NMLP P-013029 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Off Season

Jack Ketchum · Ballantine · 1981

The 1981 Ballantine paperback original is the true first; the unexpurgated text with Ketchum's restored ending first appeared from Overlook Connection Press in 1999 and is a first thus.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-013029 for "Off Season" by Jack Ketchum (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-013029, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).