Works by
Douglas Clegg
(aka Andrew Harper)
(Writer)

Writing as Douglas Clegg

Collections

• The Nightmare Chronicles (1999) -- Winner Bram Stoker Award; Winner International Horror Guild Award.
  It begins in an old tenement with a horrifying crime. It continues after midnight, when a young boy, held captive in a basement, is filled with unearthly visions of fantastic and frightening worlds.
  
  How could his kidnappers know that the ransom would be their own souls? For as the hours pass, the boy's nightmares invade his captors like parasites--and soon, become real.

• Four Dark Nights (2002)
  Works by Bentley Little, Christopher Golden, Douglas Clegg), and Tom Piccirilli

• Shivers 3 (2004)

• Ace and Roc Sampler (2005)
  Works by Dawn Cook, Douglas Clegg, James Clemens, Janine Cross, Marianne de Pierres, Rachel Caine, and Sarah Monette

• The Machinery of Night (2004)

• Wild Things: Four Tales (2006)
  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.

Fiction

• The Halloween Man (1988)
  Horror fiction need not necessarily have original ideas--most of its ideas are as old as the hills--but it's a treat when a writer like Douglas Clegg comes along, with the ability to look at the old ideas in new ways. In The Children's Hour Clegg reinvented the vampire legend. In The Halloween Man Clegg reinvents devil worship.
  
  The plot of this novel is so complex and multifaceted, it's not easy to summarize, but it boils down to two narratives about two points in time. The protagonist, Stony Crawford, is a 15-year-old man (not a boy) in love with a dark-haired beauty named Lourdes Maria. Their surprisingly deep romance unfolds against the backdrop of a peculiar small town on the rugged coast of Connecticut. After a 12-year absence, Stony returns to this town bringing with him a young boy whom he kidnapped from a religious compound in Texas. Thanks to Clegg's skillful interlacing of the two narratives, when the life of 15-year-old Stony climaxes, so does that of 27-year-old Stony. The crux of both stories is a powerful being of "divine evil" and "Azriel Light"--perhaps a demon, perhaps simply a creature like any other.  -- Amazon.com

• Goat Dance (1989)
  "Goat Dance is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, as well as a bit in the Washington, D.C. area. I wrote it in my 20s, and it was published in 1989 -- launching my career as a novelist. It is horror with a capital H. When a young man is contacted by a woman he once loved as a boy, he heads down to the small town of Pontefract, Virginia, where -- recently -- a little girl has gone missing, and some terrible power exists within a house on the edge of a haunted lake."
      -- Douglas Clegg

• Breeder (1990)

• Neverland (1991)

• Dark of the Eye (1994)

• The Children's Hour (1995)
  Their time has come ...

• You Come When I Call You (1996)
  An epic tale of horror, spanning twenty years in the lives of four friends?witnesses to unearthly terror. The high desert town of Palmetto, California, has turned toxic after twenty years of nightmares. In Los Angeles, a woman is tormented by visions from a chilling past, and a man steps into a house of torture. On the steps of a church, a young woman has been sacrificed in a ritual of darkness. In New York, a cab driver dreams of demons while awake. And a man who calls himself the Desolation Angel has returned to draw his old friends back to their hometown?a town where, two decades earlier, three boys committed the most brutal of rituals, an act of such intense savagery that it has ripped apart their minds. And where, in a cavern in a place called No Man's Land, something has been waiting a long time for those who stole something more precious than life itself.

• Naomi (2000)
  The subways of New York City are only the first stage of Jake Richmond's descent into the vast subterranean passageways beneath the city -- and the discovery of a mystery and a terror greater than any human being could imagine.
  
  Naomi went into the tunnels to destroy herself...but found an even more terrible fate awaiting her in the twisting corridors. And now, the man who loves Naomi must find her...and bring her back to the world of the living, a world where a New York brownstone holds a burial ground of those accused of witchcraft, where the secrets of the living may be found within the ancient diary of a witch, and where a creature known only as the Serpent has escaped its bounds at last.
  
  "Thank you for grabbing NAOMI in paperback. I decided early on to turn all my royalties for the first edition of this paperback over to the National Down Syndrome Society, and I want to thank each of you for purchasing and reading the book -- thereby contributing to this most worthy organization." -- Douglas Clegg

• Purity (2000)

• The Hour Before Dark (2002)
  As children, they played the Dark Game. When Nemo Raglan's father is murdered in one of the most vicious killings of recent years, Nemo must return to the New England island he thought he had escaped for good, Burnley Island...and the shadowy farmhouse called Hawthorn. But this murder was no crime of human ferocity. What butchered Nemo's father may in fact be something far more terrifying...Something Nemo and his younger brother, Bruno, and sister, Brooke, have known since childhood.
  
  There are secrets buried on Burnley Island.
  
  Within the rooms of Hawthorn, beautiful Brooke Raglan has begun to go mad. She sees faces at the windows and wanders the night, trying to find what she believes is a monster.
  
  Bruno Raglan has wiped the memory of a terrible event from his mind. Now he compulsively picks apart Hawthorn and discovers that within its walls lies a forbidden secret.
  
  As he unravels the mysteries of his past and a terrible night of his childhood, Nemo witnesses something unimaginable, and sees the true face of evil while Burnley Island comes to know the unspeakable horror that grows in the darkness.
  
