Jack Ketchum: 1946-2018

This one hurt. Certainly there have been a lot of famous people deaths that have affected me, but this one impacted me especially

MOM KILLS KIDS AND SELF

That title tells the story of this odd and troubling late seventies artifact, a somewhat experimental, psychologically based account of grief and madness.

THE MARTYR

THE MARTYR is easily one of the most wrenching and upsetting novels of any sort to emerge from a decade that saw more than its share of disturbing fiction.

EAT HIM IF YOU LIKE

Definitely one for the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction category, a novelized account of the “Affaire de Hautefaye” that occurred on August 16, 1870.