Strange Highways, Dean Koontz
Strange Highways, Dean Koontz
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Strange Highways

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: Dean Koontz

Unabridged: 6 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/11/2014

Synopsis

Joey Shannon, an alcoholic whose life has been going nowhere for 20 years, returns to his hometown for the funeral of his father. As he leaves town, he gets a mysterious second chance to relive the night in 1975 when his life began its downward spiral: to both literally and figuratively take the road that he didn't originally take. On this road he is supremely tested by conflict with his successful and charismatic older brother P.J., by conflict between his cynicism and his lost faith, and by conflict between the ultimate good and evil.

About Dean Koontz

Author Dean Koontz was born in Everett Pennsylvania in 1945. He has used various Pen names such as, Aaron Wolfe, Brian Coffey, David Axton, Deanna Dwyer, John Hill, K.R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Anthony North, Owen West and Richard Paige. His accomplished occupations include novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and poet. Most people were not aware of his many Pen names and various talents in literature besides novelist. Koontz genres of choice are suspense, horror and science fiction thrillers. He has had 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks making it to #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list. According to the Dean Kootnz official website, he has sold more than 450 million copies of his books.

A little known fact about Dean Koontz is that he had hair transplantation in the late intos. Many of his novels are set in or around Orange County, California where he lives with his wife Gerda, in Newport Coast in an estate named Pelican Hills. His reported annual salary is $25 million.1990

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alejandro on June 06, 2016

A strong and solid, horror anthology! The general rating is an average sum result of the individual ratings given to each novella and short story contained in the anthology. All stories in this anthology are written by Dean Koontz. STRANGE HIGHWAYS (novella) Rating: ***** ( 5 stars ) …how can......more

Goodreads review by John on May 11, 2023

Thirteen enjoyable short stories. Strange Highways Two brothers and a time travel element. Joey has a chance to change his life from failure to success. First he must stop a serial killer who is close to home and seemingly the perfect all American boy. The Black Pumpkin where Tommy’s nasty brother a......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on August 18, 2010

Yes! A 5 for a Koontz book! I really liked this odd little story. Okay rereading for the Koontz group...I'll probably do a more extensive review after the discussion. Originally I listened to an audio which had only the "title-title"...:). So now I have the book from the library and while I don't th......more

Goodreads review by Craig on July 13, 2022

I think it's bemusing that Strange Highways remains only the second collection of Koontz's short fiction. The first was Soft Come the Dragons, an excellent book, and it appeared very early in his career, in 1970, as half of an Ace Double, backed by his novel Dark of the Woods. Strange Highways inclu......more

Goodreads review by Dustin the wind Crazy little brown owl on December 28, 2017

2017 Reading - I found each of the stories curious and worth reading. Chase is the last short story in this volume, and the last one I completed reading this year - I found it to be excellent. A line I liked from Chase: He wanted to tell Cable to watch his language - but that would mean the end of......more

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