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A School for Psychic Children, a Legacy of Nightmare…

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• Enjoy short story collections? Check out Lights Out: Collected Stories.

Love page-turning suspense with a dark psychic twist? The fiction of Stephen King, Peter Straub, or Dean Koontz? You’re sure to enjoy reading Afterlife.

The Starred Review from Publisher’s Weekly:

“Stoker-winner Clegg (The Hour Before Dark) has an uncanny ability to frighten readers…Many other writers would have taken twice as long to tell a tale half as captivating.”

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Small Town, Big Horror

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• Love this kind of novel? You may enjoy You Come When I Call You or Breeder, also.

If you love the supernatural horror fiction of Stephen King, Peter Straub, or Joe Hill,  you’re sure to enjoy this heart-pounding novel of suspense and supernatural horror. One of Clegg’s most enduringly popular novels, and also his debut novel, a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. 498 pages in print.

Genre Categories: Supernatural horror, suspense, paranormal, haunted house, ghosts, demonic, small town, southern gothic. Other novels in this genre that would have similar readerships though different books, obviously: The Shining, ‘Salems Lot, Ghost Story, Haunted, Summer of Night, It, Phantoms, The Exorcist.

What secrets lie within the ancient place known as the Goat Dance?

A town must face its terrifying past as a possessed child threatens to unleash an unspeakable horror upon them all and a dark house at the edge of a frozen lake remains locked and abandoned…

Robert R. McCammon Says:

“Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares! Goat Dance is a dark, mesmerizing delight!”

Praise for Douglas Clegg’s Fiction:

“Clegg’s stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby.”
—Dean Koontz

“Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction.”
—Peter Straub author of Ghost Story and the New York Times Bestseller (with Stephen King) Black House

“Clegg approaches horror with a stark and vital simplicity that is utterly convincing. Fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz will appreciate this atmospheric gem.”
—Library Journal

“Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation.”
—Bentley Little, author of The Policy and Haunted

“Clegg delivers!”
—John Saul, bestselling author of Faces of Fear and The Devil’s Labyrinth

“A master of the genre. Absolutely thrilling! Douglas Clegg is the future of dark fantasy.”
—Sherrilyn Kenyon, New York Times bestselling author of The Dark-Hunters  

“Clegg is one of the best!”
—Richard Laymon, author of Savage

“Clegg gets high marks on the terror scale.”
—New York Daily News

“Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!”
—Robert R. McCammon, author of Usher’s Passing and Swan Song

A New England village…a terrifying legacy…

The Dark Season is Upon Us

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If you  love October and enjoy fiction by Stephen King, Dean Koontz, or Peter Straub, you’re sure to enjoy The Halloween Man.

Who holds the key to the chilling mystery of Stonehaven and its desolate woods — and what unspeakable creature remains trapped within its summer mansion?

Genre: Horror, gothic thriller, suspense, supernatural fiction. 358 pages in print.

What Horror Stalks the Village?

From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes a riveting, edge-of-your-seat supernatural thriller of “overwhelming love and devastating terror.”*

“The Halloween Man is one of the best horror novels that I’ve read in years…I had never read anything by Clegg before reading this novel, but now I’m going to go out and get the rest of his books. If you’ve never heard of Clegg either, or are a fan of horror fiction, get this book right now.” – Pixel Planet

“Every bit as good as the best works of Stephen King, Peter Straub, or Dan Simmons…” — Hellnotes: The Newsletter for the Horror Professional

*”The Halloween Man is about overwhelming love and devastating terror, human strength and supernatural power, and the eternal cycle of death and re-birth Packed with vivid imagery; a broadly-scoped but fast-paced plot; powerful, evocative writing; superb characterizations; and facile intelligence…Douglas Clegg has given horror lovers the best Halloween gift possible — an entertaining spinetingler written with unique style…” — DarkEcho

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Gothic Horror on a New England Island

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As children, they played the Dark Game

If you enjoy your supernatural horror with a mystery/suspense vibe, and the bestselling horror fiction of Stephen King, Peter Straub, Joe Hill, Richard Matheson or Dan Simmons, you may love The Hour Before Dark, considered by many fans one of Clegg’s best.

A riveting gothic novel of mystery and horror — from bestselling and award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg — The Hour Before Dark begins with a terrifying event…

When Nemo Raglan’s father is murdered in one of the most vicious killings of recent years, Nemo must return to the New England island he thought he had escaped for good . . . and the shadowy home called Hawthorn.

Genre categories: Horror, thriller, paranormal, gothic thriller, ghost story,  ghost thriller, suspense, supernatural fiction. This novel was 384 pages in its first edition.

Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed

As Nemo unravels the mysteries of his past and a terrible night of childhood, he witnesses something unimaginable…and sees the true face of evil…while Burnley Island comes to know the unspeakable horror that grows in darkness.

Peter Straub Says:

“Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction, and THE HOUR BEFORE DARK is his best and most exciting novel to date. This is pure imagination, and it is wearing speed skates.” –Peter Straub, NY Times bestselling author of Ghost Story and, with Stephen King, The Talisman.

What Others Say About It:

“…An eerie psychological tale of supernatural horror that builds suspense gradually as the characters slowly peel back the layers of their past and face the terrors of their shared childhood. Clegg approaches horror with a stark and vital simplicity that is utterly convincing. Fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz will appreciate this atmospheric gem.” — Library Journal

“Suspenseful and relentlessly spooky, told in economical prose yet peopled by characters as fully realized as one’s own blood kin, this is at once the most artful and most mainstream tale yet from one of horror’s brightest lights.” — Starred Review from Publishers Weekly

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Horror is a Shack in the woods

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If you love supernatural horror fiction like Thomas Tryon’s The Other, Dan Simmons’ Summer of Night, Robert R. McCammon’s Boy’s Life, or Stephen King’s It – even Guillermo del Toro’s movie, The Devil’s Backbone – you may just want to spend time in a dangerous place called Neverland. This is Clegg’s most popular novel among readers.

Genre: Bestselling supernatural horror novel, Horror, southern gothic, coming of age, suspense, supernatural fiction, evil child genre, family suspense. This novel is 310 pages in print.

What lurks within the shack called Neverland?

What kinds of dangerous — and deadly — games do the children play there? Who is leading them into darkness? For years, the Jackson family vacationed at Rowena Wandigaux Lee’s old Victorian house on Gull Island, a place of superstition and legend off the southern coast of the U.S. One particular summer, young Beau follows his cousin Sumter into a shack hidden among the brambles and windswept trees near the bluffs overlooking the sea.

David Morrell Says:

“Douglas Clegg’s Neverland is an unforgettable novel that combines creeping horror and psychological suspense. It starts like a bullet and never slows down.”

What Others Say:

“Neverland is a masterpiece of dark suspense that will forever haunt your dreams.”
—Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author

“This is a powerful and thrilling tale, Douglas Clegg’s best novel yet. The novel builds in whispers and ends in a scream. You will never forget Neverland.”–F. Paul Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack series

“A brilliant novel that grows richer with each reading, a multilayered marvel that will one day be recognized as one of the classics of supernatural literature.”–Bentley Little, bestselling author

“I can tell you without hesitation that Neverland is a true gothic masterpiece*. I am incredibly impressed with it. This is a remarkable piece of literature.”
–Scott A. Johnson, Dread Central.com