(from Kev the Webmaster): Dark Regions Press just announced Offspring 30th Anniversary Edition by Jack Ketchum! bit.ly/2EAOnx0 This will be published in the same formats as Off Season 35th Anniversary Edition by Jack Ketchum previously published by Dark Regions Press.

From Kev: If you wish to make a charitable donation in Dallas's (or Jack's) name, please consider a no-kill animal rescue or shelter in your area, or elsewhere, particularly for cats. Dallas donated regularly to these, and they are near and dear to his heart.

Kev the Webmaster tweeting - Dallas Mayr, Jack Ketchum, passed away this morning, after a long battle with cancer. He was grateful for all of you, and he will be sorely, sorely missed.

#FridayReads: John Steinbeck's IN DUBIOUS BATTLE, pickers' strike in '30s California, a vivid period piece.

#FridayReads: Theodore Sturgeon's SELECTED STORIES, tender fantasy & dark fantasy, nuts&bolts and lyricism – by a master.

#FridayReads: Blake Crouch's PINES, trapped in an idyllic American town, guarded by beasts. Gripping.

#FridayReads: Joyce Carol Oates' JACK OF SPADES, pseudonymous horror, a writer's alter ego.

#FridayReads: Michael Crichton's EASY GO (as John Lange), excavating – and robbing – an Egyptian tomb, good adventure

#FridayReads: Jim Thompson's NOTHING MORE THAN MURDER, 1949 vintage noir

#FridayReads: ZIPPERED FLESH 3, Weldon Burge, editor -- body enhancements gone awry. My story THE ROSE is in here, in some very good company

#FridayReads: Philip Caputo's ACTS OF FAITH, aid workers in the Sudan during wartime, for good and ill – powerful

#FridayReads: Augusten Burroughs' RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, coming of age with a crazy mother and her even crazier shrink, smart and hilarious

#FridayReads: Tom Robbins' VILLA INCOGNITO, in the wake of Vietnam, benevolent pushers and holy badgers

#FridayReads: 999, edited by Al Sarrantonio -- massive, 29-story collection, filled with horror heavyweights

#FridayReads: John Connolly's THE WHITE ROAD, strong thriller, follow-up to THE KILLING KIND

#FridayReads (on Saturday): Nathan Hill's THE NIX, a '60's radical mom, funny, moving and wise, terrifically accomplished first novel -- my best book of the year thus far

#FridayReads (on Saturday): Kristopher Triana's FULL BRUTAL, a nastier heroine you will be hard pressed to find, and a teen no less -- compulsive reading

#FridayReads: Chip Kidd's ONLY WHAT'S NECESSARY: CHARLES M. SCHULZ AND THE ART OF PEANUTS, the title says it all John Connolly's THE KILLING KIND, a deadly religious cult, a great villain and…spiders…

#FridayReads: DOUBLE BARREL HORROR VOL.2, Michael Weber, editor, two stories each by John Boden, Simon Dewar, Patrick Freivald, Chad Lutzke, Karen Runge and M.B. Vujacic, strong work, Lutzke and Runge standouts

#FridayReads: John Steinbeck's SWEET THURSDAY, Steinbeck wearing his jaunty comic hat