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{{Short description|American writer}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|4|1}}
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| birth_place = [[Alexandria, Virginia]], United States
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| occupation = [[Novelist]], [[short story writer]]
| occupation = [[Novelist]], [[short story writer]]
| alma_mater = [[Washington and Lee University]]
| genre = [[Horror fiction|Horror]], [[Fantasy]], [[Genre fiction]], [[Dark fantasy]]
| genre = [[Horror fiction|Horror]], [[Fantasy]], [[Genre fiction]], [[Dark fantasy]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.douglasclegg.com}}
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| spouse = Raul Silva (2005-present)
| spouse = Raul Silva (1989–present)
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'''Douglas Clegg''' (born April 1, 1958) is a [[horror fiction|horror]] and [[dark fantasy]] author, and a pioneer in the field of [[electronic publishing|e-publishing]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website and [[LiveJournal]].
'''Douglas Clegg''' (born April 1, 1958) is an American [[horror fiction|horror]] and [[dark fantasy]] author, and a pioneer in the field of [[electronic publishing|e-publishing]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website.


==Early life==
==Early life==
Born in [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria]], [[Virginia]] to a "family of artists", Clegg had "scribbled stories" from a young age and then started typing them at age 8 when his parents brought home a typewriter.<ref name="Penguin Bio">{{cite web |url=http://www.penguin.com/author/douglas-clegg/1000060258 |title=Douglas Clegg Bio |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |accessdate=October 30, 2014}}</ref><ref name="HNR 2012-10">{{cite web |url=http://horrornovelreviews.com/2012/10/30/interview-douglas-clegg-talks-his-first-horror-story-and-the-birth-of-the-online-serial-novel/ |title=Douglas Clegg Talks His First Horror Story and the Birth of the Online Serial Novel |publisher=Horror Novel Reviews |first=Matt |last=Molgaard |date=October 30, 2012 |accessdate=October 28, 2014}}</ref> One of his first tales was an adventure about his pet mockingbird, which had recently died. His first horror story was for a school assignment at Sleepy Hollow School about St. Patrick’s Day, in which snakes take their revenge on St. Patrick and the people of Dublin.<ref name="HNR 2012-10"/> Clegg wrote his first novella-length work, called ''Asylum'', at age 17.<ref name="Clegg Official Bio">{{cite web |url=http://douglasclegg.com/bio/ |title=About Douglas Clegg |website=DouglasClegg.com |accessdate=October 30, 2014}}</ref>
Born in [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria]], [[Virginia]] to a "family of artists", Clegg had "scribbled stories" from a young age and then started typing them at age 8 when his parents brought home a typewriter.<ref name="Penguin Bio">{{cite web |url=http://www.penguin.com/author/douglas-clegg/1000060258 |title=Douglas Clegg Bio |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |access-date=October 30, 2014}}</ref><ref name="HNR 2012-10">{{cite web |url=http://horrornovelreviews.com/2012/10/30/interview-douglas-clegg-talks-his-first-horror-story-and-the-birth-of-the-online-serial-novel/ |title=Douglas Clegg Talks His First Horror Story and the Birth of the Online Serial Novel |publisher=Horror Novel Reviews |first=Matt |last=Molgaard |date=October 30, 2012 |access-date=October 28, 2014}}</ref> One of his first tales was an adventure about his pet mockingbird, which had recently died. His first horror story was for a school assignment at Sleepy Hollow School about St. Patrick’s Day, in which snakes take their revenge on St. Patrick and the people of Dublin.<ref name="HNR 2012-10"/> Clegg wrote his first novella-length work, called ''Asylum'', at age 17.<ref name="Clegg Official Bio">{{cite web |url=http://douglasclegg.com/bio/ |title=About Douglas Clegg |website=DouglasClegg.com |access-date=October 30, 2014}}</ref>


Clegg graduated from [[Washington and Lee University]], with a degree in English Literature.<ref name="Clegg Official Bio"/>
Clegg graduated from [[Washington and Lee University]], with a degree in English Literature.<ref name="Clegg Official Bio"/>
<!-- CITATION NEEDED: For years, he kept his writing secret, hiding his stories and sometimes destroying them, if he thought they might be found. He cites as formative influences the [[Edgar Allan Poe]] poems and Bible stories his mother used to read aloud when he was younger than five, and ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|Twilight Zone]]'' episodes, followed soon after by Shakespeare, Shirley Jackson, and many other writers. At Washington and Lee University he co-founded an International Film Program and became a morning news DJ on college radio. After graduating, Clegg taught junior high English, and worked as an editor for [[Ziff-Davis]] Publishing in [[Washington, D.C.]]. In 1986, he moved to Los Angeles to work for KCBS News. Throughout this period, he wrote reviews and entertainment articles for a small magazine. -->
<!-- CITATION NEEDED: For years, he kept his writing secret, hiding his stories and sometimes destroying them, if he thought they might be found. He cites as formative influences the [[Edgar Allan Poe]] poems and Bible stories his mother used to read aloud when he was younger than five, and ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|Twilight Zone]]'' episodes, followed soon after by Shakespeare, Shirley Jackson, and many other writers. At Washington and Lee University he co-founded an International Film Program and became a morning news DJ on college radio. After graduating, Clegg taught junior high English, and worked as an editor for [[Ziff-Davis]] Publishing in [[Washington, D.C.]] In 1986, he moved to Los Angeles to work for KCBS News. Throughout this period, he wrote reviews and entertainment articles for a small magazine. -->


==Writing career==
==Writing career==
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Clegg finished writing his first novel, ''Goat Dance'', in 1987. [[Pocket Books]] published it in 1989, and ''Goat Dance'' was nominated for Outstanding First Novel by the [[Horror Writers Association]]. Pocket also published his second, third, and fourth novels, ''Breeder'' (1990), ''Neverland'' (1991) and ''Dark of the Eye'' (1994). Clegg's next novel, ''The Children's Hour'' (1995), was published by [[Dell Publishing|Dell]], but the imprint dropped its horror line four months later, leaving him without a publisher. His sixth novel, ''Bad Karma'' (1997), written under the pseudonym Andrew Harper, was published by [[Kensington Books]], and later adapted for the screen by [[Randall Frakes]]. The resulting 2002 film, directed by [[John Hough (director)|John Hough]] and starring [[Patsy Kensit]], was released as ''[[Bad Karma (2002 film)|Bad Karma]]'' internationally and as ''Hell's Gate'' in the United States.
Clegg finished writing his first novel, ''Goat Dance'', in 1987. [[Pocket Books]] published it in 1989, and ''Goat Dance'' was nominated for Outstanding First Novel by the [[Horror Writers Association]]. Pocket also published his second, third, and fourth novels, ''Breeder'' (1990), ''Neverland'' (1991) and ''Dark of the Eye'' (1994). Clegg's next novel, ''The Children's Hour'' (1995), was published by [[Dell Publishing|Dell]], but the imprint dropped its horror line four months later, leaving him without a publisher. His sixth novel, ''Bad Karma'' (1997), written under the pseudonym Andrew Harper, was published by [[Kensington Books]], and later adapted for the screen by [[Randall Frakes]]. The resulting 2002 film, directed by [[John Hough (director)|John Hough]] and starring [[Patsy Kensit]], was released as ''[[Bad Karma (2002 film)|Bad Karma]]'' internationally and as ''Hell's Gate'' in the United States.


