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Jack Ketchum

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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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Dallas William Mayr Jr.
in Newark, New Jersey, USA
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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
– Douglas Clegg & Jack Ketchum … 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)
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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:

Right to Life. Abingdon, MD: CD Publications, 1999. [collection of short stories] See more »

Publicity Listings:

2 Interviews  | 1 Article  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Dallas Mayr
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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

I hope I do [i.e., write about] victims pretty well. Because I proceed from them. For me the victim makes the story. Sometimes you victimize yourself, sometimes somebody does it to you, but it's that almost universal sense we have - we've all been hurt, and I like to open doors to those feelings. ..... See more »

Trivia:

His handsome face has often been compared with that of Willem Dafoe. See more »

Star Sign:

Scorpio