The Ferryman

?A powerful and haunting tale? (Clive Barker) from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Strangewood.Janine Hartschorn left David Bairstow for a man who abandoned her once he discovered she was pregnant with his child. A miscarriage almost ended her life. Now she and David are reaching for a second chance. But something is determined to keep them apart. Something with the power to conjure up ghosts from David?s past and make them real. Something Janine knows from her near-death experience.

From Booklist

Janine Hartschorn nearly dies giving birth to her stillborn son, and while hovering between life and death, she encounters Charon, the Greek mythological ferryman of the dead. Instead of going with him peacefully, she throws the coins for her passage to the next world at him, and that defiant act sets off the ferryman's obsession with her. Recovering, she tries to move on, putting Spencer, the cruel father of her baby, in the past, and rekindling a romance with David, whom she left for Spencer. But supernatural occurrences threaten the couple. David glimpses people from his past who are long dead, and Charon stalks Janine. Meanwhile, their friend Annette seems to have met the woman of her dreams, Jill, but Jill bears an uncanny resemblance to a young woman for whose accidental death David is responsible. As the supernatural beings become more menacing, David and Janine are forced to fight for their lives and the lives of all those they love. A gripping tale from a genre master. Kristine HuntleyCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Charles de Lint

“Golden delivers...good, old-fashioned storytelling with a contemporary sensibility. There’s no lack of tension, and he doesn’t back away from the consequences of the darkness he has set upon his characters.”

Poppy Z. Brite

“A compulsive read, one I finished in a single sleep-deprived night. The characters are easy to care about, the story unpredictable and involving.”

Don D’Ammassa

“Low key but quite effective horror.”

Publishers Weekly

“An intelligent, compelling ghost story in the classic horror tradition...Superior characterization, an exquisitely detailed setting and superbly orchestrated suspense.”

Fangoria

“Tight, focused and almost claustrophobically intimate.”

About the Author

Christopher Golden is the author of more than twenty novels, including the critically-acclaimed Strangewood, and six nonfiction projects. He has worked in the comic book field for both Marvel and Dark Horse, and his short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. He received the Bram Stoker Award for his nonfiction work, Cut: Horror Writers on Horror Film. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two sons. Visit his website at www.christophergolden.com

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