Off Season
by Jack Ketchum
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Author: Jack KetchumEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-06
ISBN: 0843956968
Number of pages: 308
Publisher: Leisure Books
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Book Review: Ketchum's Off Season is brutal, horrific and exploitative to the nth degree.
Summary: 5 Stars
I was first introduced to Jack Ketchum's Off Season by a friend who'd noticed that I was reading books by Bentley Little, Edward Lee and Richard Laymon. He told me about Jack Ketchum and his early work titled Off Season. At the time I was told the book itself was out-of-print and used bookstores sold them at a premium. The moment I received word that Amazon started offering the novel again I was quick to order my copy. I thought I knew what extreme horror literature was all about. I had thought Lee's Bighead was the epitome of extreme horror, but I was mistaken as soon as I began reading Off Season.
Jack Ketchum's Off Season takes the old Scottish folklore of the cannibalistic Sawney Beane Clan which supposedly had terrorized the Scottish coasts during the 15th-century. This was not the first time this infamous clan of inbred cannibals' legend has been adapted for modern times. Wes Craven had used the same folklore to base his 70's exploitation horror film The Hills Have Eyes. Ketchum's Off Season is much closer to the legend of the Sawney Beane Clan and Ketchum describes in detail the violence and cannibalistic scenes by which the inbred clan inflicts on vacationing and traveling strangers. Off Season also owes abit to George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead in the chapters dealing with the siege on the cabin by the clan.
Jack Ketchum pulls no punches and makes the reader believe that scene of carnage and horror inflicted on the characters Carla, her sister Marjie and the men of their small group. The horror is not just the one scene through the eyes of the cabin renters, but also those scenes within the clan's coastal cave abode where children behave more like ravenous animals than civilized human beings. There's also a brutal and frank description of the incestuous practice the clan has devolved to in order to propogate their clan's numbers.
In the end, Jack Ketchum's Off Season is not a book for just anyone to read and enjoy. In actuality, Off Season is not even a book to enjoy but more of a novel to survive through. I was barely able to get through the novel, not because it was badly written but due to its extreme nature. I'm actually proud to say that I'd survived reading through the novel. I would turn around and do what my friend did for me and recommend this harrowing, brutal and violent tale of survival, cannibalism and horror to fans who think they know what extreme horror is all about. They'll be in for a shocking surprise if they ever pick up this book to try out.
Summary of Off Season
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.
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