The Halloween Man: A Supernatural Horror Thriller

Fear. Horror. Occult. Nightmare. What dark legacy haunts the village of Stonehaven? "Up there with Stephen King & Dean Koontz...like Shirley Jackson amplified..." ★★★★★ "Scary as hell!"★★★★★ A kidnapping resurrects a town's history of nightmarish terror, demonic possession, long-buried secrets and threatens to unleash an unspeakable evil into the world in this page-turner from NY Times bestselling and award-winning author Douglas Clegg. “Clegg’s stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."– Dean Koontz “Combining both the quiet horror of a Charles Grant with the all-out spectacles of a Stephen King, Clegg’s storytelling has never been better. The Halloween Man is a brilliant novel, up there with the best of Straub, King, and Koontz, and one of the most original tales of terror to come along in quite a while.” – Edward Lee “The Halloween Man is one of the best horror novels that I’ve read in years…I had never read anything by Clegg before reading this novel, but now I’m going to go out and get the rest of his books. If you’ve never heard of Clegg either, or are a fan of horror fiction, get this book right now.” – Pixel Planet “Clegg gets high marks on the terror scale...” – The Daily News (New York) “Every bit as good as the best works of Stephen King, Peter Straub, or Dan Simmons...” – Hellnotes: The Newsletter for the Horror Professional *"The Halloween Man is about overwhelming love and devastating terror, human strength and supernatural power, and the eternal cycle of death and re-birth Packed with vivid imagery; a broadly-scoped but fast-paced plot; powerful, evocative writing; superb characterizations; and facile intelligence…Douglas Clegg has given horror lovers the best Halloween gift possible — an entertaining spinetingler written with unique style...” – DarkEcho

Amazon.com Review

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. Clegg's characters are well realized and fascinating, and the story is richly steeped in history. The Halloween Man is a stunning horror novel, written with a degree of conviction that is rare these days. --Fiona Webster

About the Author

Douglas Clegg lives in a dark ruin of a place somewhere near Manhattan. He is the author of The Nightmare Chronicles, The Halloween Man, You Come When I Call You, and Naomi, as well as other novels which are still kept in a vault. His upcoming novels include Mischief (fall 2000) and the free email novel, Nightmare House.

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