to Life | (1998) | |
| Broken on the Wheel of Sex | (1999) | |
| Peaceable Kingdom | (2003) | |
| Closing Time and Other Stories | (2007) | |
| Triptych | (2012) | |
| Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road | (2013) | |
| Night Terrors III | (2014) | |
| What They Wrote | (2015) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| The Box | (1994) | |
| Gone | (2000) | |
| The Haunt | (2001) | |
| The Crossings | (2003) | |
| Weed Species | (2006) | |
| Book of Souls | (2008) | |
| I'm Not Sam | (2012) | |
| Notes from the Cat House | (2013) | |
| Gorilla In My Room | (2019) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Turning Japanese | (2013) | |
| Writers On Writing | (2015) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Triage | (1990) | |
| Deadly After Dark | (1994) | |
| Vampire Detectives | (1995) | |
| Fear the Fever | (1996) | |
| Skull Full of Spurs | (2000) | |
| October Dreams | (2000) | |
| The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection | (2001) | |
| Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters | (2002) | |
| Tales from a Darker State | (2003) | |
| Fear Of The Unknown | (2005) | |
| Masques V | (2006) | |
| Mondo Zombie | (2006) | |
| The Best of Cemetery Dance II | (2008) | |
| In Laymon's Terms | (2008) | |
| Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead | (2009) | |
| The World Is Dead | (2009) | |
| A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre | (2011) | |
| Slices of Flesh | (2012) | |
| Horror for Good | (2012) | |
| Psychos | (2012) | |
| Chiral Mad | (2012) | |
| Fear the Abyss | (2012) | |
| Mister October, Volume II | (2013) | |
| Chiral Mad 2 | (2013) | |
| Turn Down the Lights | (2013) | |
| Piercing the Darkness | (2014) | |
| Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror | (2014) | |
| Horror 101: The Way Forward | (2014) | |
| Cemetery Dance: Issue 71 | (2014) | |
| Suspended In Dusk | (2014) | |
| Insidious Assassins | (2015) | |
| Chiral Mad 3 | (2016) | |
| Beast:Revelations - A Dark Ethology - Volume 2 | (2016) | |
| Cemetery Riots | (2016) | |
| Seas & Oceans | (2017) | |
| Dark Places, Evil Faces | (2017) | |
| Red Room Issue 1 | (2017) | |
| Zippered Flesh 3 | (2017) | |
| VS: X: US vs UK Extreme Horror | (2017) | |
| Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations | (2018) | |
| A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State Kindle Edition | (2019) | |
| Freedom of Screech | (2019) | |
| Dark Screams: Volume Three | (2021) | |
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.