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ABOUT ME: I began scribbling stories at 5, typing them by the age of 8, and seeking publication for them beginning in my 20s.

I favor psychological suspense and supernatural tales and what I term "perceptive supernatural."*

My whole life, I've been drawn to reading gothics, horror, supernatural, suspense, fantasy and pretty much anything that swept me off my feet, imagination-wise.

I live in New England in a place surrounded by sea, woods, and stone walls made of local granite, been with my husband for 31 years, and generally am servant to a dog, cat, and many fish plus a few frogs in the backyard pond.

But additionally, I serve the story. I hope you enjoy what you find among my fiction.

Thank you for checking out my novels and stories.

* By perceptive supernatural or perceptive fantasy, I mean the perception of a particular character, which is that character's reality. None of us necessarily can prove we've ever experienced ghosts, but if we feel we have, in the story of our lives, we have. And this is how I see the people in my stories and books. These stories are their experiences.

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The Halloween Man: A Supernatural Horror Thriller Sep 30, 2012

by Douglas Clegg

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Fear. Horror. Occult. Nightmare. What dark legacy haunts the village of Stonehaven?

"Up there with Stephen King & Dean Koontz...like Shirley Jackson amplified..." ★★★★★ "Scary as hell!"★★★★★ A kidnapping resurrects a town's history of nightmarish terror, demonic possession, long-buried secrets and threatens to unleash an unspeakable evil into the world in this page-turner from NY Times bestselling and award-winning author Douglas Clegg.

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

“Combining both the quiet horror of a Charles Grant with the all-out spectacles of a Stephen King, Clegg’s storytelling has never been better. The Halloween Man is a brilliant novel, up there with the best of Straub, King, and Koontz, and one of the most original tales of terror to come along in quite a while.” – Edward Lee

“The Halloween Man is one of the best horror novels that I’ve read in years…I had never read anything by Clegg before reading this novel, but now I’m going to go out and get the rest of his books. If you’ve never heard of Clegg either, or are a fan of horror fiction, get this book right now.” – Pixel Planet

“Clegg gets high marks on the terror scale...” – The Daily News (New York)

“Every bit as good as the best works of Stephen King, Peter Straub, or Dan Simmons...” – Hellnotes: The Newsletter for the Horror Professional

*"The Halloween Man is about overwhelming love and devastating terror, human strength and supernatural power, and the eternal cycle of death and re-birth Packed with vivid imagery; a broadly-scoped but fast-paced plot; powerful, evocative writing; superb characterizations; and facile intelligence…Douglas Clegg has given horror lovers the best Halloween gift possible — an entertaining spinetingler written with unique style...” – DarkEcho

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Lights Out: Collected Stories (Douglas Clegg Short Story Collections) Aug 14, 2014

by Douglas Clegg

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Haunting horror, spellbinding suspense.

"Equal to Stephen King's Skeleton Crew & Bentley Little's The Collection..." ★★★★★ "Creepy, scary, beautifully written." ★★★★★ Mega-box set/bundle drawn from 3 collections (The Nightmare Chronicles, Night Asylum, Wild Things) – plus, previously uncollected novelette, "Funerary Rites."

Douglas Clegg writes, "this enormous collection of my horror fiction combines three previous collections into 735 pages of horror and suspense."

1. Foreword by the Author

2. Funerary Rites

3. White Chapel

4. The Stain

5. The American

6. Belinda in the Pool

7. The Skin of the World

8. O, Rare and Most Exquisite

9. The Little Mermaid

10. A Madness of Starlings

11. Subway Turnstile

12. Where Flies Are Born

13. Underworld

14. The Rendering Man

15. The Fruit of Her Womb

16. Becoming Men

17. People Who Love Life

18. Fries with That?

19. The Machinery of Night

20. The Wolf

21. The Wicked

22. 265 and Heaven

23. The Night Before Alec Got Married

24. Ice Palace

25. Why My Doll is Evil

26. The Five

27. The Dark Game

28. Only Connect

29. The Ripening Sweetness of Late Afternoon

30. Chosen

31. Damned If You Do

32. The Hurting Season

33. I Am infinite, I Contain Multitudes

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Night Asylum: Tales of Mystery and Horror (Douglas Clegg Short Story Collections) Nov 10, 2012

by Douglas Clegg

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

"Clegg at his finest...a must read." ★★★★★
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Douglas Clegg come 18 tales of mind-bending supernatural horror and spellbinding suspense in this single author short story collection. For fans of Koontz, Stephen King, Joe Hill and Peter Straub.

