Hideaway Summary

Hideaway

Published: 1992

Author: Dean Koontz

Genre: American, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Media Tie-In, Psychic, Serial Killer, Suspense, Thriller

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Hideaway

Summary

Following a car accident that leaves him clinically dead for more than 80 minutes, Hatch Harrison, a Southern California antique dealer, begins having weird dreams and visions that tie him to a psychotic killer known as "Vassago." 

The murderer thinks he is the human embodiment of one of Hell's demon princes, and that if he murders enough innocent people and sacrifices them to his Master, he will be allowed to return to the hereafter and rule at Satan's right hand. He also has an unusual disease that allows him to see in the dark while simultaneously making his eyes incredibly sensitive to light. 

Meanwhile, the catastrophe offers Hatch and his artist wife Lindsey a new lease on life as they battle to repair their marriage after their son died of cancer five years ago. 

Hatch continues to be plagued by visions, in some cases seeing through Vassago's eyes, while the couple attempts to adopt a small girl called Regina. To make matters worse, Vassago gradually learns about Hatch and his family in the same way, putting both Lindsay and Regina at risk.

Vassago's true identity is revealed to be Jeremy Nyebern; as a teenager, he brutally murdered his mother and sister before attempting suicide. 

Dr. Jonas Nyebern, Jeremy's father, who miraculously resuscitated Hatch, saved his life (thus facilitating the seemingly supernatural bond between the two men). 

Jeremy, like Hatch, was clinically dead for more than 30 minutes and thinks that during that time he went to Hell and was subsequently resurrected to serve Satan's work.

Vassago's visions lead him to abduct Regina and take her to his "hideaway" towards the end of the novel (an abandoned amusement park, where, as a boy, Jeremy committed his first murder). 

Hatch and Vassago fight there, and Hatch beats Vassago to death with a crucifix hooked to a flashlight, saving Regina and Lindsay. 

Hatch unexpectedly begins speaking in another voice and refers to himself as "Uriel" (whom Hatch subsequently discovers is an archangel described in the Bible), hinting that Vassago's ideas about his demonic origin and brief voyage to the afterlife were not wholly irrational after all. Uriel/Hatch informs Vassago/Jeremy that he will be sent to Hell as a slave rather than a prince.

Following Vassago's defeat, the Harrison family strengthens their ties, with Regina now referring to her adoptive parents as Mom and Dad.

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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 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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Intensity Summary

Intensity

Published: Nov 1995 (UK) - Jan 1996 (US)

Author: Dean Koontz

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

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Intensity

Summary

Chyna Shepherd is a college student who is spending the holiday weekend with the family of her friend Laura Templeton. 

Chyna, who was beaten and abandoned as a youngster by her mother, discovers that the Templeton mansion delivers what she has longed for acceptance. This is violently ended when serial murderer Edgler Vess gets into the house in the middle of the night and murders all of the inhabitants save Laura and Chyna. 

Chyna flees after finding Laura has been bound and raped, vowing to return. Chyna walks upstairs after hearing Laura cry, planning to stab Vess with a knife. Vess murders Laura and takes her to his motor home before she can interfere. Chyna goes on board the motor home, unaware Laura is dead and discovers her friend's body. Vess drives away before she can flee.

Chyna hides in a back room, preparing to flee as soon as possible. When Vess comes to a halt at a petrol station, she gets out of the RV and hunts for a payphone. 

Chyna discreetly observes Vess boasting to the gas station workers that he is holding a little girl, Ariel, captive in his basement before killing them and driving away. 

She feels obliged to pursue Vess and assist in the release of Ariel, seizing a clerk's automobile. Chyna passes Vess while driving through a state park and deliberately smashes into a redwood tree. 

Chyna climbs onto the motor home as Vess goes out to investigate. Vess, unknowing to Chyna, notices her. Fascinated, he chooses not to murder her right away in order to see what she would do. They eventually arrive at Vess's secluded home.

Vess observes Chyna exiting the motor home. When she enters the home, she discovers a catatonic Ariel trapped in a basement chamber. 

