The suddenness of these unyieldingly brutal murders shocks the reader into disbelief. Off Season is a novel of complete and utter despair. Readers be warned, there are no happy endings with Jack Ketchum. Ketchum's horror plots play out just as they would in real life. If you and your friends were isolated in the woods with a group of savages after you, than most likely not all of you are going to make it out alive.
Bad stuff happens.
Bad stuff will happen. And that's what Ketchum gives his readers. When you boil everything down, that's why Jack Ketchum has a cult following rather than a mass-market paperback following. He is not for everyone, but if you are the type of person who wants to read a novel of complete and utter terror, than he is right up your alley. The Unexpurgated Text of Off Season comes completely uncensored.