Shadowfires Summary

Shadowfires

Published: 1987

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Leigh Nichols)

Genre: Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Horror, Literary, Literature, Suspense, Thriller, Zombie

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Summary

The story's protagonist is a lady who is about to divorce her violent husband Eric, an ardent scientist at a bio-research organization when he is killed in a traffic accident.

As it turns out, the husband was researching immortality because he was obsessed with avoiding death as a result of sexual assault as a youngster and the worry that his abuser is waiting for him in Hell. 

In truth, he tested an experimental serum meant to confer amazing regeneration abilities on himself. 

The spouse awakens in the morgue, but his "immortality" is defective; it cannot repair brain injury correctly since the "mind" is formed of electrical signals, not simply flesh and protein. The stress of the traffic accident has left him in chronic agony and with a loss of mental clarity. 

The husband, now an unstoppable murdering machine, stalks his wife throughout the nation while gradually sliding into madness and the return from death, leading him to mutate at an alarming rate.

Rachael and her lover Ben Shadway chase the reanimated Eric to his hidden country hideout in the hopes of murdering him before he regenerates to the point where he can discover and kill Rachael. 

Eric, on the other hand, outwits them and gets to hide in the trunk of Rachael's car after overhearing her and Ben discussing their plan to split up and meet in Las Vegas.

Rachael Leben accidentally brings Eric to Las Vegas and observes Eric emerge from the trunk of her car, now brutally altered into some type of unimaginable mutant and fast-evolving. 

A pursuit continues into the desert, but Rachael manages to escape Eric's grasp when he's munching on a den of rattlesnakes and returns to her car before continuing on her route to Vegas. 

Later, Eric murders and consumes the driver of the automobile, then rapes, kills and devours the female passenger before heading to Vegas. 

Ben Shadway is also being pursued by federal agent Anson Sharp, who has a 20-year-old grudge against Shadway when the two served together in Vietnam and Shadway revealed Sharp's dishonesty and illicit smuggling operations, resulting in Sharp being dishonorably dismissed from the US army. 

Partners in Eric Leben's bio-research business are also on the trail of Shadway and Rachael Leben, attempting to prevent them from leaking the company's top-secret project to the media but are stopped by Sharp's soldiers. 

Sharp intends to murder them both in order to keep Project Wildcard a secret and get revenge on Ben. 

After a long chase across Nevada to Las Vegas, the pair finally confronts Eric at Ben's hotel. 

Eric's mutation eventually stabilizes into an unstoppable and unidentifiable insectoid form that cannot be killed by the weaponry they have. 

They hurriedly pour gasoline on Eric and light him ablaze. Consumed by fire, Eric's mutant body's accelerated metabolism devours itself in an attempt to repair and mutate further, reducing his body to slime and eventually killing the genetic monster but not before Eric's shattered awareness finally embraces death.

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Watchers Summary

Watchers

Published: February 1987

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Animals, Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Ghost, Hard Science, Horror, Literature, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

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Summary

Travis Cornell, a former Delta Force operative, is exploring a canyon near his house when he comes across two genetically produced animals that have escaped from a top-secret government facility. 

Travis is befriended by one, a Golden Retriever with heightened intellect, while the other, an entity known as the Outsider, appears to be attempting to murder the dog. 

Travis brings the puppy home after avoiding the Outsider. When he discovers the dog's extraordinary intelligence, he calls him Einstein.

Later, he and Einstein discover and rescue Nora Devon in a park from a violent guy named Arthur Streck. 

They create a trio when they come together. Travis, Nora, and Einstein are soon on the run not only from the Outsider but also from federal agents determined to find the laboratory escapees and Vince Nasco, a ruthless professional assassin hired by the Soviets to kill several human targets carrying the knowledge of how to stop the Outsider, in order to further the Outsider's destruction. 

He wants the dog to trade for a large quantity of money on his own, without the knowledge of the Soviets or anyone.

