The Taking Summary

The Taking

Published: 2004

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fiction, Ghost, Gothic, Horror, Occult, Psychological, Romance, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Summary

Molly Sloan awakens in the middle of the night in the midst of an unusually rapid heavy rainstorm. She leaves her husband Neil in bed, unable to sleep, and goes downstairs to work on a screenplay she is working on.

Coyotes from the adjacent woodland gather on her doorstep in huddles. She wonders what could have terrified such creatures into fleeing the safety of the deep forests and exposing themselves to human contact. 

She walks outdoors, disturbed, to stand among the wild beasts, and is terrified — not by the animals, but by the unusual, strangely glowing rain. She recognizes, instinctively, that the rain is dirty.

Molly and Neil scour the news for information once she returns home. They can only gather that the same phenomena are occurring all around the planet before all contact is lost. 

They decide to abandon their remote house, meeting with the people of a nearby little mountain town to prepare a resistance, despite the fact that they have no idea what they would be fighting against. 

The rain finally stops after ten hours of pouring. A heavy, gloomy fog has replaced it, obscuring everything and transforming trees and buildings into towering shadows. 

Molly and Neil are now in the local bar, where about 60 people have come with their pets and children. The occurrence is said to be the result of an extraterrestrial invasion.

Unusual sounds and lights are heard and observed. Strange fungi sprout in a local tavern's lavatory, and a terrifying fungus spreads on trees, lawns, buildings, and people alike. 

Huge things glide above the scared populace from time to time, and people feel as though they are entirely known by whatever or whoever fills these aerial ships - assuming the quiet, drifting objects are crafts of some type. 

Molly and Neil set off on a quest to rescue the town's youngsters, many of whom are trapped in their houses, accompanied by a stray dog named Virgil. Meanwhile, the tavern's patrons, divided into warring groups, battle the strange menace that has engulfed their town. 

Surprisingly, Virgil appears to be able to tell when and where particular youngsters are in danger. Later, it is discovered that other animals are directing rescue attempts to save other youngsters.

As they seek answers, the townsfolk come to the conclusion that they are under attack by extraterrestrial invaders who have arrived as an advanced group to reverse-terraform the Earth so that its changed atmosphere will support their alien body’s needs. 

However, while doing so, they will poison the planet's human inhabitants, who must die in order for the invaders to exist. 

Molly feels that the invaders are of the most malignant sort and that they seek nothing but devastation at all times. 

Even when they face the most horrifying and twisted animals on their quest, Molly and Neil are able to save 13 children with the assistance of Virgil and other animals after going through many tragedies. 

Molly is certain that the aliens permitted them to save the children in order to harvest them for some more heinous purpose; yet, a series of circumstances lead her to feel that there is still hope and that the children have been spared for a unique cause. 

After 36 hours of rain, mist, and darkness, a new rain falls, much to the satisfaction of the characters, and wipes away all the monsters, fungi, and sick alien presences on the planet.

Molly, Neil, and eight of the children they rescued had been living in a house for at least a year. Society has begun a sluggish process of restoration; the majority of survivors are children and those who saved them, as well as dogs and animals that assisted in the rescues. 

Molly is now a teacher, and Neil has returned to his church job. Most people don't talk about what happened, and the reasons for the aliens' departure are never mentioned. 

However, while the identity or origin of the invaders is never fully addressed, towards the conclusion of the novel, Molly discovers that the invaders were not aliens at all, but they had really lived through the biblical apocalypse and that the monsters were demons sent to Earth to exterminate mankind. 

Only a few would be saved, like on Noah's Ark, to rebuild a better world. Several facts in the story corroborate her opinion.

The novel concludes on a lighter note, with Molly resolving to write another book — this time for her soon-to-be-born son or daughter, rather than for publication. When Neil asks her what the book will be about, she responds, "Hope."

