Twilight Eyes
Published: 1987
Author: Dean Koontz
Genre: American, Crime, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literature, Psychic, Shape Shifter, Supernatural, Thriller
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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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