  "Here comes a candle to light you to bed,
  And here comes a chopper to chop off your head."

• The Necromancer: Being the Diary of Justin Gravesden on the Year of His Rebirth, and His Forced Initiation Into the Chymera Magick, Inc. (2003)
  The man who created Harrow had a secret history, and in The Necromancer, Douglas Clegg explores the story of Justin Gravesend's youth and his induction into the organization known as the Chymera Magick. The Necromancer is an exclusive Cemetery Dance novella -- this is the only edition available anywhere in the world! Artwork by Caniglia.

• Afterlife (2004)
  A school for special children. An unsolved murder. A terrified widow. A dream of blood and lost souls. A stranger with an unspeakable secret. It all comes together in the afterlife.

• The Attraction (2004)

• The Abandoned (2005)
  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.
  
  But a new caretaker has come to Harrow. He is fixing up the rooms and preparing the house for visitors...
  
  What's been trapped inside the house has begun leaking like a poison into the village itself. A teenage girl sleeps too much, but when she awakens her nightmares will break loose. A little boy encounters the ultimate fear when the house calls to him. A young woman must face unspeakable terror to keep Harrow from destroying everything she loves.
  
  And somewhere within the house a demented child waits with teeth like knives.

• Isis (2006)

Harrow Academy Series

1. Mischief (2000)
   in Mischief, the most horrifying coming-of-age experience is happening in a house of nightmarish spirits. The mansion overlooks the Hudson River, just outside the town of Watch Point, New York. It has been empty for decades, but now, it's a private school for boys. And one of the boys, Jim Hook, should never have come to Harrow Academy...
   
   For, within the walls, something horrifying awaits him...a haunting more disturbing than any other...
   
   A group of misfits and malcontents want Jim in their dark fraternity...
   
   And the house called Harrow is hungry.

2. The Infinite (2001)
   The story of an investigation into a haunting by those most likely to awaken what lies in wait at the house called Harrow. Three psychics are brought to Harrow: Chet Dillinger, a boy with a wonderful and dreadful gift; Frost Crane, a bestselling author of books on psychic phenomena; and Cali Nytbird, a psychic criminal investigator whose memory of her dead twin has stalked her imagination.

3. Nightmare House (2002)
   There are places that hold in the traces of evil, houses that become legendary for the mysteries and secrets within their walls. Harrow is one such house. Psychic manifestations, poltergeist activity, hallucinations, and other residue of terror have all been documented in Harrow. It has been called Nightmare House. It is a nest for the restless spirits of the dead. When Ethan Gravesend arrives to inherit Nightmare House, he does not suspect the horror that awaits him -- the nightmare of the woman trapped within the walls of the house, or the endless crying of an unseen child.

Mordred Trilogy
Epic adventure of love, friendship, magic, war, and betrayal, a fresh, dazzling chapter in the Arthurian canon.

1. Mordred, Bastard Son (2006) -- Finalist, 2006 Lambda Literary Award for Science/Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
   A young monk becomes enthralled by the story a mysterious prisoner begins to tell as he tends to his wounds. The prisoner is Mordred, bastard son of King Arthur Pendragon and his half sister Morgan Le Fay, who has been arrested for murder and treason. His story is one of ambition, power, and betrayal, and it will change the monk's life forever. In Clegg's ambitious reimagining of Camelot, Mordred, the traditional villain of Arthurian legend, emerges as a heroic and romantic figure, torn between his powerful mother's desire for revenge against Arthur, his own conflicted feelings toward the father who betrayed him, and his passionate love affair with a knight in King Arthur's court: Lancelot.

Vampyricon Triology
Journey through the medieval world with Aleric, the Falconer, the Anointed One of the vampyre race as he seeks his destiny from the dungeons and towers of Taranis-Hir to the gladiator pit to the forgotten lost world of Aztlanteum.

1. The Priest of Blood (2005)
   The man known as Falconer was born of a whore, served the royal court as a predator trainer, and warred against the infidel Saracens as a conscripted soldier in the Holy Land.
   
   But it wasn't until he found himself in the arms of a creature called Pythia that he was truly born into his destined role-that of vampire...

2. The Lady of Serpents (2006)
   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 of terror, Aleric must escape and find the alchemist behind her power, though that may mean unleashing Pythia, the Lady of Serpents-Aleric's old enemy, the seductress who ended his mortal life. For she alone may hold the key to the survival not only of the vampyres, but also all of humankind.

3. The Queen of Wolves (2007 release)

See also:

• Buzz Your Online Auction (2001) by Douglas Clegg,  M.J. Rose, and Matt Schwartz
  Nothing has exploded on the Internet like online auctions. It seems like you can sell anything ? but is it really that easy? With thousands of competing auctions, how can you set yours apart? With Buzz Your Online Auction, you've got just what the auctioneer needs to stay on top of the game. Filled with tips from Matt Schwartz, an e-commerce whiz kid, Buzz Your Online Auction will give you world-class methods for ensuring customers and potential customers notice your online auctions and keep coming back. Buzz Your Online Auction is a must-have for the online auctioneer in the 21st century.

Writing as Andrew Harper

• Bad Karma (1998)

• Red Angel (2003)

• Night Cage (2004)