Night Chills [Hardcover]

Dean R. Koontz (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1 pages
• Publisher: Anthenium; First Edition edition (1976)
• ISBN-10: 0425151646
• ISBN-13: 978-0425151648
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,318,482 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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mr. Murder and Santa's Evil Twin make quite a pair!, March 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Night Chills (Hardcover)

Mr. Murder is the first Dean Koontz novel I have read and I am now a dedicated fan! He has taken me back to my roots in Orange County. He has shown me all the evil hiding in the shadows that I never knew was there. Makes you wonder just what the powers that be are really capable of, doesn't it? Maintaining the relationship with the wife and little girls in this story in the face of the killers onslaught are interesting. The Santas Twin story was charming and wicked and will be on the Christmas list for my Granddaughters this year!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is probably the greatest colection of stories by Dean !, April 28, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Night Chills (Hardcover)

This is the greatest. I especially loved Mr. Murder, for the ingenious way Dean kept flowing between scenes and personalities until it was almost unbearable. It lent to the overall mystery of the story and toThe Other's (Alfie) origin.
He made the intelligence of Emily acceptable just by linking it to her father's wizardry in writing.

GREAT STORY!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, page after page of goose bumps......................, June 9, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Night Chills (Hardcover)

What would I do without Dean?????? His books are bone chilling. If you are weak of heart don't read. After reading Night Chills and Whispers trying to sleep was useless, visions from his book kept jumping out at me in the dark. He writes with so much intensity that you wonder, could this realy happen? Has it happened?And could it happen to you ??????? I love them