Neverland by Douglas Clegg - DouglasClegg.com

From Douglas Clegg, author of Isis, comes a southern gothic tale of family secrets and games of innocence turned to darkness.

For years, the Jackson family has vacationed at Rowena Wandigaux Lee's old Victorian house on Gull Island, a place of superstition and legend off the southern coast of the U.S. One particular summer, young Beau follows his cousin Sumter into a hidden shack in the woods—and christens this new clubhouse "Neverland."

Neverland has a secret history, unknown to the children

The rundown shack in the woods is the key to an age-old mystery, a place forbidden to all. But Sumter and his cousins gather in its dusty shadows to escape the tensions at their grandmother's house. Neverland becomes the place where children begin to worship a creature of shadows, which Sumter calls "Lucy."

All gods demand sacrifice

It begins with small sacrifices, little games, strange imaginings. While Sumter's games spiral out of control, twisting from the mysterious to the macabre, a nightmarish presence rises among the straggly trees beyond the bluffs overlooking the sea.

And when Neverland itself is threatened with destruction, the children's games take on a horrifying reality—and Gull Island becomes a place of unrelenting terror.


"An adolescent's cruel mischief proves a pathway to a dimension of otherworldly terrors in this creepy supernatural thriller...Clegg (The Vampyricon) crafts a haunting story redolent with the influence of Arthur Machen, H.P. Lovecraft, and other classic horror writers. His credible rendering of the internal lives of children and their imaginations give this flight of dark fancy a firm and frightening foothold in reality." - from the Publisher's Weekly review of Neverland by Douglas Clegg

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Entertainment

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• Neverland
• horror
• gothic
• Southern
• suspense
• thriller
• macabre
• scary
• Douglas Clegg

[xXeMoKwEEnXx]

you should make a wallpaper section in your page :D the artwork it's awesome!!

[JustSoStupid]

HAS ANYONE PLAYED THE NEVERLAND GAME??

IF U HAVE, CAN U TELL ME, WHAT IS THE MUSIC THERE.

i just can't get my mind off it, it haunts me everywhere, i need to know this music...

thanks :)

[cusk07]

this is the best book

[ddpattison]

Great example of a simple concept for a book trailer. It has a few testimonials up-front, then a faint audio track of kids singing, “Row, Row, Row, Your Boat,” and giggling. Then a simple, 5-word voice over, “It’s just a little sacrifice.” Simple, eerie and effective.

[rionette]

'Bout darn time we got some news on a new book! Dx