Douglas Clegg

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  • Bibliography:
    52 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1989
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Full Series List in Order

The Criminally Insane

1 - Bad Karma (May-2012)
2 - Red Angel (May-2012)
3 - Night Cage (Jun-2012)

The Mordred Trilogy

1 - Mordred, Bastard Son (Jan-2006)

The Vampyricon

1 - The Priest of Blood (Oct-2005)
2 - The Lady of Serpents (Sep-2006)
3 - The Queen of Wolves (Sep-2007)

Book List in Order: 52 titles

  • Goat Dance

    From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes a novel of heart-pounding suspense and supernatural horror. What secrets lie within the ancient place known as the Goat Dance?  "Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares...Goat Dance is a...

  • Breeder

    From Douglas Clegg, award-winning author of The Hour Before Dark and The Children's Hour, comes a nightmarish vision of Washington, D.C. where a new horror is born within the walls of an ancient house -- haunted by a diabolical ritual and a terrifyin...

  • Neverland

    "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 da...

  • Dark of the Eye

    A girl named Hope becomes the prey in a monstrous hunt in this chilling supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg. A tragic accident leaves young Hope Stewart with an extraordinary power that is both blessing and curs...

  • The Children's Hour

    Returning from Baltimore with his wife and children, a successful writer is haunted by an accident that should have claimed his life, and a girl who has been missing for thirteen years mysteriously returns. Original....

  • Only Connect

    in The Conspiracy Files

    Fresh from the fertile minds of some of today's most imaginative writers comes a collection of short fiction that takes readers behind the scenes to unmask conspirators and their plots, some of which may even be true. Original....

  • The Halloween Man

    The New England coastal town of Stonehaven had a history of nightmares--and dark secrets. But when Stony Crawford fell in love with beautiful Lourdes Maria Castillo, he became the unwitting pawn in a game of horror and darkness, a game that had been ...

  • Asylum

    Bedtime Stories for the Criminally Insane...

    The Asylum is a collection of never-before-published short horror stories written by masters of the macabre, including some of the top new voices in horror fiction today, and for the next millenium. Dou...

  • The Nightmare Chronicles

    These short stories from a master storyteller of horror, The Nightmare Chronicles is a world of horror within the boundaries of a book -- the equivalent of opening a Pandora's box of terror and growing fear. It all begins when a young boy is held ca...



  • You Come When I Call You

    A heart-pounding supernatural epic spanning two decades in the lives of four friends, You Come When I Call You is a classic of supernatural thrills from New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Douglas Clegg. A high desert town...

  • Purity

    Limited time only price for this full-length novella!

    From award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a dark psychological thriller of madness, love and turning 18 -- and murder.

    In the novella PURITY, the darkest force is love.

    O...

  • Mischief

    From the dark imagination of New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg, comes the 2nd book in the chilling Harrow series! In Mischief, the horror of Harrow is reborn -- as Harrow Academy, a private school for boy...

  • Naomi

    All author profits from the first edition paperback of NAOMI are designated for the National Down Syndrome Society.

    The mystery and darkness of what lies beneath New York City is at the heart of one of the most page-turning, heart-stopping rides i...

  • The Hour Before Dark

    While trying to sort out the problems within their dysfunctional family, the Raglan siblings must now face the brutal murder of their father, Gordie, and return to the childhood home that they desperately wish to forget, where an unimaginable evil wa...

  • Four Dark Nights

  • The Infinite

    Harrow is haunted, they say. The mansion is a place of tragedy and nightmares, evil and insanity. First it was a madman's fortress; then it became a school. Now it lies empty. But an obsessed woman and a ghost hunter want to bring the house back to l...

  • Nightmare House

    A chilling gothic novel of the most haunted house in the world from New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning novelist, Douglas Clegg -- the 1st Book of the Harrow Series!  The Key to Harrow... The house called Harrow has an ancie...

  • The Necromancer

    Occult societies, murder, brothels, London, and a young debauched Victorian on the loose… From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes "...a cross between the Marquis de Sade and Charles Dickens...Scintillatingly bri...

  • The Attraction

    When a group of teenagers checks out the "mystery" in the back of a gas station, which is the remains of an ancient mummy, they unwittingly bring the attraction to life, unleashing a demon that is hungry for flesh. Original....



  • The Machinery of Night

  • Afterlife

    In New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg's page-turning blend of psychic thriller and gothic mystery, a brutal murder ignites a series of dark, erotic, paranormal invasions. Julie Hutchinson believes someone's breaking into her house while...

  • The Abandoned

    There is a dark and isolated mansion, boarded-up and avoided, on a hill just beyond the town of Watch Point in New York's Hudson Valley. It has been abandoned too long and fallen into disrepair. It is called Harrow and it does not like to be ignored....

  • The Priest of Blood

    The Vampyricon - 1

    The New York Times bestselling novel of sword, sorcery -- and vampyres! From New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a heart-pounding heroic epic of gothic dark fantasy in The Priest of Blood, Book One of T...

  • Mordred, Bastard Son

    The Mordred Trilogy - 1

    “Inspired.” -- Booklist

    “Refreshingly original.” -- Publishers Weekly

    A monk becomes enthralled by the story prisoner Mordred has to tell, one of ambition, power, and betrayal. Here, Mordred emerges as a sympathetic and romanti...

  • Isis

    New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg brings us Isis, a beautifully illustrated, unforgettable novella that is sure to become a classic tale of the supernatural. If you lost someone you loved, what would you pay to bring them back from the ...

