In this gripping supernatural thriller of horror and suspense -- from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Douglas Clegg -- something is terribly wrong with the children of Colony, West Virginia. Innocent though they seem, these kids come out at night -- to hunt. "Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation." - Bentley Little, bestselling author of The Haunting. When Joe returns with his wife and two young children to the peaceful mountain town of Colony, West Virginia, he doesn’t expect to find the girl who disappeared when he was a boy. But she remembers Joe and her other friends who left her behind in a deep well within a mysterious barn. Now, She's Out for Blood... "Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."-- Dean Koontz, NY Times Bestselling Author. Is she a vampire?Or something more demonic...Whatever’s lurking in the old mines under the town has been disturbed by Joe’s return. Joe did something when he was a boy – something that stopped the terror and evil from erupting.But now, a creature living in darkness wants out. It’s going to use the children of Colony to exact its revenge...Its hour has come round at last – the Children’s Hour… "Douglas Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills..." -- Tess Gerritsen, New York Times Bestselling Author. Books by Douglas CleggAfterlifeGoat DancePurityDark of the EyeThe WordsWild ThingsThe Children's HourThe Criminally Insane Series: Bad Karma Red Angel Night CageThe Harrow Series: Nightmare House Mischief The Infinite The AbandonedThe Hour Before DarkYou Come When I Call YouNaomi The Nightmare ChroniclesThe Machinery of NightIsisThe Necromancer Praise for Douglas Clegg's fiction"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation."-- Bentley Little, author of The Policy"Clegg delivers!"-- John Saul, bestselling author of Faces of Fear and The Devil's Labyrinth."Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction."-- Peter Straubauthor of Lost Boy, Lost Girl and the New York Times Bestseller Black House (with Stephen King)"Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."-- Dean Koontz"Clegg is one of the best!"-- Richard Laymon"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!"-- Robert R. McCammonauthor of The Queen of Bedlam and Speaks The Nightbird. About the AuthorDouglas Clegg is the author of horror, gothic, fantasy, thriller and suspense fiction. He wrote the first draft of The Children's Hour in the town in which it is set. He currently lives near the coast of New England in a place called Villa Diodati, is married, and has a small menagerie of critters.Tags: vampires, children, vampire, horror, West Virginia, Clegg, suspense, supernatural, undead, thriller, chiller, mines, alien.