#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Welcome to the Pendleton. Built as a tycoon’s dream home in the 1880s and converted to luxury condominiums not quite a century later, the Gilded Age palace at the summit of Shadow Hill is a sanctuary for its fortunate residents. Scant traces remain of the episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder—and whispers of things far worse—that have scarred its grandeur … have scarred its grandeur almost from the beginning.
But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths. With each passing hour a terrifying certainty grows: Whatever drove the Pendleton’s past occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again. And as nightmare visions become real, as a deadly tide begins to engulf them, the people at 77 Shadow Street will find the key to humanity’s future . . . if they can survive to use it.
Includes the bonus novella The Moonlit Mind and an excerpt from Dean Koontz’s The City.
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Great build-up and introduction to the characters. Nothing about it was predictable and I’m a huge fan of Koonz. The ending left me with a sigh of relief that most of my favorite characters made it, though not all.
This book was okay. It got a bit gory towards the end and I didn’t care for that.
Amazing!
Dean Loonyz is a Master!
Very science fiction… but great and so awesomely crazy, in a crazy way. Very descriptive, so much so that I can get some of the images from this story out of my head and I read a few years ago.
It wasn’t my favorite of his books. Just ok
Too much rehashing.
Half way thru the book Koontz was still adding more characters. Not counting the ones from a parrallel universe I lost count after 22. Very complicated. Eventually, he pulls it all together, but it was a difficult book to get into. I put it down once and wasn’t going to read it, but decided to give it another chance and finally got thru it. Definitely not his better work.