In March 1999, Clegg announced that he would be distributing his new ghost novel ''Naomi'' in serial installments via email.<ref name="BW 1999-05">{{cite web |url=http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar1999/nf90324d.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028193146/http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar1999/nf90324d.htm |title=Two New Books, Two Ways of Marketing |work=[[Business Week]] |first=Hardy |last=Green |date=May 24, 1999 |archivedate=October 28, 2014 |accessdate=October 28, 2014 }}</ref> ''Naomi'' debuted in May 1999 and became the Internet's first publisher-sponsored e-serial.<ref name="HNR 2012-10"/> ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' called it "arguably, the first major work of fiction to originate in cyberspace."<ref name="PW You Come">{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-4695-6 |title=Fiction Book Review: ''You Come When I Call You'', Douglas Clegg |work=[[Publishers Weekly]] |date=February 28, 2000 |accessdate=October 28, 2014}}</ref> Some four thousand mailing list subscribers received free chapters of ''Naomi'' on a weekly basis, boosting print numbers for the 2001 [[Leisure Books]] paperback version from the low 50,000 range to over 125,000.{{Citation needed|date=October 2014}}
In March 1999, Clegg announced that he would be distributing his new ghost novel ''Naomi'' in serial installments via email.<ref name="BW 1999-05">{{cite web |url=http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar1999/nf90324d.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028193146/http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar1999/nf90324d.htm |title=Two New Books, Two Ways of Marketing |work=[[Business Week]] |first=Hardy |last=Green |date=May 24, 1999 |archive-date=October 28, 2014 |access-date=October 28, 2014 }}</ref> ''Naomi'' debuted in May 1999 and became the Internet's first publisher-sponsored e-serial.<ref name="HNR 2012-10"/> ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' called it "arguably, the first major work of fiction to originate in cyberspace."<ref name="PW You Come">{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-4695-6 |title=Fiction Book Review: ''You Come When I Call You'', Douglas Clegg |work=[[Publishers Weekly]] |date=February 28, 2000 |access-date=October 28, 2014}}</ref> Some four thousand mailing list subscribers received free chapters of ''Naomi'' on a weekly basis, boosting print numbers for the 2001 [[Leisure Books]] paperback version from the low 50,000 range to over 125,000.{{Citation needed|date=October 2014}}


Clegg found a new publishing home with Dorchester's Leisure imprint, a small New York publisher committed to its horror line. Leisure brought out ''The Halloween Man'' in 1998, Clegg's short story collection ''The Nightmare Chronicles'', (which won the [[Bram Stoker Award]] and the International Horror Guild Award) in 1999, and two novels, ''You Come When I Call You'' and ''Mischief'', in 2000. Also that year, [[Cemetery Dance Publications]] published the print edition of Clegg's novella ''Purity'', which Clegg had made available for free download on his website, and the author launched another e-book, ''Nightmare House'', which was serialized on a weekly basis on the DouglasClegg mailing list at Onelist.com. A bidding war erupted between three companies for sponsorship of the mailing list for the duration of the serial.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} Cemetery Dance won, and paid Clegg a five-figure fee for his free email novel,{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} which was published in hardcover the following year. Cemetery Dance also sponsored the Harrow Haunting website, which offered readers multi-media along with the e-book. A ''Nightmare House'' sequel, ''The Infinite'', became Leisure's first hardcover in 2001.
Clegg found a new publishing home with Dorchester's Leisure imprint, a small New York publisher committed to its horror line. Leisure brought out ''The Halloween Man'' in 1998, Clegg's short story collection ''The Nightmare Chronicles'', (which won the [[Bram Stoker Award]] and the International Horror Guild Award) in 1999, and two novels, ''You Come When I Call You'' and ''Mischief'', in 2000. Also that year, [[Cemetery Dance Publications]] published the print edition of Clegg's novella ''Purity'', which Clegg had made available for free download on his website, and the author launched another e-book, ''Nightmare House'', which was serialized on a weekly basis on the DouglasClegg mailing list at Onelist.com. A bidding war erupted between three companies for sponsorship of the mailing list for the duration of the serial.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} Cemetery Dance won, and paid Clegg a five-figure fee for his free email novel,{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} which was published in hardcover the following year. Cemetery Dance also sponsored the Harrow Haunting website, which offered readers multi-media along with the e-book. A ''Nightmare House'' sequel, ''The Infinite'', became Leisure's first hardcover in 2001.
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Since then, Clegg has published several other novels and collections, including the 2004 Shocker Award-winning collection, ''The Machinery of Night''. His current publishers include Cemetery Dance Publications, Tor Books, Berkley/Ace, Leisure Books, and Wildside Press. Under the pseudonym Andrew Harper, the novels ''Red Angel'' and ''Night Cage'' also were released.
Since then, Clegg has published several other novels and collections, including the 2004 Shocker Award-winning collection, ''The Machinery of Night''. His current publishers include Cemetery Dance Publications, Tor Books, Berkley/Ace, Leisure Books, and Wildside Press. Under the pseudonym Andrew Harper, the novels ''Red Angel'' and ''Night Cage'' also were released.


