The Infinite

Ivy Martin, Chet Dillinger, Jack Fleetwood, Frost Crane, and Cali Nytbird--strangers with varying abilities and motives--gather together at Harrow in the Hudson Valley to awaken the old house and its ghosts.

From Publishers Weekly

The indefatigable Clegg concludes his trilogy of terror tales (after the e-serial Nightmare House and sequel Mischief) set at the haunted Harrow boarding school with a novel that once again shows his skill at using classic horror themes to explore the pathos of the human condition. Evoking works by Shirley Jackson and Richard Matheson, to which it will almost certainly be compared, the story builds around the formally engineered meeting of Chet Dillinger, Cali Nytbird and Frost Crane, all of whom are endowed with psychic proclivities that have been more curse than gift in their lives. Like Ivy Martin, wealthy patroness of the PSI Vista Foundation that has hired them to investigate a recent spate of eerie deaths linked to the academy, each is a spiritually scarred survivor who hopes their experiment will exorcise personal demons as well as the school's. Too late, they discover that Harrow's reputation as a charnel house stems from occult influences well-schooled in exploiting the vulnerabilities of unwitting human victims. The plot builds sluggishly, with affecting if lengthy profiles of the principal characters and a paucity of supernatural incidents once they descend on Harrow. But Clegg knows how to balance horror with human interest, and when all hell breaks loose in an electrifying finale, the narrative's supernatural and psychological landscapes carefully converge in a cavalcade of nightmares. Memorable for its evocative, disturbing imagery and haunting emotional insights, this novel adds a new chapter to horror's tradition of haunted house fiction. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher

From Bram Stoker winning novelist Douglas Clegg comes his most disturbing and terrifying novel -- The Infinite, 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.

About the Author

Douglas Clegg was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and has lived in Washington, D.C., Connecticut, California, and Texas; he currently resides in an alternate Manhattan. His first novel, Goat Dance, was published in 1989 and nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding First Novel. More recently, his collection The Nightmare Chronicles won both the International Horror Guild Award and the Bram Stoker Award. His current novels include Naomi, You Come When I Call You, Mischief, The Halloween Man, The Infinite, and, in 2002, The Hour Before Dark.

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