"Shades of The Shining."
—Family Circle
"Put a haunted man in a haunted house. . . and you have a Halloween hair-raiser. But it's more than that. Bohjalian understands how long it takes to recover from unimaginable pain."
—Tim Clark, Yankee Magazine
"A spellbinding, heart-pounding novel. . .this is one perfect book for Halloween."
—Megan Fishmann, Book Page
"All the trappings of a classic Gothic horror story, reminiscent in places of the spousal secrets in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' the thrills of 'Rosemary's Baby,' and the psychological frights of Daphne du Maurier. . .A perfect book for Halloween."
—Keith Donohue, The Washington Post
Above quotes: http://www.chrisbohjalian.com/the-night-strangers
> Bohjalian is parsimonious in the way he issues information, slowly building an increasing sense of dread with each page. Just as important, his denouement is not only unexpected, but so perfect and true to the story, you close the book's covers totally satisfied, aware that this masterful storyteller has done it again. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com
Congratulations to Chris Bohjalian on the release of his new novel, The Night Strangers from Crown Publishing a Random House Imprint
I have the good fortune to have moderated Chris's forum with several other volunteers. Honestly most of the work involved blocking hacker IPs and we eventually realized that Facebook has taken the place of forums for authors. I am excited to actually meet Chris in person this week at the Portsmouth Music Hall Loft.
Nevertheless, I must say that Chris is one of the most congenial and polite people with whom I have ever interacted by telephone or email. And, like most writers he is easily reached via email. I am looking forward to this book, it promises scary, something I have not read in his books so that will be interesting. And, it promises "witchy" and we all know I like witchy. I am not going to want to read about the plane crash because my husband flies all the time and one flight he was on had to emergency land after hitting birds on take off.
I have the good fortune to have moderated Chris's forum with several other volunteers. Honestly most of the work involved blocking hacker IPs and we eventually realized that Facebook has taken the place of forums for authors. I am excited to actually meet Chris in person this week at the Portsmouth Music Hall Loft.
Nevertheless, I must say that Chris is one of the most congenial and polite people with whom I have ever interacted by telephone or email. And, like most writers he is easily reached via email. I am looking forward to this book, it promises scary, something I have not read in his books so that will be interesting. And, it promises "witchy" and we all know I like witchy. I am not going to want to read about the plane crash because my husband flies all the time and one flight he was on had to emergency land after hitting birds on take off.
From Chris' site the synopsis:
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story.
In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts.
The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, has to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight 1611 die on impact or drown. The body count? Thirty-nine – a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village – self-proclaimed herbalists – and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters. Are the women mad? Or is it her husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity has become desperately tenuous?
The result is a poignant and powerful ghost story with all the hallmarks readers have come to expect from bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian: a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply.
The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead.http://www.chrisbohjalian.com/the-night-strangers
For an Excerpt: http://www.scribd.com/doc/58896787/Night-Strangers-by-Chris-Bohjalian-Excerpt
