Nightmare House

Cemetery Dance, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Nightmare Houseby Douglas Clegg Unread Limited edition of 750 signed copies . Fine in fine dust jacket. Stet Fortuna Domus.It was the carving above the keystone of the house:May the House's Fortune Stand.There are places and houses that hold in the traces of evil...Spots on the earth that become legendary for the mysteries of the other side... Psychic manifestations, poltergeist disturbances, hallucinatory visions, and the residue of terror all have been documented at one particular house built in the 19th century that still survives into the 21st century.Harrow is an estate in the Hudson Valley of New York, and the site of three distinct manifestations of a haunting, the first in 1926. Built by a madman, it is asylum to relics and rituals from every corner of the earth -- and the taint of darkness that lingers within the very stones of the house itself.It has been called Nightmare House. It is a nest of the restless spirits of the dead.In the fall of 1926, when Ethan Gravesend arrives to inherit his grandfather's ramshackle mansion, he does not suspect the horror that awaits him -- or the memories of his own childhood, the nightmares of the woman trapped within the walls of the house, or the endless keening of an unseen child.Douglas Clegg's Nightmare House is the first of the Harrow Trilogy, a haunting love story, a horror story of absolute darkness, and an unforgettable tale of the ultimate in haunted houses.