Vess tackles Chyna in the kitchen before she can release Ariel, striking her senseless and restraining her with a chain. For a while, he teases her, disclosing facts of his previous misdeeds. Obsessed with the "intensity" of every sensory or existential experience, Vess describes himself as a "homicidal adventurer" and has been killing since boyhood. 

He agrees to let Chyna live if she helps him torture Ariel out of her catatonia. Chyna manages to break free from the table to which she is bound and slams her chair into a wall when Vess goes to work. She frees Ariel from her confinement.

Vess has trained a gang of lethal Dobermann pinschers to defend his land and murder anyone who tries to enter or exit. Chyna sprays ammonia on the dogs while dressed in Vess's dog-training attire and makes it to the motor home with Ariel. 

Soon after, Chyna notices a police cruiser and pulls over to signal it, only to learn that the driver is Vess, the local sheriff. Chyna attacks his police car in the subsequent brawl, but he rolls clear and uses a shotgun to disable the motor home, forcing it to turn over. 

Chyna and Ariel flee the crash, but Vess follows and knocks Chyna to the ground while Ariel carries on, distracting Vess long enough for Chyna to grab a lighter from her pocket. She ignites Vess's gasoline-soaked footwear with it. 

She slides away to safety just as the puddle of gas encircling Vess catches fire. She turns and witnesses Vess burn to death after catching up with Ariel. A passing driver offers assistance. Chyna adopts Ariel and finds a lovely man a few months later.

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Black House Summary

Black House

Published: 15, September 2001

Author: Stephen King & Peter Straub

Genre: American, Arthurian, Classic, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Murder, Paranormal, Psychic, Serial Killer, Supernatural, Thriller, Witches, Wizards

Book 2 of 3: Talisman (The third book has not yet been published.)

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Black House

Summary

The community of French Landing, Wisconsin, has been plagued by a series of murders. The killer has been called "The Fisherman" because he made a determined attempt to imitate serial killer Albert Fish's tactics. 

The murderer in French Landing, like Fish, preys on youngsters and eats their bodies. As the narrative begins, two victims have already been discovered, with a third on the way. 

People all around the region are growing increasingly concerned as a result of the nature of the crimes and the local police's failure to apprehend the perpetrator, and certain segments of the local media are exacerbating the issue with inflammatory and provocative coverage.

Jack Sawyer has suppressed memories of his exploits in The Territories and his search for the Talisman as a twelve-year-old kid following the events of The Talisman; however, the residue of these events have served to subtly alter his life even after he has forgotten them. 

Jack rose through the ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department to become a lieutenant, where his professionalism and remarkable talent have earned him a near-legendary reputation. 

When a string of killings in Los Angeles is linked to a farm insurance salesman from French Landing, Wisconsin, Jack joins forces with the French Landing cops to apprehend the assailant. 

Jack is magnetically enthralled by the natural splendor of the Coulee Country while in Wisconsin, recalling his childhood experience in The Territories. 

Certain characteristics of the murder scene threaten to reawaken his suppressed recollections when he subsequently intrudes on a homicide investigation in Santa Monica. 

He then resigns from the Los Angeles Police Department and relocates to French Landing to enjoy his early retirement.

When the Fisherman begins terrorizing French Landing, the police practically beg Jack Sawyer for help, and are taken aback when he coldly refuses. 

The events of Santa Monica threaten to overwhelm Jack, and he thinks that becoming involved in the inquiry would cause him to lose his mind. 

When the Fisherman kidnaps a fourth child, Jack's aloofness is no longer possible. The Fisherman swiftly reveals himself to be much more than a serial killer. 

He is, in reality, a Crimson King agent tasked with locating youngsters who have the potential to serve as Breakers. Tyler Marshall, the fourth victim, is one of the most powerful Breakers ever, and he may be all the Crimson King needs to shatter the remaining Dark Tower beams and put an end to all worlds. 

Because the Fisherman may also "flip" into The Territories, Jack Sawyer is not just the sole chance for French Landing, but for all of existence.

