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Soulstorm [Paperback]

Chet Williamson (Author)
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Book Description

September 1986
Three men are offered a million dollars each if they will spend a month in an isolated Pennsylvania mansion, The Pines. There they will confront madness, murder, and the ultimate evil – so that their billionaire host might find the key to life beyond the grave. But as they learn, dead souls dwell in The Pines. And death is just the beginning…

PRAISE FOR SOULSTORM

“If I had to pick the horror novel of the year, it would probably be Chet Williamson’s Soulstorm…one of the most intense variations on the haunted house story that I have ever read.” – S. F. Chronicle

“Williamson has created a dark gem of a novel, the kind of terrifying story that compels you to finish it, even during the passages (and there are many of them) you’re least comfortable reading.” – West Coast Review of Books

“…succeeds in creating real tension, horror even, and building it to a very high pitch. Genuinely exciting, written in a calm tone which avoids undercutting the very substantial atmosphere.” – Fantasy Advertiser

“Williamson has written a real chiller…an enchanting evocation of evil…Crammed with weird insights into a terrifying supernatural intelligence and moments of literally monstrous murder that will make your old nightmares seem tepid and drab.” – Robert Bloch, author of Psycho

“Williamson has located hell on a lonely mountaintop in northern Pennsylvania – and he manages to convince us that it’s true.” – T.E.D. Klein

“Soulstorm astonishes the reader with its subtle ambitiousness. It operates on multiple levels and succeeds in attacking the reader from several different directions at once…A fine work, to be sure, grandiose in design and promising in delivery.” – J. Peter Orr

“Williamson masterfully creates the sense of doom without hope which electrifies stories like this. And he makes his characters not only interesting, but valuable enough as persons for us to be engaged with them in their traumas and trials.” – Fantasy Review
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Product Details

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (September 1986)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0812527186
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812527186
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,341,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.

His website is http://www.chetwilliamson.com


 

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hell on a Pennsylvania mountaintop, October 23, 2002
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hrladyship (Las Cruces, NM United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Soulstorm (Paperback)
Chet Williamson has once again written a horror story that is both inventive and scary. When five people are sealed inside a fortess-like mansion on Pine Mountain, one knows he will probably be dead before their 31 days are done. Three know they will be worth a million dollars each. However, they find out very soon that the old stories about the house are true and they are not alone.

If things get too bad, they all have emergency keys that will release the steel plates closing off doors and windows. But very soon, their numbers are lowered. Those left struggle to survive until two men stationed outside the house open the doors. If only they weren't the only ones making plans.

Soulstorm is a quick read, a real page-turner, with believable characters. Readers who like this book might also enjoy Williamson's Ash Wednesday. Both may be out of print, but they are worth finding.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Even better the second time around., November 11, 2003
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Jim Lay (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Soulstorm (Paperback)
I was jonesing for something to read recently and decided to pick SOULSTORM back up and see if it was as good as I remembered. (It's probably been ten years since I first read it.) I picked it up a few days ago and from the first page, I found myself completely involved in it. I find myself looking forward to my lunch hour at work so I can jump back into the story. It's such a pleasure to read a horror novel from such a capable and talented author. The premise is somewhat familiar-- a group of people accept a challenge to stay in a house that is rumored to be haunted-- but Williamson's passion and imagination and storytelling ability is hypnotizing and this novel is uniquely his own. It is genuinely frightening (even for a jaded horror fanatic like me) and the characters seem to live and breathe on the page. It's such an exceptional book I've written two Amazon reviews for it! If you care about horror fiction, do yourself a favor and track this book down. As I mentioned, the premise is somewhat familiar-- Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE and Richard Matheson's HELL HOUSE come to mind-- but don't let that put you off. This book is outstanding in its own right, and is an under-appreciated classic. Thank you, Mr Williamson for a bloody good ride!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding horror novel, February 21, 2001
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Jim Lay (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Soulstorm (Paperback)
I was surprised to find no other reviews for this book. It really is an exceptional horror novel on many levels. The plot borrows from Matheson's Hell House and Jackson's Haunting of Hill House, but Williamson brings lots of interesting ideas to the table and does an outstanding job with it. A group of characters are offered large sums of money to spend a month in a mansion in PA that is rumored to be haunted. It is indeed and the entity that lives there is as evil as they get. The characters are interesting and believable, the scares are fresh and inventive, and the story moves quickly. By now, this book is kind of hard to find, but if you enjoy good writing and good horror, then track it down. It's well worth it.
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