Clegg's ''Harrow'' series includes ''Nightmare House'' (1999), ''Mischief'' (2000), ''The Infinite'' (2001) and ''The Abandoned'' (2005), as well as the [[prequel]] novellas ''The Necromancer'' (2003) and ''Isis'' (2006). The ''Vampyricon'' trilogy, a dark fantasy series about [[vampire|vampirism]] and [[mythology]] set in an alternate medieval history, includes ''The Priest of Blood'' (2005), ''The Lady of Serpents'' (2006) and ''The Queen of Wolves'' (2007). ''The Priest of Blood'' hit the extended ''New York Times'' bestseller list in hardcover in late 2005. In 2006 Clegg also began his ''Mordred'' trilogy with ''Mordred, Bastard Son''.
Clegg's ''Harrow'' series includes ''Nightmare House'' (1999), ''Mischief'' (2000), ''The Infinite'' (2001) and ''The Abandoned'' (2005), as well as the [[prequel]] novellas ''The Necromancer'' (2003) and ''Isis'' (2006). The ''Vampyricon'' trilogy, a dark fantasy series about [[vampire|vampirism]] and [[mythology]] set in an alternate medieval history, includes ''The Priest of Blood'' (2005), ''The Lady of Serpents'' (2006) and ''The Queen of Wolves'' (2007). ''The Priest of Blood'' hit the extended ''New York Times'' bestseller list in hardcover in late 2005. In 2006 Clegg also began his ''Mordred'' trilogy with ''[[Mordred, Bastard Son]]''.<ref name="PW Mordred 1">{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55583-899-7|title=Fiction Book Review: ''Mordred, Bastard Son'': Book One of the ''Mordred'' Trilogy by Douglas Clegg |work=Publishers Weekly |access-date=June 24, 2016}}</ref> The novel was nominated for a [[19th Lambda Literary Awards|2006 Lambda Literary Award]] for LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror.<ref name="LLASF19">{{cite web |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/04/30/lambda-literary-awards-2006-2/ |title=19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |last=Cerna |first=Antonio Gonzalez |date=April 30, 2006 |publisher=[[Lambda Literary Foundation]] |access-date=October 29, 2014}}</ref>


In 2009, [[Lonely Road Books]] announced that they would be publishing ''The Vampyricon Trilogy: The Definitive Special Edition''. The book was scheduled to include all three of the ''Vampyricon'' novels, re-edited by the author, as well as an addendum of around 50 to 100 pages of exclusive "deleted scenes" and "lost material" and color and black and white artwork by Erin Wells. Lonely Road announced two editions: a Limited Edition of 300 copies and a Lettered Edition of 52 copies.<ref name="LR">{{cite web |url=http://www.lonelyroadbooks.com/books/the-vampyricon-trilogy/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028214917/http://www.lonelyroadbooks.com/books/the-vampyricon-trilogy/ |title=''The Vampyricon Trilogy: The Definitive Special Edition'' |publisher=[[Lonely Road Books]] |archivedate=October 28, 2014 |accessdate=October 28, 2014}}</ref>
In 2009, [[Lonely Road Books]] announced that they would be publishing ''The Vampyricon Trilogy: The Definitive Special Edition''. The book was scheduled to include all three of the ''Vampyricon'' novels, re-edited by the author, as well as an addendum of around 50 to 100 pages of exclusive "deleted scenes" and "lost material" and color and black and white artwork by Erin Wells. Lonely Road announced two editions: a Limited Edition of 300 copies and a Lettered Edition of 52 copies.<ref name="LR">{{cite web |url=http://www.lonelyroadbooks.com/books/the-vampyricon-trilogy/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028214917/http://www.lonelyroadbooks.com/books/the-vampyricon-trilogy/ |title=''The Vampyricon Trilogy: The Definitive Special Edition'' |date=8 May 2013 |publisher=[[Lonely Road Books]] |archive-date=October 28, 2014 |access-date=October 28, 2014}}</ref>


==Works==
==Works==


===''Harrow'' novels===
===''Harrow'' novels===
* ''Nightmare House'' (1999)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-056-5|title=Fiction Book Review: NIGHTMARE HOUSE by Douglas Clegg, Author . Cemetery Dance $40 (210p) ISBN 978-1-58767-056-5|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''Nightmare House'' (1999)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-056-5|title=Fiction Book Review: ''NIGHTMARE HOUSE'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''Mischief'' (2000)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-009-1|title=Fiction Book Review: Mischief by Douglas Clegg, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $40 (260p) ISBN 978-1-58767-009-1|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''Mischief'' (2000)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-009-1|title=Fiction Book Review: ''Mischief'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''The Infinite'' (2001)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-4927-8|title=Fiction Book Review: THE INFINITE by Douglas Clegg, Author . Leisure $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8439-4927-8|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''The Infinite'' (2001)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-4927-8|title=Fiction Book Review: ''THE INFINITE'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''The Necromancer (Prequel Novel)'' (2003)
* ''The Necromancer (Prequel Novel)'' (2003)
* ''The Abandoned'' (2005)
* ''The Abandoned'' (2005)
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===''Mordred'' trilogy===
===''Mordred'' trilogy===
* ''[[Mordred, Bastard Son]]'' (2006)<ref name="PW Mordred 1"/>
* ''Mordred, Bastard Son'' (2006)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55583-899-7|title=Fiction Book Review: Mordred, Bastard Son: Book One of the Mordred Trilogy by Douglas Clegg, Author . Alyson $24.95 (260p) ISBN 978-1-55583-899-7|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''[[Mordred, Dragon Prince]]'' (2018)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://douglasclegg.com/bk/mordred-dragon-prince/|title=''Mordred, Dragon Prince'' – Douglas Clegg|website=DouglasClegg.com|access-date=May 22, 2018}}</ref>


===''Vampyricon'' trilogy===
===''Vampyricon'' trilogy===
* ''The Priest of Blood'' (2005)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-441-01327-2|title=Fiction Book Review: The Priest of Blood by Douglas Clegg, Author . Ace $19.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-441-01327-2|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''The Priest of Blood'' (2005)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-441-01327-2|title=Fiction Book Review: ''The Priest of Blood'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''The Lady of Serpents'' (2006)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-441-01438-5|title=Fiction Book Review: The Lady of Serpents by Douglas Clegg, Author . Ace $23.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-441-01438-5|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''The Lady of Serpents'' (2006)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-441-01438-5|title=Fiction Book Review: ''The Lady of Serpents'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''The Queen of Wolves'' (2007)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-441-01523-8|title=Fiction Book Review: Swallowing Darkness by Douglas Clegg, Author . Ace $26 (314p) ISBN 978-0-441-01523-8|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''The Queen of Wolves'' (2007)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-441-01523-8|title=Fiction Book Review: ''Swallowing Darkness'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''The Vampyricon Trilogy: The Definitive Special Edition'' (2016)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lonelyroadbooks.com/books/the-vampyricon-trilogy|title = The Vampyricon Trilogy: The Definitive Special Edition by Douglas Clegg|date = 8 May 2013}}</ref>


