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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780843951776
ISBN number: 084395177X
Label: Leisure Books
Manufacturer: Leisure Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 340
Printing Date: 2004-05
Publishing house: Leisure Books
Sale Popularity Level: 175151
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Harrow House Series, Book 1 -- There are places that hold in the traces of evil, houses that become legendary for the mysteries and secrets within their walls. Harrow is one such house. Psychic manifestations, poltergeist activity, hallucinations, and other residue of terror have all been documented in Harrow. It has been called Nightmare House. It is a nest for the restless spirits of the dead. When Ethan Gravesend arrives to inherit Nightmare House, he does not suspect the horror that awaits him -- the nightmare of the woman trapped within the walls of the house, or the endless crying of an unseen child.
Unabridged dramatic reading by Michael Taylour of Books In Motion. 5.25 hours of listening.
5 CDs in a durable plastic Books In Motion 'Commuter CaseTM'
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Serious family issues.
A younger man takes possession of a large old family estate, thinking it will suit him as a man of means. What he begins to slowly discover is some dark family history, and that there is more here than just living humans.
He learns a lot more about talking to a local Constable, and things quickly deteriorate from there.
This is a very short novel, and the book itself is about 340 pages, around 120 of which are a longish novella.
Not much on gore and nastiness, just going for the slowly increasing creeping chiller effects.
Also contains the novella (which you can get by signing up to the author's mailing list, too, along with some other stories and stuff):
Purity - Douglas Clegg
Dagon triple thread conflict.
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This one is worth the buy just for the bonus novella "Purity"!
The story "Nightmare House" is very creepy and scary. The way Clegg portrays the feeling of spirits and ghosts is superb! You get scared without having to deal with gruesome, unneccesary gore. As far as I'm concerned, Clegg is a genius and should never stop writing! Also, "Purity", although not exactly horror, is the best of Clegg's work I have ever read.
Get it now, as well as the other Harrow novels!!
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The year is 1926, and Ethan Gravesend has just inherited Harrow House -- the Watch Point, New York, home of his grandfather Justin Gravesend (who tells the story of his own early years in The Necromancer). Called Nightmare House by the local newspapers because of the events that have taken place under its roof, it is also said that every stone, every piece of glass, of this English-style manor castle was chosen specifically by Justin with full knowledge of its history and possible black-magical effects.
"Harrow, you belong to me," Ethan proclaims upon his arrival. "But I was to learn," the elder Ethan notes in the telling of this story from the present day, "that this house belonged to no man." However, Ethan feels as if he has come home at last. He used to visit Harrow in his youth, but his parents kept him away except for those rare visits, though he would dream of it at night.
Newly single, Ethan is prepared to settle in to his newly acquired wealth and status -- until the dead woman is discovered in the secret walled-off room. Accompanied by chief of police Pocket and local boy Alf, other frightening events are to come (during what the elder Ethan calls a "night of mystery") that will cause him to wonder what exactly his grandfather has let loose in Harrow. But these events will pale in comparison to the new information he discovers about his family.
Author Douglas Clegg has said that Nightmare House is his version of the "quiet ghost story" -- in fact, each Harrow novel reflects a favored literary style of his. Clegg leaps around from first-person to third-person, past to present, with confidence, and he never misses a step. Reader Michael Taylour (from Books in Motion, the audio publisher who produced this edition) follows along gamely. Taylor's friendly baritone eases the listener into the strange happenings like a kindly uncle telling a spooky story before the fire. He also shows a surprising facility with voices that I would have thought out of his range. I especially enjoyed Taylor's characterization of Pocket; Clegg gives Pocket a lot of space to maneuver as a supporting character, even allowing him to tell his own side of the story, and Taylour gives him a dose of extra personality.
My very first Harrow novel was through 2005's The Abandoned, which I did not enjoy for various reasons, but one of those may have been my lack of knowledge regarding the house and its background. (Clegg says you can read the series in any order, but that one may be the exception.) Nightmare House filled me in wonderfully, and I may have to give the other another try. This very first novel of Harrow House and its surrounding history and happenings was wholly satisfying, and it has made me look forward to reading the other entries in the series. In fact, as soon as I finished listening to it, I picked up The Necromancer and read it in two sittings. These have reaffirmed my confidence both in Clegg and in Harrow, and now I am eager to acquire a copies of the other Harrow stories. And if they are also released on audio of this quality, that will be even better.
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This is the very first book in the Harrow series that I have read. It was an incredible book. I am a big horror book fan. This is probably the scariest horror book I've read. It's short, but that is actually a good thing because it gets to the good stuff, not wasting pages. The twist at the end was very surprising. I can't wait to read the rest of the series. I highly recommend this book to any horror fan.
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This could have been good if the ending was better! It just ends! The story behind it was unreadable! Very stupid! I could not finnish it!Don't waste your time on this book!
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