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The Door to December Summary

The Door to December

Published: 1985

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Richard Paige)

Genre: Contemporary, Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Horror, Kidnapping, Literature, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Teen, Thriller, Young Adult

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Summary

Laura McCaffrey is summoned to aid in the investigation when a pair of prominent psychiatrists are brutally killed for reasons unknown. 

When she meets with Dan Haldane, a police lieutenant, she learns that one of the victims was her divorced husband, Dylan, who stole their only daughter six years earlier. 

Police alert Lieutenant Haldane of a nude young girl strolling the streets of Los Angeles in a trance while inside the crime scene. 

Melanie McCaffrey, Laura's daughter, turned out to be the girl. She was discovered in a catatonic, autistic state and is being treated in the hospital. 

Dylan was clearly employing his only kid in a series of experiments that mixed science and the occult. Unfortunately, it has had unforeseen and fatal repercussions.

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Twilight Eyes Summary

Twilight Eyes

Published: 1987

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Crime, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Psychic, Shape Shifter, Supernatural, Thriller

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Twilight Eyes

Summary

Slim starts the novel by sneaking up on and murdering a "goblin or beast" on the fairgrounds of a local carnival. 

Goblins are genetically created super-predators that want murder and human agony and can shapeshift between human and bestial forms. They were created in an ancient, technologically advanced age of human civilization to torture and eventually slaughter humanity. 

Slim, Rya Raines (his wife), and Joel Tuck (Slim's friend and fellow carnie) are the only ones who can see them. These goblins are superhuman, exceedingly violent and genocidal, and can imitate human behavior. 

While they seem and act normally, they only experience unpleasant emotions such as dread and hatred. Their entire enjoyment comes from tormenting and murdering humanity.

Slim's claim to fame is his "Twilight Eyes," which allows him to get psychic, or prophetic, foretellings of the future. They also allow him to see past the goblins' human-like disguises. These eyes are so-called because they are purple, like the skyline at sunset.

Slim then goes on to join a circus (one of many he has strayed from) to sustain himself while killing goblins and escaping from his homicidal background (in which he killed an uncle by marriage that was a goblin responsible for the deaths of several family members). 

One of the "carnies'" important members is a young lady named Rya Raines, who swiftly becomes his girlfriend and confidante. As their relationship develops, Slim has numerous more run-ins with the goblins, revealing that his buddy Joel, and even Rya herself, can see the goblins and that each of them has suffered much as a result of the goblins' activities in the past. 

Rya had long established a deal with the goblins to report to them anytime she met someone who could see through their disguise in exchange for protection from their predations. He refuses to make the same agreement with them as she does.

This reality causes a schism between her and Slim, resulting in carnage. She subsequently comes to regret this, and after reconciling with Slim, she marries him. They decide to go on a quest to exterminate any and all species they may find.

They go on a personal mission to conduct a secret battle against the monsters in Yontsdown, Pennsylvania, the apparent hub of their harsh and violent form of society. They would learn and confront the final, terrible intentions the goblins had for the planet and all of humanity.

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The Servants of Twilight Summary

The Servants Of Twilight

Published: 1984

Author: Dean Koontz (Wrote as Leigh Nichols)

Genre: Contemporary, Cult, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

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The Servants Of Twilight

Summary

Christine Scavello, a single mother, and her young son Joey are challenged in a mall parking lot by a lunatic who thinks Joey is the Antichrist. 

Christine enlists the assistance of private detective Charlie Harrison after a traumatic attack on the family home culminates in the decapitation of her dog. Harrison follows a vehicle that is following Christine back to Grace Spivey, a charismatic old woman who is the leader of The Servants Of Twilight, a fanatical religious cult.

Christine is given bodyguards to defend her, but one of them is slain in an attack by cult members not long after. Christine, Charlie, Joey, and their new dog Chewbacca go on an exhausting cross-country trek to escape the misguided members of "The Twilight". 

