The Eyes of Darkness - Dean Koontz

The death of a child is the most devastating thing that could ever happen to a parent but how much worse would it be to grieve for that loss for a year and then to discover that your son is still alive but may not be able to be rescued from a new death? This is the situation in which Tina Evans finds herself. THE PLOT Danny Evans, only 11 years old, died along with the rest of his scout group when their bus fell down a ravine while on a survival expedition. Tina and her husband were advised not to look at the body as it was mutilated beyond recognition. A year later Tina begins to suspect that the fate of her son may not be all that it ...  Read the complete review

Chillingly Strange I don't really like scary stuff. I REALLY don't like scary stuff, so I normally would not chose a book of this nature, but, I do like reading, and due to a cash flow problem (what's new!) and me having read every book in the vicinity of our house (including the instruction manual for the video machine - I now know how to set the clock on the silly thing) I decided to do the unthinkable - read a book that my boyfriend liked. He recommended this book by Dean Koontz, one of his favorite authors and I settled down to read. The book I read was a standard paperback edition, costing £5.99. The story follows a ...  Read the complete review

“Colin was generally afraid that if he fell behind he would be in extreme danger; Something hiding in the impenetrable shadows of the roadside would reach out for him…The night was a vast, dank cellar, home to which crept crawled and slithered. The night has ears and eyes. It had a horribly scratchy old voice. If you listen closely, turning out your doubt and keeping an open mind, you could hear the dreadful voice of the night. It whispers about graves and rotting flesh and demons and ghosts and swamp monsters. It spoke to his deepest fears. That’s just one paragraph of Koontz writing that makes him so consistently readable regardless how weak ...  Read the complete review