Top 3 Jack Ketchum Books

Weirdos are often creative types for even the most ominous. Of course, it is not the same to end up as the Milwaukee butcher than to write novels of extreme violence. You see, writing can be a placebo even at its worst.

It may sound unfair to compare Jack Ketchum (no known murders) to a serial criminal. But in the world of weirdos, the analogies in their unsociable behaviors give a lot of play. Although worse is when one ends up surprised by the descent into hell of the neighbor on duty with his kind ways, his courtesy and affability...

Psychopathies aside, more or less predictable personally, Ketchum's work is a non-stop of psychopathic interventions. All inspiration in any kind of animosity materializes in Ketchum's bibliography. And of course, the matter has a pull among a reading public that surely considers geniuses Tarantino, Stahelski or the Coen brothers.

So terror is sure to be in Ketchum's works. But no shocks..., the fear is more thinking about how the enraged guy on duty will end up tearing apart than an old-fashioned scare. Warned you stay...

Top 3 Recommended Books by Jack Ketchum

the girl next door

What better way to start with Ketchum than by recovering one of his most disturbing novels for being transferred from reality itself. Because we already know that, in some cases, even Ketchum can fall short of the human being's ability to inflict pain as a form of revenge or a simple desire for violence...

David lives next door to the Chandlers. One summer day he discovers that Meg and her sister Susan have moved in next door. It will be the beginning of a terrible nightmare. With the arrival of Susan and Meg in the neighborhood, David will discover the true nature of his neighbors and friends, the Chandlers, who will be taking care of the two sisters. But he will also have to face the more primitive and terrifying self of him.

The girl next door is based on the true story of the murder of Sylvia Likens in 1965, even today the case, which occurred in Indianapolis, is considered the most serious ever to occur in the state.

the girl next door

Joyride

A Machiavellian orchestration. An eye for an eye and crime for crime. Nothing is free when the soul is given to the devil. Ever since that great story about strangers on a train Patricia Highsmith, we discover that even the most perfect of crimes falters somewhere. Either the simple bad conscience or the undesirable chance of the most inopportune witness.

A woman and her lover successfully carry out their plan to murder her abusive and abusive husband, only to find themselves at the mercy of an obsessive and twisted strange witness to the crime who takes them with him to share his indiscriminate wave of murder. murders.

Carole Gardner and her lover, Lee Edwards, successfully carry out their plan to murder her abusive and abusive ex-husband; however, they do not know that her action has had a very particular viewer. Wayne Lock is a psychopath who hasn't murdered anyone yet, but he just needs a little push to get going.

Carole and Lee unknowingly give him that push. Wayne sees them commit the murder and they become almost his heroes, ("They dared to do it!"); After discovering who these people are who have carried out something he longs to do, he hatches a plan: he will take Carole and Lee with him, to share the thrill of murder together. After all, they can understand you...

Joyride, Ketchum

Perdition

Ketchum tries to convince us to make the instinct to kill something associated with merely being more animalistic. Without God everything is allowed, as he would say. The worst beasts have no conscience or morals. And then killing is a simple outburst of violence inserted into the DNA...

On a summer night in 1965, Ray, Tim and Jennifer are hanging out, drinking beers at Lake Turner, near the city of Sparta. It is one more night until Ray decides that he is going to kill two friends who have camped near the lake, just because, because he is angry that they are posh girls, that they have money, that they are comforting each other. Tim, his best friend, and Jennifer, his girlfriend, will witness, stunned, the brutal murder. Ray knows that from now on he will have them at his mercy.

Sparta, 1969. The United States is changing, and this small town on the shores of a lake is no stranger to those changes. The crimes of Lisa Steiner and Elise Hanlon remain unsolved, despite all the efforts of police officers Ed Anderson and Charles Schilling. Ray, unpunished, does not stop putting pressure on his friends to get what he wants at all times. But his charms don't work with Sally and Kath, two young girls who appear in his life and whom he desires. Nor is Jennifer willing to continue enduring the continuous harassment to which Ray continually subjects her. All this, added to the pressure from Lieutenant Schilling, will push Ray to the limit.

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