{"product_id":"2940014977067","title":"Coming of Age: Three Novellas","description":"A triple-feature omnibus of three suspense thrillers - Purity, The Words, and The Attraction! Three full-length novellas all packed into one cool ebook -- three of award-winner Clegg's most frightening and fascinating novellas of suspense, chills, horror and...coming of age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Purity, the darkest force is love. From award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a twisting, dark psychological thriller of dangerous obsession. \"Purity is a gripping, shocking story of love, turning 18 and murder.\" -Doubleshot Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Douglas Clegg turns the screws dexterously in this sleek, multifaceted suspense story...in a vacation paradise saturated in alcohol, entitlement and hypocrisy...\" - Publisher's Weekly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Clegg writes gut-wrenchingly beautiful horror, painful adolescence, abuse, sociopathic alienation, and coming home - are all at play here, as are characters who play each other and themselves...for keeps.\"- Chizine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* * *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Words, two boys discover a secret world of monsters...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen teenager Mark befriends outsider Dash, he believes his new friend to be an outcast rebel. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut a dark mystery unfolds as Dash leads Mark into dangerous games and rituals involving stories of the occult and a strange drug that allows Dash to see into another world -- a world of absolute darkness and terror. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Your flesh will remember the words even if your mind forgets.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* * *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Attraction: \"A terrifying quick punch of horror.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Attraction is a drive-in movie-style horror chiller of roadside terror! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe signs along the desert highway read Come See the Mystery! But some mysteries should remain buried forever -- like the terrifying creature at the back of the Brakedown Palace Gas \u0026amp; Sundries Emporium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther 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\"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\u003eauthor of The Queen of Bedlam and Speaks The Nightbird.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTags: horror, thriller, suspense, supernatural, paranormal, murder, crime, New England, island, mystery, road trip, desert, monster, gothic, chiller.","brand":"Alkemara Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156019888368,"sku":"2940014977067","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014977067_p0.jpg?v=1763617749","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014977067","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}