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The Nightmare Chronicles
The Nightmare Chronicles
Author: Douglas Clegg
The Nightmare Chronicles is a world of horror within the boundaries of a book -- the equivalent of opening a pandora's box of terror and growing fear. — "Clegg delivers!" -- John Saul — It begins in an old tenement with a horrifying crime. It continues after midnight, when a young boy, held captive in a basement, is filled with unearthly visions o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780843945805
ISBN-10: 084394580X
Publication Date: 9/1999
Pages: 360
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  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 25 ratings
Publisher: Leisure Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 2
It begins in an old tenement with a horrifying crime. It continues after midnight, when a young boy, held captive in a basement, is filled with unearthly visions of fantastic and frightening worlds. How could his kidnappers know tha the ransom would be their own souls? For as the hours pass, the boy's nightmares invade his captors like parasites-and soon, they become real.

Thirteen nightmares unfold: A young man ssearches for his dead wife among the crumbling buildings of Manhattan...a journalist seeks the ultimate evil in a plague-ridden outpost of India...ancient rituals begin anew with the mystery of a teenage girl's disappearance...and in a hospital for the criminally insane, there is only one doorway to salvation....But the night is not yet over, and the real nightmare has just begun.

Thirteen chilling tales of terror from one of the masters of the horror story.
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Helpful Score: 1
Thirteen nightmares unfold:a young man searches for his dead wife among the crumbling buildings of Manhattan...a journalist seeks the ultimate evil in a plague ridden outpost of India...ancient rituals begin anew with the mystery of a teenage girl's dissappearance..But the night is not yet over,and the real nightmare has just begun.
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Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!
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this is a awsome scary book for those who like thrillers. it will keep you jumping and looking around the corner.
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Everything Douglas Clegg writes is awesome and these short stories are no exception.


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