Strange Highways (story collection)
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| Strange Highways | |
| Author | Dean Koontz |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Horror, Suspense |
| Publisher | Cemetery Dance Publications, Warner |
| Publication date | 1995 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback, Paperback) |
Strange Highways is a collection of 11 short stories and two novellas by best-selling American suspense author Dean Koontz, released in 1995.
Cemetery Dance Publications printed a limited edition hardcover of the book (ISBN 1-881475-15-8). It was slipcased and limited to 750 signed and numbered copies.
[edit] Synopsis of short stories and novellas featured in Strange Highways
- "Strange Highways" (novella): a failed author returns to his hometown after many years to attend his father's funeral, only to find himself suddenly and inexplicably thrust back through time to relive a traumatic event from his past.
- "The Black Pumpkin"
- "Miss Attila the Hun"
- "Down in the Darkness"
- "Ollie's Hands": about a young man with extraordinary psychic abilities and his tragic attempt to pursue a relationship with a woman whose life he saves.
- "Snatcher"
- "Trapped": about a woman and her son trying to fend off an attack by giant, mutated rats.
- "Bruno"
- "We Three"
- "Hardshell": a wounded cop stalks a killer through an abandoned warehouse, but there's more to this seemingly stereotypical situation than meets the eye.
- "Kittens": the first short story Koontz ever sold.
- "The Night of the Storm"
- "Twilight of the Dawn": about a devout atheist who finds his lack of faith challenged in the wake of his son's painful death from cancer.
- "Chase" (novella):
[edit] References
Link to limited version on Cemetery Dance Publication's webpage
