Widow's Point The complete haunting

Richard Chizmar, 1965-

Book - 2025

"'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 inexplicab...le 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 now. Told across two harrowing incidents from 2017 and 2025, those who enter the Widow's Point Lighthouse searching for supernatural proof and the next big thing find themselves cut off from the outside world. And although no one has recently stepped foot inside the structure, they are not alone. In this remarkable collaboration, father and son writing team, Richard and W.H. Chizmar combine forces to tell a terrifying ghost story that will make you think twice about what's waiting for you in the dark."--

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Subjects
Genres
Ghost stories
Horror fiction
Paranormal fiction
Novels
Fiction
Published
New York, NY : Gallery Books 2025.
Language
English
Main Author
Richard Chizmar, 1965- (author)
Other Authors
Billy Chizmar (author)
Edition
Revised edition. First Gallery Books hardcover edition
Item Description
Revised edition. Previously published in 2018 by Cemetery Dance Publications.
Physical Description
325 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9781668057704
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

More is less in this expansion of a 2017 novella by World Fantasy Award winner Richard (Memorials) and son W.H. Chizmar (Them) about a haunted Nova Scotia lighthouse, the ghastly history of which includes the 1933 bludgeoning murders of the entire family of lighthouse keeper Patrick Collins, and the 1988 cannibalistic murder of two teens. Access to the building was then restricted, but in 2017, ghost hunter Thomas Livingston persuades the owner to lock him inside for several days--with predictable results. The Chizmars' extension of the story then jumps forward to 2025 as a new team of ghost hunters visit the lighthouse. The events of both time periods are recounted via transcripts of video and audio recordings, a device that proves less effective the longer it is used. The tale feels bloated and often derivative, and the scares fail to make much of an impact. Both Chizmars have done better before. (Sept.)

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