Pub: Putnam
Price: $8.95
See Also: 1986 (revised version)
Dean Koontz - Long Fiction - 1977/80/83
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The Vision
Pub: Putnam |
| My synopsis: at the age of 6, Mary Bergen was badly hurt and she nearly died. When she left the hospital, though, she found that this gruesome experience left her with a disquieting heritage. She's a clairvoyant, now, and she's helped the police on numerous cases for years. Twentyfour years after those nightmarish events, though, her past comes back to haunt her as a chain of hideous murders grips the city. Mary, in fact, feels that the killer is looking for her and that he's the same person who raped her as a child. From now on, she'll have to fight against a blind fury, clinging to her courage and her clairvoyancy. | |
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Whispers
Pub: Putnam |
| "He is back. Hilary Thomas knew terror as a child, but never anything like this. He is back. He is hunting her with a sick desire more terrifying than hatred could ever be. And he is in her house again. He is back. He is on the stairs and he can't be stopped. Hilary killed him once and he keeps coming back. Again and again. He is back. He is at her bedroom door." | |
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Phantoms
Pub: Putnam |
| My synopsis: welcome to Snowfield, California. This tiny mountain town immediately reveals something wrong at the eyes of Jenny and Lisa Paige, two sisters who're coming back home after attending their mother's funeral in another city. Everything is still, nobody's around and a sense of impending danger seems to seep from every corner. It's an eldritch feeling that soon evolves into pure panick as Jenny and Lisa discover that most of the inhabitants are missing, while the few who are still in their houses appear to have died in horrible ways. Their bodies are unnaturally swollen and a locked stare in their eyes is a telltale sign that the last thing they've seen was something too horrible to be real. The police arrives in help but as the night falls the whole group realize to have ended up in a nightmare. A breathtaking adventure ensues, in which the protagonists first try to find out what happened in town, then have to struggle for their own lives against a force that clearly wants them dead. | |