Posts Tagged ‘Chet Williamson’

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I’m first and foremost a lover of ghost stories and Ash Wednesday is one of my all-time favorite books about ghosts and hauntings. I count it alongside The Shining, Ghost Story, Houses Hill and Hell, and a handful of others as truly satisfying.

Ash Wednesday is about a haunted town, Merridale. The dead begin to appear as translucent blue entities all over town. The reactions of the living range from terror to joy and everything in between. This is a quiet ghost story and it satisfies on every level with the care Williamson takes in making his characters – all of them – real. The novel is touching and terrifying and hits all the right notes.

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Our guest this week at Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! is one of the most inventive and finely-tuned horror writers of our time and both of us are major fans. In fact, his novel, Ash Wednesday, is in Tamara’s Top Ten favorite haunting novels of all time!

With a career that includes more than twenty novels, over 100 short stories in various magazines and anthologies, as well as film and television adaptations of his work, we couldn’t be more thrilled to introduce the one and only Chet Williamson.

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Among Chet’s more recent novels are Defenders of the Faith and Hunters. His other published novels include Second Chance, The Story of Noichi the Blind, Ash Wednesday, Soulstorm, Lowland Rider, Reign, and McKain’s Dilemma, and for his most recent project, he wrote the dialogue and story for the computer game, Season of Mystery: The Cherry Blossom Murders. It can be downloaded at http://www.bigfish.com. Revenant, his first play, was recently produced, and he has just finished a stage adaptation of The Story of Noichi the Blind.

chet2His short stories have been featured in such magazines as Esquire, Playboy, The New Yorker, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many more. His books have been translated and published in many languages and countries, including France, Germany, Russia, Italy, and Japan, as well as British editions of several of his novels.

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Join us this Thursday at 9:00 pm Eastern, 6:00 Pacific as we discuss all things horror with Chet Williamson. Just click the pic below. The link will go live at the scheduled time, and if you miss it, no worries. Within a few minutes of the show’s close, the same link becomes a podcast that you can listen to at any time.

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