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避暑客が去り冷たい秋風が吹き始めた九月のメイン州の避暑地。ニューヨークから六人の男女が休暇をとって当地にやって来る。最初に到着したのは書箱編集者のカーラ。すこし遅れて、彼女の現在のボーイフレンドのジム、彼女の妹のマージーとそのボーイフレンドのダン、そしてカーラのかつてのボーイフレンドのニックとそのガールフレンドのローラが到着した。六人全員が到着した晩に事件は勃発した。当地に住む“食人族”が六人に襲い掛かったのだ。“食人族”対“都会族”の凄惨な死闘が開始する。
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From Publishers Weekly
Eighteen years after its mass market release by Ballantine, Ketchum's debut horror novel gains hardcover publication. It's about time. Though this merciless tale of human evil in the Maine woods went out of print soon after publication, its bleak vision and extreme violence still influence horror today. Only a novel of expert articulation and emotional truth can cast such a long shadow, and Ketchum's is both. Horror critic Winter calls the book one of "remarkable elegance," and indeed it's drum tight. Equally impressively, Ketchum uses the devastation of a group of tourists by a band of cannibals not to pander, as so many horror writers after him have done, but to explore with intelligence (and ferocity) the nature of evil and of the human spirit that can resist it. The novel's structure isn't original, modeled largely on the film Night of the Living Dead, but its events unfold with shocking energy and directness. The imagery is cruelAbloody battles between the tourists and cannibals, torture and consumption by the cannibals of their victimsAas is the arbitrariness of who will live and who will die; but always Ketchum is in command. In an afterword, Ketchum details the rough history of the novel, explaining how he has reinserted cuts forced by Ballantine. This signed and limited edition not only revives a horror classic and offers some neat publishing lore, but also reminds us that, once upon a time, some of the most exciting genre writing came in paper covers. (Aug.) FYI: Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym of Dallas Mayr (Ladies' Night, etc.).
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