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 nightmare logic, including the previously-uncollected novelette, Funerary Rites, as well as the critically-praised novelettes, White Chapel and I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes, and The Dark Game. A total of 700+ pages if in print.
Also included in this collection are all the short stories from his three collections, The Nightmare Chronicles, Night Asylum and Wild Things. This is a great collector's ebook for the fan of Douglas Clegg's award-winning stories as well as for the new reader of his work.
The Nightmare Chronicles, within this collection, won both the Bram Stoker Award and The International Horror Guild Award.
Table of Contents:
1. Foreword by the Author
2. Funerary Rites
3. White Chapel
4. The Stain
5. The American
6. Belinda in the Pool
7. The Skin of the World
8. O, Rare and Most Exquisite
9. The Little Mermaid
10. A Madness of Starlings
11. Subway Turnstile
12. Where Flies Are Born
13. Underworld
14. The Rendering Man
15. The Fruit of Her Womb
16. Becoming Men
17. People Who Love Life
18. Fries with That?
19. The Machinery of Night
20. The Wolf
21. The Wicked
22. 265 and Heaven
23. The Night Before Alec Got Married
24. Ice Palace
25. Why My Doll is Evil
26. The Five
27. The Dark Game
28. Only Connect
29. The Ripening Sweetness of Late Afternoon
30. Chosen
31. Damned If You Do
32. The Hurting Season
33. I Am infinite, I Contain Multitudes