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Complete information about dean koontz books both fiction and nonfiction, short stories, and poetry. Strange highways and chase are novellas, chase was an actual novel published back in 1972 but is out of print except here. As profound as it is mesmerizing, strange highways is a masterful achievement from the genius of horror and suspense, dean koontz. Description from the denizens of hell to unlikely heroes, from vengeful children to suspiciously humanlike robots, this new collection of tales from a genius of horror and suspense writing provides a hypnotic view of the strange highways of human experience. A wonderful collection of short fiction, an absolute must read for any fan of koontz and especially a fan of short stories, do not overlook this book because its a collection of short fiction and not an actual novel. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. A masterful collection of chilling short stories book online at best prices in india on.
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Publisher description ellies pursuit of a possessed friend and her own worst enemy takes her across the united states into forgotten corners of the countryside through haunted hotels, ghost towns, and strange highways, and toward the site of a horrific fire haunted by hundreds of spirits. Pdf strange highways book by dean koontz free download 576. The first story is the self titled strange highways, which takes up the first hundred and sixty eight pages. Dean koontz has been a regular on american bestseller lists since the 1980s, famous for mainstream suspense novels such as watchers 1987 and midnight 1989.
The first short story strange highways, which is closer to being a novel, was excellent. The author one of the most prolific writers of our time, the creator of such classic new york times bestsellers as dragon tears, midnight, the bad place, watchers, and hideaway. Strange highways is the sixth studio album by the american heavy metal band dio. Strange highways is a brilliant collection of dark and suspensefilled short. An extraordinary firstever collection of two complete novels, plus a compilation of twelve novelettes and short stories. Coleman in his books strange highways and the followup more strange highways, the phenomenon of the road troll is a deeply weird one, and encompasses a range of rather farout reports giving similar descriptions of a certain hairy trolllike creature allegedly prowling the highways, mostly from truckers making the lonely journey along darkened. The first edition of the novel was published in may 1995, and was written by dean koontz. Strange highways holds two novels, plus 12 novellas and short stories, all but the title novel published before but here tastefully if not totally rewritten.
Ive read other cryptozoological books and scores of paranormal books as well, but strange highways had me looking twice at shadows and listening harder at those noises in the night. It centers around a more powerful, heavy guitar sound, giving it a very evil and wicked sound. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 576 pages and is available in hardcover format. Strange highways is koontzs first and only short story collection since soft come the dragons came out in 1970 when koontz was just 25 years old.
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