Strange Highways

SUMMARY: One of the most popular and prolific writers of our time, Dean Koontz has penned many classic New York Times bestsellers, but nothing quite like this. STRANGE HIGHWAYS is Koontz's spellbinding collection of tales interconnected by the strange highways of human experience-the adventures, terrors, failures, and triumphs encountered on the roads that are chosen, and on those detoured by fate. As profound as it is mesmerizing, STRANGE HIGHWAYS is a remarkable achievement. You are about to travel along the strange highways of human experience: the adventures and terrors and failures and triumphs that we know as we make our way from birth to death, along the routes that we choose for ourselves and along others onto which we are detoured by fate. It is a journey down wrong roads that can lead to unexpectedly and stunningly right destinations... into subterranean depths where the darkness of the human soul breeds in every conceivable form... over unfamiliar terrain populated by the denizens of hell. It is a world of unlikely heroes, haunted thieves, fearsome predators, vengeful children, and suspiciously humanlike robots. As profound as it is mesmerizing STRANGE HIGHWAYS is a remarkable achievement. As the Washington Post Book World put it: "His perennial bestsellers are engrossing entertainments that transcend the possibilities of any one of the genres from which they borrow."

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 masterful achievement—as profound as it is mesmerizing. (Ficiton—Horror)

Mega-bestselling author Dean Koontz's highly successful novels continue to sell at a phenomenal rate, with total sales worldwide of more than 125 million copies. His newest book, Strange Highways, guarantees the same thrilling suspense which Koontz fans have come to expect. The Hideaway is now a major film from Tristar, starring Jeff Goldblum and Christine Lahti.

"An extraordinary first-ever collection of two complete novels, plus a compilation of twelve novelettes and short stories. You are about to travel along the strange highways of human experience: the adventures and terrors and failures and triumphs that we know as we make our way from birth to death, along the routes that we choose for ourselves and along with others onto which we are detoured by fate"--Front jacket flap Two novels, plus novellas and short stories. In Chase, a killer stalks couples in a lovers' lane, in Down in the darkness, a Vietnam War veteran revenges himself on the man who tortured him, while The Night of the storm is on a world ruled by robots