===Standalone novels===
===Standalone novels===
* ''Goat Dance'' (1989)
* ''Goat Dance'' (1989)
* ''Breeder'' (1990)
* ''Breeder'' (1990)
* ''Neverland'' (1991)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9720859-1-5|title=Fiction Book Review: Neverland by Douglas Clegg, Author, Bentley Little, Introduction by Bloodletting Press $45 (408p) ISBN 978-0-9720859-1-5|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36609/exclusive-book-preview-trailer-douglas-cleggs-neverland|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328070954/http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36609/exclusive-book-preview-trailer-douglas-cleggs-neverland|title=Exclusive Book Preview Trailer: Douglas Clegg's Neverland|archivedate=28 March 2010|work=dreadcentral.com}}</ref>
* ''Neverland'' (1991)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9720859-1-5|title=Fiction Book Review: ''Neverland'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36609/exclusive-book-preview-trailer-douglas-cleggs-neverland|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328070954/http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36609/exclusive-book-preview-trailer-douglas-cleggs-neverland|title=Exclusive Book Preview Trailer: Douglas Clegg's ''Neverland''|archive-date=March 28, 2010|work=dreadcentral.com|date=26 March 2010 }}</ref>
* ''Dark of the Eye'' (1994)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-931081-26-9|title=Fiction Book Review: DARK OF THE EYE by Douglas Clegg, Author . Subterranean $40 (370p) ISBN 978-1-931081-26-9|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''Dark of the Eye'' (1994)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-931081-26-9|title=Fiction Book Review: ''DARK OF THE EYE'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''The Children's Hour'' (1995)
* ''The Children's Hour'' (1995)
* ''Bad Karma'' (1997) (as Andrew Harper)
* ''Bad Karma (Criminally Insane #1)'' (1997) (As Andrew Harper)
* ''Naomi'' (1998)
* ''Naomi'' (1998)
* ''The Halloween Man'' (1998)
* ''The Halloween Man'' (1998)
* ''You Come When I Call You'' (1999)<ref name="PW You Come"/>
* ''You Come When I Call You'' (1999)<ref name="PW You Come"/>
* ''The Hour Before Dark'' (2002)<ref name="PW Hour">{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-5044-1 |title=Fiction Book Review: ''The Hour Before Dark'' |work=Publishers Weekly |date=September 2, 2002 |accessdate=October 30, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Clegg Hour">{{cite web |url=http://douglasclegg.com/the-hour-before-dark/ |title=''The Hour Before Dark'' |website=DouglasClegg.com |accessdate=October 30, 2014}}</ref>
* ''The Hour Before Dark'' (2002)<ref name="PW Hour">{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-5044-1 |title=Fiction Book Review: ''The Hour Before Dark'' |work=Publishers Weekly |date=September 2, 2002 |access-date=October 30, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Clegg Hour">{{cite web |url=http://douglasclegg.com/the-hour-before-dark/ |title=''The Hour Before Dark'' |website=DouglasClegg.com |access-date=October 30, 2014}}</ref>
* ''Red Angel (Criminally Insane #2)'' (2003) (As Andrew Harper)
* ''Night Cage (Criminally Insane #3)'' (2004) (As Andrew Harper)
* ''The Attraction'' (2004)
* ''The Attraction'' (2004)
* ''Afterlife'' (2004)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-451-41167-9|title=Fiction Book Review: AFTERLIFE by Douglas Clegg, Author . Onyx $6.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-451-41167-9|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''Afterlife'' (2004)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-451-41167-9|title=Fiction Book Review: ''AFTERLIFE'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''Dinner With the Cannibal Sisters'' (2014)


===Collections===
===Collections===
* ''The Nightmare Chronicles'' (1999)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-4580-5|title=Fiction Book Review: The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg, Author Leisure Books $6.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8439-4580-5|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''The Nightmare Chronicles'' (1999)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-4580-5|title=Fiction Book Review: ''The Nightmare Chronicles'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''The Machinery of Night'' (2004)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-088-6|title=Fiction Book Review: THE MACHINERY OF NIGHT by Douglas Clegg, Author . Cemetery Dance $40 (720p) ISBN 978-1-58767-088-6|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''The Machinery of Night'' (2004)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-088-6|title=Fiction Book Review: ''THE MACHINERY OF NIGHT'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''Wild Things: Four Tales'' (2006)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-156-2|title=Fiction Book Review: Wild Things by Douglas Clegg, Author . Cemetery Dance $20 (98p) ISBN 978-1-58767-156-2|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''Wild Things: Four Tales'' (2006)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-156-2|title=Fiction Book Review: ''Wild Things'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''Night Asylum: Tales of Mystery and Horror'' (2012) (E-book only)
* ''Lights Out: Collected Stories'' (2014) (E-book only)


