![]() Page-turning, edge-of-your-seat astounding. This is the first book I've read by Dean Koontz and let me just say that it was great. I have reviewed all three of these novels separately on GR if you want to see what I say about each one. He may have been trying to write stories for a different genre, but honestly IMHO, the Koontz fingerprint is indelibly linked to these three novels because at heart, they are still horror stories - maybe in the case of one, more subtle, but horror stories, nonetheless. Here, Koontz has compiled three novels that he wrote under the Leigh Nichols pseudonym. ![]() Cold Fire and Hideaway have clear supernatural elements, but even in The Key to Midnight, which is meant as a romantic, espionage thriller, there are flashes of telepathy and precognition that are not natural flowing results of the story. He prefers to be called a writer of thrillers, and his books are mostly that, but there is generally a supernatural throughline embedded in the story. ![]() What I have always loved about him is that he has never considered himself a writer of horror, but I do consider him that. I have enjoyed Koontz since I was in my preteens with Demon Seed (that is not one of the novels compiled here). ![]()
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