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The Children's Hour : A Novel of Horror [Kindle Edition]

Douglas Clegg
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"Douglas Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills..." -- Tess Gerritsen, New York Times Bestselling Author.

In The Children's Hour -- from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg -- Joe Gardner discovers that something is terribly wrong with the children in Colony, West Virginia.

Innocent though they seem, these kids come out at night -- to hunt.

"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation."
-- Bentley Little, bestselling author of The Mailman and The Store.

When Joe returns with his wife and two young children to the seemingly peaceful mountain town of Colony, West Virginia, he doesn’t expect to find the girl who disappeared when he was a boy.

But she remembers Joe and her other friends who left her behind in a deep well within a mysterious barn on Old Man Feely’s property.

And she’s out for blood...

"Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."
-- Dean Koontz, NY Times Bestselling author of 77 Shadow Street and Odd Thomas.

Is she a vampire?

Or is she something more demonic...

They say that Colony was founded centuries ago by an angel that fell from sky, but whatever’s lurking in the old mines under the town has been disturbed by Joe’s return. Joe did something when he was a boy – something that stopped the terror and evil from erupting.

But now, a creature living in darkness wants out.

It’s going to use the children of Colony to exact its revenge.

It’s hour has come round at last – and this is the Children’s Hour…

A terrifying chiller of a horror novel from a master of gothic thrillers.

The Children’s Hour is a full-length novel, approximately 370 pages in print. Exclusively published by Alkemara Press for Kindle.

Look for other books (fiction) by Douglas Clegg from Alkemara Press, including:

Afterlife
Goat Dance
Purity
Dark of the Eye
The Words
Wild Things

With more to come…

Praise for Douglas Clegg's fiction:

"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation."
-- Bentley Little, author of The Policy

"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.

"Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction."
-- Peter Straub
author of Lost Boy, Lost Girl and the New York Times Bestseller Black House (with Stephen King)

"Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."
-- Dean Koontz

"Clegg is one of the best!"
-- Richard Laymon

"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!"
-- Robert R. McCammon
author of The Queen of Bedlam and Speaks The Nightbird.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 435 KB
  • Publisher: Alkemara Press (January 13, 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B006X85IDM
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,978 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best of Clegg's works, April 12, 2002
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D. A. Dodd (Huntsville, AL United States) - See all my reviews
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"The Children's Hour" is the best of Douglas Clegg's ten or so published works. While his other works ("NeverLand", "Dark of the Eye", etc.) are quality novels, "The Children's Hour" stands hand and shoulders above them. Unfortunately, it seems to have had the lowest print run of all his titles as the publisher, Dell, was slowly phasing out its horror line when this one was published.

The story revolves around the return of a former resident to the town of colony. When he left fifteen or so years prior, he had fought and conquered an ancient evil. However, he feels the need to return at his mother's request due to her failing health. He returns with his family in tow.

Soon after he returns to Colony, the evil returns. Friendships are restored just in time to combat the evil. Children are affected and soon turn on the adults of the community. The main character knows that once again he must confront and defeat the evil which resides below a barn in the community if he, his family and friends are to survive. A thrilling race against time ensues and when completed, the reader is left wanting more. If you can locate a copy, grab this one and enjoy it.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "Where I am, it's always night.", August 28, 2000
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I searched high and low for a copy of this book. I was afraid after all the build-up that the actual story would be a let down. I am so pleased that I was wrong. This is a fantastic story on a variety of levels.
Author Joe Gardner travels with his family to his childhood hometown of Colony. He has avoided the town and his horrific memories of it for years and now finds himself facing the friends and family members who stir up unpleasant memories. As soon as he hits the town line, he begins to hear the nightmare things of the past once again calling him. Meanwhile, Colony is being terrorized by something....something evil that steals its children. Joe reunites with figures from his childhood to try to stop the terror only to find his own wife and children in harm's way.
This is a novel about faith, loss, forgiveness, love, and fears both real and imagined. Tad Peterson is a wonderfully likeable child character; he exemplifies Clegg's knack for writing realistic characters. The novel focuses on those things that take on monumental proportions to us as children, only to shrink in importance when we are adults. And it also shows that children are the ones most likely to accept the things adults shrug off with rationalizations.
I can't say enough good things about THE CHILDREN'S HOUR. There were parts that caused me to put the novel down for a while before continuing because they were so frightening. There were parts that almost made me cry. I'm glad I found the novel, and I don't regret the search for it in any way. This one is worth a bit of effort just to read this incredibly creepy, very touching story!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What a great book!!, December 16, 2000
Before I get into the review and the plot, I just waned to say how much I enjoyed this book!! At times, I had to put the book down b/c Clegg goes into great detail and plays on the readers fears.

This can book can be enjoyed on so many levels b/c it has so many themes. Faith, love, facing the mistakes of our past, and forgiveness. Or if you like like to have the willies scared out of you. *LOL* Something for everyone.

Joe is a writer that is coming home to see his mother, and to face his past and the town who doesn't really want him back. There was an accident that should have killed him when he was a teen, that didn't. It's took the life of the woman he loved. Joe has much more to worry about...someone is killing the Childern of the town. The same thing that was killing kids when he left. Old evil never dies...it just waits...

Clegg creates characters that are so lifelike, that the reader insinally cares about all of them. We get sucked in b/c Clegg lets the reader know the residents of the town, their lives and their dirty little secrets. Clegg also does a wonderful job of linking the past and the present. You'd think that we would be confused by that, but you won't.

One of my favorite lines is "I may not belive in mosters, but I think they believe in me." When I read that, it really stuck with me through the book.

This isn't an easy book to find. But it's worth the search, and you'll be rewarded with a good scare from this woderful book....

Happy Hunting!

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I'm a novelist living on the New England coast. My first novel, Goat Dance, came out in 1989, and since then, more than 20 of my novels have been published.

I'd recommend: Neverland, Isis, Afterlife, The Words, Purity, or The Priest of Blood (and the entire vampire trilogy, The Vampyricon) if you're new to my fiction.

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