The Ferryman

by Christopher Golden

Book Overview

In this riveting novel from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author, a woman and her lover are stalked by Charon-the mysterious Ferryman from Greek mythology. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451462270
• ISBN13: 9780451462275
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Ace
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.9" x 0.7" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

A fast-paced horror chiller

Janine left her love for a man who abandoned her when she was pregnant: upon losing the baby, both men are suddenly back in her life - one with a supernatural accomplice who threatens everyone she knows. As she and her friends battle the supernatural ill-wisher Ferryman, more forces emerge from the nether worlds to threaten them all in this fast-paced horror chiller.

A Very Different Kind of Ghost Story

The spooky cover of this book made me pick it up. Page one hooked me. The Ferryman is a very different kind of ghost story in that the main characters' nemesis is Charon, Greek god of the Underworld.Janine Hartschorn experiences a nightmare, where she is standing next to a river in a hellish place. A lone figure beckons to her from his boat in the river. She realizes that she has three silver coins in her hand and that they are her fare towards death. Terrified, she flings them into the river and tries to run. But the mud sucks at her.What she thought was a nasty dream turns into an all-out harrowing fight for survival. Janine is not alone, though. Her former lover, David Bairstow, and their mutual friend, Annette also find themselves entangled as the ghosts of David's past spring to life as Charon's minions, bent on killing them so he can claim Janine. The Ferryman is a fast-paced story that kept me reading. If I had to describe it, I would say that it is a blend of Peter Straub's "Ghost Story", William Blatty's "The Exorcist", and Golden's own weird surrealism. The ending was well done. Very cinematic, as one reviewer put it. Recommended.

Suspense,Horror,Faith

This story has all the elements of great fiction writing.When Janine loses her baby during birth she almost loses her life. During which she meets Charon the "ferryman". An evil spirit who will not stop until he gets Janine to come with him. Hence the story takes us through ghostly beings,murders,and the faith of Father Charles. Which leads to a chilling climax to rid there lives of "the ferryman." Excellent book. Easy to read. Haunting.

believable and frightening horror novel

Once they were lovers but Janine Hartschorn left David Bairstow because her ex-boyfriend and the love of her life wanted her back. When she became pregnant with Spencer's child, he dumped her. The baby died and Janine almost did as well but she was a fighter and refused to go into the boat of Charon the Ferryman. When David pays Janine a condolence call, the spark of passion and love reignites in both their hearts. They start going out together but they are both haunted by otherworldly manifestations. David is almost killed in a car accident and the driver of the car is a student who was killed more than a year ago. A stranger kills Spencer, who had been stalking Janine. THE FERRYMAN will not let anyone or anything to keep him from obtaining what he wants: Janine. Once in a very long while, a horror novel will come along that is so believable and frightening that it will live on in the reader's mind forevermore. THE STAND and THE EXORCIST were such books and so too is THE FERRYMAN. Christopher Golden is a talented writer who makes the audience give credence to events in his novel as if they occurred in the real world.Harriet Klausner

It's Not a Dream

"It's not a dream." The newest novel from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden is here. The mysterious Ferryman from Greek mythology crosses over into our modern day world to seek out Janine, the woman who was at death's door but refused to go to the netherworld. However, The Ferryman will not take no for an answer. . . and Janine is in for the fright of her newly regained life. I went into the book expecting more of it set in the other realm / Styx and was pleasantly surprised by the majority being set in our realm instead. That David's past was haunting him, in a literal sense. That the battle was personal for ALL of them - Janine, for her baby and her life and her love; David, with the sidekicks haunting him; Annette, due to Jill; etc. I liked that they were all a part of it, not just standing there. They weren't expendable and they weren't too chicken to stay.This book is about strength. Learn how to swim. Learn what life is. Learn how to love again.