Douglas Clegg Books in Order

A stolen child and an ancient ritual lie behind the secrets of Stonehaven, a New England village. In its woods and summer mansions, a monstrous presence connects a terrifying inheritance with the community’s hidden past.

After a child survives falling through the ice on Clear Lake, something sinister takes hold of her. Coffey returns to Pontefract, Virginia, seeking a lost love as nightmares and buried secrets threaten the mountain town.

Hugh and Rachel Adair move into an old Washington townhouse hoping to begin again. Strange visions and unexplained cries lead them toward a history of murder and occult rituals, while the house’s influence grows around Rachel.

During a family vacation on Gull Island, young Beau follows his cousin Sumter into a forbidden shack they call Neverland. Their secret games revolve around a shadowy creature, and the threatened destruction of their hideout brings danger.

Eleven-year-old Hop Stewart develops supernatural abilities after a tragic accident. Her scientist father seeks to exploit them, while a government agent and a sinister man called Monkey pursue her, turning her recovery into a struggle for survival.

Writer Joe Gardner brings his family to his West Virginia hometown to visit his dying mother. Memories of disappearances resurface, and a girl’s voice draws him toward a grave that conceals a dangerous supernatural presence.

Twenty years after surviving a catastrophe in a California desert town, four friends receive disturbing visions and a summons from the demon Lamia. Their shared childhood secret draws them back to the ruins of Palmetto.

At Darden State Hospital, violent inmate Agnes believes she shares an unbreakable bond with Trey Campbell. When he leaves for the weekend, her obsession turns toward revenge, threatening to carry her brutality beyond the institution.

Jake Richmond learns that Naomi, the girl he loved as a child, has died on New York City subway tracks. His search for the circumstances behind her death takes him into a disturbing mystery about his lost sweetheart.

Thirteen stories explore disturbing horror and psychological suspense, where ordinary passions can erupt into violence. Douglas Clegg’s collection moves through unsettling experiences and twisted emotions, placing human vulnerability at the center of its encounters with darkness.

After losing his father and brother, Jim Hook enrolls at Harrow Academy. An accusation of cheating brings an offer from a secret student society, whose protection draws him into violent rituals and the haunted school’s deeper dangers.

On Outerbridge Island, gardener’s son Owen Crites fears losing Jenna Montgomery to the privileged life awaiting her. The arrival of a wealthy young tennis player intensifies his jealousy, turning their summer friendship into an increasingly dangerous triangle.

Edited by Michael Rowe, this anthology gathers horror stories centered on gay protagonists, including work by Douglas Clegg and Gemma Files. Supernatural creatures and urban threats intersect with sexuality, alienation, and the fear of being different.

Five strangers with different abilities and reasons for coming assemble at Harrow, an old house in the Hudson Valley. Their attempt to awaken its ghosts brings them together around the supernatural forces inhabiting the estate.

In 1926, Ethan Gravesend inherits his grandfather’s mansion, Harrow, and soon encounters unsettling apparitions. With housekeeper Maggie Barrow, he investigates a sealed room and family secrets that may explain the supernatural forces gathering inside the estate.

Michael Rowe edits a second anthology of original gay-themed horror, with contributions from Poppy Z. Brite, Nalo Hopkinson, and other writers. Its stories bring supernatural fears into contact with queer experience, social hostility, and desire.

His father’s brutal murder brings Nemo Raglan back to Burnley Island and the family home, Hawthorn. His siblings’ disturbing behavior and memories of a childhood game suggest that the violence has roots in their shared past.

Before building the haunted estate of Harrow, Justin Gravesend undergoes an initiation into Chymera Magick. Told through his diary, this novella explores his youth and the secret occult organization that helps shape his later life.

After her husband’s murder, Julie Hutchinson experiences disturbing dreams and hallucinations. Investigating his past leads her to Project Daylight, a shuttered school that experimented on psychic children, and to secrets that threaten her own family.

Wildfires force the evacuation of Darden State Hospital, but two dangerous inmates remain missing beneath the institution. Trey Campbell and Officer Jane Laymon enter its underground passages, where a hidden room preserves evidence of brutal experiments.

Five college students on a cross-country road trip stop at a desert gas station advertising a mysterious attraction. A creature displayed in a glass coffin turns their search for entertainment into an encounter with something dangerous.

Nearly forty stories and novellas explore emotional bonds that turn destructive, from disturbing hauntings to dangerous rituals. This collection gathers much of Clegg’s short fiction alongside previously unpublished works, tracing horror through love, friendship, and family.

Born into poverty, the man known as Falconer becomes a royal animal trainer and then a soldier in the Holy Land. An encounter with Pythia transforms him into a vampire, opening a new and perilous existence.

The influence of Harrow spreads beyond the haunted house into Watch Point, New York. As its secrets poison the minds of nearby residents, the village faces a night when private nightmares threaten to take physical form.

At her grandfather’s ominous English estate, Isis Villiers loses the brother who protected her. Stories about the family burial crypt offer a way to reverse death, tempting her toward a ritual whose consequences she cannot know.

Imprisoned for murder and treason, Mordred tells a young monk his version of Camelot’s history. Arthur’s son struggles between his mother’s revenge, his father’s betrayal, and his love for Lancelot in this reimagining of Arthurian legend.

Captured by the sorceress Enora, vampire Aleric is forced to fight for her entertainment. Escape requires finding the source of her power and confronting Pythia, the dangerous woman who first transformed him into one of the undead.

Four tales explore predators, human and animal: a mountain wolf hunt, a stranger’s confession in Rome, a father’s disturbing bond with birds, and a prisoner’s desperate escape. Each turns an encounter with wildness toward terror.

Aleric and Pythia return to the lands of the Saracens to build an army against Enora. With wolves and other followers serving her, Enora seeks to summon the Dark Madonna, forcing Aleric toward his prophesied role.

Teenager Mark befriends Dash, an outsider whose occult rituals and strange drug promise access to another world. A detour on the way to a party brings their dangerous experiments closer to releasing something beyond their control.

Eighteen stories draw readers into dangerous families, sinister childhoods, and institutions where reality slips away. From a troubling daughter to an asylum patient with strange knowledge, these tales explore fear through supernatural horror and psychological suspense.

Outsiders settle in the woods near a quiet New England village, bringing unfamiliar customs and disturbing rituals. Fear of the newcomers grows until one summer night turns the community’s suspicions into a terrifying encounter with difference.

In 1910, an inexperienced reporter visits the Windrow sisters at the New Hampshire farm where a notorious massacre occurred twenty years earlier. Determined to uncover the truth behind their cannibalistic legend, he seeks an interview no one else has obtained.

Officer Jane Laymon investigates a killer who fastens bird wings to his victims. Trey Campbell discovers that an inmate at Darden State Hospital knows the murderer’s plans, making a dangerous prisoner essential to stopping further deaths.

Harold finds a mask modeled on an old comic strip whose characters smile through every misfortune. Soon something follows him at night, and the apparent charm of his discovery gives way to paranoia and mounting horror.

Twenty-two poems range from gothic unease to playful rhymes with unsettling turns. Poisonous flowers, sinister dolls, memory, and dreams recur in a collection that brings Clegg’s imagination to verse, accompanied by his foreword and afterword.