Customer Reviews
On Douglas Clegg - By: , 21 Jul 1999 
Praise for the writings of Douglas Clegg:
"Douglas Clegg's short stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby!" -- Dean Koontz
"...a white-knuckle read from beginning to end. Clegg delivers!" -- John Saul
"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares." -- Robert R. McCammon, author of Swan Song & Boy's Life
"Douglas Clegg pulls out the stops of terror!" -- Publisher's Weekly
"Every bit as good as the best works of Stephen King, Peter Straub, or Dan Simmons. What is most remarkable is not how well Clegg provides chills, but how quickly he is able to do so." -- Hellnotes
"Unforgettable..." -- The Washington Post
"Clegg has cooler ideas & is much more of a stylist than either Saul or Koontz." -- Dallas Morning News
"Clegg gets high marks on the horror scale." -- New York Daily News
Well written, could have ended better - By: , 12 Jul 1999 
A very well written story, but I think it could have had more to the ending. The end was too vague. I was left with too many unanswered questions.
Brilliant and Terrifying - By: , 09 Jul 1999 Douglas Clegg has quickly become my favorite novelist -- especially for brilliant storytelling & dark chills. I bought The Halloween Man several weeks ago & put it behind the paperback of Stephen King's Bag of Bones (which I also loved!) Then I picked up The Halloween Man & from its opening I was hooked. This is a big sprawling epic novel that is all about character & insight -- & horror! It's scary without being brutal, & shocking without being crude. I really loved this book & now I'm off to order Nightmare Chronicles & The Childrens Hour. Clegg you made a fan out of me.
entertaining yet frustrating - By: , 06 Jul 1999 
I found this to be an entertaining yet frustrating read. I believe it took the author too long to make his point, he built the suspense up & kept me dangling until I didn't care who the Halloween man was or what happens to him. I found a few of the characters one dimensional, Mr. Fairclough & Van Crawford were cookie-cutter villians; however, I do believe Stony & Nora had some depth.
I also found the ending to be incongruent with the rest of the book because it took a long time for the story to progress & then...bam!...we have the climax & the conclusion in a very short time.
Nonetheless, I would still describe my reading of this book as enjoyable.
Moving Love Story and Horror all in ONE - By: , 23 Mar 1999 This is now the third book I've read by Doug & it is absolutely amazing. Once I ordered it from amazon.com, I began reading it once out of the package & from that monent I could literally not put it down. If the love story doesn't move you, the horror certainly will. Great book & I'd recomend it to ANYONE. Keep 'em coming, Doug.
