Dean R Koontz

They found four corpses in four days, each more hideous than the last. At first the cops thought they were dealing with a psychopath. Soon they heard eerie sounds in the ventilation system and saw unearthly silver eyes in the snow-slashed night.

After planting 60 explosives in an experiment, a team of scientists finds themselves stranded on an Arctic ice field. With the explosives primed to explode, they also discover an assassin among them.

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. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of Dean Koontz's City of the Night They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios once Frankenstein can stop the engineered killers...

Prodigal son - Tough New Orleans detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, investigate a string of murders, unaware that the culprit they seek was created by Victor Frankenstein, who has survived two hundred years and is populating the city with a new race of "perfect" beings, and that his original creation, Deucalion, is hunting his maker. City of night - Not even Victor Helios -- once Frankenstein -- can stop the engineered killers...

When the death of their creator leaves them without protection, a band of magic living toys must attempt a dangerous journey across the city to another toyshop, while under attack from evil toys serving the Dark One.

Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered....

Deucalion's centuries-old history began as the original manifestation of a soulless vision--and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator, Victor Helios. But first they must face a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have conceived--an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with powers, and a purpose, beyond imagining that threatens to destroy New...

The author's golden retriever explains why she is delighted to be a dog.