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==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. 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">{{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>
Born in [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria]], [[Virginia]], Clegg grew up in an artistic family, and wrote his first story, about the death of his pet mockingbird, at the age of nine on a typewriter his parents had given him a year or two earlier.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} For years, he kept his writing secret, hiding his stories and sometimes destroying them, if he thought they might be found.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}
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Clegg received a bachelor's degree in English Literature from [[Washington and Lee University]], where 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==
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">{{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> ''[[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 |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}}


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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==Adaptation==
==Adaptation==
Clegg's 1997 novel ''Bad Karma'' (1997) was adapted by [[Randall Frakes]] into the 2002 film ''[[Bad Karma (2002 film)|Bad Karma]]''. Directed by [[John Hough (director)|John Hough]] and starring [[Patsy Kensit]], the film was released as ''Hell's Gate'' in the United States.
Clegg's 1997 novel ''Bad Karma'' (1997) was adapted by [[Randall Frakes]] into the 2002 film ''[[Bad Karma (2002 film)|Bad Karma]]'', with no participation from Clegg. Directed by [[John Hough (director)|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."<ref name="HNR 2012-10"/>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==

Revision as of 16:51, 30 October 2014

Douglas Clegg
Born (1958-04-01) April 1, 1958 (age 66)
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
GenreHorror, Fantasy, Genre fiction, Dark fantasy
SpouseRaul Silva (2005-preent)
Website
www.douglasclegg.com

Douglas Clegg (born April 1, 1958) is a 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 and LiveJournal.

Early life

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. 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.[1]

Writing career

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.[2] Naomi debuted in May 1999 and became the Internet's first publisher-sponsored e-serial.[1] Publishers Weekly called it "arguably, the first major work of fiction to originate in cyberspace."[3] 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. Other works include The Abandoned; Mordred, Bastard Son; The Priest of Blood; Afterlife; and The Attraction. Under the pseudonym Andrew Harper, the novels Red Angel and Night Cage also were released. Also published: the novellas The Necromancer, and Isis (summer of 2006.) In late 2006, his novel, The Lady of Serpents came out in hardcover. His 2002 novel, The Hour Before Dark, was optioned for film and is in pre-production in Hollywood.[citation needed]

Clegg's latest published works include Isis, Neverland and The Priest of Blood, a dark fantasy about vampirism and mythology, set in an alternate medieval history.[4] It hit the extended New York Times bestseller list in hardcover in late 2005, and came out in paperback in August 2006.

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: The Priest of Blood, The Lady of Serpents and The Queen of Wolves, 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.[5]

Selected works

Harrow Academy novels

  • Nightmare House (1999)[6]
  • Mischief (2000)[7]
  • The Infinite (2001)[8]
  • The Abandoned (2005)

Mordred trilogy

  • Mordred, Bastard Son (2006)[9]

Vampyricon trilogy

  • The Priest of Blood (2005)[10]
  • The Lady of Serpents (2006)[11]
  • The Queen of Wolves (2007)[12]

Standalone novels

  • Goat Dance (1989)
  • Breeder (1990)
  • Neverland (1991)[13][14]
  • Dark of the Eye (1994)[15]
  • The Children's Hour (1995)
  • Bad Karma (1997) (as Andrew Harper)
  • Naomi (1998)
  • The Halloween Man (1998)
  • You Come When I Call You (1999)[3]
  • The Hour Before Dark (2002)[16]
  • The Attraction (2004)
  • Afterlife (2004)[17]

Collections

  • The Nightmare Chronicles (1999)[18]
  • The Machinery of Night (2004)[19]
  • Wild Things: Four Tales (2006)[20]

Short fiction and essays

Adaptation

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."[1]

Personal life

Clegg is gay and lives on the East Coast with his husband and business partner, Raul Silva.[28] 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]

Awards

Year Award Result Category Work/Citation
1989 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best First Novel Goat Dance[29]
1997 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best Short Fiction "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes" (Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Volume 11)[30]
1998 International Horror Guild Award Nominated Best Novel The Halloween Man[31]
1999 Bram Stoker Award Won Best Fiction Collection The Nightmare Chronicles[32]
1999 International Horror Guild Award Won Best Collection The Nightmare Chronicles[33]
2000 International Horror Guild Award Nominated Best Novel You Come When I Call[34]
2002 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best Novel The Hour Before Dark[35]
2002 International Horror Guild Award Nominated Best Novel The Hour Before Dark[36]
2003 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best Long Fiction The Necromancer[37]
2004 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best Short Fiction "A Madness of Starlings" (Cemetery Dance magazine #50)[38]
2004 Bram Stoker Award Nominated Best Fiction Collection The Machinery of Night[38]
2006 International Horror Guild Award Nominated Best Long Form Isis[39]
2006 Lambda Literary Award Nominated LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror Mordred: Bastard Son[40]

References

  1. ^ a b c 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ a b "Fiction Book Review: You Come When I Call You, Douglas Clegg". Publishers Weekly. February 28, 2000. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  4. ^ Exclusive Book Preview Trailer: Douglas Clegg's Neverland
  5. ^ "The Vampyricon Trilogy: The Definitive Special Edition". Lonely Road Books. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  6. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-056-5
  7. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-009-1
  8. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-4927-8
  9. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-55583-899-7
  10. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-441-01327-2
  11. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-441-01438-5
  12. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-441-01523-8
  13. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9720859-1-5
  14. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20100328070954/http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/36609/exclusive-book-preview-trailer-douglas-cleggs-neverland
  15. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-931081-26-9
  16. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-5044-1
  17. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-451-41167-9
  18. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8439-4580-5
  19. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-088-6
  20. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-156-2
  21. ^ "White Chapel". [[Year's Best Fantasy and Horror]]. Vol. 8. 1994. Retrieved October 29, 2014. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  22. ^ "O, Rare and Most Exquisite". Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Vol. 10. 1996. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  23. ^ "I Am Infinite, I Contain Multitudes". Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Vol. 11. 1997. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  24. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-881475-71-2
  25. ^ "A Madness of Starlings". [[Cemetery Dance (magazine)|Cemetery Dance]]. 2004. Retrieved October 29, 2014. {{cite book}}: URL–wikilink conflict (help)
  26. ^ http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58767-089-3
  27. ^ "Frankenstein by Mary Shelley". Penguin Books. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
  28. ^ Guzzetta, Désirée I. (November 11, 2010). "Douglas Clegg: Writer, Spy, and Literary Archeologist". Dark Scribe Magazine. Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  29. ^ "1989 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  30. ^ "1997 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  31. ^ "1998 International Horror Guild Awards". HorrorAward.org. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  32. ^ "1999 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  33. ^ "1999 International Horror Guild Awards". HorrorAward.org. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  34. ^ "2000 International Horror Guild Awards". HorrorAward.org. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  35. ^ "2002 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  36. ^ "2002 International Horror Guild Awards". HorrorAward.org. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  37. ^ "2003 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  38. ^ a b "2004 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners". Horror.org. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  39. ^ "2006 International Horror Guild Awards". HorrorAward.org. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  40. ^ Cerna, Antonio Gonzalez (April 30, 2006). "19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary Foundation. Retrieved October 29, 2014.

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