Danny, the young boy, asks what's in the box. Sitting near them on the bus is a man with a red box held tightly in his lap. It's almost Christmas, and the four of them have been out ice-skating. It begins with a father riding the bus with his three young children, two girls and a boy. Moving on to today's selections from Peaceable Kingdom, I first chose a story called 'The Box'. Maybe his heart was in the right place, I don't know. At the same time, it's the only book by Ketchum that had any kind of lasting impact on me, and maybe I'm accusing Ketchum of exploitation because I just don't like having done to me what that book did. Ketchum's novel was, as a said, effective, and gave me one bitch of a nightmare.īut it also reeked strongly of self-righteous exploitation. That true story really, truly is unspeakably horrific. Like a lot of his work, the book is based on a true story, in this case that of Sylvia Likens, a 16 year-old girl who was tortured and murdered by other children in her neighborhood, under the encouraging tutelage of Gertrude Baniszewski, a mother of some of the children involved. The most potent book of his I've read is The Girl Next Door. He's only written one novel that deals with the supernatural ( She Wakes, which I haven't read) much of his work - the work on which his reputation rests - deals with the extreme end of human cruelty, and is often on the verge of being crime fiction. He's also not really a horror writer, at least as I define it. He's not a bad writer he's just not a good one, either. It's a very obnoxious attitude, particularly since Ketchum - a highly regarded writer by, from what I can tell, younger horror fans who yearn for a full-blown return to 'splatterpunk' - has yet to prove to me that he comes close to deserving the status in the genre he currently enjoys. In short, it's very self-serving (which any such introduction will be, almost by definition), and self-aggrandizing. He seems to think his readers are really thrown by the crazy variety of his books, as well as their occasionally extreme nature. As a writer I'm all over the place.įrom there, he goes on to list a few of his books, and their basic premises, all the while referring to 'Ketchum titles' or 'Ketchum books'. Here's how Jack Ketchum begins the introduction to his short story collection Peaceable Kingdom: I don't know why you put up with me. 78677681 Jack Ketchum the Girl Next Door.
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