Hide and Seek

$75 · Offered by Gauntlet Press

This is the hardcover sold-out Cemetery Dance signed limited edition of Jack Ketchum s HIDE AND SEEK. Published in 2000. From the Cemetery Dance website: I don t believe in omens, but I think you can know when you re in trouble. Thus begins Jack Ketchum s riveting second novel Hide and Seek. It s a book about games. Reckless, dangerous games. Games you might even want to play yourself if you re with the right people. But shouldn t. Not ever Dead River s a sleepy little town on the coast of Maine without much going for it. The Great Depression hit hard and never let go. Even now, sixty-odd years later, there s not much to do, not much going on. So that when a trio of friends, rich college kids, arrive there on a forced march with their parents for summer vacation they have to make their own amusements. And they do, in spades. Dan s a local and didn t get a chance to go to college. There was never the money. He works in a lumberyard hauling two-by-fours and furring around all day with a forklift. He s even more bored than he knows. When the college kids arrive, that changes. The most daring of the three is a beautiful, troubled girl named Casey. She s not opposed to stealing caviar or cars or running around naked in graveyards. For Casey the thrill s the thing and the riskier the better. Dan falls for her, hard. And gradually becomes the fourth member of the group — the poor relation. But games need escalation. It s a need that finds them at last in an old abandoned house at ni

• Binding: Hardcover

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