Julie Hutchinson believes someone's breaking into her house while she's asleep...while she's dreaming. A shadow presence comes in the night -- to her bedroom.
Is it a psychic attack? A ghost? Or something even more terrifying?
For fans of Dean Koontz, Stephen King and Gillian Flynn
"Douglas Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."— Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling author of Watchers, Intensity and Odd Thomas.
Afterlife is a full-length novel, in its hardcover form it was 356 pages. Don't miss other chilling bestsellers from Douglas Clegg, including The Children's Hour and The Hour Before Dark!
"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation."
-- Bentley Little, USA Today bestselling author of The Haunted and The Mailman.
From the Publisher's Weekly Starred Review
"Stoker-winner Clegg (The Hour Before Dark) has an uncanny ability to frighten readers by chronicling everyday characters' perilous descents into their own private hells. Julie Hutchinson mentally unravels after the brutal and mysterious murder...The book's final sentence is guaranteed to unnerve readers.."
"Douglas Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows just how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills..." - Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series.
Books by Douglas Clegg
Afterlife
Goat Dance
Purity
Dark of the Eye
The Words
Wild Things
The Children's Hour
The Criminally Insane Series:
Bad Karma
Red Angel
Night Cage
The Harrow Series:
Nightmare House
Mischief
The Infinite
The Abandoned
The Hour Before Dark
You Come When I Call You
Naomi
The Nightmare Chronicles
The Machinery of Night
Isis
The Necromancer
Praise for Douglas Clegg's fiction
"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation."
-- Bentley Little, USA Today bestselling author of The Haunted and The Mailman.
"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!" -- Robert R. McCammon, New York Times bestseller author of Swan Song and Stinger.
"Clegg delivers!" -- John Saul, New York Times bestselling author of Faces of Fear and The Devil's Labyrinth.
"Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction." -- Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story, and The Talisman and Black House (with Stephen King.)
tags: horror, thriller, psychic, horror fiction, suspense, murder, crime, remote viewing, undead, ghost, haunting, erotic, nightmare, ghost
Douglas Clegg is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of more than 30 books, including The Hour Before Dark, You Come When I Call You, and Neverland. He lives in New England.