Offspring

Offspring, the sequel to Off Season, is being released in a signed limited hardcover edition. Just when you thought the horror of Off Season was vanquished in that first novel, The Family, lives on.. years later continuing terrorizing the coast of Maine. And their zest for life, and yours, continues on the family tradition.

From Publishers Weekly

Off Season (1980), the tale of a cannibal holocaust in rural Maine, established Ketchum as a writer of hardcore horror and cultivated ground where Splatterpunk fiction eventually took root. This sequel, first published as a paperback original in 1991, reprises characters and themes from its predecessor and far too much of the grisly plot. Survivors of the feral flesh-eating clan, who were all but destroyed at the end of the first novel, are back and chowing their way through the locals again. Amy Halbard and Claire Carey strive to survive their abduction by the cannibals and save their children. A subplot involving Claire's despicable husband, Steven, gives Ketchum another opportunity to cleverly compare predatory civilized folk to the appetite-driven primitives. The story is suspenseful, fast-paced and intelligently written, but readers nurtured on horror fiction that has come up in the wake of this saga may wonder what the fuss is all about. Agent, Alice Martell. (Apr. 5)

From the Inside Flap

Jack Ketchum's original novel of cannibalism in Maine, Off Season, was first met with a lot of controversy when it was originally released in 1980. However sales of over 250,000 mass market editions made this first time novelist a major force in the horror and suspense genres.

About the Author

Jack Ketchum is the Bram Stoker Award-Winning author of "The Girl Next Door," "Off Season," "Red," "Broken on the Wheel of Sex: The Jerzey Livingston Years," to name a few.

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