===Selected short fiction and essays===
===Selected short fiction and essays===
* "White Chapel" (1994), short story in the [[anthology]] ''[[Year's Best Fantasy and Horror]]'', Volume 8<ref name="YBFH 8">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.sfsite.com/lists/yb-fh-volume03.htm#08 |chapter=White Chapel |title=[[Year's Best Fantasy and Horror]] |volume=8 |year=1994 |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
* "White Chapel" (1994), short story in the [[anthology]] ''[[Year's Best Fantasy and Horror]]'', Volume 8<ref name="YBFH 8">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.sfsite.com/lists/yb-fh-volume03.htm#08 |chapter=White Chapel |title=[[Year's Best Fantasy and Horror]] |volume=8 |year=1994 |access-date=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
* "O, Rare and Most Exquisite" (1996), short story in ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', Volume 10<ref name="YBFH10">{{cite book |url=https://www.sfsite.com/lists/yb-fh-volume04.htm#10 |chapter=O, Rare and Most Exquisite |title=Year's Best Fantasy and Horror |volume=10 |year=1996 |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
* "O, Rare and Most Exquisite" (1996), short story in ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', Volume 10<ref name="YBFH10">{{cite book |url=https://www.sfsite.com/lists/yb-fh-volume04.htm#10 |chapter=O, Rare and Most Exquisite |title=Year's Best Fantasy and Horror |volume=10 |year=1996 |access-date=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
* "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" (1997), short story in ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', Volume 11<ref name="YBFH11">{{cite book |url=https://www.sfsite.com/lists/yb-fh-volume04.htm#11 |chapter=I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes |title=Year's Best Fantasy and Horror |volume=11 |year=1997 |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
* "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" (1997), short story in ''Year's Best Fantasy and Horror'', Volume 11<ref name="YBFH11">{{cite book |url=https://www.sfsite.com/lists/yb-fh-volume04.htm#11 |chapter=I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes |title=Year's Best Fantasy and Horror |volume=11 |year=1997 |access-date=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
* ''Purity'' (2000), novella<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-881475-71-2|title=Fiction Book Review: Purity by Douglas Clegg, Author Cemetery Dance Publications $30 (120p) ISBN 978-1-881475-71-2|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''Purity'' (2000), novella<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-881475-71-2|title=Fiction Book Review: ''Purity'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* ''The Words'' (2002), a novella in the anthology ''Four Dark Nights''<ref name="PW Four Nights">{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-5098-4 |title=Fiction Book Review: ''Four Dark Nights'' |work=Publishers Weekly |date=September 30, 2002 |accessdate=October 30, 2014}}</ref>
* ''The Words'' (2002), a novella in the anthology ''Four Dark Nights''<ref name="PW Four Nights">{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-5098-4 |title=Fiction Book Review: ''Four Dark Nights'' |work=Publishers Weekly |date=September 30, 2002 |access-date=October 30, 2014}}</ref>
* ''The Necromancer'' (2003), ''Harrow'' prequel novella
* ''The Necromancer'' (2003), ''Harrow'' prequel novella
* "A Madness of Starlings" (2004), short story in [[Cemetery Dance (magazine)|''Cemetery Dance'' magazine]] #50<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/_cd050 |chapter=A Madness of Starlings |title=[[Cemetery Dance (magazine)|Cemetery Dance]] |issue=50 |year=2004 |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
* "A Madness of Starlings" (2004), short story in [[Cemetery Dance (magazine)|''Cemetery Dance'' magazine]] #50<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/_cd050 |chapter=A Madness of Starlings |title=[[Cemetery Dance (magazine)|Cemetery Dance]] |issue=50 |year=2004 |access-date=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
* ''Isis'' (2006), ''Harrow'' prequel novella<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-089-3|title=Fiction Book Review: Isis by Douglas Clegg, Author . Cemetery Dance $20 (110p) ISBN 978-1-58767-089-3|work=PublishersWeekly.com}}</ref>
* ''Isis'' (2006), ''Harrow'' prequel novella<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-089-3|title=Fiction Book Review: ''Isis'' by Douglas Clegg|work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
* "Introduction" (2013), for [[Mary Shelley]]'s ''[[Frankenstein]]'', [[Signet Classics]] edition<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.penguin.com/book/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley/9780451532244 |title=''Frankenstein'' by Mary Shelley |publisher=Penguin Books |accessdate=October 30, 2014}}</ref>
* "Introduction" (2013), for [[Mary Shelley]]'s ''[[Frankenstein]]'', [[Signet Classics]] edition<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.penguin.com/book/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley/9780451532244 |title=''Frankenstein'' by Mary Shelley |publisher=Penguin Books |access-date=October 30, 2014}}</ref>


==Adaptations==
==Adaptations==
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==Critical reception==
==Critical reception==
Horror author [[Peter Straub]] said of Clegg in 2002, ""Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction, and ''The Hour Before Dark'' is his best and most exciting novel to date. This is pure imagination, and it is wearing speed skates."<ref name="Clegg Hour"/><ref name="WHC 2004 Clegg">{{cite web |url=http://www.whc2004.org/guests/douglas_clegg.htm |title=Author Guest of Honor: Douglas Clegg |publisher=[[World Horror Convention]] |year=2004 |accessdate=October 30, 2004}}</ref> ''Publishers Weekly'' called ''The Hour Before Dark'' "suspenseful and relentlessly spooky" and "at once the most artful and most mainstream tale yet from one of horror's brightest lights."<ref name="PW Hour"/> ''Publishers Weekly'' also singled out ''The Words'', Clegg's contribution to the 2002 novella anthology ''Four Dark Nights'', as the only entry which "uses its expansive length to build the atmosphere and tension crucial for orchestrating its unsettling events."<ref name="PW Four Nights"/>
Horror author [[Peter Straub]] said of Clegg in 2002, "Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction, and ''The Hour Before Dark'' is his best and most exciting novel to date. This is pure imagination, and it is wearing speed skates."<ref name="Clegg Hour"/><ref name="WHC 2004 Clegg">{{cite web |url=http://www.whc2004.org/guests/douglas_clegg.htm |title=Author Guest of Honor: Douglas Clegg |publisher=[[World Horror Convention]] |year=2004 |access-date=October 30, 2004}}</ref> ''Publishers Weekly'' called ''The Hour Before Dark'' "suspenseful and relentlessly spooky" and "at once the most artful and most mainstream tale yet from one of horror's brightest lights."<ref name="PW Hour"/> ''Publishers Weekly'' also singled out ''The Words'', Clegg's contribution to the 2002 novella anthology ''Four Dark Nights'', as the only entry which "uses its expansive length to build the atmosphere and tension crucial for orchestrating its unsettling events."<ref name="PW Four Nights"/>


