Ladies' Night eBook Jack Ketchum
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Ladies' Night is a non-stop rollercoaster ride of sheer nerve rattling terror, previously deemed too violent for mass market publication. In this modern tale of the ages-old battle of the sexes carried to the extreme, Jack Ketchum again provides readers with an excursion into horror as relentless as a John Woo film.
Tom Braun and his wife Susan aren't exactly a picturesque couple. Thus it comes as no surprise that Tom continually spends late evenings in bars and cheats on his wife. Unfortunately, their son Andy is caught in the middle of his parent's childish banter and family chaos. One life-altering evening turns this family's, along with most of New York's, perceptions on the nuclear family and male/female relationships upside down.
When a tanker trunk with "Ladies Inc." emblazoned on the side crashes in a quiet area in New York, an area it doesn't have authorization to be in, it liberally spills its contents all over the road and into the surrounding atmosphere. The local authorities deem the contents of the spill to be safe, based merely on the assumption that products coming from a women's label are more than likely benign. Moreover, the smell emanating from the spill is one of sweet cherry, similar to lollipops, which must of course be harmless if not favorable. This aforementioned assumption proves fatally incorrect. The chemical load the truck was hauling procures a discomfiting, bestial effect in women, forcing them to savagely attack males in their vicinity. Be they former friend or foe.
Tom, while at a local bar, absorbs the evening's strange turn of events with traumatizing clarity as he witnesses first hand the metamorphosis of surrounding women into gruesomely instinctual brutes and mantis-like predators. He must get home to his son Andy, who is currently alone with his wife Susan. Hopefully before it is too late.
Ladies' Night eBook Jack Ketchum
Jack Ketchum's long-buried (due to its violent nature, naturally) followup to Off Season finally gets a new life thanks to e-readers, and it turns out to be a fantastic riff on Night of the Living Dead that's as much about the battle of the sexes as it is about graphic, pulp horror. Ketchum opens the e-version with a long discussion as to the backstory of the piece that's worth reading, but ultimately, the combination of the widespread revulsion at Off Season and the perceived misogyny of Ladies Night kept the book from ever really getting a release. And while I understand the first from a financial perspective, I think the second is entirely missing the point. Ladies Night is indeed about a night in which, for reasons which are only hinted at throughout, the female population of a city essentially turn into bloodthirsty killers, and the violence inflicted both by and upon women could easily lead some to feel that the book is a fantasy outlet for male rage. But I think that's missing the point. I think it's more telling that Ketchum's original tagline for the book was "In the battle between the sexes, one side just fired the opening shot." This is not a book that leaves anyone looking good; both sides are both victims and victimizers, albeit on a massive and horrific scale beyond what you see in a typical divorce case. All of that being said, the subtext wouldn't matter if this didn't succeed as a horror piece, so it's nice that this works so well as grisly pulp horror. The only real downside comes from how closely Ketchum sometimes sticks to the Night of the Living Dead template; there are moments that feel less shocking simply because you can feel that film's shadow forcing Ketchum's hand. But for every moment like that, there are dozens more that play out in entirely other ways, resulting in a spectacular piece of mayhem and bloodshed. You can probably guess, but Ladies Night isn't for all tastes. If you've got a taste for this kind of thing, though, this is a damned good piece of pulp horror.Product details
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Ladies' Night eBook Jack Ketchum Reviews
The start up premise is simple. An unknown chemical is released from a crashed tanker in a city suburb & only females are affected. For the men it is a fight for survival against females of all ages.
Jack Ketchum is a great writer. I first read his book 'Red' then decided to try his others....glad I did!
This could turn you into a true woman hater. I see the difficulty in getting this into mainstream publishing. Very disturbing. Very good read. Finished it in one afternoon. He is one of the best writing horror.
I liked this book. Was a quick read full of violence with some sex peppered in. I gave this book three stars only because I've read better books by Ketchum. I enjoy the horror genre and Ketchum is one of the better authors for this. Worth the afternoon spent it took to read this.
