The first half or so of Hide and Seek is almost a dangerous love story. In many ways Hide and Seek is more of a character portrait of Casey than of Dan, as we quickly become aware of her volatile personality (the reasons behind which are slowly revealed). He meets the younger, three well-to-do friends at the beginning of summer, and eventually he falls in love with Casey.
The story is told from the perspective of Dan, a town resident who has put off college to sell lumber. Cemetery Dance Publications is very proud to bring Hide and Seekback to readers at long last.The followup to Jack Ketchum’s breakout debut, Off Season (1980), Hide and Seek (1984) is the story of Dan, Steven, Casey, and Kimberly, four young people who spend a frightening first half of summer together in the coastal Maine town of Dead River. Cain - using kids and a contemporary setting - but Cain’s feeling of events being out of his characters’ control informs its very essence. Ketchum wrote it as a kind of homage to the works of James M. Published by Ballantine as a paperback original in 1984, Hide and Seek has been out of print ever since. Where something lurks waiting in the dark… It’s a need that finds them at last in an old abandoned house at night, a house reputed to be haunted, where phantom lights burn in broken windows. And gradually becomes the fourth member of the group - the poor relation.īut games need escalation. For Casey the thrill’s the thing and the riskier the better.ĭan falls for her, hard. She’s not opposed to stealing caviar or cars or running around naked in graveyards. The most daring of the three is a beautiful, troubled girl named Casey.
When the college kids arrive, that changes. He works in a lumberyard hauling two-by-fours and furring around all day with a forklift. And they do, in spades.ĭan’s a local and didn’t get a chance to go to college. 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. Even now, sixty-odd years later, there’s not much to do, not much going on. The Great Depression hit hard and never let go. Not ever…ĭead River’s a sleepy little town on the coast of Maine without much going for it.
Games you might even want to play yourself if you’re with the right people. Thus begins Jack Ketchum’s riveting second novel Hide and Seek. I don’t believe in omens, but I think you can know when you’re in trouble. This is the hardcover sold-out Cemetery Dance signed limited edition of Jack Ketchum’s HIDE AND SEEK.
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