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Date of Release: September 2002 |
Publisher: Leisure Books |
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The Hour Before Dark is undoubtedly one of Clegg's best. The book is quietly written and brilliantly executed. He slowly but constantly builds up the suspense until, in the end, you realize that it has reached sky-high levels.
The story concentrates on Nemo, a man who returns to his family house (situated on an island) where his father has been murdered. There, he finds his sister Brooke, a strange and slightly disturbed young woman, and his brother Bruno, a no-nonsense kind of guy. As they are brought together to face their past (and also the present), their family house becomes alive with energy. And the only way for them to face this evil will be to play what they call 'the dark game', a game their father thought them, a game that must be played in the hours before dark, a game that can be dangerous and deadly. The very game that made all of this begin in the first place.
This novel has many great and creepy moments that you will not soon forget. It is a tour-de-force of horror suspense that will leave your breathless. The pacing is amazing, as the suspense builds constantly, never stopping, until the very end (and even in its final pages, the suspense rises again). And the ending itself is simply perfect.
Buy it today.
The Hour Before Dark will be this year's best horror novel. Read it before everyone else does!
