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Old Flames | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Ketchum
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: £12.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 21357
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 289
Number Of Items: 1
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
Red (Aberdeen)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
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 entrée. 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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