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Saint Odd Summary

Saint Odd

Published: 13, January 2015

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost, Literary, Mystery, Paranormal, Psychic, Romance, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller, Urban

Book 7 of 7: Odd Thomas

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Saint Odd

Summary

Odd Thomas returns to Pico Mundo only to be attacked by surviving members of the demonic organization he encountered in earlier books. 

He survives the first attempt on his life by escaping a huge SUV as he rides the rural roads on a hefty motorbike. Odd goes off-road and lures the SUV's driver into driving into a steep gully, killing everybody inside as the SUV explodes. 

Odd initially flies to the mall where Stormy and 18 others were murdered, just evading three cultists who, coincidentally or with Odd's psychic attraction, are visiting the mall where the cult's members nearly killed hundreds. 

After meeting Mrs. Fischer, Odd rides his bike to a safe home maintained by the same group he aided in the last novel. 

The safe house is operated by an older couple who tell him they've been married for years and have only had "5 terrible days in all those years," according to the husband. His wife disagrees, adding, "There were six, you need to figure out where we're disagreeing." 

Odd sleeps in the house's guest room and his dreams of Pico Mundo are filled with glimpses of people, both recognizable and unknown, floating by him with angry looks. 

He realizes that the cult has gathered enough C4 to destroy a neighboring dam after reconciling with Chief Porter and author Ozzy Boone. 

Destroying the dam would flood the town partially, but not enough to inflict the damage and death he envisioned. When he goes to the dam, he experiences an epiphany after sighting coyotes.

Odd returns to the safe home to discover it under siege by the cultists, all of whom are killed by the caretakers. 

Mrs. Fischer and a "Cleaning Crew" come and make the safe home look as if no one has ever lived there, while Odd and Mrs. Fischer meet in her limo. 

He is then forced to engage in a bloody cat-and-mouse game with the fanatics. A paramilitary attack squad pursues him through an almond orchard, and when they can't find him, they start blowing up the orchard's structures. 

Using the explosions to his advantage, Odd catches two cultists discussing the ritual rape and slaughter of a little family that owns a property nearby. 

Odd kills the cultists and rushes to the home in time to save the family in the barn. Odd hides in the landscape and then enters the home, following the cultists when they make their entrance. 

Odd eventually kills all of the cult members, including a girl he describes as having an "innocent child's face." 

Odd receives a terrible knife wound from the female cultist before she dies, and then sees her spirit waiting for him. Odd ignores her, causing her to go into a poltergeist rage while Odd flees the house. 

Odd observes that the demons ("Bodachs") who had previously collected in preparation of violent occurrences are no longer present. He eventually deduces that the cult intends to spread a lethal strain of the rabies virus via hoax air blasts emerging from a funhouse in a visiting carnival. The Bodachs have not appeared because they are solely concerned with immediate violence and not with sickness. 

He is able to foil the scheme, but only at the expense of a fatal gunshot wound. He is reunited with his girlfriend Stormy Llewellyn after death, who educates him on what he will confront in the hereafter. 

His literary friend then discovers the manuscript of this book printing inexplicably on his laser printer.

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Deeply Odd Summary

Deeply Odd

Published: 2013

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Psychic, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

Book 6 of 7: Odd Thomas

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Deeply Odd

Summary

Odd Thomas meets a mad truck driver around a month after the events of Odd Apocalypse. 

Odd gets a vision of three children being burned alive by someone wearing a red suit, black shirt, and black mask during this meeting, as he touches the trucker. Odd realizes at that point that the trucker had the same vision and is the one torching the youngsters. The trucker immediately attempts but fails, to murder Odd. 

Odd pursues the trucker despite the fact that the man attempted to murder him because he knows he must assist the children. 

Odd, realizing he needs a car, grabs an SUV used as a getaway vehicle during a crime but smashes it. Then he notices a limousine approaching. The driver, who turns out to be an old feisty, fascinating, and occasionally enigmatic lady, pulls up to him and asks him a few questions before offering him a job as her chauffeur. 

