Afterlife

by Douglas Clegg

Overview

A School for Psychic Children, a Legacy of Nightmare....

★★★★★ "Suspenseful, full of horror, and vastly entertaining."★★★★★ Called Project Daylight, the school in Manhattan burned in a horrifying fire years ago. Decades later, in the suburbs, terrifying paranormal invasions drive Julie Hutchinson to the edge of sanity. What if Julie-and her children- can't survive...the chilling touch of the afterlife? From award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a page-turning supernatural thriller of heart-pounding suspense and horror.350 pages in print.

"Mr Clegg has an ability to create believable, realistic characters...and tighten the suspense and terror as they slowly descend into their own private nightmare...Afterlife is as good as the modern horror novel gets."-The SF Reader

"Stoker-winner Clegg (The Hour Before Dark ) has an uncanny ability to frighten readers by chronicling everyday characters' perilous descents into their own private hells....guaranteed to unnerve the reader...captivating." -- Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review.

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781944668051
Publisher:	Alkemara Press
Publication date:	11/25/2019
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Douglas Clegg is the New York Times bestselling author of dark fiction, including horror, gothic, fantasy, supernatural, and suspense thrillers. Clegg’s first novel, Goat Dance, launched his career as a novelist. He has seen more than 30 books published within a span of 25 years, as well as more than 40 short stories. His short fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award and the Shocker Award, and it has also been included in several Years’ Best anthologies.

Date of Birth:

April 1, 1958

Place of Birth:

Alexandria, Virginia

Editorial Reviews

Stoker-winner Clegg (The Hour Before Dark) has an uncanny ability to frighten readers by chronicling everyday characters' perilous descents into their own private hells. Julie Hutchinson mentally unravels after the brutal and mysterious murder of her husband, Jeff, in this stand-alone tale full of subtle suspense, inventive twists and credible characters. Julie has erotic nightmares and hideous hallucinations while slowly trying to piece together the decades-old puzzle involving her husband's past work with Project Daylight, a now-defunct privately funded school that conducted experiments on young children with ESP. Eventually, with the assistance of her mother, daughter and stepson, as well as Jeff's ex-wife and Michael Diamond, a popular TV psychic, Julie unearths bizarre secrets about her family that lead her to an underground society of scientific misfits. The book's final sentence is guaranteed to unnerve readers and leave them wanting more. A concise writer, Clegg manages to weave into his plot such grand ideas as reincarnation and psychic phenomena in a mere 272 pages. Many other writers would have taken twice as long to tell a tale half as captivating. Agent, Simon Lipskar. (Dec.) FYI: Clegg has recently sold a vampire trilogy, The Vampyricon, to Berkley/Ace for six figures. The first volume, The Priest of Blood, is scheduled for October 2005. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

As newly widowed Julie Hutchinson receives word that her husband's murderer is looking for her, a young girl finds herself plagued by voices of the dead. Their connection to a horrific murder that closed a school for psychic children involves a mysterious man known as Michael Diamond; his secrets may lead them to their deaths-or beyond. Bram Stoker Award winner Clegg weaves a disturbing tale of strange powers and dark visions. Explicit sex and graphic violence may limit the readership of this disturbing tale for fans of dark fantasy. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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