Ash Wednesday - Chet Williamson

Chet Williamson

Category: Novel

Narrator: Chet Williamson

Tags: Novel, Horror, Fantasy

In Merridale, semi-transparent blue apparitions have appeared. These arent ghosts, exactly. They are visions of the dead in their final moments - the last seconds of their lives portrayed for all to see. They dont move, and they dont speak., Ash Wednesday is a thoughtful horror story about what happens to people when they are forced to gaze into the face of death and, specifically, the face of their own personal dead: their friends and family, those they believed to be dead and gone. Murders are revealed, rapes, and other crimes. People despair, and try to create new lives out of the wreckage. Two of these are Bradley Meyers, a vet already driven half-crazy by his experiences in Vietnam, confronted by the sight of his dead son, and now barely capable of containing his rage, and Jim Callender, whose son has died in the same accident, for which he is partly responsible. As Callender sinks into guilt, Meyers moves toward murder., This edition of Ash Wednesday contains a final portion that