Book Preview “In my beginning is my end.” —T. S. Eliot, East Coker A FEW MINUTES PAST ONE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING, a hard rain fell without warning. No thunder preceded the deluge, no wind. The abruptness and the ferocity of the downpour had the urgent quality of a perilous storm in a dream. Lying … Read more
Book Preview This document was generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter program Dean Koontz – The Taking [Version 2.0 by BuddyDk – July 15 2004] A Bantam Book / May 2004 Published by Bantam Dell A division of Random House, Inc. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the … Read more
Book Preview The major advances in civilization… all but wreck the societies in which they occur. —ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD I look down into all that wasp-nest or bee-hive …and witness their wax-laying and honey-making, and poison-brewing, and choking by sulphur. —THOMAS CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus The major advances in civilization… all but wreck the societies in … Read more
Book Preview THE SERVANTS OF TWILIGHT [065-4.9] A wretched hag who is head of a crack pot religious cult targets Christine’s six-year-old son, Joey, as the anti-Christ. Every member of the cult then sets out to destroy the boy and the only person Christine can find to really help her is a private detective. Grace … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html The Scariest Thing I Know Dean Koontz Dean wrote the following short story-about a boy named Nick Loffman, who has a very unusual Halloween experience-far the special Halloween issue of Martha Stewart Living. When I was twelve years old, in seventh grade, I was a disaster … Read more
Book Preview The Psychedelic Children Whether or not one believes the scientific “evidence” that LSD-25 causes damage to the chromosomes, one has to admit that the \idea of a child mutated by LSD use is an intriguing one. It must be intriguing. For I received about a dozen letters from readers about this story, and … Read more
Book Preview ABOUT THIS KINDLE EDITION This e-book includes a motion cover and author signature. To turn this animation off and read with standard e-book features, go to the Aa settings menu and toggle Show Media to the off position. ABOUT THIS KINDLE EDITION This e-book includes a motion cover and author signature. To turn … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER 1 My name is Odd Thomas, though in this age when fame is the altar at which most people worship, I am not sure why you should care who I am or that I exist. I am not a celebrity. I am not the child of a celebrity. I have never been … Read more
Book Preview Creating a neural [brain] lace is the thing that really matters for humanity to achieve symbiosis with machines. —ELON MUSK Ain’t it strange the way we’re ignorant How we seek out bad advice How we jigger it and figure it Mistaking value for the price —PAUL SIMON, “So Beautiful or So What?” Creating … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html THE NIGHT OF THE STORM By Dean R. Koontz HE WAS A ROBOT MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS OLD, BUILT BY OTHER robots in an automated factory that had been continuously engaged in the production of robots for many centuries. His name was Curanov, and as … Read more
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