Enter the Night Asylum to meet:
Mysterious children surrounded by houseflies; a strange woman in a small town stalked by a preacher; boys trying to survive a terrifying boot camp; fraternity brothers who find a deeper brotherhood during a wintry Hell Week; a boy named Charlie, who may have more up his sleeve than meets the eye; a cop named Paul who discovers a tenement that opens the door into a place nightmares -- or heaven; Nix -- a patient in an asylum -- who holds the key to the secret geometry of night itself...and more.

Night Asylum

Table of Contents:

"Where Flies Are Born"

"Becoming Men"

"The Skin of the World"

"People Who Love Life"

"Fries With That?"

"The Machinery of Night"

"The Wicked"

"265 and Heaven"

"Ice Palace"

"Why My Doll is Evil"

"The Five"

"Subway Turnstile"

"Belinda in the Pool"

"The American"

"The Stain"

"The Wolf"

"A Madness of Starlings"

"The Dark Game"

About the Author:

Douglas Clegg's collection The Nightmare Chronicles won both the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award. A novelist with more than 25 books written, he has also written more than 50 short stories, and many of these are collected in the books The Nightmare Chronicles, Wild Things, and this collection, Night Asylum. He is currently writing several short stories and novelettes toward a new collection of short fiction to come in 2013.

Look for other books by Douglas Clegg:

The Children’s Hour
Goat Dance
Purity
Dark of the Eye
The Words
Wild Things
Nightmare House
Bad Karma
Red Angel
Night Cage
Mischief
The Infinite
The Abandoned
The Necromancer
Isis
The Hour Before Dark
You Come When I Call You
Naomi
The Nightmare Chronicles
The Machinery of Night
Breeder
The Attraction

Praise for Douglas Clegg's Fiction:

"Douglas Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows just how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills..." - Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series.

"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.

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Night Cage: A mind-bending thriller with a killer twist (The Criminally Insane Series Book 3) Apr 11, 2012

by Douglas Clegg

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He feels safe in his cage. But if he escapes, you'll never feel safe again.

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.

But her son Doc's been arrested, processed, and held at Darden State -- and is considered one of the most dangerous of the hospital's inmates. As wildfires burn out of control in Southern California, authorities face the overwhelming task of relocating hundreds of Darden's patients to other prison hospitals before the raging inferno descend

In the frenzy, "Bloody Mary" finds her opportunity to free her son.

It's up to Trey Campbell and officer Jane Laymon to hunt for the mother-son duo in the dark underworld maze of the old asylum beneath the hospital.

The Criminally Insane Series:

Book #1, Bad Karma
Book #2, Red Angel
Book #3, Night Cage

Author Note: Night Cage was originally published in paperback under the author's pen name, Andrew Harper.

Books by Douglas Clegg

Afterlife
Goat Dance
Purity
Dark of the Eye
The Words
Wild Things
The Children's Hour
The Criminally Insane Series:
Bad Karma
Red Angel
Night Cage
The Harrow Series:
Nightmare House
Mischief
The Infinite
The Abandoned
The Hour Before Dark
You Come When I Call You
Naomi
The Nightmare Chronicles
The Machinery of Night
Isis
The Necromancer

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.

"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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FIC050000 FICTION / Crime

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Mischief: A Novel of Ghosts and Haunting (The Harrow Series) May 9, 2012

by Douglas Clegg

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They eat your fear.

"A page-turning breakneck-speed horror story!" ★★★★★ A dark fraternity pursues Jim Hook when he enrolls at Harrow Academy, awakening its buried horrors and occult mysteries in Book 2 of the Harrow series. **Get all the Harrow novels: Nightmare House, Mischief, The Infinite and The Abandoned.** Harrow has waited for years…The mansion looms above the Hudson River, just outside the town of Watch Point, New York. Converted into a school for boys, its evil has remained dormant for many years. But when a boy named Jim Hook enters Harrow Academy, all hell breaks loose — and his worst nightmare may just come true!"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation."— Bentley Little, bestselling author of The Haunted and The House."Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby." — Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling author of Phantoms

About the Author

Douglas Clegg spent years researching hauntings as well as a specific ruins in the Hudson Valley to create Harrow and its history. He currently lives in New England, by the edge of a rock cliff, in a very haunted house.

The Harrow Series:

Harrow is a place of infinite hauntings -- and horror.

