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"Clegg (The Machinery of Night) shows how the bestial aspects of horror and humanity are interchangeable in this quartet of psychological suspense stories....riveting reading." -- Publishers Weekly.From award-winning and bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes a special quartet of stories dealing with creatures of the wild— wolf, bird, and the most terrifying of beasts: the human variety. In "The Wolf" a hunter guides a younger man up a mountain to track down the creature that has been slaughtering in the valley below. "The American" takes place at a late-night cafe in Rome where foreigners gather. On this particular night a stranger steps out of the shadowy park to sit at the sidewalk tables and speak of love and murder. In "A Madness of Starlings," a father, teaching his children about protection from the predators of life, takes in a fledgling bird. But when it's time for the bird to fly away, the forces of nature come undone and a secret wisdom and terror enter the mind of the one who understands the language of birds., In the novellette, "The Dark Game," a war hero and his men are captured and taken into a prison camp. There, tortures and torments await them, but the man named
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- Author
- Clegg, Douglas
- Publisher
- Cemetery Dance Publications
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781587671562
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Horror
- Rating
- 3.53 / 5 (62 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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