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Wild Things: Four Tales [Hardcover]

Douglas Clegg (Author), Caniglia (Painter)
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October 1, 2006
From award-winning and bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes a special quartet of stories dealing with creatures of the wild some are wolf, some bird, some the most terrifying of beasts: the human variety. Two of these tales "The Wolf" and "The American" are previously unpublished.

"The Wolf" is the dark story of a wolf hunter who guides a younger man up a mountain to kill a wolf that has been slaughtering in the valley below.

"The American" takes place at a late-night cafe in Rome where foreigners gather. On this particular night a stranger steps out of the shadowy park to sit at the sidewalk tables and speak of love and murder.

In "A Madness of Starlings," a father, teaching his children about protection from the predators of life, takes in a fledgling bird. But when it's time for the bird to fly away, the forces of nature come undone and a secret wisdom and terror enter the mind of the one who understands the language of birds.

Finally, in "The Dark Game," a war hero and his men are captured and taken into a prison camp. There, tortures and torments await them, but the man named Gordon Raglan begins to use a childhood game of escape to help him discover a way to hunt the wolves surrounding him.

Wild Things: Four Tales is a unique and exclusive Cemetery Dance book, with no other editions planned anywhere in the world at this time!

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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 fatherly instincts only to find his dislocating feelings of angst and alienation mirrored instead. In "The Dark Game," an American soldier turns tables on his captors in Vietnam with the help of an especially brutal survival trick involving self-hypnosis. "The American" is a spare, Hemingwayesque tale of threatened manhood with an Alfred Hitchcock twist. "The Wolf" tells of a hunting expedition in which the roles of predator and prey are craftily reversed. Though several stories stretch the theme of this volume, each makes riveting reading. (Nov.)
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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 fatherly instincts only to find his dislocating feelings of angst and alienation mirrored instead. In "The Dark Game," an American soldier turns tables on his captors in Vietnam with the help of an especially brutal survival trick involving self-hypnosis. "The American" is a spare, Hemingwayesque tale of threatened manhood with an Alfred Hitchcock twist. "The Wolf" tells of a hunting expedition in which the roles of predator and prey are craftily reversed. Though several stories stretch the theme of this volume, each makes riveting reading. --Publishers Weekly

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 100 pages
  • Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications; 1st edition (October 1, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1587671565
  • ISBN-13: 978-1587671562
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #435,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars First Time Reader...Ordering More., January 13, 2007
This review is from: Wild Things: Four Tales (Hardcover)
I loved this collection of four horrow stories. I have been a long time Stephen King fan and love the writing style of Mr. Clegg. The stories each follow unique story lines that are totally compelling. I highly recommend this book.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good, If Uneven Collection, January 28, 2007
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William M Miller (Bronxville, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wild Things: Four Tales (Hardcover)
I found the first three stories a bit predictable with very little atmosphere. I was expecting more than the one-note gimmick, and I realize they are short stories, but I was still a disappointed. The story, The American, was a little too similar to Bill Pronzini's story, Liar's Dice, for my taste.

However, the final story, The Dark Game really had some bite to it and was quite effective. It was an eye-popping, visceral, and wonderfully structured story. Fortunately, The Dark Game is the longest of the collection and I'm glad they saved the best for last. Here is the full rundown in my opinion...

THE WOLF - 2 stars

A MADNESS OF STARLINGS - 3 stars

THE AMERICAN - 2 stars

THE DARK GAME - 4 stars
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