Book #1, Nightmare House - set at Harrow in the 1920s, the grandson of its creator has come to claim his deadly inheritance and explore the terrifying mystery within the ancient stones and passages of the house.
#2, Mischief - Boys will be boys -- and a dark fraternity of misfits seek out Jim Hook, the new student at Harrow Academy -- but something more terrifying is hunting Jim, as well.
#3, The Infinite - A handful of psychic investigators are called in to document the horrors of Harrow -- but little do they know that the house is more than simply a haunted place -- it is the soul of evil itself.
#4, The Abandoned -- In the village of Watch Point, New York, in the bucolic Hudson Valley, something toxic and horrifying has leaked from the old boarded-up mansion called Harrow. Throughout the town, people who sleep awaken with blood-lust in their hearts -- and hatchets in their fists. A rampage of mayhem, murder and madness begins -- and only those brave enough to enter Harrow may find a way to stop the terror.

Harrow Prequels

Necromancer - set in the 1800s, this is the story of the young Justin Gravesend and his initiation into a terrifying mystery cult.
Isis - set right at the end of the 1800s, the story of the young Iris Villiers when she discovers the terrible price that must be paid to speak with the dead.

Praise for Douglas Clegg's Fiction

"Douglas Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows just how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills..." - Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series. "Clegg delivers!"— John Saul, bestselling author of Faces of Fear and The Devil's Labyrinth."Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction."— Peter Straubauthor of Lost Boy, Lost Girl and the NY Times Bestseller Black House (with Stephen King)"Clegg is one of the best!"— Richard Laymon"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!"— Robert R. McCammon

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Neverland Jun 24, 2014

by Douglas Clegg

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Fear is a shack in the woods.

"Couldn't put it down!"★★★★★ "A gothic masterpiece!" ★★★★★
Page-turning suspense and supernatural horror blend in this classic novel of innocence corrupted. What lurks within the shack? What kinds of dangerous — and deadly — games do the children play there?

“A brilliant novel that grows richer with each reading, a multilayered marvel that will one day be recognized as one of the classics of supernatural literature.” — Bentley Little.

For years, the Jackson family vacationed at their matriarch's old Victorian house on Gull Island, a place of superstition and legend off the southern coast of the U.S. One particular summer, young Beau follows his cousin Sumter into a shack hidden among the brambles and windswept trees near bluffs overlooking the sea.

And within Neverland, the mysteries and terror grow...

"Douglas Clegg's Neverland is an unforgettable novel that combines creeping horror and psychological suspense. It starts like a bullet and never slows down." - David Morrell, New York Times Bestselling Author of Murder as a Fine Art.

“This is a powerful and thrilling tale, Douglas Clegg’s best novel yet. The novel builds in whispers and ends in a scream. You will never forget Neverland.” - F. Paul Wilson, New York Times Bestselling Author of Nightworld and the Repairman Jack series.

"From start to finish, Neverland is a haunting and tragic masterpiece. A powerful, thrilling tale, Douglas Clegg tells Beau and Sumner's incredible story with a subtle blend of humor and sadness that resonates with the reader long after the novel ends.” - Marjorie M. Liu, New York Times Bestselling Author.

“A brilliant novel that grows richer with each reading, a multilayered marvel that will one day be recognized as one of the classics of supernatural literature.” - Bentley Little, Bestselling Author of The Influence and The Haunted.

"Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby." - Dean Koontz, New York Times Bestselling Author of Odd Thomas and Innocence.

"Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows just how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills. Neverland is Clegg at his best." - Tess Gerritsen, New York Times Bestselling Author of Girl Missing and the Rizzoli & Isles series of novels.

“Douglas Clegg . . . could have hung out with (in a better world) Robert R. McCammon, Bentley Little and Stephen King. These are guys who know America, and know how to literally scare up the best and worst aspects of the American character and slap them into a ripping yarn full of monsters, terror and enough action to keep the pages turning late into the night.” - Rick Kleffel, book commentator for NPR

“Combing elements of H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, southern gothic, and adolescent angst, Douglas Clegg subsumes us in horror with Neverland, a tale so chilling it infected my dreams. Clegg builds horror in rich detailed layers. It is a testament to Clegg’s gifts that we can’t turn away; scary though the trip may be, the fright reaches out from the pages and pulls us along…Neverland is scary stuff, the product of a skilled writer of horror, and best read with the lights on.” - San Francisco Book Reviews

“I can tell you without hesitation that Neverland is a true gothic masterpiece. I am incredibly impressed with it. This is a remarkable piece of literature.”- Scott A. Johnson, Dread Central.

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Nightmare House: A chilling gothic thriller of ghosts and haunting (The Harrow Series) Apr 11, 2012

by Douglas Clegg

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In Harrow, no one rests in peace.

