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
Book Preview Malcolm gives me a tape recorder. He says, “You’ve got to talk your life.” “I’d rather live the now than talk about the was.” Malcolm says, “Not all of it. Just the … you know.” “I’m to talk about the you know?” Malcolm says, “People need to hear it.” Malcolm says, “Everybody. These are sad … Read more
Book Preview Dean Koontz (Deanna Dwyer) – Children of the storm [ V e r s i o n 2 . 0 b y BuddyDk – a u g u s t 3 2 0 0 3 ] [Easy r e a d , e a s y p r i n t ] [ … Read more
Book Preview The Book of Counted Sorrows The Book of Counted Sorrows Being the Mind-Bending, Heart-Stopping, Bowel-Freezing, Spleen-Tickling History of the Most Dangerous Book of Poetry Ever Written, Including the Text of That Cursed Book Itself, With the Prayer that God Will Protect You from a Spontaneous Head Explosion (and Even Worse Potential Fates) Introduction … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html THE BLACK PUMPKIN By Dean R. Koontz 1 THE PUMPKINS WERE CREEPY, BUT THE MAN WHO CARVED THEM WAS far stranger than his creations. He appeared to have baked for ages in the California sun, until all the juices had been cooked out of his flesh. … Read more
Book Preview Quicksilver · The Other Emily · Elsewhere · Devoted · Ashley Bell · The City · Innocence · 77 Shadow Street · What the Night Knows · Breathless · Relentless · Your Heart Belongs to Me · The Darkest Evening of the Year · The Good Guy · The Husband · Velocity · … Read more
Book Preview Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man’s troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong. Stranger friends hide here in human guise than reside in the valleys of Hell. But goodness, kindness and love arise in the heart of the poor … Read more
Book Preview Surrounded “”[Version 2.0 by BuddyDk – Oktober 9 2003][Easy read, easy print][Completely new scan][front flap:]The second fast-moving thriller by Brian Coffey featuring Mike Tucker, art dealer, heir to a vast unobtainable fortune and highly successful professional thief. He is persuaded to lead Meyers and Bates in the robbery of an exclusive California shopping … Read more
Book Preview A group of seemingly diverse people are experiencing fugue states and debilitating nightmares. Have they all shared a common experience? And, does that experience portend the end of humanity as we know it? Praise for Dean Koontz’s “Koontz] is a great storyteller, and STRANGERS features a plot so original you’ll be reading, with … Read more