Hour Before Dark, The

There are rules to every game. You must never play the Dark Game after sunset—it becomes real then. It takes you over.…The Hour Before Dark is a riveting gothic suspense novel of supernatural horror from bestselling and award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg—author of The Children's Hour and Halloween Man.When his father is murdered in one of the most vicious killings of recent years, Nemo Raglan must return to the New England island he thought he'd escaped for good…and the shadowy home called Hawthorn."Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction, and The Hour Before Dark is his best and most exciting novel to date. This is pure imagination, and it is wearing speed skates." (Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story and, with Stephen King, The Talisman.)