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Phantoms is a horror novel by American writer Dean Koontz, first published in 1983. The story is a version [ 1 ] [ 2 ] of the now-debunked [ 3 ] urban legend [ 4 ] involving a village mysteriously vanishing at Angikuni Lake .
"A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village" (1972; in Again, Dangerous Visions; in the original Afterword, Koontz mentions having written Hung,"set in the hippie subculture of a small university", [4] which tried to show that Marshall McLuhan's concept of the global village was "on the right track" and that "our world was already being ...
In his spare time, Koontz wrote his first novel, Star Quest, which was published in 1968. Koontz went on to write over a dozen science fiction novels. Seeing the Catholic faith as a contrast to the chaos in his family, Koontz converted in college because faith provided existential answers for life; he admired Catholicism's "intellectual rigor ...
Phantoms is a 1998 American science fiction horror film directed by Joe Chappelle and starring Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, and Clifton Powell. The screenplay was adapted by Dean Koontz from his own 1983 novel of the same name .
A series of low-budget horror films was loosely based on the book. Watchers; Watchers II; Watchers III; Watchers Reborn; In the film adaptation Travis is a sixteen-year-old boy, and Nora is his mother. The Outsider is renamed OXCOM, and Vince Nasco is replaced by NSO agents searching for the monster.
What: Bestselling author Dean Koontz joins the L.A. Times Book Club to discuss “The Bad Weather Friend” with Times assistant managing editor Samantha Melbourneweaver. When: 1 p.m. Pacific Jan. 28
Odd Thomas is a thriller novel by American writer Dean Koontz, published in 2003. The novel derives its title from the protagonist, a 20-year-old short-order cook named Odd Thomas. The book, well received and lauded by critics, went on to become a New York Times Bestseller.
Phantom (Sword of Truth), a 2006 novel by Terry Goodkind; Phantom, a 2009 short story anthology edited by Paul Tremblay and Sean Wallace; Phantom (Nesbø novel), a 2012 novel by Jo Nesbø; Phantoms, a 1983 novel by Dean Koontz; The Last Vampire 4: Phantom, a 1996 novel by Christopher Pike, the fourth installment in The Last Vampire series