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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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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