![]() ![]() Humans Are the Real Monsters: Both Offspring and The Woman depict 'civilized' human characters as being more monstrous and depraved than the cannibals who are just following their own nature.Enfant Terrible: Many of the cannibals present in the series are still children. ![]() ![]() Creator Cameo: Ketchum has a cameo in the film adaptation for Offspring.Child by Rape: The cannibal clan keeps an unlucky man known as the 'cow' who is kept alive and used (against their will) to produce offspring.An uncut version was released almost twenty years later. Bowdlerize: Famously done with Off Season as the publisher made Ketchum remove most of the gore and give it a happier ending.The Atoner: Peters in Offspring serves as this, hoping to redeem himself for his accidental killing of Nick in the previous novel.Note: Darlin' is an original story from Pollyanna McIntosh and not based on any prior source material. Cow (2012, co-written with Lucky McKee).The Woman (2010, co-written with Lucky McKee).Off Season (1980 an unexpurgated edition was released in 1999).The second two books were adapted into films. The series is named for the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River which is inhabited by a family of savage cannibals. The Dead River series is comprised of three books and related short stories/novellas written by Jack Ketchum (and co-written by Lucky McKee with a few occasions). ![]()
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