{"id":1324,"date":"2002-08-10T13:27:22","date_gmt":"2002-08-10T13:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2016-10-24T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T13:31:05","slug":"dark-of-the-eye-by-douglas-clegg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/book-review\/horror\/dark-of-the-eye-by-douglas-clegg\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark of the Eye, by Douglas Clegg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dark-of-the-eye-by-douglas-clegg<\/a>Genre: Horror<\/strong>
\n Publisher: Barnes and Noble Digital<\/strong>
\n Published: 2002<\/strong>
\n Reviewer Rating:\u00a0\"three<\/strong>
\n Book Review by William D. Gagliani<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Doug Clegg (GOAT DANCE, NAOMI, YOU COME WHEN I CALL YOU, THE INFINITE) turns in a sizzling performance in this thoroughly engaging cross-genre thriller. Shocking, horrifying, and twisted in just the right way, DARK OF THE EYE<\/b> grabs you with its very first sentence: “He had never killed a child before.”<\/p>\n

From this chilling beginning, Clegg maneuvers a wildly disparate set of characters into and around a well-constructed plot that skillfully weaves threads of religion with those of truly weird science, exploring along the way the cruelty of man so often disguised as love.<\/p>\n

Hope Stewart, eleven, has just lost an eye in a car accident. Now she can cure people’s illnesses — or subject them to excruciating pain which kills their souls but inexplicably leaves their twitching, tortured bodies alive.<\/p>\n

Kate Stewart kidnaps her daughter from the hospital to protect her from the clutches of Dr. Robert Stewart, whom she suspects of experimenting on their daughter. Kate and Hope’s cross-country flight leads them to Empire, CA, where a horrifying destiny awaits. Meanwhile, government assassin Stephen Grace, himself a wonderfully dark creation, hunts the child, whose powers are only now awakening.<\/p>\n

A mysterious, creepy ending in a town you most certainly do not want to visit brings this tour-de-force to an appropriately apocalyptic close. This is gonzo horror of the first magnitude, not for the squeamish or for those who must look away — but Doug Clegg pulls it off in fine manner, directing your eyes to the darkness in a man’s heart with unfailing instinct and consummate skill.<\/p>\n

This winner of a novel is a worthy bookend to THE HALLOWEEN MAN in both theme and style, chronicling Doug Clegg’s development into what he is today — one of our very best writers of disturbing fiction. DARK OF THE EYE<\/b> is worth seeking out, no matter what.<\/p>\n

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Genre: Horror Publisher: Barnes and Noble Digital Published: 2002 Reviewer Rating:\u00a0 Book Review by William D. Gagliani Have you read this book? Doug Clegg (GOAT DANCE, NAOMI, YOU COME WHEN I CALL YOU, THE INFINITE) turns in a sizzling performance in this thoroughly engaging cross-genre thriller. Shocking, horrifying, and twisted …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[77,424,420,177,419],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}