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Summary: A Nightmarish Read
Review: Douglas Clegg has done it again!Nightmare House is perhaps Clegg's finest--and scariest--read. Though only two hundred odd pages long, the rapid-quick prose left me breathless and aching for more. This novel is the ultimate foundation for reading all the Harrow House books. So if you're a Harrow fan, read this book NOW. For fans of splatter horror, this book may not quench your appetite. Nonetheless, the atmospheric mood and in-depth characterization (and detailed history of the 1920's) breathes life into the words. I promise you that you'll start seeing shadows move and hear things go bump if you spend just ONE night reading Nightmare House. If only more books were like this one... Bravo! Mr. Clegg!
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Summary: Clegg's Haunting Nightmare House
Review: Douglas Clegg never ceases to amaze me. With each book he writes, he explores either suspense or supernatural horror in a way that both reaffirms its traditions and goes a step further. Nightmare House is a direct hit on the old-fashioned stories of hauntings and ghostly visitations from the late 19th and early 20th century, but with some major twists. Set in the mid-1920s, Nightmare House begins as a tale of inheritance: a man at the ledge of youth and middle-age inherits his grandfather's sprawling mansion called Harrow. But when he enters the house, he isn't prepared for its puzzle-box of mysteries and secrets, and its occult past, which determined the terrors within. The real brilliance of this novel is that Clegg manages to explore the psyche of a man turned bad, who once believed himself good. For horror lovers, this book has exorcisms, living burial, hidden rooms of arcana and artifact. There's a tale of a man who so wanted to hide a scandal of his life that he destroyed someone else's life to keep the secret, and in doing so he creates a hidden world. It never goes over-the-top. Clegg manages to rein in the elements, to keep it to the one consciousness of Ethan/Esteban, the unreliable but fascinating narrator of this tale. An extra novella is included after Nightmare House. It's called Purity. In a little more than a 100 pages, Clegg manages to write about a boy with no soul who wants everything and will stop at very little to get it. Until he meets his match in another boy, who is a confusion of wants. Purity is told as a love triangle, a story of classes on a moneyed summer island from the viewpoint (primarily) of the teenager who has no money, and it builds to a powerful, unexpected, blunt climax. While it has a slight Lovecraftian reference (to Dagon), it's really about a boy who wants so much that he can't have, that he is driven to do things that he does not want to do, including murder. While this is not a major novel, in the way that Clegg's novel of 2003 (The Hour Before Dark) is, this book contains two great in-between short novels to tide me over until Afterlife, a book of Clegg's I found on Amazon that's coming out this coming December in paperback. If you haven't picked up a Clegg book yet, pick this one up, and then go for The Hour Before Dark, and Naomi. I can't think of another writer who writes supernatural horror and suspense who matches the depth and variety of his fiction.
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Summary: Harrow Prequel Sets Haunting Stage
Review: Douglas Clegg's NIGHTMARE HOUSE is a must read. Mr Clegg's smooth reading style emphasizes the necessary elements to prepare the reader for the two other Harrow novels, THE INFINITE and MISCHIEF. The reader is instantly drawn into Mr. Clegg's world of darkness and when the journey is over you only wish to return to Harrow for more horrific adventures. Very much like an old fashioned Universal horror movie, NIGHTMARE HOUSE gets the job done.
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Summary: A good book to pick up.
Review: Ethan has inherited his grandfathers mansion. Along with that home some memories of his childhood are rekindled and secrets uncovered that were never meant to be distrubed. Ethan gets some help to understand the supernatural events around him and learn about the errie past of the mansion his grandfather built, but at what cost to them all? This is a real page turner by Clegg, he leaves you wanting more!!
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Summary: Eerie Ghost tale
Review: Fans of THE INFINITE will devour this short, spooky ghost tale from Clegg that takes place (again) in the Harrow house. Loads of spooky atmopshere (and even food for thought) keep the pages turning. My only gripe was the short length, but the added novella PURITY will be loved by fans of Lovecraft as well as supernatural horror. Clegg continues to dominate the genre.
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Summary: Nightmare House
Review: I bought the paperback novel Nightmare House and read the whole book in one night. It was wonderful!! It sums up alot about Harrow house that I didn't know and tied alot of the other stories together. It definately gives the chills and goosebumps of a horror novel even without the gore. Douglas Clegg is a wonderful writer and I love his books about Harrow House, I'm looking forward to the next one. I recommend this book to anyone who has been reading his other books about Harrow because this sums up some unanswered questions not answered in the other books. Even if you know nothing about Harrow you will still understand all this book is written about. I give it 5 stars!!
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Summary: Nightmare House
Review: I bought the paperback novel Nightmare House and read the whole book in one night. It was wonderful!! It sums up alot about Harrow house that I didn't know and tied alot of the other stories together. It definately gives the chills and goosebumps of a horror novel even without the gore. Douglas Clegg is a wonderful writer and I love his books about Harrow House, I'm looking forward to the next one. I recommend this book to anyone who has been reading his other books about Harrow because this sums up some unanswered questions not answered in the other books. Even if you know nothing about Harrow you will still understand all this book is written about. I give it 5 stars!!
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Summary: NIGHTMARE HOUSE and PURITY
Review: I enjoyed both of these stories. I ended up wishing that both were longer, as I hated for them to come to a close. PURITY was somehwat disturbing, which made it an excellent horror tale. Kudos to Douglas Clegg for two fine efforts!
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Summary: classic haunting story
Review: I haven't read such a spine tingling ghost story since Shirly Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. This story had rich characters and a well thought out history as to why there was a haunting. I was very disappointed when I'd finished-as
I wanted MORE. So glad Mr. Clegg has written more stories about Harrow. Be sure there's someone home with you at night
when you read this one!
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Summary: classic haunting story
Review: I haven't read such a spine tingling ghost story since Shirly Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. This story had rich characters and a well thought out history as to why there was a haunting. I was very disappointed when I'd finished-as
I wanted MORE. So glad Mr. Clegg has written more stories about Harrow. Be sure there's someone home with you at night
when you read this one!
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