Dean Koontz

//Dean Koontz
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  • Yesterday, Snowfield - California - was a charming little town basking in the golden afternoon sun. Today, it is a place of nightmare. An ancient, awesome force has spirited away almost all the town's population and left the bodies of those remaining bizarrely disfigured. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. Is there hope for the few still left alive? For the truth is worse than anything that could be imagined...  Cover art by Graham Potts.
  • Book III of Odd Thomas. Odd Thomas, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly is in self-imposed exile.  The tragic events that took the love of his life have led him from his sun-drowned desert home to the remote monastery in the icy High Sierra. And where Odd Thomas goes, so does strangeness.  He is befriended by a white dog named Boo - and the ghost of Elvis. And a world famous physicist is conducting experiments in the catacombs of the abbey.  Is this why Odd can once again see bodachs, shadowy harbingers of violence?  They prowl the halls, suggesting terror to come.  But what form will it take, and how can Odd defeat an enemy that eclipses any he has met before?
  • Author Martin Stillwater has the perfect life. He and his wife Paige are happy together. Their two daughters, Charlotte and Emily are intelligent, well-adjusted and healthy. Martin's novels are at last achieving success. Though he doesn't like the publicity, he's about to be in People magazine. So why does he experience sudden blackouts and feel such dread? The killer doesn't know his name, his past or his future, he has no family or friends, he doesn't know who gives him his assignments - only that the targets must die. He cries when he is overwhelmed by his loneliness, tortured by the meaninglessness of his life. He senses that beyond the horizon, there is a town, where a life awaits him and he has family and friends. Charlotte knows there is something wrong. The man stands, sits, moves and sounds like Daddy.  But he doesn't smile as often or as quickly as usual. And when he does smile, he's pretending. Daddy isn't Daddy....Cover art  by Lee Gibbons.
  • Chyna Shepherd, twenty-six,  had a dark childhood which taught her to fear strange houses, and she cannot sleep on this first night in the home of her college friend Laura. A muffled scream from another room alarms her. A homicidal sociopath, Edgler Vess, is intent on killing everyone in the house. Life has taught Chyna to be a survivor but this will be her greatest test. A series of strange developments find her in Vess's motorhome - a dungeon and morgue on wheels - without him being aware of her presence. Vess lives only to satisfy his every appetite, to seek ever more outrageous experience, to immerse himself in sensation - to live with intensity. At first Chyna's only goal is to get out alive. But when she learns the identity of Vess's next victim and realises that only she can save that precious life, she must face the fact that a moral life requires acceptance of unwanted responsibilities. She must find courage and take risks beyond any she imagined she could endure. Cover art  by J. James.

  • Author Martin Stillwater has the perfect life. He and his wife Paige are happy together. Their two daughters, Charlotte and Emily are intelligent, well-adjusted and healthy. Martin's novels are at last achieving success. Though he doesn't like the publicity, he's about to be in People magazine. So why does he experience sudden blackouts and feel such dread?  The killer doesn't know his name, his past or his future, he has no family or friends, he doesn't know who gives him his assignments - only that the targets must die. He cries when he is overwhelmed by his loneliness, tortured by the meaninglessness of his life. He senses that beyond the horizon, there is a town, where a life awaits him and he has family and friends. Charlotte knows there is something wrong. The man stands, sits, moves and sounds like Daddy.  But he doesn't smile as often or as quickly as usual. And when he does smile, he's pretending. Daddy isn't Daddy...Cover art by Les Gibbons.

  • Molly and Neil Sloan wake to find an eerie luminescent downpour drenching their small Californian mountain town. As the rain continues to fall, the TV relays disturbing news of extreme weather phenomena across the world. With the evening comes a ghostly fog. First the TV, then the radio...and then the internet and phone lines go dead. Molly and Neil gather with their neighbours sensing an awful danger approaching with the night.  It's like a scary movie made real.  But what is really happening?  Is it science gone wrong? A technology in advance of human understanding? Or something deeper, more fundamental - to do with fate and purpose...
  • Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one - including the U.S. government - and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he'd buried years ago - inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don't first.
  • Book II City of Night. They are nearly indestructible.  They are stronger, heal faster and think faster than any humans ever created - and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios - once known as Frankenstein - can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time monster and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect human - and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/frankenstein-dead-and-alive/
  • Graham Harris is a gifted clairvoyant and during a late night television interviews, he 'sees' a murder being committed. He knows that the killer is the man police have named The Butcher - the brutal slayer of nine young women. Learning of the psychic 'identification', the Butcher now stalks the 'witness', trapping Harris and his girlfriend, in the dead of night, in  a forty two storey business building, hunting them relentlessly from floor to floor....Cover art by Graham Potts.