Strange Highways and Other Stories, Dean Koontz
Strange Highways and Other Stories, Dean Koontz
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Strange Highways and Other Stories

Author: Dean Koontz

Narrator: Jeff Cummings, Nick Podehl, Dick Hill, Will Damron, Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 22 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/02/2022

Synopsis

14 classic Dean Koontz short stories. One chilling collection.In "Strange Highways," a floundering alcoholic gets a mysterious second chance to relive the night his life began its downward spiral 20 years ago. But on this dark journey, he’ll be supremely tested by conflict with his successful, charismatic older brother, his loss of faith, and the clash between good and the ultimate evil.Sink into this binge-worthy collection of beloved Koontz short stories, featuring denizens of hell, vengeful children, and eerily human-like robots that will send shivers down your spine.“Strange Highways”“The Black Pumpkin”“Miss Attila the Hun”“Down in the Darkness”“Ollie’s Hands”“Snatcher”“Trapped”“Bruno”“We Three”“Hardshell”“Kittens”“The Night of the Storm”“Twilight of the Dawn”“Chase”

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 Kimberly

Although this collection of short stories is as wonderful as expected, or that I found myself invested in several of them to the point of unconsciousness to the real world, and that Dean Koontz is a wonderful writer, there were one or two that missed the mark for me. Wow! That was hard to say. I wil......more

Goodreads review by Fred

I enjoy the "Super Ks" - King and Koontz - both have great imaginations and tremendous writing skills. Think I give the edge to King in the short story category, he has had some good enough to be made into films, think "Stand By Me" and "The Shawshank Redemption" but I think Koontz has the edge in p......more

Goodreads review by Tammy davis

A wonderful anthology by the best These stories run the gamut from disturbing to inspiring. Koontz prose is almost hallucinatory in it's depth, three dimensional, he brings you into a world layered with mystery and the very magic that is the life of every one of us. You will really enjoy this one. Do......more

Goodreads review by David

Fourteen short stories for a Dean Koontz fix. Twenty-two and thirty minutes of short stories from Dean Koontz narrated by Jeff Cummings, Nick Podekl, Dick Hill, Will Damron, and Tanya Eby makes for several days of enjoyment as you listen to the fourteen stories making up this audiobook. While I enjoy......more

Goodreads review by stephen s. applegate

The short story isn't dead! This collection of short stories was more enjoyable than some of the author's full-size novels, because there were so many different, sometimes shocking, original ideas at the foundation of most of them. The stories illustrated the author's wide ranging creative variety th......more

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