In The Children's Hour -- from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg -- Joe Gardner discovers that something is terribly wrong with the children in Colony, West Virginia.
"Douglas Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills..." -- Tess Gerritsen, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Rizzoli & Isles series.
Innocent though they seem, these kids come out at night -- to hunt.
When Joe returns with his wife and two young children to the seemingly peaceful mountain town of Colony, West Virginia, he doesn't expect to find the girl who disappeared when he was a boy.
But she remembers Joe and her other friends who left her behind in a deep well within a mysterious barn on Old Man Feely's property.
And she's out for blood.
"Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."
-- Dean Koontz
Is she a vampire?
Or is she something more demonic...
They say that Colony was founded centuries ago by an angel that fell from sky, but whatever's lurking in the old mines under the town has been disturbed by Joe's return.
Joe did something when he was a boy – something that stopped the terror and evil from erupting.
But now, a creature living in darkness wants out.
It's going to use the children of Colony to exact its revenge.
Its hour has come round at last – and this is the Children's Hour...
A terrifying chiller of a horror novel from a master of gothic thrillers.
The Children's Hour is a full-length novel, approximately 370 pages in print. Exclusively published by Alkemara Press for Nook.
Look for other books (fiction) by Douglas Clegg from Alkemara Press, including:
Afterlife
Goat Dance
Purity
Dark of the Eye
The Words
Wild Things
With more to come...
Praise for Douglas Clegg's fiction:
"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's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."
-- Dean Koontz
"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.
