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Afterlife (Psychic Horror Thriller) [Kindle Edition]

Douglas Clegg
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In this suspense-packed paranormal horror thriller from award-winning and bestselling author Douglas Clegg, Julie Hutchinson is driven to the edge of sanity when a brutal murder ignites a series of dark, erotic psychic invasions of her home.

"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!" -- Robert R. McCammon, author of Mystery Walk and The Queen of Bedlam.

Afterlife is a full-length novel, in its hardcover form it was 356 pages.

"Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."— Dean Koontz

From the Publisher's Weekly Starred Review


"Stoker-winner Clegg (The Hour Before Dark) has an uncanny ability to frighten readers by chronicling everyday characters' perilous descents into their own private hells. Julie Hutchinson mentally unravels after the brutal and mysterious murder...The book's final sentence is guaranteed to unnerve readers.."

"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 & Isles series.

Books by Douglas Clegg


Afterlife
Goat Dance
Purity
Dark of the Eye
The Words
Wild Things
The Children's Hour
The Criminally Insane Series:
Bad Karma
Red Angel
Night Cage
The Harrow Series:
Nightmare House
Mischief
The Infinite
The Abandoned
The Hour Before Dark
You Come When I Call You
Naomi
The Nightmare Chronicles
The Machinery of Night
Isis
The Necromancer

Praise for Douglas Clegg's fiction


"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation."
-- Bentley Little, author of The Policy

"Clegg delivers!"
-- John Saul, bestselling author of Faces of Fear and The Devil's Labyrinth.

"Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction."
-- Peter Straub
author of Lost Boy, Lost Girl and the New York Times Bestseller Black House (with Stephen King)

About the Author


Douglas Clegg is the award-winning and bestselling author of horror, gothic, fantasy, thriller and suspense fiction. He set Afterlife in a New Jersey town, not far from Manhattan, and spent time wandering the area. He wanted to write about the discovery of marital secrets, and of course, the idea of a very different kind of afterlife. He also can't help but watch television psychics -- and wonder whether it's all true or not.

His fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Shocker Award.

tags: horror, thriller, psychic, horror fiction, suspense, murder, crime, remote viewing, undead, ghost, haunting, erotic, nightmare, ghost

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 424 KB
  • Print Length: 276 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0451411676
  • Publisher: Alkemara Press (9 April 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B00266QK1E
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #8,284 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Clegg at his best 2 Feb 2006
Format:Paperback
This is a relatively short book and seemed to appear without any great publicity (unlike his more recent Priest Of Blood and Mordred). However, as good as all his books are, this, in my opinion, is Douglas Clegg writing at his best. The story of a wife whose husband is murdered is engrossing from the start. Mix into this the well-written journey of her gradual break down, the fact that her husband was not who she thought he was and, for that matter, neither was the murder, and you have an excellent story told by an excellent storyteller. The twists and turns will keep you guessing right until the end. I highly recommend this book, both to Douglas Clegg fans and those who have never read anything by this very talented author.
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Awful 18 May 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
Since I bought my new IPhone and installed my kindle app I have found some brilliant new independent authors. Jeremy Robinson, Scott Nicholson, David Mcafee but the author of this book is not one of them.
I'm a life long reader of King, Koontz, Herbert and Grisham so I could be accused of being a literary snob however I would wholeheartedly deny this.
I'm the type of person who has to see a Movie through to the end no matter how bad and I'm the same with a book. Once I start reading I have to finish.
I'll end by saying this is the first book I have ever started and not finished. I just can't! The writing is terrible and feels as if it was written by an unimaginitive English lit drop out, the story hasn't gripped me in the slightest and I struggled badly to try to absorb myself in the story and surroundings as the story itself is totally void of any description outside of the conversations of the characters.
I have never written a review before but feel I really must save you from this terrible attempt at a novel.

Note to the author, buy a thesaurus!

"the blade went into his chest. He looked down at it; his vision went to pinpricks of darkness, "

Above excerpt from the first few pages is typical of the writing throughout. Maybe a few more descriptive words could be used?

The blade sank into his chest?
His vision faded to pinpricks of darkness? Just ideas!

Awful, awful, awful. Who edits this rubbish?
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
another good one from Doug Clegg 18 Jan 2005
By ZombiKitty - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Julie Hutchinson's husband "Hut" has been murdered, and she is having trouble recovering from his death. She believes that he visits her at night while she is sleeping. She also begins to fit together fragments of his life that were unknown to her while he was alive, and they fit together into a rather strange whole --- including evidence that Hut was part of a secret project when he was a child that tested psychic abilities in children.

AFTERLIFE was a page-turner and a good, fast read. It was well-written and suspenseful and has some great twists and turns. The book seemed quite different from other Clegg works that I have read. There were some creepy moments, but the book didn't really seem likea mega-horror book to me. But don't let that stop you from reading it!
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Clegg at his very best 15 Dec 2004
By Sebastien Pharand - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
If you haven't read a Clegg novel yet, now is your chance to do so. Not only is Afterlife a great horror story, it also stands as one of Clegg's most suspenseful tale yet. This one has all the elements of a classic in the making.

Julie's life is turned upside down when she learns that her husband was brutally murdered. She is left alone to grieve with her young daughter and her strange teenage stepson. Everyone around her wants to help; her sister Melanie, her mother, her friends, her therapist... Yet no one is able to help her forget the pane of her husband's death.

But as she tries her best to return to her normal life, strange things happen to Julie. She dreams of strange, erotic thoughts. Her husband's body disappears from the morgue. She she learns about her husband's past, a past he had kept hidden from her all these years. A stranger enters her home at night and disappears. As Julie searches for the truth, she feels the constant threat of being watched, and the nightmares become more and more real. The only person she can trust is a strange television psychic who will try to help her through this ordeal.

Or is he? Clegg creates a great webb of paranoia that prevents you from trusting any of the characters except Julie. And even Julie is a flawed character. Sometimes, you root for her, and sometimes you just want to slap her in the face to make her open her eyes and accept the truth for what it truly is. Such a character only turns a very good story into an even greater one.

This story is similar to some of the genre's best. Rosemary's Baby comes to mind. Like Levin's amazing tale of suspense, Clegg creates a suspenseful tale that never lets go of the grip it has on you. You can't help yourself; you just want to keep on turning the pages way past your bedtime. And what Clegg does best is write about the grief Julie is going through. Some of the scenes early on in the story are just heart wrenching.

Douglas Clegg is fast becoming one of the greatest new voice in horror fiction, and Afterlife is the perfect example of his amazing talent. Suspenseful, full of horror, and vastly entertaining, Afterlife might very well be the best horror novel of the year!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Can The Dead Walk? Talk? 31 Jan 2005
By Joshua Koppel - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Julie Hutchinson's world takes a nosedive when she is informed that her husband has been murdered. As she tries to deal with the horrific event, she slowly comes to realize that there are many parts of her husband's past that have been kept secret from her.

Julie tries to uncover the truth of her husband's past. While doing so she begins having erotic dreams about him. Her daughter thinks she can talk to him. Her mother puts her in contact with a TV psychic. She contacts her husband's ex who is in an asylum. Eventually she begins to doubt reality. The whole story culminates in a dramatic conclusion that can give readers shivers.

This is a very interesting although a little slow to build at first. The histories of psychic studies, open and covert, tie into Julie's dilemmas. It was refreshing to find an ending that was not obvious right from the start. A fine book from a talented author (although a little shorter than previous works).
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