A little girl possessed. A small town engulfed in dread and horror. A dark house at the edge of a frozen lake. What secret lies within the ancient place known as the Goat Dance? New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg blends supernatural suspense with heart-pounding horror in this dark epic novel. "Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."- Dean Koontz, #1 New York Times bestselling author.
A young man - Malcolm "Cup" Coffey - returns to Pontefract, Virginia, to find the girl he once loved - while a town must face its terrifying past as a possessed child threatens to unleash an unspeakable horror upon them all and a dark house at the edge of a frozen lake remains locked and abandoned...
For fans of Guillermo del Toro, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz.
"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!" - Robert R. McCammon, New York Times bestselling author.
"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.
Praise for Douglas Clegg's Fiction
"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation."- Bentley Little, bestselling author
"Clegg delivers!"- John Saul, NY Times bestselling author
"A master of the genre. Absolutely thrilling! Douglas Clegg is the future of dark fantasy."- Sherrilyn Kenyon, New York Times bestselling author of the Dark-Hunters.
"Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction."
- Peter Straub, author of the New York Times Bestsellers Ghost Story, The Talisman and Black House (with Stephen King)
"Clegg is one of the best!"- Richard Laymon, USA bestselling author of The Cellar and Island