# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-ketchum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:06:20.776Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-ketchum"
name: "Jack Ketchum"
slug: "jack-ketchum"
description: "Dallas William Mayr, better known by his pen name Jack Ketchum, was an American horror fiction author. He was the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. His novels included Off Season, Offspring, and Red, the latter two of which were adapted to film. In 2011, Ketchum received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award for outstanding contribution to the horror genre."
tagline: "American horror writer (1946-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jack_Ketchum_20090315_Salon_du_livre_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-11-10"
deathDate: "2018-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.39
  historical:           15.96204133333333
  currentAttention:     11.32
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "JackKetchum"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1626482/"
    handle:    "nm1626482"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://jackketchum.net"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jack Ketchum"
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    title: "Jack Ketchum"
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    title: "Jack Ketchum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump