Stephen Laws
Chasm
03 Jul 98
About the Author
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Bibliography
Chasm
Edmonville: an ordinary town full of ordinary citizens going about their everyday business.
Then the earth tremor hits. Glass shatters, concrete crumbles, buildings fracture and collapse as everything disappears beneath choking clouds of dust.
The few shell-shocked survivors emerge to be met with a terrifying and impossible sight. Most of Edmonville has disappeared into an enormous crevasse; the semi-demolished buildings which remain are perched on a series of peaks, crags and pillars of stone - many of them separated from each other by hundreds of feet, and a perilous bottomless gulf below. The world beyond seems to have ceased to exist.
Without electricity, heating or water, the few remaining citizens of Edmonville are stranded and waiting for rescue - which doesn't come. As starvation threatens, the best and worst of human nature come to the fore in the struggle for survival.
Then, something stirs deep below in the darkness. Something which emerges from the depths to unleash a horrifying onslaught on the survivors; an onslaught which is to become a desperate fight for survival.
What exactly has happened to Edmonville? And who - or what lurks in the hideous Chasm below? The macabre imaginative genius of
Stephen Laws is at its best in this phenomenal tale of an ordinary town caught up in an apocalyptic nightmare.
'One of the most inventive young writers on the British horror scene' The Times
'At the forefront of his field, Stephen Laws shows us horror's most valuable function - the use of great darkness to point up and define, in truly spectacular fashion, that which is truly humane' Stephen Gallagher
'Unquestionably our most promising genre writer' Samhain
'No other author today is writing horror as effective and as powerful as Laws' Starburst
'It's nice to find a fresh, chilling voice among the multitudes of authors feverishly clawing to be the best imitation of Stephen King or Peter Straub. Stephen Laws is no imitator' Knoxville News Sentinel
'Laws writes such graphic detail that the impossible seems not only possible but even probable!' Sagebrush Review
'Combines stark realism and unimaginable horror to devastating effect' World Books
About The Author
Stephen Laws was born and lives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Chasm
(Hodder & Stoughton,
1998)
Jul 98
Ghost Train
Spectre
The Wyrm
The Frighteners
Gideon
Macabre
Daemonic
Somewhere South of Midnight
Darkfall
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