==Awards and nominations==
==Awards and nominations==
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! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Work/Citation
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Work/Citation
|-
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| 1989 || [[Bram Stoker Award]] || {{nom}} || [[Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel|Best First Novel]] || ''Goat Dance''<ref name="Stoker 1989">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#1989 |title=1989 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| 1989 || [[Bram Stoker Award]] || {{nom}} || [[Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel|Best First Novel]] || ''Goat Dance''<ref name="Stoker 1989">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#1989 |title=1989 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |access-date=October 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202142043/http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#1989 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|-
| 1997 || Bram Stoker Award || {{nom}} || [[Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction|Best Short Fiction]] || "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" (''[[Year's Best Fantasy and Horror]]'', Volume 11)<ref name="Stoker 1997">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#1997 |title=1997 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| 1997 || Bram Stoker Award || {{nom}} || [[Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction|Best Short Fiction]] || "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" (''[[Year's Best Fantasy and Horror]]'', Volume 11)<ref name="Stoker 1997">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#1997 |title=1997 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |access-date=October 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202142043/http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#1997 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|-
| 1998 || [[International Horror Guild Award]] || {{nom}} || Best Novel || ''The Halloween Man''<ref name="IHG 1998">{{cite web |url=http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#1998 |title=1998 International Horror Guild Awards |website=HorrorAward.org |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| 1998 || [[International Horror Guild Award]] || {{nom}} || Best Novel || ''The Halloween Man''<ref name="IHG 1998">{{cite web |url=http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#1998 |title=1998 International Horror Guild Awards |website=HorrorAward.org |access-date=October 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422073428/http://horroraward.org/prevrec.html#1998 |archive-date=April 22, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|-
| 1999 || Bram Stoker Award || {{win}} || [[Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection|Best Fiction Collection]] || ''The Nightmare Chronicles''<ref name="Stoker 1999">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#1999 |title=1999 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| 1999 || Bram Stoker Award || {{win}} || [[Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection|Best Fiction Collection]] || ''The Nightmare Chronicles''<ref name="Stoker 1999">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#1999 |title=1999 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |access-date=October 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202142043/http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#1999 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|-
| 1999 || International Horror Guild Award || {{win}} || Best Collection || ''The Nightmare Chronicles''<ref name="IHG 1999">{{cite web |url=http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#1999 |title=1999 International Horror Guild Awards |website=HorrorAward.org |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| 1999 || International Horror Guild Award || {{win}} || Best Collection || ''The Nightmare Chronicles''<ref name="IHG 1999">{{cite web |url=http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#1999 |title=1999 International Horror Guild Awards |website=HorrorAward.org |access-date=October 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422073428/http://horroraward.org/prevrec.html#1999 |archive-date=April 22, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|-
| 2000 || International Horror Guild Award || {{nom}} || Best Novel || ''You Come When I Call''<ref name="IHG 2000">{{cite web |url=http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2000 |title=2000 International Horror Guild Awards |website=HorrorAward.org |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| 2000 || International Horror Guild Award || {{nom}} || Best Novel || ''You Come When I Call''<ref name="IHG 2000">{{cite web |url=http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2000 |title=2000 International Horror Guild Awards |website=HorrorAward.org |access-date=October 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422073428/http://horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2000 |archive-date=April 22, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|-
| 2002 || Bram Stoker Award || {{nom}} || [[Bram Stoker Award for Novel|Best Novel]] || ''The Hour Before Dark''<ref name="Stoker 2002">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#2002 |title=2002 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| 2002 || Bram Stoker Award || {{nom}} || [[Bram Stoker Award for Novel|Best Novel]] || ''The Hour Before Dark''<ref name="Stoker 2002">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#2002 |title=2002 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |access-date=October 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202142043/http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#2002 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|-
| 2002 || International Horror Guild Award || {{nom}} || Best Novel || ''The Hour Before Dark''<ref name="IHG 2002">{{cite web |url=http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2002 |title=2002 International Horror Guild Awards |website=HorrorAward.org |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| 2002 || International Horror Guild Award || {{nom}} || Best Novel || ''The Hour Before Dark''<ref name="IHG 2002">{{cite web |url=http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2002 |title=2002 International Horror Guild Awards |website=HorrorAward.org |access-date=October 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422073428/http://horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2002 |archive-date=April 22, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|-
| 2003 || Bram Stoker Award || {{nom}} || [[Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction|Best Long Fiction]] || ''The Necromancer''<ref name="Stoker 2003">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#2003 |title=2003 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| 2003 || Bram Stoker Award || {{nom}} || [[Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction|Best Long Fiction]] || ''The Necromancer''<ref name="Stoker 2003">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#2003 |title=2003 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |access-date=October 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202142043/http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#2003 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|-
| 2004 || Bram Stoker Award || {{nom}} || Best Short Fiction || "A Madness of Starlings" ([[Cemetery Dance (magazine)|''Cemetery Dance'' magazine]] #50)<ref name="Stoker 2004">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#2004 |title=2004 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| 2004 || Bram Stoker Award || {{nom}} || Best Short Fiction || "A Madness of Starlings" ([[Cemetery Dance (magazine)|''Cemetery Dance'' magazine]] #50)<ref name="Stoker 2004">{{cite web |url=http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#2004 |title=2004 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners |website=Horror.org |access-date=October 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202142043/http://horror.org/awards/stokerwinnom.htm#2004 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|-
| 2004 || Bram Stoker Award || {{nom}} || Best Fiction Collection || ''The Machinery of Night''<ref name="Stoker 2004"/>
| 2004 || Bram Stoker Award || {{nom}} || Best Fiction Collection || ''The Machinery of Night''<ref name="Stoker 2004"/>
|-
|-
| 2006 || International Horror Guild Award || {{nom}} || Best Long Form || ''Isis''<ref name="IHG 2006">{{cite web |url=http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2006 |title=2006 International Horror Guild Awards |website=HorrorAward.org |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| 2006 || International Horror Guild Award || {{nom}} || Best Long Form || ''Isis''<ref name="IHG 2006">{{cite web |url=http://www.horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2006 |title=2006 International Horror Guild Awards |website=HorrorAward.org |access-date=October 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422073428/http://horroraward.org/prevrec.html#2006 |archive-date=April 22, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[19th Lambda Literary Awards|2006]] || [[Lambda Literary Award]] || {{nom}} || LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror || ''Mordred: Bastard Son''<ref name="LLASF19">{{cite web |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/04/30/lambda-literary-awards-2006-2/ |title=19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |last=Cerna |first=Antonio Gonzalez| date=April 30, 2006 |publisher=[[Lambda Literary Foundation]] |accessdate=October 29, 2014}}</ref>
| [[19th Lambda Literary Awards|2006]] || [[Lambda Literary Award]] || {{nom}} || LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror || ''[[Mordred, Bastard Son]]''<ref name="LLASF19"/>
|}
|}


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Clegg is gay and lives on the New England coast with his husband and business partner, Raul Silva.<ref name="Penguin Bio"/><ref name="DSM 2010-11">{{cite web |url=http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/feature-interviews/douglas-clegg-writer-spy-and-literary-archeologist.html |title=Douglas Clegg: Writer, Spy, and Literary Archeologist |first=Désirée I. |last=Guzzetta |work=Dark Scribe Magazine |date=November 11, 2010 |accessdate=October 28, 2014}}</ref> After 16 years together, Clegg and Silva were joined in a civil union on November 17, 2005. They were legally married on November 17, 2008. The couple have a menagerie of rescued pets and enjoy canoeing, hiking and bicycling.{{Citation needed|date=October 2014}}
Clegg lives in Connecticut with his husband and business partner, Raul Silva.<ref name="Penguin Bio"/><ref name="DSM 2010-11">{{cite web |url=http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/feature-interviews/douglas-clegg-writer-spy-and-literary-archeologist.html |title=Douglas Clegg: Writer, Spy, and Literary Archeologist |first=Désirée I. |last=Guzzetta |work=Dark Scribe Magazine |date=November 11, 2010 |access-date=October 28, 2014}}</ref> After 16 years together, Clegg and Silva were joined in a civil union on November 17, 2005. They were legally married on November 17, 2008. The couple have a menagerie of rescued pets and enjoy canoeing, hiking and bicycling.{{Citation needed|date=October 2014}}


