Night Cage

In Book 3 of the Criminally Insane Series, award-winning and bestselling Douglas Clegg brings us back to the terrifying corridors of the Darden State Hospital for Criminal Justice in southern California. 


"Bloody Mary" Chilmark is certifiable -- just ask her doctor. The Darden State Hospital is home to the most dangerous psychopathic killers in the country. But Bloody Mary got out, and raised her baby away from that bad environment.


She kept him in a cage...


And what a mother she's turned out to be -- raising her son, "Doc" with her traditional family values, which often involve surgery -- because her son just has a knack for cutting people open. 


But Doc's been arrested, processed and held at Darden State -- and is considered one of the most dangerous of the hospital's guests.


Doc got his nickname because he like to perform surgeries...


But when wildfires burn out of control in Southern California, authorities face the overwhelming task of relocating hundreds of Darden's patients to other prison hospitals before the raging inferno descend 


In the frenzy, "Bloody Mary" finds her opportunity to free her son. 


It's up to Trey Campbell and officer Jane Laymon to hunt for the mother-son duo in the dark underworld maze of the hospital itself.


Author Note: Night Cage was originally published in paperback under the author's pen name, Andrew Harper.


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 Straub

author 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. McCammon

author of The Queen of Bedlam and Speaks The Nightbird.