Spivey's people manage to track them down no matter how far they travel or where they go. It is revealed that this is due to Spivey's ability to see into the future, a skill that also causes her many restless nights.

Following numerous more attacks (including a vehicle bomb and an arson attack), the gang attempts to flee The Twilight's mounting menace by retiring to Charlie's mountain lodge. Charlie falls in love with Christine here, and the two end up sleeping together.

Spivey is certain that Joey is the Antichrist and has frequent visions of the apocalypse for which the youngster is the reason. 

Spivey sees her urge to murder the youngster (and everyone else who gets in her way) as a service to humanity, rather than as mad or unfair. Her faith is so powerful that she can garner the support of many significant people of the community, including police officers and Kyle Barlow, a sociopath Spivey had spared from a life of crime.

Charlie's mountain chalet is finally tracked down by the Servants of Twilight. The family gets themselves in a cave on the side of a mountain after a pursuit and further gunfights with heavily armed cult members in a hazardous winter. 

They are fatigued, Charlie has a gunshot wound to the shoulder, and Joey suffers a nasty disease, involving hives on his face and an extremely pale complexion, all of which are induced by exposure to extreme cold.

Kyle Barlow knows he has to do the task, but he discovers he lacks the capacity to murder a child, even if Grace believes he is the Antichrist.

Inside the cave, the drama reaches a peak as Spivey and her last remaining aide, Kyle Barlow, begin their descent to kill the kid and prevent the alleged advent of the Antichrist. 

Christine is out of energy to fight, and Charlie is barely awake as a result of his gunshot wound. 

Grace Spivey places a pistol to Joey's head, making everything appear hopeless. Spivey is ambushed by a swarm of bats just before she pulls the trigger, and she is left for dead. 

Christine wonders if her kid may have provoked the assault due to the peculiar behavior of the bats.

The book concludes with the hardship over and Christine and Charlie in a healthy partnership. Charlie's interest in Joey intensifies when the boy's condition clears up rapidly and unexpectedly. 

The narrative concludes with Charlie searching for proof in the buried bones of the family's first dog. The burial contains the remains of a different type of dog, which Charlie finds amusing and determines that Joey cannot be the Antichrist.

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Darkfall Summary

Darkfall

Published: February 1984 (UK) - October 1984 (US)

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Horror, Suspense, Ghost, Crime, Thriller, Contemporary, Literature, Fiction

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Darkfall

Summary

Jack Dawson, a New York City detective, is coping with a number of issues in his personal life. His wife Linda died lately, leaving him to care for his two children, Penny and Davey. He is also forced to confront an exceptionally cruel spate of Mafia criminals' killings, which appear to have been carried out by animals, despite the fact that no live creature would just shred a person to pieces without consuming anything. Finally, his partner Rebecca rejected his final conclusion that supernatural or magical forces were involved in the crimes.

In reality, these beasts were summoned from hell by a bocor named Baba Lavelle. Lavelle thought they were lesser demons due to their diminutive size since the doorway to Hell is not yet large enough to allow larger monsters. 

Dawson is astonished at the end of the story to discover that the gateway has grown so large that it has consumed the shed where it is hidden. Tentacles have emerged from the hole and are dragging Lavelle to hell. 

When Jack notices this, he concludes that it was only a foreshadowing of a bigger evil to come. 

When holy water fails to stop the pit from expanding, Jack uses his blood from a tentacle wound to do it. He is afraid that if he fails, he will have to sacrifice himself in the hole. 

The tale concludes with all of the inhabitants turning to mud and Jack hearing Rebecca exclaim "I love you, Jack" in thin air.

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Phantoms Summary

Phantoms

Published: March 1983

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Contemporary, Crime, Drama, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Rural, Science Fiction, Small Town, Suspense, Thriller

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Phantoms

Summary

Jenny and Lisa Paige, two sisters, return to Jenny's homeland of Snowfield, California, a tiny ski resort community hidden in the Sierra Nevada Mountains where Jenny works as a doctor, only to discover that no one is alive. 

