Description

Published 2007

READERS CHOICE AWARD WINNER of the BLACK QUILL AWARD from Dark Scribe Magazine for BEST DARK GENRE COLLECTION (2008)

CLOSING TIME AND OTHER STORIES is Jack Ketchum’s collection of 19 stories that have never been published together before. The book contains “Closing Time” (Ketchum’s Bram Stoker Award winning novella), hard-to-find recent stories and one original, previously unpublished story, “Hotline” To further enhance the collection, Ketchum wrote an afterword for each story. This will be a 500-copy signed numbered edition plus a 52-copy signed lettered edition. Cover art is by Harry O. Morris, who worked together with the author to create it.

CLOSING TIME AND OTHER STORIES comes in the following editions:

500-copy numbered edition for $40
52-copy lettered traycased edition for $150 – SOLD OUT

The lettered edition contains four poems that will not appear in the numbered edition.

Table of Contents

Returns

Damned If You Do

Station Two

Elusive

Papa

The Fountain

Do You Love Your Wife? (original and unpublished)

At Home With the VCR

Those Rockports Won’t Get You Into Heaven

Olivia: A Monologue

Brave Girl

Honor System

Lighten Up

Hotline

Monster

Consensual

Seascape

Snarl, Hiss, Spit, Stalk

Closing Time

“These well-told tales are proof that quiet horrors wrought by a skilled writer can make powerful reading.”

— Publishers Weekly

“There is something almost tangibly wicked about (Ketchum’s) short stories… This excellent new collection compiles the vivid range of styles and subjects that have made this author a cult favorite and mainstream success.”

— Creature Feature

“I’m delighted to say (Ketchum) is in top form in CLOSING TIME AND OTHER STORIES… It should come as no surprise to his fans that Ketchum pulls off feats of violence and poignancy with equal aplomb.”

— Bookgasm

“Nineteen stories of tragedy and nightmare, compassion and funeral memory, Closing Time is a bittersweet poem to the age we live and sigh and die in.”

— INFINITYPLUS.COM