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Spooky Book of the Day: October 25

Posted by Dana on 10.25.2010 at 1:05 pm

I know, I know – if you’re doing spooky, you have to include Dean Koontz.  But here’s the thing people – there are tons of great spooky books out there and tons of well loved spooky book authors… and I can only do one a day… so sue me.  Today, finally… I bring you Dean Koontz:

PRODIGAL SON by Dean Koontz

From the publisher:

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth.

Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death.

He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion’s path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O’Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire “race” of killers who are much more-and less-than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Helios-once known as Frankenstein.

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Spooky Book of the Day: October 10

Posted by Dana on 10.10.2010 at 1:37 pm

We’re going classic monster today with a deluxe edition of FRANKENSTEIN. This one speaks for itself. Or it’s monster speaks for it… or something…

FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley

From the Publisher:
A deluxe edition of Mary Shelley’s haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok.  Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art by “Ghost World” creator Daniel Clowes, Mary Shelley’s timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

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