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Misery Summary

Misery

Published: 8, June 1987

Author: Stephen King

Genre: American, Classic, Drama, Fiction, Horror, Literary, Literature, Media Tie-In, Psychological, Serial Killer, Suspense, Thriller

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Misery

Summary

Paul Sheldon, an author of the best-selling Misery Chastain series of Victorian-era romance novels, has completed the series' last book, Misery's Child, in which Misery is murdered off. 

Paul gets drunk and drives his '74 Camaro to Los Angeles instead of flying back to New York City after finishing the manuscript for his new crime book, Fast Cars, which he believes will get significant literary praise and jumpstart his post-Misery career. 

In the small, isolated community of Sidewinder, Colorado, he is stranded in a snowstorm and wrecks his automobile.

When he wakes up, he discovers that he has been saved by Annie Wilkes, a local former nurse who is a die-hard Misery fan. 

Despite his shattered legs, she keeps Paul in her guest bedroom and nurses him herself with her clandestine supply of codeine-based medications. Paul becomes hooked to Novril, a drug Annie withholds from him in order to threaten and manipulate him. 

She starts reading Misery's Child, which was just released and coerces permission to read the Fast Cars manuscript, but she doesn't like the deeper subject matter or language. 

Annie's mental instability is quickly identified by Paul, who notes that she is prone to catatonic spells and has abrupt, unpredictable fury outbursts. 

When she discovers about Misery's death, she abandons Paul in her home for more than two days, denying him food, drink, and painkillers. During this period, Paul checks his legs to determine the extent of the damage and discovers that they were crushed and disfigured in the accident.

When Annie returns, she pushes a frail Paul to burn the Fast Cars book in exchange for painkillers. 

Annie sets up an office for Paul, complete with an antiquated Royal typewriter with a non-functional N-key, writing paper, and a wheelchair, in order to create a new Misery novel that would resurrect the character. 

Paul writes a new novel, Misery's Return while biding his time and comparing himself to Scheherazade. 

He enables Annie to read the work in progress and fill in the missing N's. The text contains fragments from Misery's Return, a horrifying scenario in which it is discovered that Misery was buried alive while unconscious, as Paul writes.

Paul uses his wheelchair to exit his room multiple times, hunting for more medications and touring the property. He finds a scrapbook full of newspaper clippings revealing Annie to be a serial killer; her victims include a neighboring family, her own father, and many elderly or critically injured patients and 11 infants while she worked as a head nurse, the last of whom resulted in her standing trial but acquittal in Denver. 

Annie announces that she has noticed Paul leaving his room and punishes him by chopping off his foot with an axe and cauterizing his ankle with a blowtorch, thus "hobbling" him. 

Months pass, and Annie slices off Paul's thumb with an electric knife when he complains that additional typewriter keys, including the "t" and "e," have broken and refuses to tell Annie how the story ends until he has written it.

Annie kills a state policeman by driving him over with her riding lawnmower when he comes to Annie's residence looking for Paul. The remains are hidden by Annie, but the trooper's disappearance catches the attention of police enforcement and the media. 

Annie moves Paul to the basement and makes it clear that she will not allow him to reside there. 

After finishing Misery's Return, Paul sets fire to a dummy copy of the text, which Annie tries to salvage. Paul tosses the typewriter at Annie and begins a furious struggle with her, exiting the room and locking the door with Annie still inside. 

When the police arrive in pursuit of the slain soldier, Paul hides and warns them. Annie is discovered dead in the barn, probably having escaped through a window on her way to murder Paul with a chainsaw.

Misery's Return is intended to be published when Paul returns to New York, and it becomes a worldwide bestseller owing to curiosity in the conditions in which it was written. 

The notion that Paul publish a factual account of his own experiences is met with resistance. 

He can walk with a prosthetic, but he still has flashbacks about Annie, painkiller withdrawal, drunkenness, and writer's block. 

Paul weeps both for his destroyed life and for the delight of being able to write again when he gets spontaneous inspiration to create a new novel.

