The Halloween Man by Douglas Clegg Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Halloween Man
Book Review: OK
Summary: 3 Stars
So the idea wasn't all that original... the characters were interesting and the writing was good. And yes, very complicated.Book Review: OK, but not as good as I had hoped
Summary: 3 Stars
This was a good story, but I was a bit confused at times. I wanted more information about Stoney's "mother". It wasn't clear what she was exactly. The book left me with more questions than it should have. All in all, though, it was a good story and the characters were very well developed. I enjoyed it despite the questions.Book Review: On Douglas Clegg
Summary: 5 Stars
Praise for the writings of Douglas Clegg:"Douglas Clegg's short stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby!" -- Dean Koontz
"...a white-knuckle read from beginning to end. Clegg delivers!" -- John Saul
"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares." -- Robert R. McCammon, author of Swan Song and Boy's Life
"Douglas Clegg pulls out the stops of terror!" -- Publisher's Weekly
"Every bit as good as the best works of Stephen King, Peter Straub, or Dan Simmons. What is most remarkable is not how well Clegg provides chills, but how quickly he is able to do so." -- Hellnotes
"Unforgettable..." -- The Washington Post
"Clegg has cooler ideas and is much more of a stylist than either Saul or Koontz." -- Dallas Morning News
"Clegg gets high marks on the horror scale." -- New York Daily News
Book Review: Other Clegg novels
Summary: 5 Stars
I had never heard of Douglas Clegg until Halloween Man and Nightmare Chronicles. I started these books for fun but found them to be moving, serious, funny in parts, but over all pretty great books to read.Now my big problem is tracking down his books Goat Dance, Never Land and Childrens Hour.
Halloween Man is one of those novels where you can't recommend it to people who like slasher stories, even though there's a little slashing. You can't recommend it to people who like serious fiction because they all seem to believe that horror stories can't be serious.
So who do I recommend this to? People who like Straub, Koontz, King, Little, and maybe Barker. This is a fascinating story, but not for people who don't demand a lot from their horror fiction. Yet it's also very entertaining.
I can't wait to read Clegg's upcoming magnum opus, You Come When I Call You. I have no idea what it's about, but if it's anything like Halloween Man, it will be amazing reading.
Book Review: Powerful & Entertaining
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed reading Halloween Man, although I am pretty harsh about the horror novels I read. My favorites are Bentley Little, King, Koontz, and now Clegg, and that's because Halloween Man had deeper things going on than just creaking boards and ghosts. It's the story of a boy named Stony from childhood through adulthood as he begins to discover mysteries about his own existence and his place in the world. It also has a great love story within it, star crossed love if there ever *was* any.But the best thing about Halloween Man is the prose is crisp and strong and the images it puts in your head are vivid. When the horror happens, it seems completely real inside this story, and its a real story of sin and redemption in a way that doesn't read like a rehash of older books.
My favorite character was probably Nora Chance, and her life was as complex as the hero's, from her own childhood on up (even though she's somewhat over 70 when the book begins.) I also liked Diana, who like her namesake goddess, is a brutal hunter and unforgettable beauty.
I have triedto get copies of Goat Dance, Breeder, and The Childrens Hour but I guess they are hard to come by. Halloween Man is worth the time. My only problem with book was that it ended too quickly for me but I guess thats less a criticism than just me wanting it to keep going on and on.
Submitted by:
Jackie Patterson