Isis

By Douglas Clegg
(Vanguard Press, Hardcover, 9781593155407, 128pp.)

Publication Date: September 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook

Categories: Ghost, Horror - General

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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the October 2009 Indie Next List
“Young Iris Villiers has grown up in an isolated country house, best friends with her older brother, Harvey, and listening to ghostly tales told by the family's gardener. When tragedy strikes, the siblings' childhood game of Isis and Osiris takes on a deadly-serious new meaning, but things don't turn out quite as planned. The book is gorgeously illustrated with black-and-white drawings.”
-- Anne Wilde, Next Chapter Bookshop, Mequon, WI


Description

New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg brings us Isis, a beautifully illustrated, unforgettable novella that is sure to become a classic tale of the supernatural.

If you lost someone you loved, what would you pay to bring them back from the dead?

Old Marsh, the gardener at Belerion Hall, warned the Villiers girl about the old ruins along the sea-cliffs. “Never go in, miss. Never say a prayer at its door. If you are angry, do not seek revenge by the Laughing Maiden stone or at the threshold of the Tombs. There be those who listen for oaths and vows….What may be said in innocence becomes flesh and blood in such places.”

She was born Iris Catherine Villiers. She became Isis.

From childhood until her sixteenth year, Iris Villiers wandered the stone-hedged gardens and the steep cliffs along the coast of Cornwall near her ancestral home. Surrounded by the stern judgments of her grandfather—the Gray Minister—and the taunts of her cruel governess, Iris finds solace in her beloved older brother who has always protected her. But when a tragic accident occurs from the ledge of an open window, Iris discovers that she possesses the ability to speak to the dead...

Be careful what you wish for…it just may find you.

 




About the Author

Douglas Clegg is the New York Times bestselling author of The Priest of Blood, Afterlife, and The Hour Before Dark, among other novels. His short story collection, The Machinery of Night, won a Shocker Award, and his first collection, The Nightmare Chronicles, won both the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award. He lives with his husband, Raul, in New England, with a small menagerie of rescued animals.

Visit Douglas Clegg at www.DouglasClegg.




Praise For Isis

Christine Feehan, New York Times bestselling author of Murder Game
“Douglas Clegg’s Isis is a haunting beauty of a tale as chilling and dark as the shadows on an October night.”

Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling author of Forever Odd
“Clegg’s stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby.”

Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author of Black House
“Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction.”

Library Journal
“Clegg approaches horror with a stark and vital simplicity that is utterly convincing. Fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz will appreciate this atmospheric gem.”

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