Chasing the Boogeyman (The Boogeyman Series)

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Soon, gentlemen sportsmen from northeastern cities as far-ranging as New York and Boston traveled to Edgewood to take part in the hunt. I had my doubts early on as to whether it would work or not, but once I got past that, the story just flew out of me. Richard Chizmar: I’m pretty much a genre dinosaur in my mid-fifties, married to Kara, father to Billy and Noah, living in Bel Air, Maryland with four happy dogs, about a half-hour north of Baltimore. Richard Chizmar is the coauthor (with Stephen King) of the New York Timesbestselling novella Gwendy’s Button Boxand Gwendy’s Final Task, and author of the solo work Gwendy’s Magic Feather. If the house with green shutters and the ancient weeping willow tree represented the center of my world growing up—the hub of my “wheel of life,” as I later began to think of it—then each road, big or small, leading away from that house resembled a spoke in that ever-turning wheel, every one of them fanning out in a different direction, eventually running out of space to roam, and serving to collectively define the outer boundaries of my beloved hometown.

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A prosperous gentleman farmer and longtime member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Hanson was also a shrewd businessman. I’d somehow convinced Jimmy to go along with me that day, and we sat in the center of the front row, paying rapt attention.Some years ago, when I was in elementary school, a young girl, distraught over an unwanted pregnancy, supposedly killed herself by standing on the railroad tracks behind the high school and allowing a speeding train to run her down. The first book we published – three years later – was an extraordinary collection of crime and suspense fiction by Ed Gorman. To support the influx of young students in the area, three spacious schools—a high school, middle school, and elementary school—were built on 102 acres along Willoughby Beach Road. There was a wrong side of the tracks to live on, and places where you didn’t want to find yourself alone after dark.

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A slow talking, stoop-backed fellow with an unruly salt-and-pepper mustache and one long bushy eyebrow, he gave a fascinating talk, and shared with us photographs and maps and drawings and even a clump of authentic Bigfoot fur attached to a bulletin board with a thumbtack.Chizmar invented his own genre, and that's more than enough to cement his status as one of horror fiction's greats. Chizmar’s work has been translated into more than fifteen languages throughout the world, and he has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, guest speaker, panelist, and guest of honor. As the story draws to its shattering conclusion, only one person holds all the answers—and he just may be the most terrifying monster of them all. While the tension is high and the chills plentiful, it is the human heart of the book that lingers once the tale is told.

Chasing the Boogeyman – Richard Chizmar

The wooden railroad bridge crossing the nearby Gunpowder River was burned in April 1861 during the Baltimore riots, and Confederate soldiers burned it a second time in July 1864. The growing number of bodies, along with the chaos caused by a man breaking into houses at night to fondle women in their sleep, created mayhem in the town and soon rumors, paranoia, baseless accusations, and anger took over Edgewood. Front yards of glistening snow shone with a kaleidoscope of brilliant colors—red and green, blue and yellow, silver and gold. When I first got to college, I was shocked to find that most of the guys in my dormitory had never been in a fistfight before; I’d been in a dozen or more by the time I graduated high school.Chizmar’s vast talents as a masterful and singular storyteller are on full display in Becoming the Boogeyman—an ingenious, terrifying, and supremely suspenseful novel that seeks answers for the roots of evil and obsession, while remaining grounded in humanity and a love for family and friendship. Readers see that, and they feel their pain… and that makes them care much more about what happens in the story, both the real one and the fictional. It’s great to be here with everyone; I’ve gained a lot of knowledge from what you’ve shared, and I’d like to express my gratitude; the information and knowledge shared here are extremely beneficial to me. Or we’d climb a similar drainage pipe to the top of the Texaco gas station at the junction of Hanson and Edgewood Roads and moon the passing drivers (that particular stunt screeched to a regretful halt one memorable afternoon when my father spotted the glare of our skinny, pale asses on his way home from work. She’d suffered severe bruising and swelling around her neck, a fractured cheekbone, a pair of black eyes, and the thumb and ring finger on her right hand had been broken.