They perform strange rituals. Are they taking over? Read this novelette of dread as New England villagers feel threatened by outsiders. Also available in the collection Lights Out. “Clegg’s stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."– Dean Koontz. Funerary Rites can also be found within Douglas Clegg’s collection, Lights Out. This ebook single edition also contains a few chapter samples from other books by Douglas Clegg.
This is very good, I'd expect nothing less from Mr Clegg, but I still don't think his shorter work matches his novels. Only in the novels does he get a chance to weave the magic he is so capable of. These shorter works act as a reasonable stop-gap, but I await a new novel with great anticipation.
Perfect short horror story, I could feel what the characters felt, scared, anxious and claustrophobic, I loved the book, it was a good read for a dark, wet and windy night, tucked up in bed.