His birth was marked by wonder and tragedy.

He sees beauty and terror beyond our deepest dreams.

His story will change the way you see the world.

On the heels of his #1 bestseller False Memory, Dean Koontz brings together his most compelling themes and an unforgettable cast of characters to create what is perhaps the most thrilling and emotionally powerful work of his critically acclaimed career.

Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him.

At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every person's life has an effect on every other person's, in often unknowable ways.

At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with others results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure.

Hilary Thomas, a screenwriter scarred by abuse suffered in childhood, and Tony Clemenza, an ace cop and would-be artist, plunge into a love affair while pursuing the psychopath who had brutally assaulted Hilary. Reissue.

Three novels by the popular horror writer explore themes of death, memory, and psychic phenomena, in an omnibus edition that includes Cold Fire, The Key to Midnight, and Hideaway.

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Nessuno conosce l'identità del serial killer, detto 'il macellaio', che terrorizza New York: solo un uomo, un sensitivo, dichiara in una trasmissione televisiva di essere sulle tracce del mostro. E' l'inizio di un incubo.

La giovane Susan ha conosciuto il volto della paura dentro la sinistra caverna battezzata 'la casa del tuono', quando un gruppo di ragazzi affiliati a una confraternita universitaria ha massacrato selvaggiamente il suo fidanzato. Da allora molti anni sono passati e il destino sembra aver fatto giustizia dei colpevoli. Ma d'improvviso l'equilibrio che Susan si è faticosamente ricostruita in tanto tempo, diventando una scienziata di successo, sembra sgretolarsi di fronte a un'inaccettabile realtà. Chi è morto può tornare?

Joanna ha lasciato l'America da tempo e ora canta in un elegante locale giapponese. Bella e affascinante, è tuttavia inquieta, tormentata da un incubo ricorrente: un uomo dalle dita d'acciaio che brandisce una siringa. Alex vorrebbe aiutarla, convinto di avere riconosciuto in lei la figlia di un senatore, scomparsa dieci anni prima. Con dolcezza, a poco a poco induce Joanna a prendere coscienza di una sconvolgente realtà: lei non è quella che crede di essere, qualcuno ha manipolato la sua mente, i suoi ricordi.

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.

Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive—until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl…as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.

Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside.

That night Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll's heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan's reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he can't destroy. It wants Tommy's life, and he doesn't know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chance—or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommy's computer screen:

The deadline is dawn.

Ticktock

Time is running out.

A secret Arctic experiment turns into a frozen nightmare when a team of scientists, stranded on a drifting iceberg with a massive explosive charge, battles the elements for survival, only to discover that one of them is a murderer. Reissue.

There are no rules in the dark, no place to feel safe, no escape from the shadows. But to save the day, you must...Seize the Night.

At no time does Moonlight Bay look more beautiful than at night. Yet it is precisely then that the secluded little town reveals its menace. Now children are disappearing. From their homes. From the streets. And there's nothing their families can do about it. Because in Moonlight Bay, the police work their hardest to conceal crimes and silence victims. No matter what happens in the night, their job is to ensure that nothing disturbs the peace and quiet of Moonlight Bay....

Christopher Snow isn't afraid of the dark. Forced to live in the shadows because of a rare genetic disorder, he knows the night world better than anyone. He believes the lost children are still alive and that their disappearance is connected to the town's most carefully kept, most ominous secret—a secret only he can uncover, a secret that will force him to confront an adversary at one with the most dangerous darkness of all. The darkness inside the human heart.

In una fredda serata di pioggia, il famoso autore di gialli Martin Stillwater rientrando a casa si trova di fronte ad un uomo identico a lui! L'intruso gli intima di restituirgli la sua vita, accampando diritti persino sulla moglie e sulle figlie. Martin, credendo di avere a che fare con un proprio sosia psicopatico, gli spara, ma neanche le pallottole riescono a fermare lo sconosciuto, che si nutre dei pensieri dello scrittore e comincia a perseguitarlo. Non resta che la fuga, fino alla drammatica, imprevedibile, resa dei conti.

