Wild Things: Four Tales

By Douglas Clegg

Book Overview

The Most Terrifying Beast Wears a Human Face... "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 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.

ContentsIn "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 novella, "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 Gordon Raglan begins to use a childhood game of escape to help him discover a way to hunt the wolves surrounding him.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1944668306
• ISBN13: 9781944668303
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Alkemara Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"