I am a fan of the horror genre, and this is quite an extreme example; but with a refreshing approach. It is the women who are effected by a strange toxic spill, not only causing them to become violent but also loosing their real selves in the process. Kind of like horny, hungry female zombies. They begin to attack all of the men only because they are men, but also when they sense a woman has not changed with them, is not like them, they attack her too. The one thing I felt should have possibly been expanded on is the fact that it is the women who are violent beyond control, in a society where men are suppose to never strike a woman. I wonder how different it would have been in reverse; were the men effected I believe the women would have been even more violent in their defense. Very interesting subject.
In a short 166 page story, Ketchum manages to bring his characters to life, and portrays one woman's transformation into something unknown even to her very well. The focus of the story is one man's journey from his neighborhood bar back to his apartment to save his son...from his wife.
This book does contain some very graphic gore and splatter, so be prepared. But it is a very fast read in that it moves like a movie through your head. I could see this becoming a horror movie very easily.
I didn't finish this one. Once the action really got started the characters too easily accepted what was going on. I would have expected more confusion and internal conflict before dealing fatal blows to women who were just sitting around the bar with you a few minutes earlier.
Intrigued by what I had read about the author, inspired by the reviews contained on this website, I couldn't wait to read LADIES NIGHT. And the first of the book doesn't disappoint, as Ketchum masterfully sets the stage for pending disaster, develops the plot and inserts interesting sub-plots of tension and conflict among all of his characters. The table is set for a grand seat-squirmer...
...and then the book goes over the top. Do you remember the scene from the movie, "The Shining," the scene where the elevator doors open and a river of blood comes cascading out to bathe the lobby with gallons and gallons of crimson? Such is the case with LADIES NIGHT, as horror and suspense are carelessly cast aside in favor of mindless gore, gore, and more gore. Halfway through the book the reader becomes so desensitized to all the blood and guts it is impossible to care what happens to the characters. Instead of being wrapped in the story, I found myself chuckling after each grisly scene, asking myself, "OK, what kind of mutilation are we going to see next?" Ketchum is, if nothing else, imaginative when it comes to chopping, stabbing, smashing, cleaving (insert any verb you want) people to pieces.
I take back my earlier statement this is a seat-squirmer, but only because of the discomfort caused by all the glaring typos and inept editing. (It would appear that the copy editors at Gauntlet have never heard of a comma, colon, or semi-colon.) Save your money if you're wanting a nailbiter LADIES NIGHT starts off with much promise then fizzles into a bloodsoaked whimper.
Jack Ketchum's long-buried (due to its violent nature, naturally) followup to Off Season finally gets a new life thanks to e-readers, and it turns out to be a fantastic riff on Night of the Living Dead that's as much about the battle of the sexes as it is about graphic, pulp horror. Ketchum opens the e-version with a long discussion as to the backstory of the piece that's worth reading, but ultimately, the combination of the widespread revulsion at Off Season and the perceived misogyny of Ladies Night kept the book from ever really getting a release. And while I understand the first from a financial perspective, I think the second is entirely missing the point. Ladies Night is indeed about a night in which, for reasons which are only hinted at throughout, the female population of a city essentially turn into bloodthirsty killers, and the violence inflicted both by and upon women could easily lead some to feel that the book is a fantasy outlet for male rage. But I think that's missing the point. I think it's more telling that Ketchum's original tagline for the book was "In the battle between the sexes, one side just fired the opening shot." This is not a book that leaves anyone looking good; both sides are both victims and victimizers, albeit on a massive and horrific scale beyond what you see in a typical divorce case. All of that being said, the subtext wouldn't matter if this didn't succeed as a horror piece, so it's nice that this works so well as grisly pulp horror. The only real downside comes from how closely Ketchum sometimes sticks to the Night of the Living Dead template; there are moments that feel less shocking simply because you can feel that film's shadow forcing Ketchum's hand. But for every moment like that, there are dozens more that play out in entirely other ways, resulting in a spectacular piece of mayhem and bloodshed. You can probably guess, but Ladies Night isn't for all tastes. If you've got a taste for this kind of thing, though, this is a damned good piece of pulp horror.
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