  • The Lady of Serpents

    The Vampyricon - 2

    Hailed as the prophesied messiah of the vampyre, Aleric seemed destined for glory-until, like many of his brethren, he was captured by the sorceress Enora. Imprisoned, he is now forced to fight in the arena for her amusement. To end Enora's reign...

  • Wild Things

    From award-winning and bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes a special quartet of stories dealing with creatures of the wild some are wolf, some bird, some the most terrifying of beasts: the human variety. Two of these tales "The Wolf" and "The Amer...

  • The Queen of Wolves

    The Vampyricon - 3

    After rescuing Pythia, the creature who turned him into a vampire, Aleric follows her back to the land of the Saracens. There, they must raise an army, for Aleric's lost love, Enora, has become the Queen of the Wastelands. Aided by her minions and he...

  • The Words

    When Mark befriends outsider Dash, he believes his new friend to be an outcast rebel. But Dash leads Mark into terror…...



  • Bad Karma

    The Criminally Insane - 1

    “I’m coming for you. You will never escape me.” She’s the most dangerous inmate in the hospital for the criminally insane...and she just broke out. Get the series: Red Angel (#2) and Night Cage (#3). When Trey Campbell takes his family to Cat...

  • Red Angel

    The Criminally Insane - 2

    You see him every day. But you don't know who he is...on the inside.

    "Dark suspense at its best!" ............... "Suspenseful page-turner that you won't be able to put down."............... Among palm trees and swimming ...

  • Night Cage

    The Criminally Insane - 3

    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 hom...

  • Coming of Age

    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.
  • Belinda in the Pool

    Something's terribly wrong with Belinda...

    There's more to Michael's daughter than meets the eye " and some of it is disturbing. "Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."" Dean...

  • Harrow

    From bestselling and award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg, Harrow: Three Novels collects the first three novels of the Harrow Series.  This includes Nightmare House, Mischief, and The Infinite.  The house called Harrow has a long history of...

  • The Stain

    Why does it keep growing?

    Jason and his wife have a perfect life. But when Jason notices a dark stain along the collar of his son’s t-shirt, a new, creeping horror enters his perfect home. "Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectivel...

  • Halloween Chillers

    Just in time for Halloween - three chilling ebooks in one! From Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award-winning writer Douglas Clegg come three works of horror and the supernatural! Nearly 800 pages (if in print) of fiction, includ...

  • Night Asylum

    "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 Dougl...

  • Lights Out

    Dark, Scary, Thrilling, Strange, Creepy, Mysterious -- a mega-collection from a master of the fiction of nightmares. From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes this giant gathering of classic dark fiction of suspense, horror and night...



  • Dinner with the Cannibal Sisters

    They'd love to have you over for a bite...

    Lizzie Borden, Dr. Crippen, the Windrow Sisters -- murderers whose mystique has lasted more than a century. But of them all, the legend of the Windrow girls is unrivaled in its acts of depravity a...

  • Funerary Rites

    They're different. They don't even look like us. From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a dark novelette of a village caught on the edge of fear. "Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reade...

  • The Hour Before the Dark

    There are rules to every game. You must never play the Dark Game after sunset―it becomes real then. It takes you over.… The Hour Before Dark is a riveting gothic suspense novel of supernatural horror from bestselling and award-winning novelist...

  • Dark Rooms

    From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a  special box set bundle of three classic full-length novels of gothic horror & suspense (The Hour Before Dark,  Breeder,  and Afterlife) About the Books...

  • The Dark Game

    Nightmare prisons with no way out... Men imprisoned, one in war and one in an asylum, psychological suspense and spine-tingling horror at its darkest. One man, a prisoner of war; and the other, a disturbed young man who wants out of a hospital for...

  • Mr. Darkness

    My name is Mina. I'm broken in unseen places." From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes a strange, dark novel set at the crossroads of gothic fable and dark reality, mythology and magical realism. Mina - the chronicler of the demise...

  • Criminally Insane

    Shocking, gripping, breathtaking...meet the serial killers of the Criminally Insane series.

    Get ready for edge-of-your-seat reading in this box set as you meet beautiful but deadly Agnes Hatcher, the mind-bending Red Angel killer, and the mo...

  • The Poisoner's Garden and Others

    A poisonous flower, an evil doll, a well of memory and dream...Award-winning author of dark fiction, Douglas Clegg gathers 22 of his poems for the first time ever into The Poisoner's Garden & Others, ranging from those with a dark gothic edge to rhym...

  • The Faces

    Beneath the Mask of Nice, a Face of Horror....

    "Profoundly disturbing." ............... "Eerie...A must-read." ............... "Haunting...high-test nightmare fuel."...............In this dark novella from award...

  • Mrs. Bluebeard

    "I never truly believed that Olivia Palgrave was my mother."

    So begins this short novel of gothic suspense as award-winning author Douglas Clegg spins the tale of a boy growing up within the web of secrets of a house of shadows by the sea in...



  • Ghost Game

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  • Haunts

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    8 Times the Haunting! Gathered together for the first time from bestselling horror and suspense novelist Douglas Clegg, eight supernatural horror novels in one ebook box set, including:THE HOUR BEFORE DARKNEVERLANDNIGHTMARE HOUSEMISCHIEFTHE INFI...

  • Night Towns

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    Small Town Horror, Big Time Scares. A box set bundle of three huge full-length supernatural horror novels from bestselling and award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg, more than 1,500 pages if in print! Included in this special edition are three of hi...

Award-Winning Books by Douglas Clegg

The Nightmare Chronicles
2000 Bram Stoker Award -- Collection


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Douglas Clegg has published 52 books.

Douglas Clegg does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mrs. Bluebeard, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Douglas Clegg, Goat Dance, was published in July 1989.

Yes. Douglas Clegg has 3 series.
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