The Machinery of Night

A massive short story collection from this best-selling author, collecting virtually ALL of Douglas Clegg's chilling short stories and novellas, as well as featuring brand new, never-before-published fiction!

This collection features nearly forty works of fiction, is almost 250,000 words in length, and has nine never-before-seen works and one never before in-print novelette, along with two complete novellas.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Halloween Memory
• Where Flies are Born
• People Who Love Life
• Damned If You Do
• The Party
• Becoming Men
• Something Terrible is Always Happening
• The Cabinet-Maker's Wife
• Fries With That?
• The Machinery of Night
• 265 and Heaven
• Mrs. Freely
• Ice Palace
• The Five
• Freshmen Survey English Lit Beowulf to Jonathan Swift
• White Chapel
• Subway Turnstile
• I Am Infinite; I Contain Multitudes
• The Joss House
• Martha
• Underworld
• Medea
• The Hurting Season
• The Fruit of Her Womb
• The Ripening Sweetness of Late Afternoon
• The Mysteries of Paris
• The Skin of the World
• Why My Doll is Evil
• Piercing Men
• Only Connect
• The Little Mermaid
• The Night Before Alec Got Married
• O, Rare and Most Exquisite
• The Virgin of the Rocks
• The Rendering Man
• Chosen
• The Dark Game
• The Words
• Purity

The Machinery of Night is a landmark collection and sure to be one of the best books of 2004!

Limited to 1,500 signed copies and sold out at the publisher

Lettered:  Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker (extra shipping, oversized book)