Douglas Clegg

Night Cage

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

Now in Trade Paperback & eBook

The Criminally Insane Series, Book Three

Love the page-turning thrills of James Patterson, the horror of Thomas Harris, the chills of serial killer fiction? Night Cage and the Criminally Insane series may be for you. Each novel has a very slight paranormal twist to it.

He only feels safe in his cage

They are the most dangerous mother-son serial killer team in history. “Bloody Mary” Chilmark is certifiable – just ask her doctor. The Darden State Hospital is home to the most dangerous psychopathic killers in the country. But Bloody Mary got out, and raised her baby away from that bad environment. And now, he’s all grown up…

But if he escapes, you’ll never feel safe again

As fires rage in the hills above the hospital, Bloody Mary and her son “Doc” are on a murdering rampage in southern California. Who will stop them?

 

 

Criminally Insane: The Series

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

Suspense. Thriller. Page-Turners.

In Trade Paperback & eBook Editions

3 Books in One

BOOK 1: BAD KARMA

She’s the most ruthless sociopathic killer the hospital for criminal justice has ever known. She wants out — now.

BOOK 2: RED ANGEL

A relentless killer strikes again — and the innocent victims are found with bird wings around their neck.

BOOK 3: NIGHT CAGE

As fires rage in the hills above the hospital, Bloody Mary and her son “Doc” are on a murdering rampage in southern California.

 

The Priest of Blood

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

Book One of The Vampyricon Trilogy

If you enjoy the epic vampire fiction of Anne Rice and the epic battles and mythologies of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones…you’re sure to enjoy this medieval vampire epic that begins with The Priest of Blood, Clegg’s New York Times bestselling dark fantasy novel.

“Sword, Sorcery – and Vampires.”

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a heart-pounding heroic dark fantasy epic in The Priest of Blood, Book One of The Vampyricon. In a medieval world, within a forgotten century where dark and dangerous magic lies hidden among lost cities of legend, Aleric the Falconer finds his unique and terrible destiny in the bloody embrace of the beautiful seductress, Pythia.

“If you like Game of Thrones and vampires…”*

“Astonishing…a bloody gem,” says Christopher Rice, NY bestselling author with Anne Rice of Ramses the Damned.

*”If you like Game of Thrones and vampires, you’re going to love The Vampyricon,” says USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood.

“The stunning first volume of a new dark fantasy epic from Stoker-winner Clegg (Nightmare House) gives the iconic vampire a massive makeover and draws fresh possibilities from its most familiar aspects…This rich and symbol-laden blend of myth and history makes intense reading while it lays a solid foundation for later books in the series.”– Publisher’s Weekly,  Starred Review

“…Clegg’s series opener features a vampiric hero whose beginnings in the Middle Ages marks him as a warrior. Action and adventure combine with traditional vampire fiction to create a book that will appeal to fans of vampires and historical fantasy.” — Library Journal

 

The Lady of Serpents

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

Now in trade paperback, ebook & audiobook!

If you enjoy the epic vampire fiction of Anne Rice and her immortal Lestat, the fantastic alternate world of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, or just most vampire fiction that doesn’t involve sparkles…you’re sure to enjoy this dark fantasy epic of The Vampyricon Book 2, The Lady of Serpents.

The Vampyricon, Book Two

From Douglas Clegg, award-winning and bestselling author, comes the second installment of the Vampyricon trilogy. Hailed as the prophesied messiah of the vampyre, Aleric seemed destined for glory-until, like many of his brethren, he was captured by the sorceress Enora. Imprisoned, he is now forced to fight in the arena for her amusement.

To end Enora’s reign of terror, Aleric must escape and find the alchemist behind her power, though that may mean unleashing Pythia, the Lady of Serpents – Aleric’s old enemy, the seductress who ended his mortal life. For she alone may hold the key to the survival not only of the vampyres, but also all of humankind.

“If you like Game of Thrones and vampires…”*

“Astonishing…a bloody gem,” says Christopher Rice, NY bestselling author with Anne Rice of Ramses the Damned.

*”If you like Game of Thrones and vampires, you’re going to love The Vampyricon,” says USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood.

Publishers Weekly Said:

“This second installment in Clegg’s unfolding Vampyricon epic brims with the same dazzling invention and creative mythography as its predecessor…Clegg’s rich descriptions, ingenious variations on vampire lore and intriguing speculations on a secret history underlying our own make this an exuberantly imagined dark fantasy.”

 

The Queen of Wolves

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

In trade paperback, ebook & audiobook

If you enjoy the epic vampire fiction of Anne Rice and her immortal Lestat, the fantastic alternate world of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, or just most vampire fiction that doesn’t involve sparkles…you’re sure to enjoy this dark fantasy epic of The Vampyricon Book 3, The Queen of Wolves.

