Book Preview My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I’m an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers. Had I ever been that kind of axe man, I would long ago have cut off both feet or been crushed by a toppling tree. I’ve been clumsy all my life. I … Read more
Book Preview This book is dedicated to Willo and Dave Roberts and to Carol and Don McQuinn who have no faults— except that they live too far away from us A dirge for her, the doubly dead, in that she died so young. —Edgar Allan Poe. “Lenore” And much of Madness, and more of Sin, … Read more
Book Preview Dean Koontz – Legacy of terror [Version 2.0 by BuddyDk – august 14 2003] [Easy read, easy print] [Completely new scan] Once Elaine was dressed for bed, she chose a book and settled down. Her eyes soon grew heavy, so she marked her place and turned out the light, exhausted from the day … Read more
Book Preview A sound of something; Has fallen down of itself. In the dark, Joanna Rand went to the window. Naked trembling, she peered between the wooden Wind from the distant mountains pressed coldly against the glass and rattled a loose pane. At four o’clock in the morning, the city of Kyoto was quiet, even … Read more
Book Preview What Would You Do for Love? A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most people live in denial of Death’s patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside. Eventually, Mitchell Rafferty would be able to cite the minute that he began … Read more
Book Preview Dean Koontz (Leigh Nichols) – The House of Thunder (1992 reissue) “” (Reissue under his own name of 1982 issue) [Version 2.0 by BuddyDk – may 10 2003] [Easy read, easy print] [Completely new scan] She woke up in a hospital room, barely able to re-member her own name. What secrets lay hidden … Read more
Book Preview Timothy was not human. Not wholly. If you include arms and legs in a definition of the human body, then Timothy did not meet the necessary criteria. If you count two eyes in that definition, Timothy was also ruled out, for he had but one, and even that was placed in an un-usual … Read more
Book Preview Count Slavek, having proposed a toast to his new friend’s great beauty, tossed off the glassful of red wine. Then, smiling so broadly that he revealed his two gleaming fangs, he said, “Before long, my dear, we shall drink other toasts together, though not of wine.” Mrs. Renee Cuyler, dressed alluringly in a … Read more
Book Preview One Sometimes a mayfly skates across a pond, leaving a brief wake as thin as spider silk, and by staying low avoids those birds and bats that feed in flight. At six feet three, weighing two hundred ten pounds, with big hands and bigger feet, Timothy Carrier could not maintain a profile as … Read more
Book Preview The Fun House [067-011-5.0] Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and begat a child she could never love. Now Ellen has a new life, a new husband and two normal children. Memory is drowned in alcohol and prayers–neither of which … Read more
Book Preview The world is spinning on an axis two degrees different than it was a moment ago. . . . Her / your hair is tangled over his / your face, losing him / you in a honey world of softness, a hay world of smells. Her / your hands are upon him / … Read more
Book Preview FRIDAY 12:01 A.M. 8:00 P.M. Wary, not actually expecting trouble but prepared for it, he parked his car across the street from the four-story brownstone apartment house. When he switched off the engine, he heard a siren wail in the street behind him. They’re coming for me, he thought. Somehow they’ve found out … Read more
Book Preview The Face Dean R. Koontz ALSO BY DEAN KOONTZ By the Light of the Moon One Door Away From Heaven From the Corner of His Eye False Memory Seize the Night Fear Nothing Mr. Murder Dragon Tears Hideaway Cold Fire The Bad Place Midnight Lightning Watchers Strangers Twilight Eyes Darkfall Phantoms Whispers The … Read more
Book Preview After five years of work, now that I’m nearly finished improving these early novels first published under pen names, I intend to start improving myself. Considering all that needs to he done, this new project will henceforth he known as the hundred-year plan. AT SIX MINUTES PAST MIDNIGHT, TUESDAY MORNing, on the way … Read more
Book Preview Dean Koontz – The Door to December Previously published as file:///G|/rah/Dean%20R.%20Koontz/Dean%20R…oontz%20-%20The%20Door%20To%20December.htm (1 of 305) [2/9/2004 10:19:47 PM] Dean Koontz – The Door to December Copyright © 1985, 1994 Dean Koontz Previously published as THE DOOR TO DECEMBER under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols The right of Dean Koontz to be identified as the Author … Read more
Book Preview Chapter1 Behind the wheel of the Ford Expedition, Amy Redwing drove as if she were immortal and therefore safe at any speed. In the fitful breeze, a funnel of golden sycamore leaves spun along the post-midnight street. She blasted through them, crisp autumn scratching across the windshield. For some, the past is a … Read more
Book Preview Dean Koontz (Deanna Dwyer) – The Dark of Summer [Version 2.0 by BuddyDk – august 17 2003] [Easy read, easy print] [Completely new scan] The voice was soft, feminine, as hollow as an echo, as fragile as blown glass. She flailed at the covers around her, trying to shake off the dream. “I’m … Read more
Book Preview Dean Koontz – The Crimson Witch [Version 2.0 by BuddyDk – September 5 2003] [Easy read, easy print] [Completely new scan] IN A SAVAGE WAR HOOP . . . lifted itself with beating wings, raked its claws down Jake’s cheeks. The second manbat swept in and was upon him. He swiped feebly with … Read more