Widow's Point: A Novella

"This novella is viscerally terrifying, realistic, and intense." — Booklist

Widow's Point: A Novella
by Richard Chizmar and Billy Chizmar

Interior artwork by Glenn Chadbourne

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About the Book:
“This is a bad place. I don't think people are meant to live here.”

Longtime residents of Harper's Cove believe that something is wrong with the Widow's Point Lighthouse. Some say it's cursed. Others claim it's haunted.

Originally built in 1838, three workers were killed during the lighthouse's construction, including one who mysteriously plunged to his death from the catwalk. That tragic accident was never explained, and it was just the beginning of the terror. In the decades that followed, nearly two dozen additional deaths occurred in or around the lighthouse including cold-blooded murder, suicide, unexplained accidents and disappearances, the slaughter of an entire family, and the inexplicable death of a Hollywood starlet who was filming a movie on the grounds.

The lighthouse was finally shuttered tight in 1988 and a security fence was erected around the property. No one has been inside since.

Until tonight.

Thomas Livingston is the acclaimed author of thirteen books about the supernatural and this evening he will enter the Widow's Point Lighthouse, searching for material for his next bestseller. He will be locked inside for the weekend with no way of contacting the outside world. And although no human has stepped foot inside the structure in nearly three decades, Livingston will not be alone.

In this remarkable collaboration, father and son writing team, Richard and Billy Chizmar, combine forces to tell a chilling ghost story that will make you think twice about what is waiting for you in the dark. This novella is a much-expanded version of the short story of the same title.

Published as a trade hardcover edition:
• Printed on acid-free paper
• Bound in cloth with colored head and tail bands
• Featuring hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Wrapped in a full-color dust jacket
• Retail price just $25

Published as a Signed Limited Edition Hardcover:
• Limited to just 300 signed and numbered copies
• Personally signed by the authors on a special illustrated signature page
• Includes an artwork frontispiece tipped in after the signature sheet
• Printed on 60# acid-free paper
• Bound in full-cloth with colored head and tail bands
• Featuring hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Printed and bound with full-color endpapers
• Smyth sewn to create a more durable binding
• Wrapped in a different full-color dust jacket than the trade edition
• Limited ONE TIME printing of this special edition
• Retail price just $50

RICHARD CHIZMAR is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. He is the co-author (with Stephen King) of the bestselling novella, Gwendy's Button Box and the founder/publisher of Cemetery Dance magazine and the Cemetery Dance Publications book imprint. He has edited more than 35 anthologies and his fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and multiple editions of The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. He has won two World Fantasy awards, four International Horror Guild awards, and the HWA's Board of Trustee's award. Chizmar (in collaboration with Johnathon Schaech) has also written screenplays and teleplays for United Artists, Sony Screen Gems, Lions Gate, Showtime, NBC, and many other companies. Chizmar's work has been translated into many languages throughout the world, and he has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, guest speaker, panelist, and guest of honor. Please visit the author's website at: Richardchizmar.com

BILLY CHIZMAR's short stories have been published in various anthologies including Fearful Fathoms and Dead Harvest. His essay, "The Role of God in Stephen King's Desperation" was published in the non-fiction collection, Reading Stephen King. In 2017, he directed/co-wrote/starred in a short horror film, Gone, which has been screened at numerous film festivals around the country. Chizmar was recently named a U.S. Lacrosse Academic All-American during his senior year at the St. Paul's School and is currently a freshman at Colby College.

"...this ghost story oozes with atmosphere..."
— Publishers Weekly

Acclaimed horror author Chizmar and his son deliver an original and terrifying cursed-place tale that will leave readers looking over their shoulders... this novella is viscerally terrifying, realistic, and intense. It is a modern ghost story that will scare even the most seasoned horror reader and will be eagerly devoured by fans of paranormal-investigation tales as well as those who enjoy intense cursed-place stories..."
— Booklist

"The spirit of William Hope Hodgson is alive and well in Widow's Point, a briny ghost story infused with sinister new life by Richard and Billy Chizmar. If you're looking for a tale that has you reconsidering that trip to the coast while telling yourself those whispers from 'neath your bed are simply the wind, you've found it. Widow's Point is a chilling addition to the haunted house subgenre."
— Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Sour Candy and Kin

"With Widow's Point, the Chizmars deliver a fantastic new take on several old tropes, making the sea and haunted house stories scary again. A masterful, atmospheric and genuinely frightening ghost story. I loved it."
— Brian Keene, Grandmaster Award winning author of The Complex and End of the Road

"Widow's Point simmers, bubbles, and boils over in the most seductive, troubling, and finally throat-gripping manner possible, and along the way neatly solves the problem of how to handle the fate of a first-person narrator of a tale remarkable for accelerating dread. Richard and Billy Chizmar have given us a cold and delicious treat."
— Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story and In the Night Room

"Eleanor Vance would feel right at home in the lighthouse of Widow's Point. In a significant literary achievement, Richard and Billy Chizmar have retained the quiet terrors of the traditional haunted house story while updating its form for our fragmented Facebook age. Told in snippets of video camera footage and contemporaneous voice recordings, with the history of the lighthouse narrated in excerpted readings from an old diary, the splintered narrative reflects not only the mental disintegration of the tale's protagonist, but the fractured way in which today's society absorbs information. At once comfortably old-fashioned and bracingly contemporary, Widow's Point is a creepy delight."
— Bentley Little, bestselling author of The Influence and The Handyman

"Widow's Point has that William Hope Hodgson dark aura about it, but it's far better written, and there's a deeper theme at work. A ghost story of the first order. It makes the skin crawl and the shadows in your bedroom creep. Cheers to father and son team Richard and Billy Chizmar."
— Joe R. Lansdale, award-winning author of Rusty Puppy and Blood and Lemonade