The few bodies they discover have been mangled or reflect some unusual way of death. Jenny eventually calls authorities from a neighboring town for assistance after becoming increasingly concerned about the community's unusual and scary predicament.

The girls and the authorities, commanded by Sheriff Bryce Hammond, might request assistance from the military Biological Investigations Unit. 

Only one clue as to what was causing the town's disappearances and fatalities was discovered by the police. 

A victim of whatever was attempting to murder him managed to write Timothy Flyte's name on a mirror just before he was slain. Flyte is a British professor who wrote The Ancient Enemy. His book records and describes the mass disappearances of individuals throughout history in various places of the world.

It is revealed that the settlement was constructed over the hibernation grounds of one such Enemy, an amoeboid shapeshifter. This Ancient Enemy feeds seldom, but when it does, the consequences are disastrous. 

The Enemy was said to have caused or facilitated the extinction of the dinosaurs, as well as many of the big enigmatic mass vanishings: Mayan civilization, Roanoke, ghost ships, and so on.

The monster absorbs other living forms to gain bulk and can perfectly imitate other animals. It can develop microscopic "probes" or "phantoms" that imitate eaten living forms and follow the commands of its "hive mind" to go out and hunt new victims; also, the monster absorbs the mental capacity of those it eats.

The nucleus, which is positioned in the core of its main body, is its single living organ. The cells of the monster have a chemical structure comparable to that of fossil fuels; when this is discovered, the scientists utilize oil-eating bacteria to destroy the Enemy's core or brain. Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty created the genetically modified bacteria in real life.

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The House of Thunder Summary

The House of Thunder

Published: 1982

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Leigh Nichols)

Genre: Contemporary, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literary, Literature, Psychological, Suspense, Thriller

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The House of Thunder

Summary

The story centers around Susan Thorton, who wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of her history or how she got there. 

Susan's doctor, Dr. McGee, assists her in regaining parts of her memories, including that of an anti-Semitic hate crime she saw years ago that resulted in the murder of her fiancé, but she can't seem to recollect anything about the firm she works for or her recent history. 

Susan's memory is not jogged by phone calls from her coworkers. Meanwhile, Susan begins to have nightmares and vivid hallucinations related to her fiancé’s death. 

The guys who committed the crime come to the hospital, claiming not to recognize her, and none of them appear to have aged at all, despite the fact that more than a decade has passed. 

Susan is tormented by the guys, and she must determine whether she can trust Dr. McGee as she attempts to figure out if the men are ghosts, doppelgangers, or if these awful events are all in her head.

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The Mask Summary

The Mask

Published: 1981

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Owen West)

Genre: American, Family Life, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Romance, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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The Mask

Summary

On a busy day, an amnesic blonde girl arrives in the midst of traffic. Carol and Paul, a married couple, are drawn to her and take her in, picturing her as the kid they never had.

Carol then begins to experience dreams involving terrible noises in the middle of the night, a bloodied visage in a mirror, and a razor-sharp ax.

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The Eyes of Darkness Summary

The Eyes of Darkness

Published: 10, May 1981

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Leigh Nichols)

Genre: Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Psychological, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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The Eyes of Darkness

Summary

Tina Evans, a stage producer, begins getting paranormal signals implying that her son Danny is still alive a year after he is allegedly killed in an accident on a camping trip. 

She prepares to exhume Danny's body to set her mind at peace after never seeing his body. Tina is assisted by Elliot Stryker, a newly acquainted lawyer who previously worked for Army Intelligence and with whom she is having an affair. 

They are quickly pursued by assassins hired by Project Pandora and barely make it out alive. Tina, sure that Danny is still alive, sets out to find out what happened to her kid and save him. 