He grudgingly accepts the task and tracks down the trucker to a remote estate guarded by fierce dogs. 

Devil worshippers make their sacrifices here, and they're planning a mass sacrifice of a large group of children. 

The ghost of Alfred Hitchcock, who has been coming to Odd on a regular basis, explains numerous of the cultists' beliefs. They are affluent, powerful, and nasty individuals who get away with whatever they want because the deity they worship protects them. 

Hitchcock's spirit communicates to Odd for the first time, which he has never experienced before; the living dead simply does not speak. 

Hitchcock emphasizes to Odd that at this moment in time, the only thing that counts is protecting the children. Odd is massively outmanned and will very definitely perish in the process.

Pretending to be a fellow cultist, Odd murders five cult members and manages to release the children, allowing him to flee the property and the demonic mayhem that is engulfing the remaining cult members. 

He finally arrives in the limousine, where his patron Mrs. Fischer and the rescued children await him. She drives them to a home that appears to be extremely comfortable, and a kind couple welcomes them inside. 

Once everyone is inside, five more adults and nine more youngsters join them. They all treat the rescued children with love, feeding them, talking with them, listening to them, and spending healing time with them. 

Later, while reclining on a sofa and focussing on a card in his hand, Odd notices that the five parents and nine children who had arrived earlier had vanished. 

Then he is told that the children he saved will be returned to their homes. They will have no recollection of the atrocities to which they were subjected.

The immediate challenges presented to Odd are overcome in this book, but there are clues of the endgame throughout. The author has declared that the seventh book in the Odd Thomas series will be the final one.

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Odd Apocalypse Summary

Odd Apocalypse

Published: 2012

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Psychic, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Thriller

Book 5 of 7: Odd Thomas

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Odd Apocalypse

Summary

A reclusive millionaire has asked Odd Thomas and his traveling partner Annamaria to stay at his large, beautiful home, Roseland. 

However, there is a serious problem within the enormous property's boundaries. The few employees there are hostile to everyone from the outside world, and when Odd explores the estate, the terrain and buildings appear to alternate between static beauty and a hell on earth... which he discovers is impacted by equipment developed by a genius from the past. 

Odd can't just take his friend and their dogs (one of whom is still alive, the other a ghost) and flee. 

Despite the warnings, Annamaria, who has her own mysteries, has intimated to Odd that Roseland holds secrets that are far more terrible than merely an exceptional condition of preservation. 

He must locate someone concealed within the gloomy preserve who will require all of his assistance.

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Odd Hours Summary

Odd Hours

Published: 20, May 2008

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Psychic, Suspense, Thriller

Book 4 of 7: Odd Thomas

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Odd Hours

Summary

Odd got a place to stay at Magic Beach with a retired actor after leaving the monastery in the last book. One morning while out for a walk, he comes across a woman he has been seeing in his dreams: a young, pregnant woman named Annamaria. 

Odd gets separated from Annamaria after being assaulted and nearly killed by a huge guy with two henchmen in tow; however, he utilizes his psychic attraction to find her. 

When he finds her, they realize they must go quickly, but while they make their preparations, they hear a vehicle door bang. They locate a place to hide until the guys who have been hunting them depart. 

Odd and Annamaria went off walking now that the men had left. On their stroll, they come across a big group of coyotes, which Annamaria persuades to leave. 

Odd runs to a local church after leaving Annamaria with a trusted friend, where he is later given up to the sheriff of Magic Beach, but not before hiding his ID under a church bench. 

The sheriff, a man with several identities, believes Odd is a government agent sent to spy on his operation: the transportation and shipping of many nuclear weapons to terrorist organizations within the United States via the Magic Beach harbor. 

Odd persuades the Sheriff that he is a failed government experiment and that he is prepared to be bribed to look the other way. 

While the sheriff is arranging a deal to buy his allegiance, Odd manages to infuriate the ghost of Frank Sinatra, who began accompanying him when Elvis left. 

