Books by Douglas Clegg and Complete Book Reviews

Douglas Clegg, Author . Cemetery Dance $20 (98p) ISBN 978-1-58767-156-2
Clegg (The Machinery of Night ) shows how the bestial aspects of horror and humanity are interchangeable in this quartet of psychological suspense stories. "A Madness of Starlings" concerns a man who looks to nature for reassurance of his...
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Douglas Clegg, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $40 (260p) ISBN 978-1-58767-009-1
In a banner year that has already seen his supernatural horror opus You Come When I Call You in mass market plus his dark suspense thriller Purity (Forecasts, June 5), Clegg now tallies a contemporary occult mystery. Harrow, a prep school housed in...
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Douglas Clegg, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $30 (120p) ISBN 978-1-881475-71-2
Clegg (You Come When I Call You [Forecasts, Mar. 6]) turns the screws dexterously in this sleek, multifaceted suspense story, twisting an ill-fated love triangle into a framework for violent tragedy. Owen Crites, teenage son of a gardener to the...
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Douglas Clegg, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $40 (448p) ISBN 978-1-881475-89-7
Clegg gained attention last year for Naomi, his serialized horror novel that, arguably, was the first major work of fiction to originate in cyberspace. Genre cognoscenti, however, know him also for several acclaimed earlier novels, including The...
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Douglas Clegg, Author Leisure Books $3 (393p) ISBN 978-0-8439-4695-6
Clegg gained attention last year for Naomi, his serialized horror novel that, arguably, was the first major work of fiction to originate in cyberspace. Genre cognoscenti, however, know him also for several acclaimed earlier novels, including The...
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Douglas Clegg, Author Leisure Books $6.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8439-4580-5
Clegg's (The Halloween Man, etc.) collection of 13 tales takes risks and is full of passions that sometimes burst forth violently. But his skill at elucidating the psychological lives of his characters in precise, revealing prose makes these...
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Perseus/Vanguard $15.95 (113p) ISBN 978-1-59315-540-7
First published as a limited hardcover, which PW called a “triumph,” this reissue of bestseller Clegg's thriller novella features illustrations especially commissioned for this edition by Glenn Chadbourne. Set in Cornwall, this...
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Ace $23.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-441-01523-8
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 (after The Priest of Blood and The Queen of
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Subterranean $40 (370p) ISBN 978-1-931081-26-9
In this deluxe reprint of a novel first published in 1994, Stoke Award winner Clegg (Naomi; The Nightmare Chronicles; etc.) piles horror upon horror, but nothing is really objectionable or repulsive because the story's not in the least bit...
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Cemetery Dance $20 (110p) ISBN 978-1-58767-089-3
Clegg (The Abandoned ) expands the burgeoning backstory of his multivolume Harrow haunted house saga with this poignant chamber tragedy involving young Iris Catherine Villiers (who, as an adult, will become Isis Claviger, oracle of the spook-ridden...
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Ace $23.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-441-01438-5
This second installment in Clegg's unfolding Vampyricon epic brims with the same dazzling invention and creative mythography as its predecessor, The Priest of Blood (2005). Aleric, the Breton falconer, returns as heir apparent to the vampire...
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Alyson $24.95 (260p) ISBN 978-1-55583-899-7
Though usually portrayed as the worm in the bud that was Camelot, Mordred, the illegitimate offspring of King Arthur and sorceress Morgan le Fay, gets sympathetic treatment in Clegg's revisionist Arthurian fantasy, the first in a projected...
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Ace $19.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-441-01327-2
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. Aleric Atheffelde, a low-born medieval Breton...
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Cemetery Dance $40 (720p) ISBN 978-1-58767-088-6
When a character in Clegg's "I Am Infinite: I Contain Multitudes" observes, "Love transformed into fear. It's the human story," he could be describing just about any one of the 39 eerie and provocative tales gathered in this...
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Onyx $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-451-41167-9
Stoker-winner Clegg (The Hour Before Dark ) has an uncanny ability to frighten readers by chronicling everyday characters' perilous descents into their own private hells. Julie Hutchinson mentally unravels after the brutal and mysterious murder...
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Cemetery Dance $40 (210p) ISBN 978-1-58767-056-5
An uncharacteristic period ghost story brings the Harrow haunted house trilogy to an apprehensive conclusion—or beginning. In Mischief (2000) and The Infinite (2001), Clegg dropped portentous hints of past misdeeds and occult experiments...
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Leisure $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5044-1
Alongside the dominant stream of horror fiction that, at whatever level of artistic achievement, relies on shock and gore, runs a quieter stream that relies on atmosphere and inference for its unsettling effects (think Machen, Blackwood, sometimes...
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Douglas Clegg, Author . Leisure $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8439-4927-8
The indefatigable Clegg concludes his trilogy of terror tales (after the e-serial Nightmare House and sequel Mischief) set at the haunted Harrow boarding school with a novel that once again shows his skill at using classic horror themes to explore...
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Douglas Clegg, Author, Glenn Chadbourne, Illustrator . Perseus/Vanguard $15.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59315-541-4
An adolescent's cruel mischief proves a pathway to a dimension of otherworldly terrors in this creepy supernatural thriller, first published as a mass-market paperback in 1991. One summer on Gull Island off the coast of Georgia, Sumter Monroe...
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Douglas Clegg, Author, Linda Marrow, Editor Pocket Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67277-5
From its beginning with a gruesome backstreet abortion, the tension seldom flags as this tale builds to a grisly, suspense-filled climax. Hugh and Rachel Adair's new townhouse is a 19th-century building with eccentric architecture and an equally...
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Douglas Clegg, Author, Bentley Little, Introduction by Bloodletting Press $45 (408p) ISBN 978-0-9720859-1-5
Douglas Clegg fans will welcome the reissue of his coming-of-age novel, Neverland (1991), set in rural Georgia. In his introduction, Bentley Little explains why this Southern gothic is his ""favorite horror novel of the 1990s.""
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