{"id":6396,"date":"2026-01-05T23:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-mask-koontz-dean\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:48:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:48:41","slug":"the-mask-koontz-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-mask-koontz-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mask – Koontz, Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This book is dedicated to Willo and Dave Roberts and to Carol and Don McQuinn who have no faults\u2014<\/p>\n

except that they live too far away from us A dirge for her, the doubly dead, in that she died so young. <\/p>\n

\u2014Edgar Allan Poe. \u201cLenore\u201d <\/p>\n

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. <\/p>\n

\u2014Edgar Allan Poe, \u201cThe Conqueror Worm\u201d <\/p>\n

Extreme terror gives us back the gestures of our childhood. <\/p>\n

LAURA was in the cellar, doing some spring cleaning and hating every minute of it. She didn\u2019t dislike the work itself; she was by nature an industrious girl who was happiest when she had chores to do. But she was afraid of the cellar. <\/p>\n

For one thing, the place was gloomy. The four narrow windows, set high in the walls, were hardly larger than embrasures, and the dust-filmed panes of glass permitted only weak, chalky light to enter. Even brightened by a pair of lamps, the big room held on tenaciously to its shadows, unwilling to be completely disrobed. The flickering amber light from the lamps revealed damp stone walls and a hulking, coal-fired furnace that was cold and unused on this fine, warm May afternoon. On a series of long shelves, row upon row of quart jars reflected splinters of light, but their contents\u2014home-canned fruit and vegetables that had been stored here for the past nine months\u2014remained unilluminated. The corners of the morn were all dark, and the low, open-beamed ceiling was hung with shadows like long banners of funeral crepe. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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