{"product_id":"2940014593021","title":"The Attraction","description":"From Bram Stoker Winner Douglas Clegg comes a horror novella of roadside terror! The signs all along the desert highway read Come See the Mystery! But some mysteries should remain buried forever. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Douglas Clegg blends a unique and macabre imagination with a genuine gift for developing his characters and presenting the reader with a vivid story that will separate the timid from their sleep and the bold from their complacency whenever they next visit a sideshow or museum mummy display!\" - Midwest Book Review.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clegg takes the idea of a cheapjack tourist hustle for a decrepit gas station in middle-of-nowhere Arizona and turns it into a terrifying quick punch of horror for his readers...\" - Alternate Reality Web Zine Reviews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I couldn't put this book down. It grabbed me on the first page and wouldn't let go. I ended up reading most of the night away. I had a stiff neck and only got a few hours sleep, but it was worth it. The Attraction has an original plot and very believable characters. The story moves at an incredible rate and never lags.\" - Horror World Reviews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosh is into Bronwyn, Griff is into Tammy, Ziggy's into weed, and Dave Olshaker wants to get his girl back from Griff. But that's not all they have to worry about. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's Spring Break, and Bronwyn needs to get to L.A. for reasons that annoy her, Griff and Tammy want to go to the beach and party, Ziggy wants to score, and Josh just wants a reason to get out on the road. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen they end up with a flat tire, stuck out in an Arizona hellhole, they find out about the real attraction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe signs all over the desert highway: \"Come See the Mystery!\" \"You're Near the Mystery!\" \"The Mystery of the Universe is Two Miles Away at the Brake Down Palace Gas and Sundries!\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, because Charlie Goodrow tells this story to anyone who stops for a fill-up, he's sold a lot of tickets to the back of his shop, where the Mystery of the Universe, the Mummified Remains of the Ancient Flesh-Scraper, is there for all to see. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBehind curtains, in a glass case, lies this creature. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbove it, tacked on the wall: \"Do Not Touch. Do Not Feed.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Some freak put this together,\" Ziggy says. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Let's feed it,\" Griff says. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd then, the nightmare begins. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDouglas Clegg wrote The Attraction as a Drive-In Movie kind of horror novella, a fast-paced monster story, based on a road trip across the desert  in Arizona in the early 2000s, and stopovers at various roadside attractions over the years. This is a slightly revised version of the limited edition hardcover from Delirium Press published in 2004 and from the Leisure Books paperback of 2006. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLook for other books by Douglas Clegg\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003eThe Hour Before Dark\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 is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Bentley Little, author of The Policy\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\"A master of the genre. Absolutely thrilling! Douglas Clegg is the future of dark fantasy.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Sherrilyn Kenyon\u003cbr\u003eNew York Times bestselling author of the Dark-Hunters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e-- Peter Straub\u003cbr\u003eauthor of Lost Boy, Lost Girl and the New York 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. 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