Someone's in the house. And they're closer than you think.

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 Joe Hill.

"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.

"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.)

About the Author

Douglas Clegg is the award-winning and bestselling author of horror, gothic, fantasy, thriller and suspense fiction. He set Afterlife in a New Jersey town, not far from Manhattan, and spent time wandering the area. He wanted to write about the discovery of marital secrets, and of course, the idea of a very different kind of afterlife. He also can't help but watch television psychics -- and wonder whether it's all true or not.

His fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Shocker Award.

For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Bentley Little.

tags: horror, thriller, psychic, horror fiction, suspense, murder, crime, remote viewing, undead, ghost, haunting, erotic, nightmare, ghost