Turn up the sound -- but after you watch the video, don't give away the secret!
Isis by Douglas Clegg in bookstores Sept. 29, 2009 -- more at
http://www.DouglasClegg.com -- with illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne.
-- the ultimate Halloween read of the year.
Be sure and check DouglasClegg.com for the upcoming Isis game, more videos, book trailers, books, social media, twitter, facebook, myspace and other areas.
If you lost someone you loved, what would you pay to bring them back from the dead?
From childhood until her sixteenth year, Iris Villiers wandered the steep cliffs at twilight along the coast of Cornwall near her ancestral home...But when a tragedy occurs from the ledge of an open window, Iris discovers that she possesses the ability to speak to the dead...
In the book trailer for Isis:
Against the breaking dawn, a red mist evaporates to reveal the standing stone of the Maiden's face...who is she?
What is the stone idol?
Is this a zombie in this video, or something else? What do you think -- is it a haunting or is it the living dead?
Animation and special effects by Jacob Henderson for COS Productions (COSProductions.com)
New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg brings us Isis, a beautifully illustrated, unforgettable book that is sure to become a classic tale of the supernatural, in bookstores September 29, 2009.
Isis is illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne.
"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation!"
Bentley Little
author of The Policy and The Ignored.
"Isis is a haunting beauty of a tale." -- Christine Feehan, NY Times Bestselling Author.
"A master of the genre. Absolutely thrilling! Douglas Clegg is the future of dark fantasy."
-- Sherrilyn Kenyon
NY Times bestselling author of the Dark-Hunters.
"Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction."
-- Peter Straub
"Clegg delivers!"
-- John Saul
"Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."
-- Dean Koontz
"Clegg is one of the best!"
-- Richard Laymon
"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!"
-- Robert R. McCammon
Douglas Clegg is a fan of Guillermo del Toro, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, John Saul, Christine Feehan, Wes Craven, Peter Jackson. Movies like Lord of the Rings, Pan's Labyrinth, Zombieland. Night of the Living Dead, The Others, The Innocents; stories like "The Monkey's Paw," anything by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ira Levin, Stephen King, Joe Hill, M.J. Rose, Christopher Rice, Anne Rice...so many others.
Related:
Monkey's Paw
Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
supernatural
undead
superstition
horror
haunting
tale
illustrations
legend
paranormal
Cornwall
psychic
tomb
burial
resurrection
terror
fear
creepy
chilling
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