Chet Williamson
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Chet Williamson is the author of nearly twenty books and over a hundred short stories published in The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and many other magazines and anthologies. He was born in 1948 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania, receiving a B.S. in 1970, and went on to be a teacher at public schools in Cleveland, Ohio, then he became a professional actor before becoming a freelance writer in 1986. His earlier novels include Second Chance, an ecological thriller/romance, Ash Wednesday, Reign and Dreamthorp. His story, "Gandhi at the Bat", was recently made into a short film by Stephanie Argy and Alec Boehm. Figures in Rain, a collection of Williamson's short stories, won the International Horror Guild Award. He has been shortlisted twice for the World Fantasy Award, six times for the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award, and once for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award. His books have been translated and published in many languages and countries, including France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Japan.
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- Soulstorm (1986)
- Ash Wednesday (1987)
- McKain's Dilemma (1988)
- Lowland Rider (1988)
- Dreamthorp (1989)
- Reign (1990)
- Mordenheim (1994)
- Second Chance (1994)
- Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller (1995)
- The Crow: City of Angels (1996)
- Murder in Cormyr (1996)
- The Crow: Clash By Night (1998)
- Pennsylvania Dutch Night Before Christmas (2000)
- Uniting Work and Spirit: A Centennial History of Elizabethtown College (2001)
- The Story of Noichi the Blind (2007)
[edit] Collections
- The House of Fear: A Study in Comparative Religions (1989)
- Figures in Rain: Weird And Ghostly Tales (2002)
[edit] Series
Searchers
- 1. City of Iron (1998)
- 2. Empire of Dust (1998)
- 3. Siege of Stone (1999)
