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…
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LOWLAND RIDER:
“…his best book yet…Williamson probes the depths of loneliness and injects Lowland Rider with a humanity rarely seen in comparable horror novels…a highly innovative and original novel which grips the reader from the first train ride to the final confrontation.”
– Fear
“An engrossing portrait of evil and fear, and of a man caught up in the fight against both…Williamson skillfully weaves the threads of horror and suspense through his story, never allowing the reader to entirely relax during even the most seeming ‘normal’ episodes.”
– The West Coast Review of Books
“Darker and darker, scarier and scarier…proof positive that Williamson is here to stay…”
– The Horror Show
“Another page-turning and stomach-churning horror blast from the author of Soulstorm and Ash Wednesday.”
Chet Williamson is the author of over twenty books, the latest of which is The Story of Noichi the Blind. Among his other published novels are Second Chance, Ash Wednesday, Soulstorm, Lowland Rider, McKain's Dilemma, Murder in Cormyr, Mordenheim, Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, Reign, The Crow: Clash By Night, and the paranormal suspense series, The Searchers, which includes City of Iron, Empire of Dust and Siege of Stone. He has also written two children's books, Pennsylvania Dutch Night before Christmas and Pennsylvania Dutch Alphabet.
His most recent project was writing the story and dialogue for the computer game, Season of Mystery: The Cherry Blossom Murders, which can be downloaded at www.bigfish.com. His first play, a psychological thriller entitled Revenant, was recently produced, and he has just finished a stage adaptation of The Story of Noichi the Blind.
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.
Over a hundred of his short stories have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many other magazines and anthologies. Figures in Rain, a collection of his short stories, received the International Horror Guild Award for Outstanding Collection. He has twice been a final nominee for the World Fantasy Award, the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award, and a six-time nominee for the Horror Writers Association's Stoker Award. His work has also been adapted for television, radio, and recorded books. His New Yorker short story, "Gandhi at the Bat," was recently made into a short film and has been shown in festivals worldwide.
Williamson lives in Elizabethtown with his wife Laurie. His son Colin currently works in Seattle as a video game developer for Square Enix.
It has supernatural elements- you feel like you are in subway trains. Very good writing and may M Night Shyamalan like this to make into movie! due to unique plot. This author is under rated author. read him- good author. His strength is character development and good plot.
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This was my first book by Chet Williamson and it was the right one to choose I thought. I picked up the paperback long ago and it had resonated with me and stayed with me for many years. About two years ago I found it in a used paperback store and picked it up and read it again, and to me it still held up. Yes a lot of the action takes place in the subways of New York. The supernatural element is there and encases the story of human struggle in its eerie embrace. The character development is unparallelled and you feel for all of the characters in this piece. Even the a parenthetical scene of a mugging is so rich in detail that you truly get a feel for the players. I was unaware that this was available in eBook and I say get it, 100 percent, buy this book. Not only is it an superbly written novel in the horror genre, it is a rich character study of people who we may be sitting next to on the train, or may know from work, or, moreover, may be ourselves.
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