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.douglasclegg.com/}}
* {{Official website|http://www.douglasclegg.com/}}
* [http://www.livejournal.com/users/douglas_clegg/ Clegg's LiveJournal]
* {{isfdb name|id=Douglas_Clegg|name=Douglas Clegg}}
* {{isfdb name|id=Douglas_Clegg|name=Douglas Clegg}}
* [http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/CTGY/clegg Douglas Clegg profile - Cemetery Dance Publications]
* [http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/CTGY/clegg Douglas Clegg profile - Cemetery Dance Publications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202101140/http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/CTGY/clegg |date=2014-02-02 }}
* [http://douglasclegg.com/bio/ About Douglas Clegg - DouglasClegg.com]
* [http://douglasclegg.com/bio/ About Douglas Clegg - DouglasClegg.com]
* {{cite web |url=http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/feature-interviews/douglas-clegg-writer-spy-and-literary-archeologist.html |title=Douglas Clegg: Writer, Spy, and Literary Archeologist |first=Désirée I. |last=Guzzetta |work=Dark Scribe Magazine |date=November 11, 2010 |accessdate=October 28, 2014}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.darkscribemagazine.com/feature-interviews/douglas-clegg-writer-spy-and-literary-archeologist.html |title=Douglas Clegg: Writer, Spy, and Literary Archeologist |first=Désirée I. |last=Guzzetta |work=Dark Scribe Magazine |date=November 11, 2010 |access-date=October 28, 2014}}


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Douglas Clegg
Born (1958-04-01) April 1, 1958 (age 66)
Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
Alma materWashington and Lee University
GenreHorror, Fantasy, Genre fiction, Dark fantasy
SpouseRaul Silva (1989–present)
Website
www.douglasclegg.com

Douglas Clegg (born April 1, 1958) is an American horror and dark fantasy author, and a pioneer in the field of e-publishing.[citation needed] He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website.

Early life[edit]

Born in Alexandria, Virginia to a "family of artists", Clegg had "scribbled stories" from a young age and then started typing them at age 8 when his parents brought home a typewriter.[1][2] One of his first tales was an adventure about his pet mockingbird, which had recently died. His first horror story was for a school assignment at Sleepy Hollow School about St. Patrick’s Day, in which snakes take their revenge on St. Patrick and the people of Dublin.[2] Clegg wrote his first novella-length work, called Asylum, at age 17.[3]

Clegg graduated from Washington and Lee University, with a degree in English Literature.[3]

Writing career[edit]

Clegg finished writing his first novel, Goat Dance, in 1987. Pocket Books published it in 1989, and Goat Dance was nominated for Outstanding First Novel by the Horror Writers Association. Pocket also published his second, third, and fourth novels, Breeder (1990), Neverland (1991) and Dark of the Eye (1994). Clegg's next novel, The Children's Hour (1995), was published by Dell, but the imprint dropped its horror line four months later, leaving him without a publisher. His sixth novel, Bad Karma (1997), written under the pseudonym Andrew Harper, was published by Kensington Books, and later adapted for the screen by Randall Frakes. The resulting 2002 film, directed by John Hough and starring Patsy Kensit, was released as Bad Karma internationally and as Hell's Gate in the United States.

In March 1999, Clegg announced that he would be distributing his new ghost novel Naomi in serial installments via email.[4] Naomi debuted in May 1999 and became the Internet's first publisher-sponsored e-serial.[2] Publishers Weekly called it "arguably, the first major work of fiction to originate in cyberspace."[5] Some four thousand mailing list subscribers received free chapters of Naomi on a weekly basis, boosting print numbers for the 2001 Leisure Books paperback version from the low 50,000 range to over 125,000.[citation needed]

Clegg found a new publishing home with Dorchester's Leisure imprint, a small New York publisher committed to its horror line. Leisure brought out The Halloween Man in 1998, Clegg's short story collection The Nightmare Chronicles, (which won the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award) in 1999, and two novels, You Come When I Call You and Mischief, in 2000. Also that year, Cemetery Dance Publications published the print edition of Clegg's novella Purity, which Clegg had made available for free download on his website, and the author launched another e-book, Nightmare House, which was serialized on a weekly basis on the DouglasClegg mailing list at Onelist.com. A bidding war erupted between three companies for sponsorship of the mailing list for the duration of the serial.[citation needed] Cemetery Dance won, and paid Clegg a five-figure fee for his free email novel,[citation needed] which was published in hardcover the following year. Cemetery Dance also sponsored the Harrow Haunting website, which offered readers multi-media along with the e-book. A Nightmare House sequel, The Infinite, became Leisure's first hardcover in 2001.

Since then, Clegg has published several other novels and collections, including the 2004 Shocker Award-winning collection, The Machinery of Night. His current publishers include Cemetery Dance Publications, Tor Books, Berkley/Ace, Leisure Books, and Wildside Press. Under the pseudonym Andrew Harper, the novels Red Angel and Night Cage also were released.

Clegg's Harrow series includes Nightmare House (1999), Mischief (2000), The Infinite (2001) and The Abandoned (2005), as well as the prequel novellas The Necromancer (2003) and Isis (2006). The Vampyricon trilogy, a dark fantasy series about vampirism and mythology set in an alternate medieval history, includes The Priest of Blood (2005), The Lady of Serpents (2006) and The Queen of Wolves (2007). The Priest of Blood hit the extended New York Times bestseller list in hardcover in late 2005. In 2006 Clegg also began his Mordred trilogy with Mordred, Bastard Son.[6] The novel was nominated for a 2006 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror.[7]

In 2009, Lonely Road Books announced that they would be publishing The Vampyricon Trilogy: The Definitive Special Edition. The book was scheduled to include all three of the Vampyricon novels, re-edited by the author, as well as an addendum of around 50 to 100 pages of exclusive "deleted scenes" and "lost material" and color and black and white artwork by Erin Wells. Lonely Road announced two editions: a Limited Edition of 300 copies and a Lettered Edition of 52 copies.[8]

Works[edit]

Harrow novels[edit]

  • Nightmare House (1999)[9]
  • Mischief (2000)[10]
  • The Infinite (2001)[11]
  • The Necromancer (Prequel Novel) (2003)
  • The Abandoned (2005)
  • Isis (Prequel Novel) (2006)

Mordred trilogy[edit]

Vampyricon trilogy[edit]

  • The Priest of Blood (2005)[13]
  • The Lady of Serpents (2006)[14]
  • The Queen of Wolves (2007)[15]
  • The Vampyricon Trilogy: The Definitive Special Edition (2016)[16]

Standalone novels[edit]

  • Goat Dance (1989)
  • Breeder (1990)
  • Neverland (1991)[17][18]
  • Dark of the Eye (1994)[19]
  • The Children's Hour (1995)
  • Bad Karma (Criminally Insane #1) (1997) (As Andrew Harper)
  • Naomi (1998)
  • The Halloween Man (1998)
  • You Come When I Call You (1999)[5]
  • The Hour Before Dark (2002)[20][21]
  • Red Angel (Criminally Insane #2) (2003) (As Andrew Harper)
  • Night Cage (Criminally Insane #3) (2004) (As Andrew Harper)
  • The Attraction (2004)
  • Afterlife (2004)[22]
  • Dinner With the Cannibal Sisters (2014)

