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Twilight Eyes
by Dean Koontz
Well, there's nothing quite like re-reading a favorite book only to discover that it's no longer a favorite...
I honestly think that this book is the reason that I love supernatural horror so much. It's been a favorite for many, many years. Unfortunately the writing is merely average, which is good normally, but I've gotten so spoiled on Koontz's later writing that average wasn't quite good enough this time. It's really amazing to see how much his writing has changed over the years. The things that I think of as trademarks are completely absent in this book. Mainly it's humor and hope that is missing. And without humor and hope Koontz is just another author to me. Albeit one who writes some totally cool and terrifying stories. But it's the humor and hope that gives Koontz "Favorite Author" status in my mind. Anyway, it's still actually a good story.
At the start of this book we have a 17 year old boy named Slim sneaking into a carnival in the dead of night (couldn't resist saying that), intending to get some sleep and try to join up the following day. He's been on the run for six months because he killed his uncle who was systematically murdering Slim's extended family. His uncle was what Slim calls a "goblin" . Goblins are creatures that can mask themselves as human but live to rain pain, destruction, and despair down on humans.
He makes friends at the carnival - and actually, he's attacked by a zombie goblin at one point. I haven't seen that one before. So he makes friends at the carnival and falls madly in love with Rya Raines. Unfortunately, with his psychic mojo, he can also tell that there's going to be a goblin attack on their ferris wheel. In order to help his new friends he travels into Yontsdown to help grease the wheels for the upcoming carnival stop. In Yontsdown he finds a terrifying number of goblins and comes to realize that they're more organized than he realized.
The attempt at a sci-fi explanation didn't work for me so I shall forever consider this to be supernatural fantasy horror, my favorite theme. Despite the demotion from my favorites shelf, this is actually a first rate tale and is entirely responsible for my love of supernatural horror stories. I've read it many times and I'll read it many more.
I honestly think that this book is the reason that I love supernatural horror so much. It's been a favorite for many, many years. Unfortunately the writing is merely average, which is good normally, but I've gotten so spoiled on Koontz's later writing that average wasn't quite good enough this time. It's really amazing to see how much his writing has changed over the years. The things that I think of as trademarks are completely absent in this book. Mainly it's humor and hope that is missing. And without humor and hope Koontz is just another author to me. Albeit one who writes some totally cool and terrifying stories. But it's the humor and hope that gives Koontz "Favorite Author" status in my mind. Anyway, it's still actually a good story.
At the start of this book we have a 17 year old boy named Slim sneaking into a carnival in the dead of night (couldn't resist saying that), intending to get some sleep and try to join up the following day. He's been on the run for six months because he killed his uncle who was systematically murdering Slim's extended family. His uncle was what Slim calls a "goblin" . Goblins are creatures that can mask themselves as human but live to rain pain, destruction, and despair down on humans.
He makes friends at the carnival - and actually, he's attacked by a zombie goblin at one point. I haven't seen that one before. So he makes friends at the carnival and falls madly in love with Rya Raines. Unfortunately, with his psychic mojo, he can also tell that there's going to be a goblin attack on their ferris wheel. In order to help his new friends he travels into Yontsdown to help grease the wheels for the upcoming carnival stop. In Yontsdown he finds a terrifying number of goblins and comes to realize that they're more organized than he realized.
The attempt at a sci-fi explanation didn't work for me so I shall forever consider this to be supernatural fantasy horror, my favorite theme. Despite the demotion from my favorites shelf, this is actually a first rate tale and is entirely responsible for my love of supernatural horror stories. I've read it many times and I'll read it many more.