Night Asylum: Tales of Mystery & Horror

Douglas Clegg

Nov 2014 · Alkemara Press

About this ebook

Welcome to the Night Asylum! Come on in -- join the madness, but don't stay after dark.From New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Douglas Clegg, comes 18 tales of horror and suspense in this 2nd edition, revised version. 

"Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby, " -- Dean Koontz, NY Times Bestselling author of The Husband, Watchers and Forever Odd. 

Enter the Night Asylum to meet: 

Mysterious children surrounded by houseflies; a strange woman in a small town stalked by a preacher; boys trying to survive a terrifying boot camp; fraternity brothers who find a deeper brotherhood during a wintry Hell Week; a boy named Charlie, who may have more up his sleeve than meets the eye; a cop named Paul who discovers a tenement that opens the door into a place nightmares -- or heaven; Nix -- a patient in an asylum -- who holds the key to the secret geometry of night itself...and more. 

Night Asylum 

Table of Contents: 

"Where Flies Are Born" 

"Becoming Men" 

"The Skin of the World" 

"People Who Love Life" 

"Fries With That?" 

"The Machinery of Night" 

"The Wicked" 

"265 and Heaven" 

"Ice Palace" 

"Why My Doll is Evil" 

"The Five" 

"Subway Turnstile" 

"Belinda in the Pool" 

"The American" 

"The Stain" 

"A Madness of Starlings"

"The Wolf"

"The Dark Game"

Look for other books by Douglas Clegg

The Children’s Hour 
Goat Dance 
Purity 
Dark of the Eye 
The Words 
Wild Things 
Nightmare House 
Bad Karma 
Red Angel 
Night Cage 
Mischief 
The Infinite 
The Abandoned 
The Necromancer 
Isis 
The Hour Before Dark 
You Come When I Call You 
Naomi 
The Nightmare Chronicles 
The Machinery of Night 
Breeder 
The Attraction 

Praise for Douglas Clegg's Fiction

"Douglas Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows just how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills..." - Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series. 

"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation." 
— Bentley Little, author of The Policy 

"Clegg delivers!" 
— John Saul, bestselling author of Faces of Fear and The Devil's Labyrinth. 

"A master of the genre. Absolutely thrilling! Douglas Clegg is the future of dark fantasy." 
— Sherrilyn Kenyon 
New York Times bestselling author of the Dark-Hunters. 

"Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction." 
— Peter Straub 
author of Lost Boy, Lost Girl and the New York Times Bestseller Black House (with Stephen King) 

"Clegg is one of the best!" 
— Richard Laymon 

"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!" 
— Robert R. McCammon 
author of The Queen of Bedlam and Speaks The Nightbird.

Ratings and reviews

The lousiest book I ever read. I couldn't get past the second story without total disinterest. Only horror to this book is the thought of having to finish reading the whole thing!!!

Good

About the author

Douglas Clegg is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 books, including Lights Out, The Words, and The Hour Before Dark. He lives in New England.