Chet Williamson

The first original "Psycho" novel in 25 years!

Robert Bloch's Psycho: Sanitarium

Gary Brandner

(Originally published as Night Visions 7) - A jazz musician whose powerful music just might wake the dead. - A sleepy Wisconsin town harbors an evil that has waited generations to exact its revenge. - A young couple struggles for survival amid the ruins of civilization after a devastating biological world war. - A member of the clergy who gives a whole new literal interpretation of the phrase "eat of my flesh". - A demented babysitter is taught a grizzly lesson by the children she torments. NIGHT VISIONS: AT THE CROSSROAD presents eight tales of horror and dark fantasy by Richard Laymon, Chet Williamson, and Gary Brandner. Prepare to enter a world where your darkest nightmare can become a chilling reality... A world of Night Visions. Stories included in this collection: * Mop Up by Richard Laymon * Wishbone by Richard Laymon * Bad News by Richard Laymon * Madman Stan by Richard Laymon * Blue Notes by Chet Williamson * The Confessions of St. James by Chet Williamson * Assurances of the Self Extinction of Man by Chet Williamson * Damntown by Gary Brandner

At the Crossroad

Night Visions

Murder in Cormyr

The legendary Norman Bates returns... The original Psycho novel by Robert Bloch was published in 1959 and became an instant hit, leading to the classic Alfred Hitchcock film a year later. Norman Bates’s terrifying story has been seared in the public consciousness ever since. It took Bloch 23 years to write another Psycho novel, revealing that Norman had been in a mental institution the entire time. But what happened in that asylum during those two decades? Until now, no one has known. It's 1960. Norman Bates is in the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and it's up to Dr. Felix Reed to bring him out of his catatonic state. Dr. Reed must face both twisted patients and colleagues who think of the institution as a prison rather than a place of healing. And the greatest obstacle is the building itself, once a private sanitarium, rumoured to be haunted. A delicate peace is disturbed by the arrival of Robert Newman, Norman's twin brother, taken away at birth after a doctor pronounced him brain damaged. As Robert and Norman grow to know each other, Norman senses a darkness in Robert, perhaps even deeper than that which has lurked in Norman himself. Psycho: Sanitarium is an intense psychological thriller of murder and deranged madness, and marks the first new appearance of Norman Bates as a main character in over 30 years. “A fresh, creepy and surprising addition to the Psycho canon, as cunningly contrived as Bloch’s originals.” Kim Newman, Stoker award-winning author of Anno Dracula “This brilliant projection of a horror classic is also a surgical deconstruction, a look not only inside the mind of a maniac, but into the milieu of ‘treatment’ of the criminally insane. There’s a million reasons to read this one, but the most compelling is the lesson it teaches: Real horror is real. And never that far from home.” Andrew Vachss, bestselling author of Mask Market “Robert Bloch would be delighted with Psycho: Sanitarium. Chet Williamson has captured the Bloch ambiance in a twisty-turny terror tale that will keep you turning pages into the wee hours.” F. Paul Wilson, creator of Repairman Jack and author of Panacea “A brilliantly compelling novel filled with mystery, humanity and dread.” Tim Lebbon, author of The Silence “Fans of Robert Bloch rejoice! Chet Williamson's Psycho: Sanitarium brings a 21st Century sensibility and edge while remaining true to the classic pulp spirit; a fun, smart, nasty, throwback. You'll want to read in a single sitting with the lights on. But as always, beware of Mother.” Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil’s Rock CHET WILLIAMSON' s parents took him to see the film of Robert Bloch's Psycho when he was twelve, and he has been a reader and disciple of Bloch ever since. Now a successful horror and suspense author, his many honours include the International Horror Guild Award, and nominations for the World Fantasy Award, the MWA's Edgar Award, and six times for the HWA's Stoker Award.

The Authorised Sequel to Robert Bloch's Psycho

Psycho: Sanitarium

Weird and Ghostly Tales

Figures in Rain

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. The Wildlife Liberation Front, a bloodthirsty and radical animal rights group, has decided to turn the tables on hunters this year, with bullets, blades and bombs. And Ned Craig, a non-violent game warden, finds himself the target of not only the WLF, but another killer from his past with a more personal grudge. While bodies pile up as quickly as the snow in the most vicious storm in years, Ned and the woman he loves are finally trapped at a rusting fire tower on the edge of a cliff. Hunted by both a cadre of armed terrorists and a suicidal maniac, Ned has to confront them all, along with his own fears, or else become the final victim in the bloodbath...

Hunters

Stephen King

This is the special Chet Williamson issue of Weird Tales, which features an interview and 3 stories by Williamson. Also features contributions from Ian Watson, R. Bretnor, Fred Chappell, and STEPHEN KING!

