. . . . "Michael Koryta has written eight novels, praised by such authors as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane, and his most recent novel, The Ridge, was called, ???a freshly imagined and elegantly constructed variation on the dead-of-night ghost story,??? by the New York Times and ???a chilling supernatural thriller by a rising literary star,??? by the Wall Street Journal." . . .