The Vampyricon, Book Three

Aleric’s lost love, Enora, has become the Queen of the Wastelands. Aided by her minions and her legions of wolves, she has begun the quest to call the Dark Madonna from beyond the Veil into the world of man.

To stop the end of all, Aleric must become what he was destined to be – the Messiah of the Damned – and lead the undead in an epic war against the Mother of Darkness.

“If you like Game of Thrones and vampires…”*

“Astonishing…a bloody gem,” says Christopher Rice, NY Times bestselling author with Anne Rice of Ramses the Damned.

*”If you like Game of Thrones and vampires, you’re going to love The Vampyricon,” says USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood.

What Publishers Weekly Wrote:

“A titanic battle that pits vampyre against vampyre in a war that will determine for eternity whether the undead will coexist with the living caps the conclusion to Clegg’s majestic Vampyricon trilogy…Clegg crafts a fitting finale ornamented with prose that modulates between the sensual and regal and that distinguishes his series as one of the more memorable modern vampire epics.”

 

The Vampyricon

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

Vampires. Fantasy. Epic. Sword. Sorcery.

The Complete Trilogy in One Volume

If you love the epic vampire fiction of Anne Rice and her immortal Lestat, the fantastic alternate world of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, you’re sure to enjoy The Vampyricon.

Get all three books in The Vampyricon Trilogy by Douglas Clegg - vampires, sword & sorcery, dark fantasy, epic heroic fantasy.

Including the full-length novels:

  1. The Priest of Blood
  2. The Lady of Serpents
  3. The Queen of Wolves

Mordred, Bastard Son

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

Arthurian fantasy with a twist

Outcast. Pagan. Rebel. Prince. Son. Lover. Gay.

Born of the King of the Britons and the Witch Queen Morgan, raised in the forest of Broceliande…Fan of Arthurian legends? The Mists of Avalon? The Once and Future King? The Crystal Cave? Camelot? But there’s a history of King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merline, Morgan and the Lady of the Lake that you’ve never heard before. Until now…

Conceived in violence. Born of royalty. Raised in Exile.

In this ambitious reimagining of Camelot, Mordred, the traditional villain of Arthurian legend, emerges as a heroic and romantic figure, torn between his powerful mother’s desire for revenge against Arthur, his own conflicted feelings toward the father who abandoned him, and his passionate coming of age into first love…with the enemy of his tribe.

First in The Chronicles of Mordred series.

Book 2 to release in late 2018!

“I’ve been asked if this is historical fantasy or Arthurian or M/M fiction. It’s all of it. My area of studies when in college encompassed classical literature of various countries, and within this, there was the Elizabethan and the Victorian (which included Sir Edmund Spenser as well as Tennyson) and with my lifelong reading of Arthurian classical lit (Marie de France, Thomas Malory, The Mabinogion, and others penned prior to the 20th century) plus my determination to find within myths the mirror of being gay, I reinvented Mordred both within the known legends and outside of them as well, using my own sense of  who he might be and what he might be up against.

Mordred, Bastard Son has been the result. It is Arthurian romance with a twist, and tells another side of the famed story. Doesn’t mean I don’t love the original legends, nor that as a boy I didn’t enjoy the musical Camelot or The Boy’s King Arthur or the movie Excalibur, or that this story is within the lines of wondrous books like Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Caves, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon, or T.H. White’s The Once and Future King. But I have a different story to tell within the legend, a viewpoint little known until now. It is outside the lines, it’s how and why Mordred came to be, along with a fantasy world of Arthurian fascination.”

“Stunning” “Compelling” “Riveting”

*Starred Review* “Riveting…Clegg puts an inspired wrinkle in the hoary tale of Arthur and the grail by casting Arthur’s kindred enemy, Mordred, as a gay man. An injured stranger in a cloak and odd, paganish mask, is captured and held in a monastery, igniting wild speculation among the locals, who believe him a notorious traitor. And so he is. He is Mordred, the bastard son of Arthur Pendragon and his half sister, the witch-queen Morgan Le Fay, and he now awaits trial for murder and treason…How excellent.” – Booklist

“Douglas Clegg’s stunning Mordred, Bastard Son will inspire and refresh…” – Michael Rowe, The Advocate Magazine

“Clegg (The Priest of Blood) maintains a nice balance between the human and mythic dimensions of his characters, portraying the familiar elements of their story from refreshingly original angles.” – Publishers Weekly

“Well-crafted. Written in lyrical prose with colorful characters and historical depth. Lovers of both history and fantasy will discover…an enchanting read.” – Edge Boston

“Clegg beautifully skewers the Arthurian legends, weaving a compelling story, single-handedly reinventing Mordred’s sexuality. He is no longer the betrayer of Arthur, the knight Lancelot, and Guinevere, Queen of the Britons; he is now the seductive and passionate hero, a lover of men given the almost insurmountable task of finding the cauldron of rebirth…” – Michael Leonard, Curled Up with a Good Book Blog

