My parents never believed me that I had an evil clown living in my closet until they met him one day.

“Stop telling tall tales,” mom would say, and dad would chime in, too. “Don’t be ridiculous.”

It took me days to remove my parents’ bloodstains from the carpet.

Doug has contributed to the popular horror anthology Demonic Visions 50 Horror Tales. Doug’s poetry is also featured in Poetry Quarterly and was an editor’s choice in a New England poetry publication.