Three Complete Novels (The Servants of Twilight / Darkfall / Phantoms) [Hardcover]

Dean R. Koontz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 27, 1991

For the first time ever, three bestselling Dean Koontz novels—The Servants of Twilight, Darkfall, Phantoms—are available in hardcover and complete in this single volume. Koontz's novels are spine-chilling and terrifying stories about ordinary people caught in nightmarish situations. Although Dean Koontz writes about the "dark side," the endings to his fast-paced, stay-up-all-night reads always show the forces of good prevailing. But it's what happens between the covers of the book and in the imaginations of the readers that has earned Dean Koontz his position at the top of bestseller lists across the country. When you begin a Dean Koontz novel, you're never sure where he's going to take you...
The Servants of Twilight
A mother and son are approached by an old lady in a southern California parking lot. It's a chance encounter that erupts into a nightmare of terror as a mother strives to protect her only child when he is threatened again and again...
Darkfall
In a city, paralyzed by a blizzard, something watches, something stalks, and the clock is ticking...A fast-paced twisting story with one of the most frightening chase scenes ever.
Phantom
The found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, three hundred fifty missing. But the terror had only begun in a tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.

These three masterful novels of suspense are guaranteed to keep you reading until you turn the last page. There's no going back once you begin a Dean Koontz novel...

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Be prepared for spine-tingling overload, as three of Dean R. Koontz's scariest stories are combined into one terrifying edition. Complete and unabridged, the three novels incorporate the essential elements of a Koontz classic: ordinary people living uneventful lives suddenly flung into a supernatural web of ghoulish horror. The Servants of Twilight pits a devoted mother against a bizarre cult intent on harming her son. Who will triumph in this tale of good versus evil? Don't be tempted to turn to the final page of this delightful yet horrific story! Darkfall plays with a fundamental human fear--that of being watched and stalked by an unknown force. This is pure, unadulterated, heart-stopping terror--nothing subtle about it. "Part of him wanted to see it, had to see it, needed to know what in God's name it was. But another part of him, sensing the extreme monstrousness of it, was grateful for darkness." Read at your peril. Koontz's third novel in the collection is Phantoms, which places the reader in a small California town, a place of swollen corpses and missing persons. Here people die "in the middle of a scream." But how they died, and why so many more are missing is just the beginning of this morbid mystery. Dean R. Koontz: Three Complete Novels is not for the faint of heart! --Naomi Gesinger

Product Details

• Hardcover: 752 pages
• Publisher: Wings; First Edition edition (July 27, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0517064871
• ISBN-13: 978-0517064870
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #747,613 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born and raised in Pennsylvania where I graduated from Shippensburg State College (now Shippensburg University). When I was a senior in college, I won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition and have been writing ever since. My first job after graduation was with the Appalachian Poverty Program, where I was expected to counsel and tutor underprivileged children on a one-to-one basis. During my first day on the job, I discovered that the previous occupier of my position had been beaten up by the very kids he had been trying to help and had landed in the hospital for several weeks. The following year was filled with challenge but also tension, and I was more highly motivated than ever to build a career as a writer. I wrote nights and weekends, which I continued to do after leaving the poverty program and going to work as an English teacher in a suburban school district outside Harrisburg. After a year and a half in that position, my wife, Gerda, made me an offer I couldn't refuse: "I'll support you for five years," she said, "and if you can't make it as a writer in that time, you'll never make it." By the end of those five years, Gerda had quit her job to run the business end of my writing career. Gerda and I, along with our dog, Trixie, live in southern California.

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13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well recommended, January 26, 2000

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This review is from: Three Complete Novels (The Servants of Twilight / Darkfall / Phantoms) (Hardcover)

This was one of the first koontzs books I bought, I still have not read Darkfall, but I hope to get round to it before long. The other two novels are excellent, with Phantoms being in my opinion the authors best book. The Servants of Twilight is also very good - it keeps you guessing until the end. Although I loved Phantoms I think it gave Dean a reputation as being a "horror novelist" which is untrue - all of his books are mystery thrillers, with an unusual element. He and King are so different they can't be compared. The only real horror books that he wrote were Phantoms, Darkfall, ticktock and maybe Watchers. For the most part books like Whispers, The Face of Fear, The Vision, The Voice of the night, Intensity, etc are murder, mystery and suspense basically. He is so much better than either Harris or Cornwell at writing these kind of books. My advice is buy his books NOW!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All 3 are outstanding!, June 11, 1998

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This review is from: Three Complete Novels (The Servants of Twilight / Darkfall / Phantoms) (Hardcover)

I read these 3 novels in 3 days, while I was on vacation (no kidding)! Each of these masterful tales is superb in its own right. What a great bargain! Buy it...you won't be disappointed.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Three terrific books, September 7, 2005

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This review is from: Three Complete Novels (The Servants of Twilight / Darkfall / Phantoms) (Hardcover)

Wow, Phantoms, Darkfall, and The Servants Of Twilight all in one! I've read 23 Dean Koontz book so far and I can tell you that these are all five star books.

PHANTOMS is about a deserted town in the mountains where a woman and her teenage sister arrive to find most of the residents either missing or brutally murdered-even in locked rooms.

DARKFALL is about a man named Baba Lavelle out for revenge who is using voodoo to terrorize a man named Jack Dawson by sending goblin-like creatures after his two children. It's pretty intense with the things crawling through the air ducts and chasing after the family relentlessly.

THE SERVANTS OF TWILIGHT is about a cult lead by a crazy old woman named Grace Spivey who is convinced that a six year old boy named Joey is the anti-christ. The family and the private eye struggling to protect them are terrorized and sent on the run, and their lives will never be the same. But wherever they go, Grave and her followers always find them....

You really can't go wrong with this set. I suggest you buy this collection, and then read:

Intensity
Watchers
Whispers
Hideaway
False Memory
Twilight Eyes