Off Season by Jack Ketchum [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1981 • Ballantine *See Condition

Off Season by Jack Ketchum (Dead River #1)

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [2008] BALLANTINE BOOKS

Originally published as a mass market paperback exclusive.

*Note -  What appears to be a nail polish stain to front cover and bottom of text block. (see photos.)

Cover shows wear; a few creased edges.   Otherwise, good

When Off Season, a novel of horror and cannibalism in modern day Maine, was first released in 1980, it took readers by storm and sold over 250,000 copies However, the original edition was edited and content was removed from the story at the publisher's request. 

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.