- Hardcover: 721 pages
- Publisher: Cemetery Dance Pubns (October 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1587670887
- ISBN-13: 978-1587670886
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 17.5 x 5.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,995,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. When a character in Clegg's "I Am Infinite: I Contain Multitudes" observes, "Love transformed into fear. It's the human story," he could be describing just about any one of the 39 eerie and provocative tales gathered in this career retrospective. Their horrors are all the more unsettling because they grow out of love, friendship, family ties and other emotional bonds, which, in Clegg's hands, show a natural tendency to turn malignant and pathological. In "People Who Love Life," a man's inability to give up loving a woman raises her from the dead against her will. "Underworld" tells of a haunting that culminates in a dead wife giving birth to a child as the final expression of love for her husband. In "The Words," high school misfits form a bond of friendship that leads ineluctably to their tampering with occult forces and unleashing horrors into the world. Even in a story such as "Ice Palace," about a fraternity prank gone horribly wrong, an expression of affection turns perverse and leads the narrator into an otherworldly realm whose strangeness seems to perfectly capture his own emotional ambivalence. Clegg (Afterlife) doesn't entirely avoid the classic figures of horror, such as the vampire in "White Chapel" and the Lovecraftian obsessive in "Purity," but he works startlingly original variations on them. Filled with penetrating character studies and haunting insights into the dark side of the human condition, these highly original stories are some of the best short horror fiction written since the 1980s.
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Clegg Delivers Bigger Chills Than King and Koontz Combined!, Jan 24 2005
By R. G Huxley - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Machinery of Night (Hardcover)
I've been reading Douglas Clegg's latest, The Machinery of Night, and all I can say is, "CHILLS!"
Saying Douglas Clegg delivers bigger than King and Koontz combined is not an ambitious statement, but one of fact! I've read all three authors and only one of them has scared me more often than not and that author is Douglas Clegg!
His newest book, THE MACHINERY OF NIGHT, is a collection of about 40 stories; 36 short and 3 novellas. There is over 700 pages of horror that will haunt you for a long time.
Believe me...I am speaking from experience!
The Machinery of Night is filled with some of the richest horror I have ever read, with WHERE FLIES ARE BORN and I AM INFINITE, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES being my favorites. The former literally scared my wife and she had to ask me to stop reading it to her. I also liked it because there is a connection between that story and Clegg's novel THE HALLOWEEN MAN which is also a CLASSIC! The collection also contains the novelette THE DARK GAME which is sort of a prequel to Clegg's novel THE HOUR BEFORE DARK.
As with all of Clegg's books, I found myself up late into the night reading these gems, which I don't recommend anyone do if they're easily prone to nightmares.
That's not a clichéd statement - THAT'S A SERIOUS WARNING!
I can honestly say these stories leave an uneasy residual effect on the soul that stays with the reader long after the book is closed and the lights are out. I finished the short story Where Flies Are Born a week ago and I still can't get away from the visions I saw when reading.
Douglas Clegg is without a doubt the ONLY horror author out there who continually hits homeruns with each novel. With King and Koontz, it is hit or miss and you hope you aren't disappointed in the end. I have bought almost all of Clegg's special edition books, paying $40 or more and will continue! HE IS WORTH EVERY PENNY! I have turned more readers on to Douglas Clegg than any author and they all say the same thing, "WHERE HAS HE BEEN ALL THIS TIME?"
And so I say to you, he's right here.
Mr. Clegg, in my book and the book of many others, is the newest heavyweight champion in horror with no worthy contenders lurking in the shadows. He has set a new bar that would force King and Koontz to take courses in to even come close to the stories he's written.
Hitchcock and Lovecraft are smiling on him with pride this day.
I stand and applaud while cheering and whistling.
Bravo Mr. Clegg! ENCORE! ENCORE!
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