Weird Tales 298 (Fall 1990)

Two young necromancers agree to assist Victor Mordenheim in his efforts to revive his dead wife, but the doctor's previous creation is determined to stop their work

Mordenheim

Fritz Leiber

Joe Haldeman

Tanith Lee

Harlan Ellison

Dan Simmons

Gardner Dozois

Pat Cadigan

Jack Dann

Gahan Wilson

Garry Kilworth

Scott Baker

Steve Rasnic Tem

Leonid Andreyev

Edward Bryant

Harvey Jacobs

S.N. Dyer

Susan Casper

“An excellent collection” of vampire stories, from authors such as Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and Fritz Leiber (Publishers Weekly). Renowned editor Ellen Datlow has gathered seventeen variations on vampirism ranging from classically Gothic to postmodern satire, from horrific to erotic. These stories reflect the evolution of vampire literature from Bram Stoker to Anne Rice and beyond, resulting in a deeper exploration of their inner lives. Expanding the concept of vampirism to include the draining of a person’s will or life force, Datlow’s collection transcends the traditional “black capes and teeth marks on the neck” to reinvent an eternally fascinating subgenre of horror. In Harlan Ellison’s “Try a Dull Knife,” an empath stumbles bleeding into a nightclub, on the run from emotional vampires. A Broadway actress steals the emotions of her fellow performers in “. . . To Feel Another’s Woe” by Chet Williamson. And in “The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be,” Gahan Wilson offers his own surreal twist on Lewis Carroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” as two strangers on a beach lure intoxicated picnickers to a different kind of picnic . . . Blood Is Not Enough includes contributions by Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Garry Kilworth, Harlan Ellison, Scott Baker, Leonid Andreyev, Harvey Jacobs, S. N. Dyer, Edward Bryant, Fritz Leiber, Tanith Lee, Susan Casper, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, Chet Williamson, Joe Haldeman, and Pat Cadigan.

Stories of Vampirism

Blood Is Not Enough

Siege of Stone

In the epic sequel to City of Iron and Empire of Dust, CIA agents Tony Luciano, Joseph Stein, and Laika Harris struggle to find out who unleashed the Prisoner on the world and risk everything to stop this awesome evil being before he can enslave the entire human race. Original.

Searchers, Book Three

When an artist disappears and eleven burned bodies are discovered in a mountain lodge, three brilliant CIA operatives are plunged into an ancient conspiracy spanning the decades and centering on the release of a criminal mastermind--one that could destroy all known beliefs of the origin of humankind and God. Original.

Sb 1: City of Iron

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…

Dreamthorp

Mike Richardson

Andrew Vachs

This volume collects stories from Dark Horse Presents (volume 2) #25-#27.

Underground

Richard Laymon

(Originally published as Night Visions 7) • A jazz musician whose powerful music just might wake the dead. • A sleepy Wisconsin town harbors an evil that has waited generations to exact its revenge. • A young couple struggles for survival amid the ruins of civilization after a devastating biological world war. • A member of the clergy who gives a whole new literal interpretation of the phrase “eat of my flesh”. • A demented babysitter is taught a grizzly lesson by the children she torments. NIGHT VISIONS: AT THE CROSSROAD presents eight tales of horror and dark fantasy by Richard Laymon, Chet Williamson, and Gary Brandner. Prepare to enter a world where your darkest nightmare can become a chilling reality… A world of Night Visions. Stories included in this collection: * Mop Up by Richard Laymon * Wishbone by Richard Laymon * Bad News by Richard Laymon * Madman Stan by Richard Laymon * Blue Notes by Chet Williamson * The Confessions of St. James by Chet Williamson * Assurances of the Self Extinction of Man by Chet Williamson * Damntown by Gary Brandner

Night Visions: At the Crossroad

Aaron Rosenberg

Al Sarrantonio

Jo Graham

Melissa Scott

David Niall Wilson

Charles L. Grant

Craig Shaw Gardner

Kathryn Ptacek

John DeFilippis

The first of our series of holiday bundles, Realms of Wonder features fourteen novels of science fiction or fantasy by various award-winning and bestselling authors. For $2.99, you're getting fourteen novels, each the first book in a continuing series, containing over 1.15 million words in total, and a savings of almost $50 if each title was purchased separately. This bundle is only available for a limited time, so purchase your copy before it's gone. Titles included in this collection: The Birth of the Dread Remora - by Aaron Rosenberg - Book I of The Tales of the Scattered Earth The Parting - by David Niall Wilson - Book I of the Novels of the O.C.L.T. Haydn of Mars - By Al Sarrantonio - Book I of The Masters of Mars Trilogy City of Iron - By Chet Williamson - Book I of The Searchers Series Exile - By Al Sarrantonio - Book One of The Five Worlds Trilogy Blood River Down - By Charles L. Grant - Book I of The Quest for the White Duck Trilogy A Malady of Magicks - By Craig Shaw Gardner - Book I of The Ebenezum Series Symphony - By Charles L. Grant - Book I of The Millennium Quartet Lost Things - By Melissa Scott & Jo Graham - Book I of The Order of the Air The Phoenix Bells - By Kathryn Ptacek - Book I of The Land of Ten Thousand Willows Heart of a Dragon - By David Niall Wilson - Book I of The DeChance Chronicles No Small Bills - By Aaron Rosenberg - Book I of The Adventures of DuckBob Five-Twelfths of Heaven - By Melissa Scott - Book I of The Roads of Heaven Trilogy The Quest of the Thirteen - By John DeFilippis - Book I of The Medallion of Mavinor Series

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