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    Funerary Rites
    Funerary Rites
    Funerary Rites
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    Funerary Rites

    By Douglas Clegg

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    From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a dark novelette of a village caught on the edge of fear.

    When outsiders arrive to a quiet New England village, they bring odd and outlandish customs with them. One special summer night, something terrible happens in the village — brought on by those strangers, the ones who live out in the woods, the ones who go barefoot and speak in an odd language.

    "Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."-- Dean Koontz, New York Times Bestselling Author.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDouglas Clegg
    Release dateMay 27, 2015
    ISBN9781944668174
    Funerary Rites
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    Douglas Clegg

    Douglas Clegg is a screenwriter, poet, and the author of dozens of novels, novellas, and short story collections. His fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award. He is married to Raul Silva and lives near the New England coast, where he is currently writing his next work of fiction.

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      Book preview

      Funerary Rites - Douglas Clegg

      Funerary Rites

      Funerary Rites

      a novelette

      Douglas Clegg

      Alkemara Press

      Contents

      Praise for Douglas Clegg’s Fiction

      Discover Douglas Clegg’s Fiction

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      Skip This Preface

      Funerary Rites

      1. What Ruby Said

      2. About the Smiths

      3. The Battle of Dunwoody Farm

      4. The Coffee Shop Debate

      5. The Funeral Parade

      6. Ruby Sightings

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      Praise for Douglas Clegg’s Fiction

      Clegg’s stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby.

      —Dean Koontz, New York Times bestselling author.

      Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction.

      —Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Story and, with Stephen King, The Talisman

      Douglas Clegg is the best horror novelist of the post-Stephen King generation.

      — Bentley Little, USA Today bestselling author of The Haunted.

      Clegg gets high marks on the terror scale…

      —The Daily News (New York)

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      Neverland by Douglas Clegg.Nightmare House by Douglas Clegg.

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      Dear Reader,

      This is what is best called, I think, a dark fable in the form of a long short story (or novelette, the more accurate term.) It’s set mostly after the Second World War, in a small New England village.

      This story was first published in a magazine called Dark Discoveries. It is also available in my mega-collection, Lights Out.

      You can find other short stories and novelettes of mine in these ebooks (some of which are in print):

      Lights Out

      Night Asylum

      The Nightmare Chronicles

      I hope you enjoy this strange, dark tale.

      Thank you,

      Douglas Clegg

      DouglasClegg.com

      Funerary Rites

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      What Ruby Said

      When the foreigners first came, they rented the old Dunwoody place with its rundown barn at the back.

      Coppery people, is how Ruby began her description of them. The women wear these yellow and blue robes draped like this, she drew her hand over and across her shoulder. "They set everything in straw baskets gently, like putting babies down to sleep. You should have seen the look I got from Jean Marie when I helped them. My goodness, you’d have thought I was passing nuclear secrets to the Rosenbergs."

      We walked home from her father’s store where my wife took afternoon shift three days a week while our son spent time with his aunt. It was one of those warm, unhurried summer evenings from which we stole ten

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