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Off Season

By: Jack Ketchum
Narrated by: Richard Davidson
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 September. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River - off season - awaiting her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting for the moon to rise and night to fall.

And before too many hours pass, five civilized, sophisticated people and one tired old country sheriff will learn just how primitive we all are beneath the surface...and that there are no limits at all to the will to survive.

©1981 Jack Ketchum (P)2009 Audible, Inc. Horror Suspense Thriller & Suspense Scary Emotionally Gripping
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"If you read Off Season on Thanksgiving, you probably won't sleep until Christmas." (Stephen King)
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I picked this up on a whim without being familiar with Ketchums work and was a little taken aback by it at first. What it is really is akin to a 70's schlock horror. Think Texas chainsaw massacre in tone but with the extra brutality and gruesome detail that only a novel can communicate. If you're on board with that then you'll enjoy this a lot.

a pleasant shock

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A difficult first half of the book as it was so slow but the second half is brilliant. However the narrator has to be one of the worst I’ve EVER heard, his voices are terrible and sound very similar.

A great story but AWFUL narrating

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If you like Texas chainsaw massacre and the hills have eyes then this is the book for you although its very gory and very detailed it makes you think that you would never want to be in the position these characters were great disturbing well written story

Off Season by Jack Ketchum

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Love this author the books are no holds barred shocking at time but you can't stop listening

Love this author

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I like a short book that sticks to the point. Being eaten by cannibals is unpleasant, this book explains that fact admirably.

My only gripe is that the main characters die by their own mistakes and are not overpowered by the family. I think I would have made it out, and I shouldn't have the luxury of thinking that.

Simple, enjoyable cannibalism

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