Isis: A Novella of the Supernatural

120 pages in print.  For fans of Guillermo del Toro, Susan Hill, and Daphne Du Maurier.

Old Marsh, the gardener at Belerion Hall, warned the Villiers girl about the dark places and old ruins along the sea-cliffs. “Never go in, miss. Never say a prayer at its door. If you are angry, do not seek revenge by the Laughing Maiden stone or at the threshold of the Tombs. There be those who listen for oaths and vows….What may be said in innocence becomes flesh and blood in such places.”

From childhood until her sixteenth year, Iris Villiers wandered, a wild child in a repressive time, along the stone-hedged gardens and steep cliffs of the coast of Cornwall near her ancestral home. Surrounded by the stern judgments of her grandfather-the Gray Minister-and the taunts of her cruel governess, Iris finds solace in her handsome and beloved older brother who has always protected her.

But when a tragic accident occurs from the ledge of an open window, Iris discovers that she possesses the ability to speak to the dead…

From Publishers Weekly:

“Clegg (The Abandoned) expands the burgeoning backstory of his multivolume Harrow haunted house saga with this poignant chamber tragedy involving young Iris Catherine Villiers (who, as an adult, will become Isis Claviger, oracle of the spook-ridden Hudson Valley academy)…This potent novella, one of Clegg’s best, is both a stand-alone triumph and a powerful new chapter in his evolving series.”

From Fangoria Magazine:

“…a story of love, loss and longing…told with the beautiful prose of an old-fashioned Gothic era.”

From The Strand magazine:

“Haunting yet poignant, Isis is a work that should firmly place Clegg among the all-stars of horror such as Straub, Machen, LeFanu, and Stoker.”

Discover Douglas Clegg's fiction:

Lights Out

Neverland

The Children’s Hour

The Halloween Man

You Come When I Call You

The Hour Before Dark

Nightmare House

Bad Karma

Goat Dance

Breeder

Afterlife

Purity 

Dark of the Eye 

The Words 

Wild Things 

Red Angel 

Night Cage 

Mischief 

The Infinite 

The Abandoned 

The Necromancer 

Isis 

Naomi 

The Nightmare Chronicles 

The Attraction 

Night Asylum

The Priest of Blood 

The Lady of Serpents 

The Queen of Wolves

FIC015000 FICTION / Horror

FIC024000 FICTION / Occult & Supernatural