Douglas Clegg

Quick Facts

Full Name	Douglas Clegg
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Apr 1, 1958(1958-04-01)
Age	66
Birthplace	Alexandria
Country	United States
Birth City	Alexandria
Horoscope	Aries

Douglas Clegg Biography

Douglas Clegg is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on April 1, 1958 in Alexandria, Alexandria, United States. Douglas Clegg (born April 1, 1958) is a horror and dark fantasy author, and a pioneer in the field of e-publishing. He maintains a strong Internet presence through his website.

Clegg’s Harrow series includes Nightmare House (1999), Mischief (2000), The Infinite (2001) and The Abandoned (2005), as well as the prequel novellas The Necromancer (2003) and Isis (2006). The Vampyricon trilogy, a dark fantasy series about vampirism and mythology set in an alternate medieval history, includes The Priest of Blood (2005), The Lady of Serpents (2006) and The Queen of Wolves (2007). The Priest of Blood hit the extended New York Times bestseller list in hardcover in late 2005. In 2006 Clegg also began his Mordred trilogy with Mordred, Bastard Son. The novel was nominated for a 2006 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror.

Horror author Peter Straub said of Clegg in 2002, “Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction, and The Hour Before Dark is his best and most exciting novel to date. This is pure imagination, and it is wearing speed skates.” Publishers Weekly called The Hour Before Dark “suspenseful and relentlessly spooky” and “at once the most artful and most mainstream tale yet from one of horror’s brightest lights.” Publishers Weekly also singled out The Words, Clegg’s contribution to the 2002 novella anthology Four Dark Nights, as the only entry which “uses its expansive length to build the atmosphere and tension crucial for orchestrating its unsettling events.”

Since then, Clegg has published several other novels and collections, including the 2004 Shocker Award-winning collection, The Machinery of Night. His current publishers include Cemetery Dance Publications, Tor Books, Berkley/Ace, Leisure Books, and Wildside Press. Under the pseudonym Andrew Harper, the novels Red Angel and Night Cage also were released.

Clegg found a new publishing home with Dorchester’s Leisure imprint, a small New York publisher committed to its horror line. Leisure brought out The Halloween Man in 1998, Clegg’s short story collection The Nightmare Chronicles, (which won the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award) in 1999, and two novels, You Come When I Call You and Mischief, in 2000. Also that year, Cemetery Dance Publications published the print edition of Clegg’s novella Purity, which Clegg had made available for free download on his website, and the author launched another e-book, Nightmare House, which was serialized on a weekly basis on the DouglasClegg mailing list at Onelist.com. A bidding war erupted between three companies for sponsorship of the mailing list for the duration of the serial. Cemetery Dance won, and paid Clegg a five-figure fee for his free email novel, which was published in hardcover the following year. Cemetery Dance also sponsored the Harrow Haunting website, which offered readers multi-media along with the e-book. A Nightmare House sequel, The Infinite, became Leisure’s first hardcover in 2001.

Douglas Clegg Net Worth

Douglas Clegg is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Douglas Clegg 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Clegg finished writing his first novel, Goat Dance, in 1987. Pocket Books published it in 1989, and Goat Dance was nominated for Outstanding First Novel by the Horror Writers Association. Pocket also published his second, third, and fourth novels, Breeder (1990), Neverland (1991) and Dark of the Eye (1994). Clegg’s next novel, The Children’s Hour (1995), was published by Dell, but the imprint dropped its horror line four months later, leaving him without a publisher. His sixth novel, Bad Karma (1997), written under the pseudonym Andrew Harper, was published by Kensington Books, and later adapted for the screen by Randall Frakes. The resulting 2002 film, directed by John Hough and starring Patsy Kensit, was released as Bad Karma internationally and as Hell’s Gate in the United States.

Clegg’s 1997 novel Bad Karma (1997) was adapted by Randall Frakes into the 2002 film Bad Karma, with no participation from Clegg. Directed by John Hough and starring Patsy Kensit, the film was released as Hell’s Gate in the United States. In a 2012 interview, Clegg praised Kensit’s performance but noted, “in general it’s not a very good movie.”

In March 1999, Clegg announced that he would be distributing his new ghost novel Naomi in serial installments via email. Naomi debuted in May 1999 and became the Internet’s first publisher-sponsored e-serial. Publishers Weekly called it “arguably, the first major work of fiction to originate in cyberspace.” Some four thousand mailing list subscribers received free chapters of Naomi on a weekly basis, boosting print numbers for the 2001 Leisure Books paperback version from the low 50,000 range to over 125,000.

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Top Facts about Douglas Clegg

1. Douglas Clegg is an American author of horror and suspense.
2. He has written over 30 books and novellas.
3. Clegg’s work has been translated into multiple languages.
4. His debut novel, “Goat Dance,” was a Bram Stoker Award finalist.
5. Clegg has won numerous awards for his writing, including the International Horror Guild Award.
6. He is known for his atmospheric storytelling and vivid characters.
7. Clegg’s works often explore themes of family, identity, and the supernatural.
8. He has collaborated with other authors such as Bentley Little and Christopher Golden.
9. Clegg also writes under the pseudonyms Andrew Harper and Quinn Fawcett.
10. His most recent book is “The Priest of Blood,” published in 2020.