The fury created by his soul causes a tremendous whirlwind and Odd is able to flee the police headquarters in the turmoil.

He makes his way down to the harbor swiftly and is able to board the ship carrying the nuclear weapons. 

He is compelled to kill everyone on board, despite his objections, because there is no other way to protect the ship and its perilous cargo. 

Odd successfully runs the boat aground at a nearby cove, alerting the Coast Guard, DHS, and FBI to the contents of the vessel. 

Odd returns to the church to get his ID, but the sheriff greets him as he leaves. He runs into the priest and his wife while attempting to flee.

Odd discovers that the priest and his wife were both involved in the conspiracy to sell nuclear weapons via Magic Beach. 

The priest murders his wife before being assassinated by the sheriff, who is subsequently assassinated by one of his henchmen. 

The henchman, known as 'Meth Mouth,' converses with Odd, believing him to be a psychic government operative. Odd shoots Meth Mouth beneath the table with the wife's rifle while laughing at one of his jokes.

Odd and Annamaria exit Magic Beach at the end of the narrative. Odd is crying because he is responsible for the deaths of so many people, nearly all of them were killed by him. 

While he may have taken a few lives, Annamaria assures him that he has saved millions more. 

She then pulls over to the side of the road and requests that Odd show her Cassiopeia, the constellation. Odd and Stormy would frequently point out Cassiopeia together because it was Stormy's mother's name, thus Annamaria's request catches him off guard, but he obliges her by pointing out the constellation.

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Brother Odd Summary

Brother Odd

Published: 28, November 2006

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Humor, Mystery, Psychic, Psychological, Shape Shifter, Thriller

Book 3 of 7: Odd Thomas

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Brother Odd

Summary

Seven months after Forever Odd, the story begins. Odd Thomas has been a visitor to St. Bartholomew's Abbey throughout this period, where he expects to find serenity and understanding. 

During his stay, he encounters a white-furred dog that helps him on his further travels.

Odd notices a shadow-like Bodach. This spells calamity for the abbey. One of the monks goes missing, and Odd is attacked by an unknown assailant. 

Odd hears an odd noise in a heavy snowfall while searching for the missing monk, and subsequently sees a complex, moving pattern of bones against a glass.

The abbey's other visitor, Rodion Romanovich, joins Odd in the garage to pick up the monks. 

Odd, skeptical of Romanovich, prepares to leave him at the abbey, but he escapes with one SUV full of monks before Odd can stop him. 

A bone creature flips Romanovich's SUV on the way there. Odd's confidant, Brother Knuckles, destroys the beast with the second plow, rescuing everyone. 

Back at the school, Odd and Romanovich discover that Jacob's father, The Neverwas, is John Heineman, a monk known as Brother John at the monastery and a former physicist who experimented with reality.

Later, Odd chooses to leave the monastery, but as he drives back to his hometown, psychic magnetism draws him out of the car, and the novel closes as he wanders down the highway toward the unknown. 

Elvis Presley, who occasionally aids Odd, ultimately crosses over after three escapades. Odd and the dog (who is now shown to be a spirit) go on together, only to be joined by the ghost of Frank Sinatra seconds later.

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Forever Odd Summary

Forever Odd 

Published: 2005

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost, Humor, Psychic, Psychological, Psychology, Suspense, Thriller

Book 2 of 7: Odd Thomas

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Forever Odd

Summary

Odd Thomas suspects Danny's birth father, who was just released from jail, has kidnapped him after discovering his close friend Danny has been kidnapped and his stepfather brutally killed. 

Odd begins to explore as a result of this notion and is drawn down a water tunnel and into an abandoned hotel by his "psychic magnetism," Odd's ability to hunt out someone or what he is envisioning.

Odd discovers his friend tied up and strapped to a bomb inside. Danny tells Odd that his father did not kidnap him. 

