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Old Flames | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Ketchum
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 62348
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 289
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1
ISBN: 0843959991
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780843959994
ASIN: 0843959991
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
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Two for the price of one !! July 20, 2008
Many horror novels have their own bits of oddness, but Jack Ketchum's Old Flames has an oddity that is pretty rare. Although it is seeming a book featuring the story Old Flames with a "bonus novella" called Right to Life, it is actually the latter story that is the longer of the two. It's almost like eating a dinner in which the dessert is more important than the entree. I suppose there's a good reason - probably because Old Flames is a new story and Right to Life is a reprint - but it still is a little strange. Weirdness of structure aside, however, this is still a good book.
Both stories are tales of non-supernatural horror. Old Flames is the story of Dora, a fortyish woman who's love life is going nowhere, leading her to track down her high school lover and meet up with him in a "chance" encounter. He's now happily married, but Dora's a woman who never backs down from a challenge, even if she needs to do criminal acts to achieve her goals.
Right to Life focuses on a different woman, Sara, who finds herself accidentally pregnant with her married lover's child. She opts for an abortion but is kidnapped outside the clinic by a sadistic couple who will subject her to increasing cruel physical and psychological torture. Their ultimate objective, however, is to take her child.
It is a wise choice on Ketchum's part not to make either of these stories truly novel length. Old Flames is an intense read, but there's not enough plot or character for a long book. Right to Life is even more intense - it is akin to that new horror film category known as torture-porn - which makes for compelling reading but also makes the reader want the experience to end. I haven't read much Ketchum beyond this book, but if this is representative of his work, he is a pretty good horror writer who knows how to mix suspense and terror very well. If you like terror and suspense mixed, Domain by James Herbert(rereleased), Soft Target 1&2 by Conrad Jones(the first two of a trilogy), Cell (the new one) by Stepehen King.
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