Collections[edit]

  • The Nightmare Chronicles (1999)[23]
  • The Machinery of Night (2004)[24]
  • Wild Things: Four Tales (2006)[25]
  • Night Asylum: Tales of Mystery and Horror (2012) (E-book only)
  • Lights Out: Collected Stories (2014) (E-book only)

Selected short fiction and essays[edit]

Adaptations[edit]

Clegg's 1997 novel Bad Karma (1997) was adapted by Randall Frakes into the 2002 film Bad Karma, with no participation from Clegg. Directed by John Hough and starring Patsy Kensit, the film was released as Hell's Gate in the United States. In a 2012 interview, Clegg praised Kensit's performance but noted, "in general it’s not a very good movie."[2]

Several of Clegg's other works have been optioned for film, including The Attraction, The Hour Before Dark, Dark of the Eye and The Children’s Hour, but none have yet to be produced.[2]

Critical reception[edit]

Horror author Peter Straub said of Clegg in 2002, "Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction, and The Hour Before Dark is his best and most exciting novel to date. This is pure imagination, and it is wearing speed skates."[21][34] Publishers Weekly called The Hour Before Dark "suspenseful and relentlessly spooky" and "at once the most artful and most mainstream tale yet from one of horror's brightest lights."[20] Publishers Weekly also singled out The Words, Clegg's contribution to the 2002 novella anthology Four Dark Nights, as the only entry which "uses its expansive length to build the atmosphere and tension crucial for orchestrating its unsettling events."[30]

Awards and nominations[edit]

Year Award Result Category Work/Citation
1989 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best First Novel Goat Dance[35]
1997 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best Short Fiction "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Volume 11)[36]
1998 International Horror Guild Award Nominated Best Novel The Halloween Man[37]
1999 Bram Stoker Award Won Best Fiction Collection The Nightmare Chronicles[38]
1999 International Horror Guild Award Won Best Collection The Nightmare Chronicles[39]
2000 International Horror Guild Award Nominated Best Novel You Come When I Call[40]
2002 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best Novel The Hour Before Dark[41]
2002 International Horror Guild Award Nominated Best Novel The Hour Before Dark[42]
2003 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best Long Fiction The Necromancer[43]
2004 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best Short Fiction "A Madness of Starlings" (Cemetery Dance magazine #50)[44]
2004 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best Fiction Collection The Machinery of Night[44]
2006 International Horror Guild Award Nominated Best Long Form Isis[45]
2006 Lambda Literary Award Nominated LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Mordred, Bastard Son[7]

Personal life[edit]

Clegg lives in Connecticut with his husband and business partner, Raul Silva.[1][46] After 16 years together, Clegg and Silva were joined in a civil union on November 17, 2005. They were legally married on November 17, 2008. The couple have a menagerie of rescued pets and enjoy canoeing, hiking and bicycling.[citation needed]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Douglas Clegg Bio". Penguin Books. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e Molgaard, Matt (October 30, 2012). "Douglas Clegg Talks His First Horror Story and the Birth of the Online Serial Novel". Horror Novel Reviews. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "About Douglas Clegg". DouglasClegg.com. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  4. ^ Green, Hardy (May 24, 1999). "Two New Books, Two Ways of Marketing". Business Week. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Fiction Book Review: You Come When I Call You, Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly. February 28, 2000. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Fiction Book Review: Mordred, Bastard Son: Book One of the Mordred Trilogy by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  7. ^ a b Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (April 30, 2006). "19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  8. ^ "The Vampyricon Trilogy: The Definitive Special Edition". Lonely Road Books. 8 May 2013. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  9. ^ "Fiction Book Review: NIGHTMARE HOUSE by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  10. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Mischief by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  11. ^ "Fiction Book Review: THE INFINITE by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  12. ^ "Mordred, Dragon Prince – Douglas Clegg". DouglasClegg.com. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
  13. ^ "Fiction Book Review: The Priest of Blood by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  14. ^ "Fiction Book Review: The Lady of Serpents by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  15. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Swallowing Darkness by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  16. ^ "The Vampyricon Trilogy: The Definitive Special Edition by Douglas Clegg". 8 May 2013.
  17. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Neverland by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  18. ^ "Exclusive Book Preview Trailer: Douglas Clegg's Neverland". dreadcentral.com. 26 March 2010. Archived from the original on March 28, 2010.
  19. ^ "Fiction Book Review: DARK OF THE EYE by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  20. ^ a b "Fiction Book Review: The Hour Before Dark". Publishers Weekly. September 2, 2002. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  21. ^ a b "The Hour Before Dark". DouglasClegg.com. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  22. ^ "Fiction Book Review: AFTERLIFE by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  23. ^ "Fiction Book Review: The Nightmare Chronicles by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  24. ^ "Fiction Book Review: THE MACHINERY OF NIGHT by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  25. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Wild Things by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  26. ^ "White Chapel". Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Vol. 8. 1994. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  27. ^ "O, Rare and Most Exquisite". Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Vol. 10. 1996. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  28. ^ "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes". Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Vol. 11. 1997. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  29. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Purity by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  30. ^ a b "Fiction Book Review: Four Dark Nights". Publishers Weekly. September 30, 2002. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  31. ^ "A Madness of Starlings". Cemetery Dance. 2004. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  32. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Isis by Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly.
  33. ^ "Frankenstein by Mary Shelley". Penguin Books. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  34. ^ "Author Guest of Honor: Douglas Clegg". World Horror Convention. 2004. Retrieved October 30, 2004.
  35. ^ "1989 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  36. ^ "1997 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  37. ^ "1998 International Horror Guild Awards". HorrorAward.org. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  38. ^ "1999 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  39. ^ "1999 International Horror Guild Awards". HorrorAward.org. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  40. ^ "2000 International Horror Guild Awards". HorrorAward.org. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  41. ^ "2002 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  42. ^ "2002 International Horror Guild Awards". HorrorAward.org. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  43. ^ "2003 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  44. ^ a b "2004 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  45. ^ "2006 International Horror Guild Awards". HorrorAward.org. Archived from the original on April 22, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  46. ^ Guzzetta, Désirée I. (November 11, 2010). "Douglas Clegg: Writer, Spy, and Literary Archeologist". Dark Scribe Magazine. Retrieved October 28, 2014.

External links[edit]

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