"A frightening thrill ride...I couldn't put this book down." ★★★★★
"Spine-chilling!"★★★★★
A young man inherits the most haunted house and comes face to face with its diabolical horror. Read the supernatural chiller of the legendary haunting from the bestselling author who "can chill the spine so effectively the reader should keep paramedics on standby!" – Dean Koontz.

“Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction.” — Peter Straub, NY Times bestselling author of Black House (with Stephen King), Ghost Story, and Mystery.

Note: The Harrow series consists of several books set in or around the haunted estate in the Hudson Valley. Each Harrow story can be read out-of-order because the main continuing character is the dark mansion itself or those people who have or will touch it.

The Harrow Series:

Book #1, Nightmare House - set at Harrow in the 1920s, the grandson of its creator has come to claim his deadly inheritance and explore the terrifying mystery within the ancient stones and passages of the house.

#2, Mischief - Boys will be boys — and a dark fraternity of misfits seek out Jim Hook, the new student at Harrow Academy — but something more terrifying is hunting Jim, as well.

#3, The Infinite - A handful of psychic investigators are called in to document the horrors of Harrow — but little do they know that the house is more than simply a haunted place — it may be the soul of evil itself.

#4, The Abandoned — In the village of Watch Point, New York, in the bucolic Hudson Valley, something toxic and horrifying has leaked from the old boarded-up mansion called Harrow. Throughout the town, people who sleep awaken with blood-lust in their hearts — and hatchets in their fists. A rampage of mayhem, murder and madness begins — and only those brave enough to enter Harrow may find a way to stop the terror.

Harrow Prequel Novellas

The Necromancer - set in the 1800s, this is the story of the young Justin Gravesend and his initiation into a terrifying mystery cult.

Isis - set right at the end of the 1800s, the story of young Iris Villiers when she discovers the terrible price that must be paid to the dead.

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You Come When I Call You: A Novel of Supernatural Horror Sep 15, 2012

by Douglas Clegg

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Demonic Possession, Small Town Horror, Supernatural Epic

"Horror at its finest!" ★★★★★ "A page-turner...riveting...scary...epic."★★★★★
A girl born from darkness pursues four friends haunted by a shocking event from the past in this acclaimed supernatural horror epic from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author.

An old friend is hunting them. He calls himself the Desolation Angel. At the center of it all, a mysterious girl – and the creature that possesses her soul.

Read all of New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Douglas Clegg's novels of the supernatural, including Neverland, Goat Dance, and The Children's Hour.

For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Guillermo del Toro.

*"Horror at its finest!" – Starred Review in Publisher's Weekly.

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The Children's Hour: A gripping supernatural thriller with a twist Jan 13, 2012

by Douglas Clegg

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They smell your fear.

"Kept me on the edge of my seat!" ★★★★★ "Supernatural horror-filled mystery that will haunt..." ★★★★★ They come at night. They follow you. They remember what you did. When Joe Gardner returns with his wife and kids to the peaceful mountain town of Colony, West Virginia, he doesn’t expect to run into the child who disappeared when he was a boy. But she remembers Joe. And she has plans for him. A supernatural horror thriller from the NY Times bestselling author of Nightmare House & The Hour Before Dark.

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

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

"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.

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Coming of Age: Three Dark Novellas Jul 19, 2012

by Douglas Clegg

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Face of Innocence, Mind of Nightmare

Award-winning author Douglas Clegg collects three short horror and suspense novels of youth, murder, and monsters in this collection, 400 pages in print. Includes Purity, The Words, and The Attraction.

Purity

A twisting, dark psychological thriller of dangerous obsession when a young man seeks to destroy his rival for a young woman’s affection. “Douglas Clegg turns the screws dexterously in this sleek, multifaceted suspense story…”—Publisher’s Weekly.

The Words

When teenager Mark befriends outsider Dash, he believes his new friend to be an outcast rebel. But a dark mystery unfolds as Dash leads Mark into dangerous games and rituals that allow them to see into another world—a world of absolute darkness and terror.

The Attraction

The signs along the desert highway read Come See the Mystery! But some mysteries should remain buried forever… “Clegg takes the idea of a cheapjack tourist hustle for a decrepit gas station in middle-of-nowhere Arizona and turns it into a terrifying quick punch of horror…”—Alternate Reality WebZine

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The Queen of Wolves: A Vampire Dark Fantasy Epic (The Vampyricon Book 3) Oct 16, 2014

by Douglas Clegg

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"If you like Game of Thrones and vampires, you're going to love The Vampyricon."*

In a world of love, war, and betrayal, handmaidens of Death, terrifying and beautiful vampyres, shapeshifting wolf women, shadow priests, epic battles, and magnificent underworld kingdoms, The Vampyricon concludes with a titanic battle fought between the Queen of Wolves and Aleric, Falconer, the priest-king of the race of vampyres.

