{"product_id":"2940012305299","title":"Wild Things: Tales of Suspense \u0026 Horror","description":"Suspenseful, strange and riveting -- Wolves in disguise, birds as terrifying harbingers, prisoners-of-war and murderers inhabit the pages of this mini-collection from Douglas Clegg, award-winning and bestselling writer of The Children's Hour and Neverland.  Three short stories and one novelette, originally published in a special deluxe limited hardcover from Cemetery Dance Publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clegg (The Machinery of Night) shows how the bestial aspects of horror and humanity are interchangeable in this quartet of psychological suspense stories....riveting reading.\" -- Publishers Weekly \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Bram Stoker Award-Winning and Bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes a special quartet of dark stories dealing with creatures of the wild— wolf, bird, and the most terrifying of beasts: the human variety. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Suspense and Horror Tales\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \"The Wolf\" a hunter guides a younger man up a mountain to track down the creature that has been slaughtering in the valley below.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The American\" takes place at a late-night cafe in Rome where foreigners gather. On this particular night a stranger steps out of the shadowy park to sit at the sidewalk tables and speak of love and murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \"A Madness of Starlings,\" a father, teaching his children about protection from the predators of life, takes in a fledgling bird. But when it's time for the bird to fly away, the forces of nature come undone and a secret wisdom and terror enter the mind of the one who understands the language of birds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the novellette, \"The Dark Game,\" a war hero and his men are captured and taken into a prison camp. There, tortures and torments await them, but the man named Gordon Raglan begins to use a childhood game of escape to help him discover a way to hunt the wolves surrounding him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooks by Douglas Clegg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Hour Before Dark\u003cbr\u003eThe Children’s Hour\u003cbr\u003eGoat Dance\u003cbr\u003ePurity\u003cbr\u003eDark of the Eye\u003cbr\u003eThe Words\u003cbr\u003eWild Things\u003cbr\u003eNightmare House\u003cbr\u003eBad Karma\u003cbr\u003eRed Angel\u003cbr\u003eNight Cage\u003cbr\u003eMischief\u003cbr\u003eThe Infinite\u003cbr\u003eThe Abandoned\u003cbr\u003eThe Necromancer\u003cbr\u003eIsis\u003cbr\u003eYou Come When I Call You\u003cbr\u003eNaomi\u003cbr\u003eThe Nightmare Chronicles\u003cbr\u003eThe Machinery of Night\u003cbr\u003eBreeder\u003cbr\u003eThe Attraction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Douglas Clegg's Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u0026amp; Isles series. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clegg delivers!\"\u003cbr\u003e— John Saul, bestselling author of Faces of Fear and The Devil's Labyrinth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e— Peter Straub\u003cbr\u003eauthor of Ghost Story and the NY Times Bestseller Black House (with Stephen King)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clegg is one of the best!\"\u003cbr\u003e— Richard Laymon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!\"\u003cbr\u003e— Robert R. McCammon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTags: collections, anthologies, psychological, suspense, horror, thrillers, short stories, murder, wolf, war, prisoner, dark game.","brand":"Alkemara Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073388495088,"sku":"2940012305299","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012305299_p0.jpg?v=1763554908","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012305299","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}