A Darkness in My Soul [Mass Market Paperback]

Dean R. Koontz (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 124 pages
• Publisher: DAW; 3rd edition (December 21, 1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879972742
• ISBN-13: 978-0879972745
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,038,489 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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3.0 out of 5 stars Okay, it's definetly different!, December 4, 2000

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This review is from: A Darkness in My Soul (Mass Market Paperback)

On the cover it says "The gene-tamperers produced two supermen-one a defiant mentalist, the other a defiant...God?" Makes you want to read it right? I saw it listed on an auction and ordered it right away. Here is my review: This book is 124 pages of strangeness. It is about gene tampering (typical), e.s.p. (typical), and the mysteries of creation (not typical). When I first got it in the mail I was disappointed with the length of the book. Well I shouldn't have been. There isn't much to the story but what is in those 124 pages is enough to boggle the mind and make you say " what the heck?" The "mysteries of creation" part of the book may make some people uncomfortable. I could tell that Koontz was still in the early stages of honing his writing style. It was pure science fiction while I find most Koontz books to be a chilling medley of science fiction and horror. And unlike any of his books from the last 2 decades, this book does not grab you from the beginning by the seat of the pants and keep you flying till the end. If you are a Koontz collector this is a must own as it was published very early in his career (1972). But if you're not a collector........I could recommend better. Here are a few (In the order in which I love them) Must Read Koontz books: Watchers, Dark Rivers of the Heart, Fear Nothing & Seize the Night,Whispers, Shadowfires, Phantoms, and Midnight. I have also heard Twilight Eyes, Lightning, and The Vision are excellent, but I haven't read them.........yet.