Elliot joins her, and the two are pursued by other operatives who have been ordered to assassinate them. 

Danny leads Tina telepathically to an underground lab in the Sierra Nevada where her kid has been exposed to horrible experiments by a top-secret government organization.

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The Voice of the Night Summary

The Voice Of The Night

Published: 1980

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Brian Coffey)

Genre: Coming Of Age, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Psychological, Suspense, Thriller

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The Voice Of The Night

Summary

Colin Jacobs, an introverted bookworm, goes to Santa Leona, California, with his mother in the summer of 1980 and quickly meets and befriends another youngster his age. 

Colin aspires to be everything Roy Borden is not: courageous, gregarious, strong, athletically skilled, and a superb ladies' guy. 

In sharp contrast to Colin, who "learned long ago that opposition produces pain" and avoids difficulties and confrontations, he is an innate warrior, ready to face up to anybody or anything. 

Despite their differences, Roy appears to be happy to be friends with Colin, even adding that the lads and girls who think they are his friends are only acquaintances. 

Colin and Roy quickly become good friends, and Roy makes them blood brothers after a brief ceremony. 

Roy exhibits strange behavior, such as asking Colin whether he has ever murdered anything and referring to everything as fun as a popper, but Colin seems unconcerned.

Colin meets a lovely woman named Heather Lipschitz at a store one day, and he is both surprised and delighted to discover that the two are developing a romantic interest in one other. 

He doesn't tell Roy, but he believes that his friendship with Roy has improved his image and made ladies more interested in him. 

Roy continues to confide in Colin more, displaying a very pessimistic worldview as well as a fixation with sex, violence, and death. 

Colin dismisses it as a joke, despite the fact that Roy claims to have murdered two other lads who declined his offer to be blood brothers. He drives Colin to an abandoned home near a railroad line, where he has rigged up an old pickup vehicle to be pushed downhill, causing an incoming passenger train to crash. 

He approaches Colin for assistance, but Colin, realizing it was never a joke, tries to stop him. Roy pushes Colin aside and tries to drive the truck down to the tracks by himself, but it requires two people to keep it on track, and Roy shouts in wrath as the train passes by unhurt.

Roy attempts to murder Colin at the junkyard, but after nearly escaping, Colin discovers that no one believes him when he reveals who Roy is. Colin goes to Heather, and the two of them work together to discover the truth about Roy's hidden existence. They discover Roy is adopted and that when he was eight years old, he accidentally murdered his adoptive sister Belinda by getting behind the wheel of his adopted father's automobile while Belinda was playing behind it.

Mrs. Borden, who stepped outside just in time to witness it happen, was taken aback and repeatedly said, "Her tiny head...it just burst." 

Mrs. Borden, who has always been preoccupied with keeping her house pristine, severely beat Roy with a metal dustpan when he got home and tracked dirt into the house soon after. 

Both instances left Roy extremely traumatized, and he accepted the concept that he was a killer, and convinced himself over time that he did it all on purpose. 

Roy, lonely and anxious for a true friend, attempted to contact two guys before Colin, and Colin and Heather corroborate that the boys died when, where, and how Roy said.

Colin phones Roy and tells him that he has lady for both of them and Roy grudgingly agrees to meet him at an abandoned mansion on the outskirts of town so they may take turns raping her. 

Despite her apprehension of the scenario, Heather agrees to be the bait, and Colin makes it appear as though she was battered and then tied to a chair. 

Colin manages to hide the handgun he took from his mother's bedroom before Roy arrives. Colin pretends to see things Roy's way and wishes they could be blood brothers again. Roy first doesn't trust him but is surprised to see Heather there, exactly as Colin predicted. 

Colin acts to be willing to "share" her with Roy, impressing and delighting him. Roy exclaims that they are brothers once more, but Colin pulls out a gun and says he is arresting Roy. 