A war of dark and dangerous magic burns across the mortal earth.

In The Priest of Blood, a youth named Aleric became falconer, then soldier — and finally, vampyre. In The Lady of Serpents, a dark queen rose to power among the frozen towers of her kingdom. And now, she seeks the Dark Madonna from beyond the Veil. From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes the third book of the epic dark fantasy saga, The Vampyricon.

Praise for The Vampyricon:

“Astonishing. Douglas Clegg writes of…nightmares with such clarity and passion you don’t end up reading his books; you end up drinking them in. The Priest of Blood is a bloody gem.”
Christopher Rice, New York Times bestselling author of The Vines and Heaven's Rise.

*"If you like Game of Thrones and vampires, you're going to love The Vampyricon." - Robert Swartwood, USA Today bestselling author of The Serial Killer's Wife and New Avalon.

"A dark tale of swords, sorcery, and vampires." -- Christine Feehan, NY Times bestselling author.

"Douglas Clegg has accomplished a rarity in the horror vein...This book will sink its teeth into you" -- The Kansas City Star

"Richly layered, beautifully rendered foray into a past filled with sorcery and mystery -- and a rousing good story." -- Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author

"Stunning...gives the iconic vampire a massive makeover." — Publishers Weekly, starred review.

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The Lady of Serpents: A Vampire Dark Fantasy Epic (The Vampyricon Book 2) Oct 15, 2014

by Douglas Clegg

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With ancient sorceries unleashed, this game of thrones and vampires begin anew as a dark adversary holds Aleric, the Falconer, prisoner -- and prey. In this, the second book of The Vampyricon, New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg continues the epic dark saga of Aleric, the newly-anointed priest-king of the tribe of vampyres.

The kingdom is home of the shadow-priests of the Veil, who whisper dark secrets to their new queen as white towers rise and forests fall. Heretics burn on the Illumination Nights and an enormous arena houses endless gladiatorial blood-fights between vampyre and shapeshifter, and somewhere in the bowels of the castle sits an infernal machine for the torment of the vampyre race -- called the Red Scorpion.

In a medieval world, within a forgotten century where dark and dangerous magic lies hidden among lost cities of legend, Aleric the Falconer must escape his prison and find the vampyre Pythia, who has been taken prisoner herself halfway across the world.

Be sure to get the rest of the Vampyricon trilogy:

The Queen of Wolves, Book Three

“Astonishing. Douglas Clegg writes of…nightmares with such clarity and passion you don’t end up reading his books; you end up drinking them in. The Priest of Blood is a bloody gem.”
-- Christopher Rice, New York Times bestselling author of The Vines and Heaven's Rise.

"A dark tale of swords, sorcery, and vampires." -- Christine Feehan, NY Times bestselling author.

"Douglas Clegg has accomplished a rarity in the horror vein...This book will sink its teeth into you" -- The Kansas City Star

"Richly layered, beautifully rendered foray into a past filled with sorcery and mystery -- and a rousing good story." -- Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author

Stunning...gives the iconic vampire a massive makeover. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review.

Discover Douglas Clegg's fiction:

Lights Out
Neverland
The Children’s Hour
The Halloween Man
You Come When I Call You
The Hour Before Dark
Nightmare House
Bad Karma
Goat Dance
Breeder
Afterlife
Purity
Dark of the Eye
The Words
Wild Things
Red Angel
Night Cage
Mischief
The Infinite
The Abandoned
The Necromancer
Isis
Naomi
The Nightmare Chronicles
The Attraction
Night Asylum
The Priest of Blood
The Lady of Serpents
The Queen of Wolves

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Fear. Horror. Occult. Nightmare. What dark legacy haunts the village of Stonehaven?

Haunting horror, spellbinding suspense.

Table of Contents:

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

He feels safe in his cage. But if he escapes, you'll never feel safe again.

The Criminally Insane Series:

Books by Douglas Clegg

Praise for Douglas Clegg's fiction

They eat your fear.

About the Author

The Harrow Series:

Praise for Douglas Clegg's Fiction

Fear is a shack in the woods.

In Harrow, no one rests in peace.

Demonic Possession, Small Town Horror, Supernatural Epic

They smell your fear.

Face of Innocence, Mind of Nightmare

Purity

The Words

The Attraction

"If you like Game of Thrones and vampires, you're going to love The Vampyricon."*

A war of dark and dangerous magic burns across the mortal earth.

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