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Mr. Mercedes Summary

Mr. Mercedes

Published: 3, June 2014

Author: Stephen King

Genre: Action, American, Crime, Drama, Fiction, Hard-Boiled, Horror, Media Tie-In, Murder, Mystery, Police Procedurals, Serial Killer, Suspense, Thriller

Book 1 of 3: The Bill Hodges Trilogy

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Mr. Mercedes

Summary

When a Mercedes slams into a crowd of jobless people waiting in line for a job fair, sixteen people are killed and many more are injured. Bill Hodges, a recently retired detective from the local police department who is enjoying his retirement, receives a letter from someone claiming to be the person in charge of the employment fair and calling himself as "Mr. Mercedes." 

Hodges is divorced, lonely, and unsatisfied with his life to the point of suicidal ideation. When Hodges retired, the incident had occurred at the end of his tenure and remained unresolved. 

Mr. Mercedes is aware of the facts surrounding the murder and refers to Olivia Trelawney, from whom he took the Mercedes.

Olivia committed herself shortly after the incident as a result of her remorse. Instead of handing the letter on to his former police colleague, Pete Huntley, Hodges becomes fascinated and begins to examine the matter.

Mr. Mercedes is revealed to be Brady Hartsfield, an emotionally unstable psychopath in his late twenties who lost his father when he was eight years old. At his mother's request, he killed his mentally challenged sibling when he was a little lad. He currently lives with his alcoholic mother, with whom he has an incestuous connection, and works at an electronics store and as an ice-cream vendor. This second employment allows him to study Hodges and his neighbors, including seventeen-year-old Jerome Robinson, who helps Hodges with modest tasks.

Hodges meets Olivia Trelawney's sister Janey while conducting research on the rich Olivia Trelawney, and she engages him to investigate Olivia's suicide and the theft of the Mercedes. 

Janey and Hodges start dating shortly after Hodges starts working for her. With the aid of brilliant, computer-savvy Jerome, Hodges discovers how Mr. Mercedes stole the automobile and then drove Olivia (whom he met through his employment at the electronics shop) to suicide by putting unsettling sound files on her computer that was rigged to go off at random intervals, exacerbating her guilt. When Olivia first heard these sounds, she mistook them for the ghosts of the Mercedes Massacre victims.

Hodges meets Janey's unsavory family, including Janey's emotionally disturbed niece Holly, at the burial of Janey and Olivia's recently deceased mother. 

Mr. Mercedes stands by as Janey drives Hodges' vehicle to the church steps after the funeral. As the automobile approaches Holly and Hodges, he uses his remote gadget to contact a mobile phone on the car seat to blow up the car with Janey inside. 

Janey is killed as a result of the explosion. Hodges is remorseful, but he is even more determined to solve the crime without the assistance of the cops. In the inquiry, Holly joins Hodges and Jerome.

Hartsfield murders his mother by inadvertently poisoning her with a poisoned cheeseburger he had cooked for Jerome's dog. 

He planned to kill himself by pretending the need for a wheelchair and using explosives stashed within the wheelchair at a large concert for young girls, with her decaying body in their house. 

Hartsfield's true identity is discovered and his computer hard drives are searched by Jerome, Hodges, and Holly. 

They determine that Hartsfield's target is at the concert and race to the venue to intercept him. 

Hodges had a heart attack and is unable to join Holly and Jerome in the concert, but encourages them to continue. 

Holly tracks down Hartsfield and slams him in the face numerous times. Holly tracks down Hartsfield and uses Hodges' "Happy Slapper," a sock stuffed with ball bearings, to give several hard punches to his skull. On the concert floor, Hartsfield is bleeding and unresponsive.

Hodges who had been rescued by concert personnel, Holly, and Jerome get together for a picnic to talk about the previous happenings. 

Hodges has heard that he will not face criminal charges as a result of his activities in the Hartsfield case. Instead they were given medals by the city as a thank you for their efforts. Hartsfield, meantime, emerges from his coma and requests to visit his mother.

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