Roy knows he has been duped and attacks, leaving Colin completely outmatched in the battle. He manages to reclaim the gun and shoots Roy in the leg as they fight. 

Roy looks up as Colin prepares to shoot again, this time towards Roy's head, and his expression betrays something shocking: Roy is deeply sad and wishes to be put out of his agony. 

Colin resists the impulse to kill him and goes outside to contact the cops. As he does so, he understands that the "voice of the night" is within him as well, and he must fight the temptation to listen to it as Roy did.

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Whispers Summary

Whispers

Published: April 1980

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: Adult, American, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Parenting, psychological, Serial Killer, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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Whispers

Summary

Hilary Thomas, a Los Angeles screenwriter, is attacked in her house by Bruno Frye, a mentally ill man whose Napa Valley winery she previously visited. 

Frye attempts to rape her, but she holds him at gunpoint and calls the cops. Detective Tony Clemenza assures her that Frye has a solid alibi because the cops contacted his house and he replied, demonstrating that he was nowhere near Los Angeles that night.

Frye comes the next day and assaults Hilary again, this time getting numerous knife wounds before fleeing. She contacts the police and meets with Clemenza again, who informs her that Frye's corpse has been discovered and brings her to the morgue to identify it.

Hilary is assaulted once more by a man who looks to be Frye. "Frye" flees just as Clemenza arrives, and Hilary informs him of what transpired. 

Frye's psychologist allows them to listen to a cassette recording of one of Frye's sessions after considerable research. Frye mentions identical twins being born with cauls on their faces and claims to have read somewhere that this was a demon's mark.

Frye has been murdering women he believes are possessed by the soul of his deceased mother, who mistreated him and threatened to return from the grave. He believes Hilary is his mother's most recent "host."

Hilary and Tony visit a retired madam who tells them that Leo, Frye's grandpa, took his daughter Katherine to be cared for when she became pregnant with him. 

Katherine gave birth to identical twin sons not long after Leo died. The twins were born with cauls on their faces, causing Katherine, who was mentally ill, to assume they were devils. She reared her sons as though they were one and the same person. They were both called Bruno, and they were both praised or punished for whatever they did.

Finally, Hilary and Clemenza return to Frye's house, where he assaults them again before being murdered in a fight with Clemenza.

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The Funhouse Summary

The Funhouse

Published: 1980

Author: Dean Koontz (written as Owen West)

Genre: American, Contemporary, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Psychological, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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The Funhouse

Summary

Ellen, a young woman fed up with being dominated by her meek father and psychotically pious mother, falls in love with Conrad, a traveling carnival barker, in 1955. 

Despite her mother's protests, she joins the carnival and marries him. However, it rapidly becomes evident that Conrad is using Ellen to conceive the Antichrist, as she discovers he worships Satan. 

She finally gives birth to a horribly disfigured baby while stuck at the fair since she cannot return to her parents.

The demonic baby assaults Ellen one stormy night. She smashes it just as Conrad returns home. Enraged, he beats but does not kill her, threatening to track her down and murder her own children one day. Ellen bolts into the darkness.

Amy becomes pregnant by her boyfriend in 1980. He refuses to raise or pay for the child's abortion. She hurries home, crying, to her pious, alcoholic mother, who is subsequently revealed to be Ellen. 

Amy ultimately informs her mother she is pregnant, prompting her mother to hit her. She does, however, agree to pay for an abortion and accompany Amy to the doctor, but only to prevent Amy from "giving birth to the Antichrist."

Meanwhile, Amy's younger brother, Joey, is privately terrified of Ellen since she regularly enters his room late at night, drunkenly raving about how he may be a demon in disguise. He chooses to flee with a traveling fair that will be in town the following week.

Conrad's circus is discovered to be his. The other carnies try to convince the barker that he would never locate Ellen after years of looking, but he refuses to give up. 