A ventinove anni, dopo un'infanzia e una adolescenza difficili, la bella e intelligente Hilary Thomas è arrivata al successo. Ma quando viene aggredita nella sua lussuosa villa di Beverly Hills da un maniaco omicida, i peggiori incubi del passato sembrano rimaterializzarsi. Non basterà fuggire, non basterà lottare, nemmeno ucciderlo: lui tornerà, più forte della morte, a ossessionarla, costringendola a scavare disperatamente nei segreti sepolti per scoprire una realtà allucinante.

Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)—a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, cannot sit at a computer. Chris's natural element is the night, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in Moonlight Bay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape his own—roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in the moonlight, exploring while most people sleep.

But Chris's brilliant mother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, and as the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer; Chris's protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris as he is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoon sun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his father tells Chris he is 'sorry' and that Chris should 'fear nothing'—cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to.

Steven Snow's body is removed to the hospital basement for transport to the funeral home/crematorium, and when Chris goes downstairs for a final moment of farewell, he witnesses a frightening and clandestine encounter: the funeral director and another man Chris doesn't recognize are substituting the body of a hitchhiker for Steven Snow's body–which is being taken not to the crematorium but to some secret destination.

For Chris, this scene is the first intimation of a conspiracy that he will come to realize envelopes many of his townspeople. His parents knew of it and wanted to protect Chris from it. His best friend has had hints of something wrong because of the frightening nocturnal visitors that have come to his beachhouse. And the first person to try to explain to Chris what's going on—and warn him about the special danger he himself is in—will be hideously murdered.

In the 24 hours this book encompasses, Christopher Snow will find out that, sheltered though he's been, he has the soul of a fighter and an adventurer. By the end of the book he will have killed a man, will have discovered the role his own mother played in the birth of the conspiracy, will have come to recognize the extraordinary guardians that, unknown to him, have watched over him for years. He will realize that some people hate him, others revere him, and neither his own life nor those of anyone he knows will ever be the same.

A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead -- no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.

A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions, she slips away.

Driven now by rage (have the authorities withheld information?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (if there is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find the mysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can reveal what she knows about the crash.

Sole Survivor unfolds at a heart-stopping pace, as a desperate chase and a shattering emotional odyssey lead Joe to a truth that will force him to reassess everything he thought he knew about life and death -- a truth that, given the chance, will rock the world and redefine the destiny of humanity.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Colin e Alex stanno attraversando gli Stati Uniti in automobile e per gioco immaginano che il furgone dietro di loro sia guidato da un agente dell'FBI. Ma il loro innocente divertimento si tramuta in una sottile inquietudine. L'inseguitore misterioso sembra farsi più aggressivo nella sua caccia implacabile...

Ellen guarda la culla e trema... Il suo figlioletto, un bambino avuto da Conrad Straker, padrone del Tunnel dell'orrore di uno dei Luna Park più grandi d'America, sta respirando e squittendo... si agita... vuole scendere dalla culla. Ellen si chiede perché la sorte ha dovuto colpirla in quel modo, perché il destino le ha mandato un figlio così mostruoso nella forma e nella mente, un figlio che... vuole ucciderla. E questo è solo l'inizio... Fuggita dal Luna Park, inseguita dalla maledizione e dalla minaccia di un marito sadico, Ellen vivrà un incubo interminabile, perseguitata dall'immagine di quel figlio mostruoso, e in quell'incubo resteranno coinvolte le persone che lei più ama, vittime ignare di una persecuzione feroce e spietata.

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)

Vacationing with old friend Sam Edison, Paul Annendale stumbles upons a bizarre plot by mad genius Ogden Salsburh and his moneyed and military cohorts to seize control of the world through mastery of people's minds and behavior. Reissue.

Un Luna Park fa da sfondo a un'agghiacciante vendetta che Conrad insegue da anni. Infatti trent'anni prima sua moglie Ellen aveva ucciso il suo unico figlio solo perché era un 'freak'. Ora lei ha una nuova vita e due splendidi figli...

Driving from Philadelphia to San Francisco, to join his fiancee, Courtney, Alex is followed by someone who also wants to see Courtney, who knows Alex's exact route, and who wants Alex dead