Douglas Clegg

Douglas Clegg is the author of more than a dozen novels in the horror and suspense genres. He has been writing since a child, and decided to write professionally in his mid-twenties. During his youth he spent much time travelling including Mexico, Spain, and Paris. He has been a newspaper delivery boy, a lawnmower man, a bricklayer, a grill chef, worked in a retirement home, a wolf-trap farm, and an insect zoo. He is now a full-time writer. His work has been published through Cemetery Dance Publications by Richard Chizmar, mostly in Signed and Limited/Lettered Hardcover Editions: 'Mischief', 'Purity' and 'You Come When I Call You' (2000), 'Nightmare House' (2002), 'The Necromancer' (2003), 'The Machinery of Night' (2005), 'Isis', 'The Abandoned', and 'Wild Things: Four Tales' (2006), 'Afterlife' (2008), 'Night Cage' as Andrew Harper (2009), and 'Mr Darkness' (2011). His short fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance Magazine # 16 ('Damned, If You Do), # 19 ('The Rendering Man'), # 21 ('The Cabinet-Maker's Wife'), # 26 (interview), # 30 ('Fries with That?'), # 34 (interview), # 50 ('A Madness of Starlings'), and #61, 62, & 64 ('The Innocents at the Museum of Antiquities') parts one, two, and three of this novella respectively. 'Cemetery Dance' anthologies featuring Douglas Clegg's fiction include 'Imagination Fully Dilated' & 'The Best of Cemetery Dance' (1998), 'October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween' (2000), 'Shivers' (2002), 'Shivers II' (2003), and 'The Big Book of Necon' (2009). Most of his body of work has also been published in mass market paperback format via Leisure Books, and is now available in e-book format. Other novels include 'The Halloween Man' (1988), 'Goat Dance' (1989), 'Breeder' (1990), 'Neverland' (1991), 'Dark of the Eye' (1994), 'The Children's Hour' (1995), 'Naomi' (2000), 'The Hour Before Dark' (2002), and 'The Attraction' (2004). Douglas has also written the following series: 'Harrow Academy': (which collects the novels 'Mischief', 'The Infinite' (2001), and 'Nightmare House'), the 'Vampyricon Trilogy': (which collects 'The Priest of Blood' (2005), 'The Lady of Serpents' (2006), and 'The Queen of Wolves' (2007), and the first in the 'Mordred Trilogy': 'Mordred, Bastard Son' (2006)). His short fiction is collected in: 'The Nightmare Chronicles' (1998), which is a Mosaic, a collection of tales that are united by a number of wraparound segments between tales; 'The Machinery of Night'; 'Wild Things: Four Tales'; and 'Four Dark Nights' with Bentley Little, Christopher Golden, and Tom Piccirilli. It also appears in over a dozen anthologies. Douglas Clegg is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for his collection 'The Nightmare Chronicles' in 2000. He has been further nominated for 'Goat Dance' in 1990, for 'I Am Infinite; I Contain Multitudes' (1998), and for 'The Hour Before Dark' in 2003. He has also won the International Horror Guild Award. In 2002 his novel Bad Karma (2001) was adapted to film starring Patsy Kensit and Amy Locane, and Patrick Muldoon. 'Naomi' (1999) was the First World Internet E-Serial Novel. 'Purity' (2000) reached over 100,000 people on the Internet in its first year. Douglas resides in New Engand.