Offspring: The Sequel to Off Season

The hills are alive with the screams of mothers - or at least that is what the evidence points out as one horrifc crime scene turns to two and as people begin to go missing once more. The numbers of people are small at first, however, and the law enforcement officers think nothing of it considering what they saw once upon an ago. but then a family is sluahgtered in a style that is hard to ignore and certain things are found... Read Full Review

I can't even begin to say how much I loved this book. Jack Ketchum is fantastic. I'm not going to go into details of the story, like a lot of "reviewers" do. I'm simply going to say that Ketchum is one of the best horror writers I've ever read. The thing that I like most about his writing is that you actually care what happens to the people in his tales. Other writers, Bryan Smith for example, have such shallow, one-dimensional... Read Full Review

They eat your liver, but no fava beans or chianti. They are helped in their murderous rampage for part of the book by the stereotypical Evil Yuppie (a fairly overused, stock villain, but still effective). Between extremely graphic descriptions of human dissection, and some suspenseful moments of chasing, hiding, and hunter-becomes-hunted, there are some ruminations on evil that are quite substantial and complex. Consider how... Read Full Review

I've read some reviews here that mention that Offspring contains the same basic plot as "Off Season", and well yeah, it sure does. But so does about a thousand other horror offerings from Richard Laymon's "Midnight's Lair" and Tobe Hooper's classic "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." What makes Ketchum's "Off Season" and "Offspring" different is Ketchum's strong prose and great characterizations. Ketchum can make characters come alive... Read Full Review

Thanks to Overlook Connection Press for releasing this signed, limited hardcover edition of one of Ketchum's out of print novels. This sequel to Off Season is a fast paced follow-up to the original with some of the same characters returning to fight against some more nasty cannibals. Sure, parts of it seem like more of the same, but Laymon's "Woods Are Dark" cannibal novels had four in the series plus mentions in other... Read Full Review