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Summary: Things that go "bump" in the night!
Review: Nightmare House takes you back to the days of horror before "blood and gore" were necessary to scare the pants off you. A very simple haunted house story that grips you from the first page and leaves you breathless at the end. Clegg takes the simple story and adds twists along the way to make it hard to put this book down. The best thing about Nightmare House though is that is it not done, the story of Harrow House is further explored in Mischief and The Infinite.
It has been a long time since I have read horror like this. Clegg has returned to the true roots of horror and maybe he will never return.
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Summary: Things that go "bump" in the night!
Review: Nightmare House takes you back to the days of horror before "blood and gore" were necessary to scare the pants off you. A very simple haunted house story that grips you from the first page and leaves you breathless at the end. Clegg takes the simple story and adds twists along the way to make it hard to put this book down. The best thing about Nightmare House though is that is it not done, the story of Harrow House is further explored in Mischief and The Infinite.It has been a long time since I have read horror like this. Clegg has returned to the true roots of horror and maybe he will never return.
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Summary: Nightmare house
Review: Nightmare house, by Douglas Clegg If you like a good ghost story, set in the 1920, I recamind that you pick up a copy of Nightmare House. It is the story of a man that inharets a hous from his Grandfather and the horrors that he found their. Some of the seens got under my skin. I can not tell you much about the plot, with out giving much away, but I do recamind you read the story.
The book also has the novala Purity in it, which is a tell about a mans decent into madness, to get the love of a girl he fell in love with. Charles
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Summary: Welcome to Harrow
Review: So begins the Harrow Saga. This started as an excellent story only to become the begining of the World of Harrow. Not a series but a world. Three other books are now in print with more to come. Enter Harrow, Doug Clegg left the door open for you.
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Summary: Maybe I'm reading the wrong book?????
Review: So far, I'm on page 107 of a 218 page story and nothing even remotely scary has happened. The constable is rambling on and on and on about good cigars and the little quirks and eccentricities of the towns-people. Page-turner??? I'm having a hard time staying awake in order to turn the next page!
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Summary: The bonus novella PURITY is Clegg's best effort...
Review: This book is well worth your time for the bonus novella PURITY alone. It's probably the best thing Clegg's ever written. An intense, extremely well written character study (almost reminiscent at times of the writing of John Irving) PURITY is a pure pleasure to read. I'd instantly recommend it to any horror fan out there, and any fan of good writing and good storytelling. The main attraction, NIGHTMARE HOUSE, is also a good tale, but it didn't leave me breathless the way PURITY did. The second of three novels dealing with the haunted Harrow mansion (MISCHIEF and THE INFINITE fill out the trilogy) NIGHTMARE HOUSE is at times eerie and thrilling, but tends towards a softness of focus that keeps readers from being fully engaged in the characters the way they are in the laser-sharp PURITY. Still NIGHTMARE HOUSE is a fine addition to Clegg's body of work, and I'm eager to read his new novel AFTERLIFE later this year.
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Summary: Truly Captivating
Review: This is one of those novels that I just didn't want to put down and wished would never end. Douglas Clegg is truly a master of horror fiction. He knows how to strike the chords of terror within the human mind without the crutches of butchery and gore. His eloquent writing style captivates the senses in such a way you can almost feel, see, hear and taste his every word. Whether this makes any sense at all, I can best describe this novel as terrifyingly beautiful and that I was beautifully terrified.
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Summary: Alive and Not Close to Dying
Review: This is the first book to pick up before "MISCHIEF" & "INFINITE". A Diary of the man who constructed from the very ground up, this Mansion of Mayhem and Horror. Evil lurks in the most mysterious room of HARLOW. If there is one way in, there is another very well hidden. Murder, Family, Life, Untold Secrets. The History of Harlow is this book.
And what you uncover in every chapter is just amazing. Don't let this book slip by your hands.
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Summary: Okay, so I have to ask what happened?
Review: Was Mr. Clegg not feeling well? Was he being pressured by The Man and had to rush the writing? As I sit here in a state of bewilderment and confusion I have to wonder- what went wrong? I have read quite a few books by Clegg and he always managed to thrill me. This book, on the other hand, was depressingly bad. So, again, I ask, What Happened? With a plot that has been retold umpteen times, Clegg adds neither originality nor stimulation to an old tale. The atmosphere starts out with an air of mystery and soon begins to generate a feeling of being in a trance. The characters were my biggest problem with this book. Concentrating more on the backdrop of the story, Clegg never takes the time to develop what could have been a fascinating cast. Unable to get past the embryo stage, the characters appear lifeless and stagnant. The most interesting characters were transient, the remaining characters given only a brief dialogue and to top it off we are force-fed a weak romance.
The only saving grace in this book is the inclusion of the novella. "Purity". A thriller about a sociopath living on a small island that has decided love is for the taking. Written in a tone reminiscent of Lovecraft, the story is dark and subversive. In only 117 pages, Clegg managed to rouse me from my slumber.
My rating? I give it a 2 . Although the main story was inert and spiritless, the novella is a must read. Next time your at the local library, pick this book up. -Bloodymary
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Summary: Nightmare House
Review: Wow...what a great, and scary read!
I've been up all night blazing through "Nightmare House". I never pass up a Straub, King or Dan Simmons book. I was looking for something new from one of them when I spotted "Nightmare House", while browsing at the supermarket.
Lucky me!! Now I have someone new to read.
After I was through I did two things. One was to thank God I wasn't anywhere near a place like Harrow House, the other was to go to my laptop and search Douglas Clegg's website for more titles from him. Now I have a post it note in front of me with several titles from Douglas Clegg. As soon as the book store opens ,I am off on a Clegg hunt!! I love it when I read a book
with a style that just grabs me. You know immediately that you can read a lot more of the same. What was turning out to be a kind of boring vacation will now be scary as hell!!
Thanks Doug...
Regards....Al Garza
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