That night, a young couple is enticed to the carnival's funhouse, where they are disemboweled and half-devoured by Gunther, Conrad's demonic, monstrous kid from his affair with Madame Zena, the carnival's fortune teller. Conrad intends to murder Ellen's children with the help of Gunther.

Amy goes to Liz's Diner, where her promiscuous best friend works. Liz declares her intention to flee to Las Vegas and work as a call lady. She invites Amy to join her the morning after they return from the carnival. 

During the day, Joey enters the fair and Conrad recognizes him as Ellen's child. Joey is terrified and lies when asked what his mother's name is. Conrad is upset, but he accepts his fate.

Conrad discovers Amy and Joey are Ellen's children after doing background checks on the town's people with the help of a private investigator. 

Madame Zena is terrified when he explains his intention to lure them to the funhouse and murder them. He strangles her to death when she refuses to aid him with his plot. 

Amy, Liz, and their dates, Buzz and Ritchie, visit the carnival that night. Joey flees home and goes to the carnival with the intention of escaping with it. 

He tracks down Conrad and expresses his attraction to him. Before tying him up, the barker brings him to the funhouse and admits that he knows he lied about his mother.

The party arrives and boards at the funhouse. Conrad cuts the power midway through the journey, leaving the four teenagers stranded. 

Gunther drags Richie away through a trap door before severing his head. The three others look for a way out. 

Amy equips herself with a knife she found in a showcase. Liz continues alone inside the funhouse before being discovered by Gunther and dismembered in the basement. Conrad comes and shoots Buzz to death with a handgun. He has Joey with him, who is restrained by a rope leash. Amy manages to conceal the knife. She dupes Conrad into thinking she's going to console Joey before stabbing him in the throat and stealing his revolver.

Amy and Joey discover the cellar and descend, where Gunther attacks. Amy shoots him, and he falls into the funhouse's machines and is ripped apart. Amy drags Joey out of the funhouse and into the early light once they discover the exit.

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The Vision Summary

The Vision

Published: 1977

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Murder, Psychic, Serial Killer, Suspense, Thriller

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The Vision

Summary

Mary Bergen develops clairvoyant skills after being raped and maimed as a kid by her family's gardener, Berton Mitchell. 

She assists the police in their murder investigations with the support of her older brother Alan and spouse. Unfortunately, she can only detect fragments of a crime as they occur in real-time.

Mary prevents a serial murderer from taking another victim a few days before Christmas. Following the trauma, Alan, who has always been envious of Max for entering his sister's life and taking over his job as her caretaker, attempts to persuade her to divorce him once more. She flatly refuses. He agrees with her decision and departs for a holiday.

Mary and Max return to their mansion for the holidays. She does, however, have a vivid vision of four women being murdered in the future. This has never happened before, as she could only experience visions in real-time before. Max attempts to convince her that it was all a dream, but she is skeptical. The following morning, a news program is shown revealing the murder of four ladies who shared a home by a single perpetrator. Mary believes she knows one of the victims.

Mary has her weekly appointment with her psychiatrist, who is attempting to help her overcome the horrible childhood incident by reliving it. She recalls pounding wings and a terrible voice talking to her. 

However, before she can recall Mitchell's face, many glass figurines in the office begin pelting the two. The ruckus dies down after a few minutes. 

That night, Mary sees the same assailant murdering three people at a hair shop. Max's pistol animates and begins shooting at them as she tries to visualize the killer's face. The pair becomes persuaded that they are being tormented by a poltergeist who is attempting to obstruct Mary's visions. 

The next morning, another news broadcast confirms the triple homicide occurred. In a panic, she phones Alan, who calms her down.

Soon after, Mary has another vision in which the killer climbs a tower in King's Point and snipes locals during a Christmas Eve boat procession. 

Percy Osterman, her, and Max head there to halt the attack with the approval of a police chief she knows. Mary's old friend and journalist Lou Pasternak lives in King's Point, where they stay. 

