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Phantoms by Dean Koontz
Feb. 18th, 2010 04:04 pmYeah, I know, Phantoms
is an oldy published in 1989.
A doctor and her much younger (14) sister reach the doctor's California mountain hometown. They find the housekeeper dead. They find everyone dead (whose bodies they can find) and the mystery is total. The phones don't work, except when they decide to work. The doctor calls in the Sheriff from a nearby town-the one in town was found dead on the floor of his office-and he brings a contingent of deputies with him.
People die in gruesome ways, and the monster (it is a monster) loves to kill of course. It's been killing for centuries (perhaps millenia). There's a coating of science over the make-up of the monster and how it can do what it does and how it does it.
The writing is basic, a bit clumsy and not transparent, at least to me. I had to read past it. It has a medium sized cast, with two of the main protagonists being female, one of the a young teen. Sexual threats are used against the younger one by both a deputy (not directly to the girl, however, the first time) and the monster after the deputy is killed and absorbed by it. But that's a minor thread.
I'm not a huge Dean Koontz fan, but, all-in-all, a mildly entertaining way to pass the time.
is an oldy published in 1989. A doctor and her much younger (14) sister reach the doctor's California mountain hometown. They find the housekeeper dead. They find everyone dead (whose bodies they can find) and the mystery is total. The phones don't work, except when they decide to work. The doctor calls in the Sheriff from a nearby town-the one in town was found dead on the floor of his office-and he brings a contingent of deputies with him.
People die in gruesome ways, and the monster (it is a monster) loves to kill of course. It's been killing for centuries (perhaps millenia). There's a coating of science over the make-up of the monster and how it can do what it does and how it does it.
The writing is basic, a bit clumsy and not transparent, at least to me. I had to read past it. It has a medium sized cast, with two of the main protagonists being female, one of the a young teen. Sexual threats are used against the younger one by both a deputy (not directly to the girl, however, the first time) and the monster after the deputy is killed and absorbed by it. But that's a minor thread.
I'm not a huge Dean Koontz fan, but, all-in-all, a mildly entertaining way to pass the time.
