2 books by Chet Williamson
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Overview: Chet Williamson has written horror, science fiction, and suspense since 1981. Among his novels are Second Chance, Hunters, Defenders of the Faith, Ash Wednesday, Reign, Dreamthorp, and the forthcoming Psycho Sanitarium, an authorized sequel to Robert Bloch’s classic Psycho. Over a hundred of his short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, The Magazine of F&SF, and many other magazines and anthologies.
He has won the International Horror Guild Award, and has been shortlisted twice for the World Fantasy Award, six times for the HWA Stoker, and once for the MWA’s Edgar. Nearly all of his works are available in ebook format.
Genre: Horror
Second Chance
A breathtaking novel of dark suspense and bittersweet nostalgia, Second Chance breaks new ground for a writer whose work critics have favorably compared to such disparate writers as Camus, Cheever, and Stephen King. In Second Chance, Chet Williamson defines a generation and gives readers the ride of their lives through a disquietingly different and threatened America.
Thrills, romance, and nail-biting suspense combine to create a novel in which a Big Chill-like gathering of old friends could lead to the real "Big Chill" for every person on Earth.
It all begins innocently enough. Woody Robinson, a successful musician, gathers his baby boomer friends and recreates an evening in 1969 out of nostalgia for his long dead love, Tracy. The party quickly becomes a wake for lost ideals, and then something more, as time and fate play wonderful and terrible tricks on the celebrants. By the evening’s end, Tracy is back in Woody’s life as though she had never left. But there is another change as well, a shocking one.
His name is Pan. An environmental terrorist who wants to save the world by destroying humanity, he has the deadly viral ammunition to do just that. Pan will prove that the darker side of the sixties isn’t dead — it’s only been sleeping. Now it’s awake and furious. And only one man and one woman can stop the nightmare.
With the swirling color and magic of a Fillmore West poster, the hallucinogenic impact of a Jim Morrison lyric, and the wistful voice of early Dylan, Second Chance is an unforgettable tale of love, loss, and redemption, an electrifying synthesis of past and present that will enchant its readers today and haunt them tomorrow.
The Night Listener and Others
Chet Williamson’s first story collection, Figures in Rain, won the International Horror Guild Award and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. But while that collection was primarily made up of ghost stories, The Night Listener and Others is an assemblage of tales that cover all aspects of the fantastic and horrific by a writer whose work critics have favorably compared to such disparate writers as Camus, Cheever and King, and who Supernatural Literature of the World hailed as "the rare writer whose fiction reflects an intimate familiarity with the supernatural literary tradition, and who extends it with works that occasionally subvert its principles."
In these pages you’ll meet a number of "night listeners," including:
Eustace P. Saunders, a New York illustrator whose desire to see the "real" Wild West he has depicted plunges him into unimaginable horror . . .
Bernie Worster and Jeaves, whose master/servant relationship takes the strangest of turns, due to a razor dedicated to decapitation…
Lattimore, whose guilt and sorrow over lost lives lead him into a mythical Japanese underworld that threatens his sanity and reality itself . . .
Andy and Kyle, teenagers who are waiting in a hospice for Kylie to die, but who learn that going "into the light" might be the worst thing you could do . . .
Tim Corcoran, an Irish-American musician who learns that in certain places old hatreds never die, but linger like smoke to claim new victims . . .
As R. C. Matheson states in his introduction, "Chet Williamson transcends the taxidermy that passes for much of contemporary writing, stirring admiration in peers, famished demand in readers and cloudbursts of devout ink from critics. For those privileged few lucky enough to be new to the miraculous Chet Williamson, you are about to enter worlds of glorious and sinister wonder. I envy you."
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