The three attempt to identify the assailant. Berton Mitchell is mentioned, although Mary is aware that he committed suicide in his jail cell long before the trial, always professing innocence. They request that Osterman look into Mitchell's wife and son, whom they believe are still alive.

The next day, Mary attempts to recall the killer's face. However, a swarm of seagulls assault her and Max and refuse to go until she gives up. They then go to the King's Point police station, where they manage to persuade the town's dubious sheriff, John Patmore, to put cops in every tower. 

However, no attack occurs that night, much to Patmore's chagrin. Following that, Mary has another vision of a lady she believes she recognizes being murdered by the killer while eating dinner at Lou's.

The three receive two pieces of unpleasant news the next day. The familiar lady Mary saw in her vision is discovered dead, and Osterman phones to inform her that Mitchell's wife and son perished decades ago in an arson assault on their trailer. 

She convinces Lou and Max to drive her to a closed entertainment center with a tower that night, convinced that the sniper shootings will take place. Mary and Max break inside the center, while Lou stands guard in the automobile.

Mary is plagued by visions of fluttering wings and flashbacks of her childhood abuse. Max is at the bottom of the steps, while she is at the top of the tower.

The murderer arrives and stabs Lou to death before entering and attacking and injuring Max. He manages to remain still while the killer, later revealed to be Alan, climbs the stairs and confronts his sister.

Mary recalls her assault and understands it was Alan, not Berton Mitchell, who assaulted her. He tied her to the floor of Mitchell's cottage before biting, slashing, and stuffing a live bat up her vagina, which is where her memory of flapping wings came from. 

Her brother managed to implant false memories and a psychic grip on the occurrence while she was in a coma at the hospital by warning her of all the dreadful things he would do to her if she ever talked of what truly happened. 

All of the "poltergeist" episodes were caused by Mary's own powers acting against her as a result of the hold. 

Alan also admits to murdering Mitchell's wife and children, and that all of the victims Mary recognized were prior girlfriends of his.

Max tries to escape the center while bleeding heavily, attracting the notice of incoming officers and Patmore, who misidentifies him as the killer and shoots him in the shoulder. 

Mary, now that she knows the truth, utilizes her psychic abilities to cause the bats that reside in the tower to attack Alan. He trips and falls down the steps, breaking his neck. 

A few weeks later, she attends Lou's burial and pays a visit to Max, who is recovering in the hospital. She cheerfully admits that she is no longer terrified of the dark.

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The Face of Fear Summary

The Face of Fear

Published: 1977

Author: Dean Koontz (Written as Brian Coffey)

Genre: American, Contemporary, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Murder, Psychic, Serial Killer, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller

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The Face of Fear

Summary

Graham Harris was once one of the world's best mountain climbers until a mishap five years ago left him with a paralyzed leg, a phobia of heights...and a terrifying psychic gift that allows him to see crimes as they occur. 

Harris lives in New York City, where the Butcher, a violent maniac, has been mutilating young women. 

Graham senses the Butcher claiming another victim while delivering an interview on live television one night. When the psychopath learns Graham is a threat to him, he devises a scheme to murder the clairvoyant. 

Graham detects the Butcher riding an elevator to his floor while working late one night in his office building. Graham begins a long night of hide and seek to try to avoid the psychopath's grip, during which Connie and Graham gradually run out of places to hide and are eventually faced with a terrifying ultimatum: either stay and take their chances with the Butcher or scale the face of the building in the midst of a blizzard. 

Graham is finally coaxed into confronting his anxiety with the latter, all the while the Butcher shoots at them. 

The Butcher is eventually slain violently in an incident involving a piece of machinery. Graham and Connie flee, but they are soon joined by Anthony Prine, the second half of the Butcher. 

It is discovered that he and Bollinger had a connection similar to that of Leopold and Loeb. When Prine confronts them, he is shot by investigator Ira Preduski. 

Connie and Graham are engaged, as revealed in the epilogue.

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