Instead, Danny recalls calling a phone sex line and speaking with a woman named Datura because he was lonely as a result of a crippling bone illness. Danny had ultimately handed up the knowledge about Odd's "gift" after being captivated by her. When she realized this, she abducted Danny in order for Odd to disclose himself to her.

Odd walks away from Danny and discovers Datura in her room with two goons, Cheval Robert and Cheval Andre. 

She directs Odd to show her the ghosts. Odd reluctantly brings her to the hotel's casino, where he has previously seen numerous spirits and one poltergeist. 

When Datura offends a ghost, the angered poltergeist hurls things at them. Odd escapes Datura at this moment returns to Danny and deactivates the explosives. 

Odd goes to Datura's room and discovers a shotgun, which he used to assassinate Cheval Robert. 

Datura locates him using "reverse psychic magnetism," but while they are conversing, a mountain lion attacks her from behind. 

An enraged Cheval Andre pursues Odd through the hotel before Odd kills him in a sewer.

Odd dies in the sewer, and his soul pays three of his friends a visit. He resurrects, however, in front of the Blue Moon Café, with no memory of how he got there. 

He is initially upset by his survival, since his deepest desire is to be reunited with his soul-mate, Bronwen "Stormy" Llewellyn, in the hereafter. 

Odd follows Chief Porter to the hotel, where they return to get Danny from that dreadful location. 

Odd decides to work at a monastery high in the mountains for two months in order to find tranquility.

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Odd Thomas Summary

Odd Thomas

Published: 2003

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Action, Crime, Espionage, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Murder, Occult, Psychic, Suspense, Thriller

Book 1 of 7: Odd Thomas

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Odd Thomas

Summary

Odd Thomas is contacted silently by the spirit of a young girl brutally raped and murdered at the start of the novel, and is psychically led to her killer, a former schoolmate called Harlo Landerson, by his unusual capacity to interpret the dead. 

Koontz reveals how Odd was named and continues to reveal, layer by layer, how Odd's chaotic background has influenced his life, and as those circumstances are revealed, Odd's otherworldly powers begin to make more sense.

Odd encounters a suspicious-looking man at the restaurant while working as a short-order chef in a California desert town, followed by Bodachs, shadowy spirit creatures who manifest only during times of death and calamity. 

This man, whom Odd dubs "Fungus Man" (because of his waxy complexion and blond hair that resembles mold), is being pursued by an abnormally huge swarm of Bodachs, and Odd is certain that he is related to some awful disaster that is about to unfold. 

Odd utilizes his uncanny sense, which his soul mate Bronwen (a.k.a. Stormy) Llewellyn refers to as "psychic magnetism," to track him down in order to learn more about him.

Odd's sixth sense takes him to Fungus Guy's home, where he learns more about the man and a mystery other-worldly connection to the deadly forces about to be unleashed on Pico Mundo. 

Odd becomes fully involved in an attempt to avert the tragic slaughter he knows will occur the next day, accompanied at times by the ghost of Elvis Presley and encountering other remarkable spirits, including a slain prostitute.

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Frankenstein: The Dead Town Summary

Frankenstein: The Dead Town

Published: 24, May 2011

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

Book 05 of 05: Frankenstein

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Frankenstein: The Dead Town

Summary

The battle on mankind is in full swing. As the little town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, falls under attack, a few survivors band together to withstand the onslaught of the horrors unleashed on the globe.

They will discover the entire scale of Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plot to reshape the future—as well as the horrifying reach of his unseen, strong supporters—as they prepare for combat against overwhelming odds.

Now is the time for the good to make their final, greatest stand. Their fates, as well as the fate of mankind, hang in the balance in a conclusion that will defy all expectations.

Again, this is not a thorough description due to a lack of time these days because I am too busy with numerous tasks to provide a full summary, but I will address this issue as soon as I have some time.

