The Abandoned

Douglas Clegg

Book 4 of The Harrow Series

Language: English

Publisher: Leisure Books

Published: Jan 1, 2005

Description:

Face Your Deepest Fears in the Haunting of Harrow...
“Masterpiece of horror.” ★★★★★ "A must-read!" ★★★★★
Teens swinging axes, murderous families run wild -- and a child with teeth like knives await you. Enter Harrow, house of occult horror, from the bestselling author whose fiction "can chill the spine..." — Dean Koontz.
The village of Watch Point falls prey to the ghostly reach of the house of infinite hauntings, turning child against mother, friend against friend — and drawing a group of strangers to the nightmarish corridors of the most haunted house in the world.

Twisted Corridors, Eerie Visions, Scary...
The toxic waste of spirits and the occult trapped inside the abandoned house has begun leaking like its poison into the village itself.

The Harrow Series:

  • Book #1, Nightmare House - set at Harrow in the 1920s, the grandson of its creator has come to claim his deadly inheritance and explore the terrifying mystery within the ancient stones and passages of the house.
  • 2, Mischief - Boys will be boys -- and a dark fraternity of misfits seek out Jim Hook, the new student at Harrow Academy -- but something more terrifying is hunting Jim, as well.

  • 3, The Infinite - A handful of psychic investigators are called in to document the horrors of Harrow -- but little do they know that the house is more than simply a haunted place -- it may be the soul of evil itself.

  • 4, The Abandoned -- In the village of Watch Point, New York, in the bucolic Hudson Valley, something toxic and horrifying has leaked from the old boarded-up mansion called Harrow. Throughout the town, people who sleep awaken with blood-lust in their hearts -- and hatchets in their fists. A rampage of mayhem, murder and madness begins -- and only those brave enough to enter Harrow may find a way to stop the terror.

Harrow Prequel Novellas

  • The Necromancer - set in the 1800s, this is the story of the young Justin Gravesend and his initiation into a terrifying mystery cult.
  • Isis - set right at the end of the 1800s, the story of the young Iris Villiers when she discovers the terrible price that must be paid to speak with the dead.

About the Author
Douglas Clegg spent years researching hauntings as well as a specific ruins in the Hudson Valley to create Harrow and its history. Each Harrow novel deals with a different kind of horror -- for Nightmare House, it's the unquiet haunting, for Mischief it's the coming-of-age haunted school, for The Infinite, it's psychic investigation, and with The Abandoned, it's All-Hell-Breaks-Loose Horror. tags: horror, terror, chiller dark fantasy, haunted house, ghost

About the Author

Douglas Clegg is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of more than 35 books including novels of horror, suspense and fantasy. His fiction includes The Hour Before Dark , Neverland , and The Vampyricon. He lives near the coast of New England where he's at work on his next novel.
The Harrow series of novels is based on the author's research of a few haunted houses, embellished with the idea of one house in the world which hosts infinite hauntings because of its occult origins. Each novel in the Harrow series is a different type of haunted house or hauntings of a psychic nature, all set in or around the dark mansion called Harrow. With more books to come.
Here they are in order:
The Full-Length Novels:

  1. Nightmare House, Book 1 (Set in the 1920s, quiet haunting mystery.)
  2. Mischief, Book 2 (Harrow becomes a boys' school for awhile.)
  3. The Infinite, Book 3 (Psychic investigators converge on Harrow.)
  4. The Abandoned, Book 4 (Harrow's toxic haunting leaks into the local town, all-out horror.)

Prequel Novellas (not set at Harrow, but about its originators):

  1. The Necromancer (The early life of Justin Gravesend.)
  2. Isis (The early life of the later psychic of Harrow.)

From the Publisher

There is a dark and isolated mansion, boarded-up and avoided, on a hill just beyond the town of Watch Point in New York's Hudson Valley. It has been abandoned too long and fallen into disrepair. It is called Harrow and it does not like to be ignored.

But a new caretaker has come to Harrow. He is fixing up the rooms and preparing the house for visitors...

What's been trapped inside the house has begun leaking like a poison into the village itself. A teenage girl sleeps too much, but when she awakens her nightmares will break loose. A little boy encounters the ultimate fear when the house calls to him. A young woman must face unspeakable terror to keep Harrow from destroying everything she loves.

And somewhere within the house a demented child waits with teeth like knives.

--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.