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Jack Ketchum

Jack Ketchum published his first novel in 1980 titled "Off Season", a version of the Sawney Beane story. The novel was subsequently slated by the Village Voice as 'violent pornography' but, undeterred, the author continued to write fiction that deals with the cruelty and violence so often apparent in everyday life... See full bio »

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Filmography

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2013 Olivia (short) (writer) (completed)
 
2011 Mail Order (short) (based on the short story by)
 
2011/I The Woman
 
2009 Offspring (based upon the book by / screenplay)
 
2008 Red (novel)
 
2007 The Girl Next Door (book)
 
2006/II The Lost (novel)
 
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2009 Offspring
Max Joseph (as Dallas Mayr)
 
2008 Red
Bartender (as Dallas Mayr)
 
2007 The Girl Next Door
Carnival
 
2006 Header
State Trooper #2
 
2006/II The Lost
Teddy Panik
 
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2011 Dark Dreamers (TV series) (completed)
Himself
 
2013 Inside the Plain Brown Wrapping (short)
Himself
 
2007 The Making of 'The Girl Next Door' (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2007 The Cult of Ichi (video documentary short)
Himself
 

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The Woman -- When a successful country lawyer captures and attempts to "civilize" the last remaining member of a violent clan that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades, he puts the lives of his family in jeopardy.
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Personal Details

Other Works:

The Lost. Abingdon, MD: CD Publications and New York: Leisure Books, 2001. [novel] See more »

Publicity Listings:

2 Interviews  | 1 Article  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Dallas Mayr
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Personal Quote:

[re his novel "The Lost"] Everyone in the book is lost to some degree. Even the poor cat. But when I conceived it, I was thinking about those kids in that ear who fell between the cracks, who neither went to war nor to college, and what an open, empty world was left to them. That, and how lost the entire era was... See more »

Trivia:

His first novel, "Off Season," was hated by reviewers (the liberal New York newspaper "The Village Voice" titled its review "YECCH!"), but loved by fans. "Off Season: The Unexpurgated Version" was published as a hardcover in 1999 with an introduction by renowned writer-scholar Douglas E. Winter. See more »

Star Sign:

Scorpio