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Frankenstein: Lost Souls Summary

Frankenstein: Lost Souls

Published: June 2010

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Conspiracy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

Book 04 of 05: Frankenstein

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Frankenstein: Lost Souls

Summary

The battle against mankind has started. Only now will things be different. Victor Leben, a.k.a. Frankenstein, has not only glimpsed the future but is also prepared to inhabit it. 

He plans to create a race of superhumans by combining stem cells, "organic" silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology. With a strong, enigmatic backer anxious to see his goal realized and a hidden location where the opponents of progress cannot find him, Victor is certain that nothing and no one can stop him this time.

It is up to five individuals to disprove him. Nothing less than the survival of humanity is in their hands. They are brought together in various ways, by frightening and magnificent omens, to the same devastating conclusion: the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on two years after he died. 

Erika 5, Victor's engineered wife, and her companion Jocko, Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison as well as the tortured Deucalion, Victor's first creation, have all landed in a modest Montana town, where their old collaboration will be refreshed and then tested by powers internally and externally, and where the challenges they face will exceed any prior hardships they have confronted. 

Despite their risk, love and joy will develop, and they will uncover sources of strength and resilience they could never have anticipated.

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Frankenstein: Dead and Alive Summary

Frankenstein: Dead And Alive

Published: 2009

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Conspiracy, Dark Fantasy, Fiction, Ghost, Graphic Novel, Horror, Literary, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Frankenstein: Dead And Alive

Summary

The mythological monster, Deucalion, is a noble person committed to overcoming the evil that brought him existence. 

By intent and accident, the megalomaniacal Victor Helios has unleashed several of his manufactured murderers on modern-day New Orleans. 

Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison are Deucalion's all-too-human allies in his quest to bring Helios' perpetrators to justice. 

A resistance movement is also forming inside Helios' control structure, as many of his vat-made men and women comprehend that fighting Helios would put an end to tedium, servitude, insanity, self-destructive abuse practices, or life itself.

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Frankenstein: City of Night Summary

Frankenstein: City of Night

Published: 2005

Author: Dean Koontz and Ed Gorman

Genre: Conspiracy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Police Procedurals, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

Book 02 of 05: Frankenstein

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Frankenstein: City of Night

Summary

They are more powerful, heal quicker, and think faster than any human ever created—and they must be eliminated. But not even Victor Helios—once Frankenstein—can stop the created murderers he's unleashed on modern-day New Orleans. 

The sole chance now lies with a former "monster" and his all-too-human colleagues, Detectives Carson O'Connor, and Michael Maddison. 

Deucalion's centuries-long history began with Victor's first, unsuccessful effort to create the perfect human–and it is doomed to finish with the final confrontation between a wretched creature and his insane creator. 

But first, Deucalion must destroy a horror that not even Victor's evil imagination could have imagined—an invincible thing that emerges from humankind's collective nightmare with one goal in mind: to replace it.

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Frankenstein: Prodigal Son Summary

Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

Published: 2005

Author: Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson

Genre: Children's Comics, Conspiracy, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Horror, Literary, Literature, Mystery, Police Procedurals, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

Summary

The basic narrative follows New Orleans detective Carson and her partner Michael as they search for "The Surgeon," a serial killer. 

Deucalion, once known as The Monster, is alarmed by reports of this serial murderer, believing that his old master and creator, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, has returned. 

When Carson meets Deucalion, the investigation takes a darker turn, leading Carson and Michael down the road of a 200-year-old mystery and evil that threatens more than just New Orleans.

In New Orleans, a serial killer is on the loose and killing nonstop. A number of women have been discovered dead with one or more body parts missing–feet, hands, ears, lips–you get the picture. 

A few men have also died after having their internal organs removed medically. The inquiry is being led by detective partners Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. 

She is aggressive and hard-driving both inside and outside of the automobile. Maddison is her polar opposite: a devoted spouse who is constantly able to mock himself and Carson in a way that keeps things honest. 

Carson is also in charge of her younger autistic brother Arnie, who is constructing a castle fortress in his room.

