77 Shadow Street
I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground...
The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill at the highest point of an old heartland city, a Gilded Age palace
built in the late 1800s as a tycoon’s dream home. Almost from the
beginning, its grandeur has been scarred by episodes of madness,
suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse. But since its
rechristening in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building, the Pendleton has been at peace. For its fortunate residents — among them a successful
songwriter and her young son, a disgraced ex-senator, a widowed
attorney, and a driven money manager — the Pendleton’s magnificent
quarters are a sanctuary, its dark past all but forgotten.
But
now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay
impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues,
not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into
unknown depths. With each passing hour, a terrifying certainty grows:
Whatever drove the Pendleton’s past occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again. Soon, all those within its boundaries will be
engulfed by a dark tide from which few have escaped.
Dean Koontz transcends all expectations as he takes readers on a gripping journey
to a place where nightmare visions become real — and where a group of
singular individuals hold the key to humanity’s destiny. Welcome to 77
Shadow Street.
Dean Koontz
Acknowledged as "America's most popular suspense novelist" (Rolling Stone) and as one of today's most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Ray Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human.
Dean, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirit of their goldens, Trixie and Anna.