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Summary: The scariest horror novel ever!
Review: I was chilled and thrilled by You Come When I Call You byDouglas Clegg. This is the best horror novel I have read in ages, andI would never have been prepared for this by Clegg's previous fiction.Clegg writes over a twenty year timespan taking characters who I absolutely believed in from the age of 16 to their mid thirties, and the horror that haunts each one of them in very separate ways -- and yet, they're all connected. The only criticism of the book is: too much time is spent on the characters toward the middle of the book -- getting to know them, their backgrounds, their histories, how they came to be, etc. I can't say I didn't enjoy this -- I just wanted to get back to the horror! ... I just wanted the nightmares to keep coming back. And the town! A desert town has never been better portrayed in fiction. Dogfights, sexual heat, the endless horizon... If you have ever been a fan of the best of horror fiction -- Ghost Story by Peter Straub, The Stand by Stephen King, Swan Song by Robert R McCammon -- you owe it to yourself to get You Come When I Call You. It is easily the best supernatural story to have been written in the past decade. Douglas Clegg has written a masterpiece.
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Summary: Excellent Read!
Review: Clegg is one of my favorite authors and his latest is one of his best! YOU COME WHEN I CALL YOU is on par with THE CHILDREN'S HOUR, which is by far my favorite Clegg title. YOU COME WHEN I CALL YOU is fast paced and populated with those quirky characters about which Clegg writes. A MUST BUY for all horror and suspense fans!
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Summary: READ THIS BOOK!
Review: This book is the real thing. I have been reading horror for more years than I care to recount and this is probably one of the most original, literate novels I have read in ten years.This book has genuinely chilling moments when you feel your breath suspended awaiting what comes next.I thought Mr Clegg had outdone himself with "The Nightmare Chronicles" Uh-Uh.....He again proves what a master her is.Notice I do not mention the plot...that is yours to discover and enjoy but, sincerely, buy this and no, I am not related. Just a fan!
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Summary: Ambitious but a little disappointing
Review: This book is very ambitious written by a very ambitious horror author. However, not quite ambitious enough. The story seemed rushed resulting in characters that the reader lacks empathy for. Maybe an extra 150-200 pages would of made up for this, as almost every sequence is trying to scare you instead of build any characterization. The horror was not nearly as disturbing as Clegg's short fiction or his novel The Halloween Man. It is a worthy read for a fan of horror fiction, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone else. Hopefully Clegg's next novel Mischief will be a more cohesive, complete effort.
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Summary: Excellent read from Douglas Clegg
Review: A group of friends experience a horror at young age which they carry with them all their lives, only to return to its origin and face it once more. Douglas Clegg is a original, great horror writer and this novel doesn't disappoint. He gets better with each book and is simply one ofthe most under-rated talents out there. As King got boring over the past years, Clegg became much better.
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Summary: One of his best
Review: I'll admit that I just recently discovered Douglas Clegg and I'm not reading his books in the order they were published. I started with The Hour Before Dark and went from there, and so far I have to say this is one of his best! I felt maybe it was a little long, but there are so many characters and their lives are woven together in such a neat way that any wordiness can be forgiven. I give this book five stars and highly recommend it!
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Summary: You run when he calls you
Review: "You Come When I Call You" is not the best book I have ever read, and that is being kind. The book is about three very unbalenced adults who are experincing waking nightmares because of an event in their childhood. Douglas Clegg is not very forth coming with an explanation of where the bad guy (or girl) Wendy came from. We get her back story, but it makes little since. In fact very little in the book makes any since. It's like a combination of Stephen King and Hunter S. Thompson. The book is a nightmare logic, meaning it is all surreal images (and very disturbingly graphic) with almost no narritive thread. It's like a very bad acid trip. The three main charcters, Peter, Alison, and Charlie , all have their psyche so messed up by the event in childhood (they all seemed to have been possesed by a demon and killed everyone in their sleepy little southern California town) that they are not very useful narrating the action through. The book is almost 400 pages long, and it seems like much more than that. The book is like wading through soup. I have heard that Clegg is a good writer; I don't know, maybe I just started with the wrong book.
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Summary: Short Attention Span Theatre; Poor Eyesight? Skip this one!
Review: One of the downsides of buying online is sometimes you don't get a "feel" for the book. This particular book brought that home to me. Whoever wrote the blubs for these books is a far better writer than the author himself.
Mr Clegg writes like an overly complicated John Saul; not necassarily giving our heroes much of a shot at surviving, nor being very likable.
It is also written in such a poor font, that if you have poor eyesight, or suffer from headaches from eyestrain, this is definitely not worth the trouble.
His writing skips around like ants on a hot skillet, and the book was released without being completely proofread. misspelled words, poor phraseology ... there are so many stumbling blocks in the book it was a chore to finish, even for a book-o-holic like myself.
I dislike leaving poor reviews, but I wish I had known these things Before purchasing close over half his available releases. Mr Clegg, please forgive me as I may appear unkind ... I am simply trying so save other people their money's worth.
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Summary: You Will Read When Clegg Writes....
Review: ...Is the best way I can sum up the man's unique talent! This book is fantastic, and the man who wrote it deserves lots of praise. This is something I rarely say when I am new to an author's work, but it is so true in this case. This book grabbed me from the very first page, and keeps getting more interesting with each page I read. I am only a little under half way through the book and it is already scaring me silly! One of the things so appealing about this novel is that it goes from past to present and back again through out, making for a psychological rollercoaster as you try to figure out exactly what the characters indured that was traumatic enough to affect their lives even twenty years after "it" happened! Pick up this book and I promise you will not regret answering "the call"! This won't be the last time I visit Clegg's strange and exciting world!
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Summary: A good story, but I was expecting more...
Review: A very good novel, but just that. Good. I was expecting more from Clegg. And I don't know how to quantify that. More. The book was ok, but it seemed to bog down at times. It didn't move as smoothly as some of his other novels. Still anything he writes is better than a lot of other stuff passing as horror fiction these days. A very capable writer who knows how to scare [...] people.
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