The stronghold is a symbol, a warning that something far more sinister is at work than just a serial murderer. 

Carson's first clue is Deucalion, a mystery guest. He's reportedly the inheritor of a theater and has arrived in New Orleans from a monastery abroad. 

He moves with fast speed, employing an extraordinary sleight of hand, and has enormous scars tattooed on one side of his face. 

He claims to be almost two centuries old, made from body parts, and brought to life by Victor Frankenstein by a lightning strike. 

He believes that Frankenstein, also known as Victor Helios, is still alive in New Orleans and poses as a local benefactor. He also forms a particular relationship with Arnie, who is in peril as well.

The true story is significantly more sinister. Helios has honed his ability to produce human life, ostensibly soulless but improved beings, and a perfect race infiltrating civilization until Helios fulfills his aim of eradicating humanity. 

However, something isn't quite right. Some of those who were created with no ambitions other than to serve Helios and to be submissive to his whims are starting to think, act, and even murder on their own. 

It turns out that you can't make people and expect them to stay robots. They want significance, joy, or even just to be free of Helios—wishes that are far more human than Helios would allow.

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Ghost Story Summary

Ghost Story

Published: 1979

Author: Peter Straub

Genre: American, Drama, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literary, Literature, Suspense, Thriller

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Summary

The tale begins with a guy named Donald Wanderley traveling with a little girl whom he appears to have abducted. When Donald and the girl arrive in Panama City, Florida, the narrative travels back in time to the previous winter's events.

Four elderly men who are members of a clique called the Chowder Society live in the small upstate New York town of Milburn, which is indicated to be in Broome County east of Binghamton: John Jaffrey, a doctor; Lewis Benedikt, a retired entrepreneur; Sears James, an attorney; and Ricky Hawthorne, an attorney, and James' Partner. 

For the past 50 years, these closest friends have gathered, told each other tales, and been wonderful companions. 

However, their group used to be made up of five people. Jaffrey had hosted a party in honor of a visiting actress a year before, and their fifth member, Edward Wanderley, had perished in an upstairs bedroom amid the celebrations. He had a terrified expression on his face as if he had been scared to death.

Since that night, the friends have been troubled by dreadful dreams and have turned to recounting ghost stories to each other. 

Sears tells them a ghost story about when he was a young man during one of their gatherings. 

Before opting to go to law school, James worked as a teacher in a small town. He became obsessed with one of his students, Fenny Bate, a sluggish, mentally troubled young lad. 

Fenny and his sister were shunned by the town, and after some investigation, he discovers why. 

Gregory, the older brother of the two youngsters, was widely thought to have sexually abused his younger brother. 

Gregory was the guardian of his younger siblings because their mother had died and their father had abandoned the household. 

Gregory tumbled from the ladder and died one day while repairing the roof and someone thought they spotted the two young Bate children fleeing the scene. 

Sears tells his friends that over time, he began to see a scary young guy lingering around the school, and he finally came to believe it was Gregory Bate's ghost. 

Sears endeavored but failed, to free Fenny from the clutches of his deceased brother. Fenny died, and Sears departed the tiny town after finishing the school year.

After relaying his story, Sears and Ricky are summoned to the property of one of their clients, who has discovered some mangled sheep in his field. 

Later in the ride, Sears tells Ricky that the previous night's event was not made up, but had truly occurred to him when he was younger. 

Sears, like the rest of the Chowder Society, admits to being terrified. They decide to write to Edward's nephew, Donald Wanderley because Donald has authored an esoteric novel and they believe his research skills may be useful to them. However, before Donald arrives, Jaffrey commits suicide by jumping off a bridge.

Donald enters just as the funeral is wrapping up. The Society's three remaining members inform him that they want him to look into any conceivable options that he may find acceptable. 

Donald's brother David had died under unexplained circumstances some years before, prompting him to pen his horror thriller. 

