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Title: The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg ISBN: 0-8439-4580-X Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Give me more nightmares!
Comment: I loved Nightmare Chronicles! I grabbed this book as soon as I saw it and devoured all 13 stories in one sitting. This is the best horror collection I have read since King's Night Shift. Clegg is now my favorite horror novelist.
If you like King and Koontz and Simmons and McCammon and Barker, you will love Douglas Clegg.
Rating: 5
Summary: The most disturbing book
Comment: I am new to Douglas Clegg's fiction, but I can guarantee that The Nightmare Chronicles will be just the first in a long line of books I'll read by this guy.
What struck me about this collection of short stories was that it is like entering a room with someone who is going to tell you stories in the dark. The set up of the kidnapping story that wraps around the dozen or so short stories in this book is intriguing but doesn't overpower the main event.
The main event are some of the most delicious short stories of terror I've read since I read early Stephen King, Robert Bloch, or Richard Matheson. Clegg is not as much of a structuralist as those other writers. One can almost feel him going with the imagery in some cases over the plot. I would go so far as to suggest that what this writer finds in the horror of his fiction is beauty and some kind of kinship.
"White Chapel" is a standout, as is "I Am Infinite; I Contain Multitudes." They're like bookends to the other stories, some brief "The Little Mermaid," some a bit overly complicated like "Chosen."
One or two of the stories seemed ragged to me, but still inspired.
The reason I'm writing this review is because I bought the book here and something in it definitely spoke to me. There is something very personal in this collection.
I recommend it to readers who want horror fiction that goes beyond the page.
Rating: 4
Summary: creepy and unsettling
Comment: Clegg's short stories are a cut above (sorry) most because they rely on atmosphere and twisted psychology rather than blood and gore (though there is a fair share of that here). Having said that, there are a few here that still come off as a bit routine, and only a few are truly memorable. High marks, nevertheless, by someone who sees most modern horror fiction as future landfill.
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Title: Mischief by Douglas Clegg ISBN: 0843947667 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Halloween Man by Douglas Clegg ISBN: 0843944390 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Naomi by Douglas Clegg ISBN: 0843948574 Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: You Come When I Call You by Douglas Clegg ISBN: 0843946954 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Infinite (Leisure Horror) by Doug Clegg ISBN: 0843950552 Publisher: Leisure Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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