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One wrong turn changes everything…
Strange Highways is a brilliant collection of dark and suspense-filled short stories from the international bestselling author Dean Koontz. Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Richard Laymon.
One rain-swept Sunday night when he was twenty years old, on his way back to college after a weekend with his family, Joey Shannon took the wrong highway – and from that moment, nothing ever went right for him again.
Now, exactly twenty years later, on another rain-swept night, Joey finds himself at the same crossroads, looking down the road never taken. Which is odd. Because that road no longer exists. A superhighway replaced it nearly twenty years ago, and the old state route – which had crossed a web of perpetually burning, abandoned coal mines – was condemned as too dangerous and was torn up. But now the highway is exactly as it was on that long-ago night, and when Joey turns on to it, he begins an eerie, terrifying journey toward a truth so dark and stunning that it will change everything he believes about himself, his past, and the nature of life…
The first of thirteen short stories sets the pace for a thrilling read.
What readers are saying about Strange Highways:
‘One of the most thought provoking, terrifying yet enjoyable books I have ever read‘
‘Each story is as compelling and equally disturbing as the next’
‘Great stories from when Dean Koontz was at the peak of his powers. There’s suspense, horror, and a great atmosphere of something nasty lurking in the cubby holes of your mind’
Strange Highways is a brilliant collection of dark and suspense-filled short stories from the international bestselling author Dean Koontz. Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Richard Laymon.
One rain-swept Sunday night when he was twenty years old, on his way back to college after a weekend with his family, Joey Shannon took the wrong highway – and from that moment, nothing ever went right for him again.
Now, exactly twenty years later, on another rain-swept night, Joey finds himself at the same crossroads, looking down the road never taken. Which is odd. Because that road no longer exists. A superhighway replaced it nearly twenty years ago, and the old state route – which had crossed a web of perpetually burning, abandoned coal mines – was condemned as too dangerous and was torn up. But now the highway is exactly as it was on that long-ago night, and when Joey turns on to it, he begins an eerie, terrifying journey toward a truth so dark and stunning that it will change everything he believes about himself, his past, and the nature of life…
The first of thirteen short stories sets the pace for a thrilling read.
What readers are saying about Strange Highways:
‘One of the most thought provoking, terrifying yet enjoyable books I have ever read‘
‘Each story is as compelling and equally disturbing as the next’
‘Great stories from when Dean Koontz was at the peak of his powers. There’s suspense, horror, and a great atmosphere of something nasty lurking in the cubby holes of your mind’
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Reviews
Dean Koontz has always boldly gone where no other fiction writer has even considered going before. As ever, the writing is fluid, the dynamic taut and the relationships between characters compulsive
Koontz's art is making the reader believe the impossible... sit back and enjoy it
Dean Koontz is a prose stylist whose lyricism heightens malevolence and tension. [He creates] characters of unusual richness and depth
Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose.... 'Serious' writers... might do well to examine his technique
Lyrical writing and compelling characters... Koontz stands alone
In every industry there exist 'artists' that are not only unforgettable, but know their craft better than the rest. Dean Koontz... is among these artisans
[Koontz] has always had near-Dickensian powers of description, and an ability to yank us from one page to the next that few novelists can match
Perhaps more than any other author, Koontz writes fiction perfectly suited to the mood of America... novels that acknowledge the reality and tenacity of evil but also the power of good... [and that] entertain vastly as they uplift