Jack Ketchum
1946 – 2018
Jack Ketchum is the pen name of American horror novelist Dallas Mayr. Born in Livingstone, NJ, Ketchum has worked as a lumber sales representative, a teacher, and actor before becoming a novelist. As a teenager, he had the honor of meeting “Psycho” author, Robert Bloch, who would become his mentor and friend until his death in 1994.
Publication Order
Standalone Books
Joyride / Road Kill
1994
Trail to Nowhere
1991
The Box
1994
Laramie Plains
1974
Border Dawn
1976
Hide and Seek
1980
Dead or alive
1982
The Guns of Amarillo
1982
Winchester pass
1982
Cover
1987
She Wakes
1989
The Girl Next Door
1989
Stranglehold
1995
Only Child
1995
Red
1996
The Passenger
1996
Ladies' Night
1997
Station Two
2001
The Lost
2001
Old Flames
2008
The Secret Life of Souls(With: Lucky McKee)
2016
Gone
2000
The Haunt
2001
The Crossings
2003
Weed Species
2006
Book of Souls
2008
I'm Not Sam(With: Lucky McKee)
2012
Notes from the Cat House
2013
Gorilla In My Room
2019
The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard
1998
Right to Life
1998
Broken on the Wheel of Sex
1999
Peaceable Kingdom
2003
Sleep Disorder(With: Edward Lee)
2003
Closing Time and Other Stories
2007
Triptych
2012
Night Terrors III
2014
What They Wrote
2015