Donald tells them the tale of what he believes happened. He'd gotten a teaching job at Berkeley because of the positive response to his first novel, and he'd started dating a lovely graduate student called Alma Mobley. 

He was inseparable from her at first, and there was a discussion of marriage. But, as time passed, he began to notice odd things about her and thought that there was something peculiar about Alma. 

She had a sinister drug-dealing acquaintance named Greg Benton who was the guardian of a mentally disabled younger brother, as well as even more sinister acquaintances who belonged to a cult associated with the Manson Family and claimed to be in regular contact with the spirit of a dead man named Tasker Martin who "approved" their relationship. 

Donald ceased seeing her as frequently, because his business faltered, and Alma suddenly disappeared one day. 

Upon further investigation, he learned that many of Alma's claims about her family history were false; for example, she claimed to be the daughter of a prominent New Orleans artist called Robert Mobley, who had two boys but no daughter. 

In fact, Robert Mobley had a bizarre experience similar to Donald's in which his son Shelby committed suicide after an affair with a mysterious younger girl named Amy Monckton while under the guardianship of a woman named Florence de Peyser, who employed a sinister man named Gregorio as her chauffeur. 

A few months later, David phoned to tell him that he and Alma had gotten engaged and that he wanted everything to be okay between Donald and his girlfriend. 

Donald tried to warn David about Alma, but it was too late, and David died shortly after.

Soon after, Lewis Benedikt is murdered in the forest, and Sears and Ricky decide it is time to tell Donald the most horrifying story the Chowder Society has ever heard—and it, too, is real. 

Eva Galli, a young woman, had migrated to the village fifty years before. She was in her early twenties, and all five of the young guys were head over heels in love with her, although completely platonic love. 

Eva came to see them one night in 1929, not long after Black Tuesday, but she wasn't herself. 

She made sexual approaches and made fun of them. Eva collapsed and injured her head as a result of the struggle. 

They planned to hide her body by placing it in a car and driving it into a deep pond, believing she was dead. 

But, at the last second, Eva's body vanished from the inside of the car, and a lynx watched them from the opposite bank.

Donald continues his investigation and swiftly concludes that they are dealing with a Manitou or some type of shape-shifting beast. 

He also believes Alma Mobley is Eva Galli, as well as Amy Monckton and the mystery young actress who was the guest of honor at his uncle's death party. 

He discovers some of his uncle's tape recordings and listens to bits that not even his uncle has heard yet, when she talks directly to him and the remaining Chowder Society, claiming to be a member of an ancient race of creatures and being old enough to recall the first humans in the nation.

Donald, Ricky, and Sears are joined in their fight by Peter Barnes, a young man whose mother was murdered by the servants of these creatures, formerly normal human people who have been given new life and powers. 

Sears is ambushed and killed in his car, and the survivors discover that the reanimated Gregory and Fenny are assisting Eva in her endeavors and that Gregory is identical to Greg Benton, the drug dealer Donald met in Berkeley, and Fenny was Greg Benton's disabled brother, and Gregory and Robert Mobley's New Orleans acquaintance Gregorio were also one and the same. 

Gregory informs them that Florence de Peyser assisted in his resurrection and that Eva is also obedient to the de Peyser lady. 

Gregory and Fenny assault Peter, Donald, and Ricky at a movie theater, but both are slain in the subsequent fight, causing Donald to learn that, despite their unearthly abilities, the monsters are not truly immortal. Eva is tracked down and defeated by the survivors, but she escapes in a new form.

Ricky, exhausted, departs Milburn for a lengthy vacation with his wife, as Peter prepares for college. Donald keeps an eye out for Eva's next appearance, which he believes will be the little girl from the beginning of the novel.

Eva appears in the shape of a small girl and seeks to manipulate Donald's psyche while in Florida. 

He is able to resist and kills her after she attempts to flee in the shape of a wasp. Donald then makes plans to travel to San Francisco in search of the de Peyser woman.

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