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Peaceable Kingdom

This landmark collection gathers more than thirty of Jack Ketchum's most thrilling stories. "Gone" and "The Box" were honored with the prestigious Bram Stoker Award. Whether you are already familiar with Ketchum's unique brand of suspense or are experiencing it for the first time, here is a book no aficionado of fear can do without.

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Contents:

1 * Introduction * in

5 * The Rifle * ss Cemetery Dance Win '95

18 * The Box * ss Cemetery Dance Spr '94

31 * Mail Order * ss Voices from the Night, ed. John Maclay, Maclay & Associates, 1994

45 * Luck * ss Skull Full of Spurs: A Roundup of Weird Westerns, ed. Jason Bovberg & Kirk Whitham, Dark Highway Press, 2000

56 * The Haunt * ss Cemetery Dance #34, 2001

70 * Megan's Law * ss Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press, 1999

81 * If Memory Serves * ss Darkside, ed. John Pelan, Darkside Press, 1996

93 * Father and Son * ss, 2000

99 * The Business * ss Murder for Mother, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Signet, 1994

109 * Mother and Daughter * ss The Spook (online) Aug, 2001

120 * When the Penny Drops * ss The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard, Obsidian Books, 1998

133 * Rabid Squirrels in Love * ss Cemetery Dance Spr '97

143 * Sundays * ss, 2000

153 * Twins * ss *

168 * Amid the Walking Wounded * ss The UFO Files, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1998

183 * The Great San Diego Sleasy Bimbo Massacre * ss The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard, Obsidian Books, 1998

202 * The Holding Cell * ss Bizarre Bazaar #2 '93

216 * The Work * ss, 1997

226 * The Best * ss, 2000

231 * Redemption * ss Night Screams, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc, 1996

245 * The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard * ss The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard, Obsidian Books, 1998

259 * Chain Letter * ss The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard, Obsidian Books, 1998

267 * Forever * ss Imagination Fully Dilated 2, ed. Elizabeth Engstrom, IFD Publishing, 2000

281 * Gone * ss October Dreams, ed. Richard Chizmar & Robert Morrish, CD Publications, 2000

288 * Closing Time * na *

331 * The Rose * ss Deadly After Dark, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1994

348 * The Turning * ss Vampire Detectives, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1995

354 * To Suit the Crime * ss Bizarre Sex & Other Crimes of Passion #1, ed. Stan Tal, Tal Publications '92

363 * Lines: or Like Franco, Elvis Is Still Dead * ss *

372 * The Visitor * ss The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard, Obsidian Books, 1998

380 * Snakes * ss Fear Itself, ed. Jeff Gelb, Warner, 1995

400 * Firedance * ss Imagination Fully Dilated, ed. Alan M. Clark & Elizabeth Engstrom, CD Publications, 1998

413 * Afterword * aw

Setting
2000s
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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