“…Magic—true magic that really works—takes center stage in…Mordred, Bastard Son…a refreshing return to the myth and magic of the legends…Clegg’s approach recalls Sir Thomas Mallory, Chrétien de Troyes, and even Edmund Spenser at times; his setting is never made temporally explicit but rather melds Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and high medieval British elements.” – Strange Horizons

Nightmare House

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

In Hardcover, Paperback, Ebook, and Audiobook

The Harrow Series, Book One

If you’re a fan of haunted house supernatural horror fiction, the works of Shirley Jackson,  Stephen King, Peter Straub, Bentley Little, Darcy Coates, Ambrose Ibsen, James Herbert, John Saul, Guillermo del Toro,  H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, you’re sure to enjoy the Harrow series, about the notorious house of infinite hauntings in the Hudson Valley of New York.

Each novel and prequel in this series is a different kind of supernatural horror novel, from quiet gothic (Isis, Nightmare House) to classic hauntings (Mischief, The Infinite) to the all-hell-breaks loose, not for the faint of heart of The Abandoned.

The house called Harrow has an ancient soul

Returning to claim an inheritance, Ethan Gravesend inadvertently unlocks the long-buried secrets of a sinister mansion in this chilling gothic horror novel of ghosts and psychic phenomena from Bram Stoker Award-winning novelist, Douglas Clegg — Book One of the Harrow Series.

Genre: Horror, ghost story, haunted house, gothic thriller, suspense, supernatural fiction. This novel was 270 pages in its first print edition.

  • Other novels in this genre that would have similar readerships though different books, obviously: The Haunting of Hill House, Hell House, The Woman in Black, Ghost Story, The Shining, Haunted.
  • Movies, also similar audience (if different story): The Innocents, The Others, The Haunting, The Haunting of Hell House, The Conjuring, The Woman in Black.

Mischief

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

In Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, and Audiobook

The Harrow Series, Book Two

If you’re a fan of  movies and novels of haunted schools and the students within them, as well as the works of Shirley Jackson, Peter Straub, and Stephen King, you’re sure to enjoy the supernatural horror of Mischief.

In Mischief, the horror of Harrow is reborn — as Harrow Academy, a private school for boys. A dark fraternity exists within Harrow — and it wants new blood…

Whispers of Ghosts

The mansion overlooks the Hudson River, just outside the town of Watch Point, New York. And Jim Hook, should never have come to Harrow Academy…because he may be the new key to unlocking the terrors of the house.

A Secret Society of Night

Within the walls, something horrifying awaits Jim…a haunting more disturbing than any other…

Each novel and prequel in this series is a different kind of supernatural horror novel, from quiet gothic (Isis, Nightmare House) to classic hauntings (Mischief, The Infinite) to the all-hell-breaks loose, not for the faint of heart of The Abandoned.

 

  • Other novels in this genre that would have similar readerships though different books, obviously: The Haunting of Hill House, Hell House, The Woman in Black, Ghost Story, The Shining, Haunted.
  • Movies, also similar audience (if different story): The Innocents, The Others, The Haunting, The Haunting of Hell House, The Conjuring, The Woman in Black.

 

The Infinite

Wednesday, May 6th, 2015

In Hardcover, Paperback, and Ebook

The Harrow Series, Book Three

If you’re a fan of haunted house supernatural horror fiction, the works of Shirley Jackson, Richard Matheson, and Stephen King, you’re sure to enjoy the supernatural novel of psychics and haunting, The Infinite.

After the burning of Harrow, Ivy Martin wants to restore the mansion to its former glory — and terror. In this supernatural thriller from award-winning and bestselling novelist Douglas Clegg – Book #3 of the Harrow Haunting series — psychics converge on the most haunted house in the world to find the key to its infinite hauntings.

Who holds the key?

Cali Nytbird – radio host of a psychic show, is no stranger to psi abilities. Chet Dillinger – raised in squalor, discovered a unique and wondrous talent early in life. Frost Crane, bestselling author, has crossed into shadow to communicate with the dead. These three are brought together by a major paranormal institute to study Harrow — and to find out the source of its hauntings.

But will they fall victim to the house’s deadly charm?

“A cavalcade of nightmares. Memorable for its evocative, disturbing imagery and haunting emotional insights, this novel adds a new chapter to horror’s tradition of haunted house fiction.” — Publisher’s Weekly

Each novel and prequel in this series is a different kind of supernatural horror novel, from quiet gothic (Isis, Nightmare House) to classic hauntings (Mischief, The Infinite) to the all-hell-breaks loose, not for the faint of heart of The Abandoned.