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Douglas Clegg (Author)
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Starred Review. 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 of her husband, Jeff, in this stand-alone tale full of subtle suspense, inventive twists and credible characters. Julie has erotic nightmares and hideous hallucinations while slowly trying to piece together the decades-old puzzle involving her husband's past work with Project Daylight, a now-defunct privately funded school that conducted experiments on young children with ESP. Eventually, with the assistance of her mother, daughter and stepson, as well as Jeff's ex-wife and Michael Diamond, a popular TV psychic, Julie unearths bizarre secrets about her family that lead her to an underground society of scientific misfits. The book's final sentence is guaranteed to unnerve readers and leave them wanting more. A concise writer, Clegg manages to weave into his plot such grand ideas as reincarnation and psychic phenomena in a mere 272 pages. Many other writers would have taken twice as long to tell a tale half as captivating.
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Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation. -- Bentley Little

Clegg...can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby. -- Dean Koontz
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Onyx (December 7, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0451411676
  • ISBN-13: 978-0451411679
  • Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,233,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Clegg at his very best, December 15, 2004
By Sebastien Pharand (Orléans, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Afterlife (Paperback)
If you haven't read a Clegg novel yet, now is your chance to do so. Not only is Afterlife a great horror story, it also stands as one of Clegg's most suspenseful tale yet. This one has all the elements of a classic in the making.

Julie's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was brutally murdered. She is left alone to grieve with her young daughter and her strange teenage stepson. Everyone around her wants to help; her sister Melanie, her mother, her friends, her therapist... Yet no one is able to help her forget the pane of her husband's death.

But as she tries her best to return to her normal life, strange things happen to Julie. She dreams of strange, erotic thoughts. Her husband's body disappears from the morgue. She she learns about her husband's past, a past he had kept hidden from her all these years. A stranger enters her home at night and disappears. As Julie searches for the truth, she feels the constant threat of being watched, and the nightmares become more and more real. The only person she can trust is a strange television psychic who will try to help her through this ordeal.

Or is he? Clegg creates a great webb of paranoia that prevents you from trusting any of the characters except Julie. And even Julie is a flawed character. Sometimes, you root for her, and sometimes you just want to slap her in the face to make her open her eyes and accept the truth for what it truly is. Such a character only turns a very good story into an even greater one.

This story is similar to some of the genre's best. Rosemary's Baby comes to mind. Like Levin's amazing tale of suspense, Clegg creates a suspenseful tale that never lets go of the grip it has on you. You can't help yourself; you just want to keep on turning the pages way past your bedtime. And what Clegg does best is write about the grief Julie is going through. Some of the scenes early on in the story are just heart wrenching.

Douglas Clegg is fast becoming one of the greatest new voice in horror fiction, and Afterlife is the perfect example of his amazing talent. Suspenseful, full of horror, and vastly entertaining, Afterlife might very well be the best horror novel of the year!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Can The Dead Walk? Talk?, January 31, 2005
By Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Afterlife (Paperback)
Julie Hutchinson's world takes a nosedive when she is informed that her husband has been murdered. As she tries to deal with the horrific event, she slowly comes to realize that there are many parts of her husband's past that have been kept secret from her.

Julie tries to uncover the truth of her husband's past. While doing so she begins having erotic dreams about him. Her daughter thinks she can talk to him. Her mother puts her in contact with a TV psychic. She contacts her husband's ex who is in an asylum. Eventually she begins to doubt reality. The whole story culminates in a dramatic conclusion that can give readers shivers.

This is a very interesting although a little slow to build at first. The histories of psychic studies, open and covert, tie into Julie's dilemmas. It was refreshing to find an ending that was not obvious right from the start. A fine book from a talented author (although a little shorter than previous works).
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars another good one from Doug Clegg, January 18, 2005
By ZombiKitty "zombikitty" (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Afterlife (Paperback)
Julie Hutchinson's husband "Hut" has been murdered, and she is having trouble recovering from his death. She believes that he visits her at night while she is sleeping. She also begins to fit together fragments of his life that were unknown to her while he was alive, and they fit together into a rather strange whole --- including evidence that Hut was part of a secret project when he was a child that tested psychic abilities in children.

AFTERLIFE was a page-turner and a good, fast read. It was well-written and suspenseful and has some great twists and turns. The book seemed quite different from other Clegg works that I have read. There were some creepy moments, but the book didn't really seem likea mega-horror book to me. But don't let that stop you from reading it!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
I'm new to Mr. Clegg but had heard good things, so I read Goat Dance and loved the writing style.
Afterward I decided to read Afterlife after reading the sample. Read more
Published 2 months ago by T. Thompson

4.0 out of 5 stars AFTERLIFE by Douglas Clegg
Douglas Clegg is, one book at a time, proving himself one of the best horror writers working today, and he is in top form with his latest novel AFTERLIFE. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Benjamin Boulden

5.0 out of 5 stars afterlife book
although this book was already used i recieved it in perfect condition and enjoyed reading it very much once i started reading it i couldnt put it down i read the book in one day... Read more
Published 21 months ago by michelle

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be a movie
Oh my gosh, this book should be made into a movie. You seldom find a great scary movie anymore, well this book would make a great one! Read more
Published on January 11, 2007 by D Wilson

3.0 out of 5 stars Is there a sequel?
I thought this book was okay. I wonder if it has a sequel though since it just abruptly ended. I didn't like how Mr Clegg made the mother completely oblivious to her daugher's... Read more
Published on November 6, 2006 by Katalyste

3.0 out of 5 stars Horror as it Should Be...Good But Not Among the Best
This was an easy light read with moderate predictability and very open ending...the author leaves a lot to the imagination especially at that end, and I rather like that in an age... Read more
Published on August 29, 2006 by Amy Graham

3.0 out of 5 stars ...I hang my head in shame.
It's obviously me. However, I didn't like the ending. I loved the book up until the last thirty pages or so. It got weird and confusing. Not really confusing as much as weird. Read more
Published on July 24, 2006 by A. Hansen

4.0 out of 5 stars Good entertainment...
The story premise is refreshingly different from some of Clegg's previous books. The plot tracks through a series of strange, unconnected events following the murder of a... Read more
Published on June 26, 2006 by Ginahmk

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Clegg, Could Have Been Better
I've been a fan of Doug Clegg for a good many years, but have fallen behind on reading his books. While this one had the solid plotting and sympathetic characters I've come to... Read more
Published on March 22, 2006 by Elizabeth Burton

5.0 out of 5 stars Clegg at his best
This is a relatively short book and seemed to appear without any great publicity (unlike his more recent Priest Of Blood and Mordred). Read more
Published on February 9, 2006 by N. Davies

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