- Hardcover: 210 pages
- Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications (October 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1587670569
- ISBN-13: 978-1587670565
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
An uncharacteristic period ghost story brings the Harrow haunted house trilogy to an apprehensive conclusion or beginning. In Mischief (2000) and The Infinite (2001), Clegg dropped portentous hints of past misdeeds and occult experiments that amplified the evil influence of Harrow, a sprawling Hudson River estate turned into a boys' prep school. The events of this novel, a prequel to the previous two books, don't so much explain as anticipate Harrow's later ghostly manifestations. In 1926, Ethan Gravesend inherits the estate from his eccentric paternal grandfather, who built the mansion on supposedly cursed land. Almost immediately, he witnesses eerie apparitions that emanate from Harrow's shadowy halls and gloomy grounds. In the company of housekeeper and love interest Maggie Barrow, Ethan stumbles upon a boarded-up room and a proverbial skeleton in the family closet that serves as lodestone for the formidable supernatural forces that pulse through the dwelling. Clegg milks each of the gothic set pieces premature burial, mesmerism, exorcism, as well as the inevitable specters for maximum spooky effect, but ultimately depends on a lengthy digression by the well-informed local constable to put them all together for Ethan's benefit. While he offers no ideas here that haven't already been explored by the weird fiction masters cited in his acknowledgments, Clegg's modern sensibility brings out the luster in some of the genre's well-used furniture and shows that tales in the classic horror tradition can still entertain.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Things that go "bump" in the night!,
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This review is from: Nightmare House (Mass Market Paperback)
Nightmare House takes you back to the days of horror before "blood and gore" were necessary to scare the pants off you. A very simple haunted house story that grips you from the first page and leaves you breathless at the end. Clegg takes the simple story and adds twists along the way to make it hard to put this book down. The best thing about Nightmare House though is that is it not done, the story of Harrow House is further explored in Mischief and The Infinite.It has been a long time since I have read horror like this. Clegg has returned to the true roots of horror and maybe he will never return.
5.0 out of 5 stars
classic haunting story,
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This review is from: Nightmare House (Mass Market Paperback)
I haven't read such a spine tingling ghost story since Shirly Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. This story had rich characters and a well thought out history as to why there was a haunting. I was very disappointed when I'd finished-asI wanted MORE. So glad Mr. Clegg has written more stories about Harrow. Be sure there's someone home with you at night when you read this one!
5.0 out of 5 stars
A good old fashioned haunt,
By Lee "dogear100" (Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nightmare House (Mass Market Paperback)
I just wanted to write and thank Douglas Clegg. He has written a novel, Nightmare House, that revives a bygone era of storytelling. He shows that atmosphere and anticipated horrors are just as scary as in your face blood and guts.Do ghosts exist? Of course they do. Ghosts, the likes of Shirley Jackson and Henry James, are alive and kicking in Nightmare House. Bravo!
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