Chet Williamson


Biography

Chet Wiliamson sold hisfirst story in 1981. Since then he's published twenty-five books and over a hundred short stories in anthologies and such magazines as The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many others.

His work has been adapted for film and TV, and has been published worldwide. Mr. Williamson won the International Horror Guild Award, and been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award (twice), the MWA’s Edgar, and the HWA’s Bram Stoker Award (six times). He write plays as well as fiction.

Also a member of Actors’ Equity Association who occasionally acts in professional theaters in his area, the author has a fine, trained voice and the rare ability to narrate his own books in a manner that truly brings them to life.

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Books

Empire of Dust - The Searchers -Book II    by Chet Williamson
Price: $2.99 USD. 103780 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on January 13, 2012. Fiction.

Laika Harris, Tony Luciano, and Joseph Stein are the Searchers – deep cover government agents directed by a man they dare not trust, exploring phenomena they cannot fathom. Now their hunt for the mysterious entity known as the Prisoner is leading them to a desiccated corpse in the Southwestern desert … and into the deadly midst of violent fanatics determined to set the enigmatic captive free.
City of Iron - The Searchers Book I    by Chet Williamson
Price: $2.99 USD. 104700 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on November 13, 2011. Fiction.

Something is out there, and everything we know, everything we believe, everything we are – is doomed. Their identities are a secret. Their mission does not exist. There is no one they can trust…not even the one man pulling the strings.
Hunters    by Chet Williamson
Price: $4.99 USD. 96530 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on August 20, 2011. Fiction.

Deer season in northern Pennsylvania, when the woods explode with gunfire and bloody carcasses hang from cross-poles. Only this time, the carcasses aren’t just deer.
Dreamthorp    by Chet Williamson
Price: $2.99 USD. 123200 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on June 3, 2011. Fiction.

Welcome to Dreamthorp A sleepy little Pennsylvania resort town where city folks can get away from it all… A town where a woman who saw her best friend mutilated by a crazed sex killer can hide – and forget… …until haunted relics of another age awaken an ancient evil and unleash a human horror that has no place outside of Hell…
Defenders of the Faith    by Chet Williamson
Price: $4.99 USD. 94120 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on April 14, 2011. Fiction.

When Paul Blair's wife is killed by a young drunk driver, he decides to dedicate his life to keeping the youth of his church from bad influences. And if that means bringing down the wolves who tempt them, so be it. When Paul finds that one of his own "flock" has adopted and escalated his own murderous strategies, he joins forces with the boy in a bloody crusade of vengeance upon the unholy.
Reign    by Chet Williamson
Price: $2.99 USD. 151840 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on December 30, 2010. Fiction.

The story centers around a renovated theater in Pennsylvania and is arranged in three acts, plus overture and curtain call. The tension in Act I heightens as the reader must decide if this is a murder mystery, psychodrama, horror or fantasy, with the author offering clues to support each possibility.
Second Chance    by Chet Williamson
Price: $2.99 USD. 118370 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on November 23, 2010. Fiction.

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. 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.
Lowland Rider    by Chet Williamson
Price: $2.99 USD. 79080 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on August 3, 2010. Fiction.

Jesse Gordon, driven to a shocking murder by the killing of his wife and infant daughter, condemns himself to life underground in the New York City subway system. Abandoning the light of day, he finds an evil as old as time, and a redemption which must be bought by a price far greater than death…
Ash Wednesday    by Chet Williamson
Price: $2.99 USD. 115260 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on July 15, 2010. Fiction.

In Merridale, semi-transparent blue ghosts are appearing. The town's dead are reappearing, frozen in their final moments of life for all to see, and none to ignore. The ghosts aren't the real story here, though - it's those who are still alive. Faced with the deaths and tragedies of their loved ones, and enemies, can Merridale's sanity survive? A classic novel of horror.

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