Winter moon

by Dean R. Koontz

Paper Book, 1994

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Genres

Publication

New York : Bantam Books, 2001, c1994.

Description

Fiction. Horror. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:"Koontz is brilliant in the creation of his characters and in building tension." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES In Los Angeles, a hot Hollywood director, high on PCP, turns a city street into a fiery apocalypse. Heroic LAPD officer Jac McGarvey is badly wounded and will not walk for months. His wife and his child are left to fend for themselves against both criminals that control an increasingly violent city and the dead director's cult of fanatic fans. In a lonely corner of Montana, Eduardo Fernandez, the father of McGarvey's murdered partner, witnesses a strange nocturnal sight. The stand of pines outside his house suddenly glows with eerie amber light, and Fernandez senses a watcher in the winter woods. As the seasons change, the very creatures of the forest seem in league with a mysterious presence. Fernandez is caught up in a series of chilling incidents that escalate toward a confronation that could rob him of his sanity or his life�??or both. As events careen out of control, the McGarvey family is drawn to Fernandez's Montana ranch. In that isolated place they discover their destiny in a terrifying and fiercely suspenseful encounter with a hostile, utterly ruthless, and enigmatic enemy, from which neither the living nor the dead are safe. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Fantasma

A good book, enjoyable and keeping you curious to know what will happen next.

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LibraryThing member unrequitedlibrarian

Tone of language: Intense, agitated, focused inward
Plot twists: Gradually one improbable explanation emerges
Characters: They resist sharing their inner feelings
Values: Courage, derived from the urge to protect others
Pace: Maddening, drawn-out suspense
Background Research: Handguns
Sexuality: Normal

husband and wife familiarity
Ending: People can survive trauma, changed but okay
Offensive to any group: Animal rights activists
Target Audience: Everyone

Flaws: Layout of the house is unclear; alien creature is too easily killed

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LibraryThing member andyray

Sooner or later, I'll learn not to pick up a Dean Koontz novel unless I'm committed to read straight through it in my lazy, slow way. This tale of people you would like to get to know could have been stretched out to 600 or 700 pages, and would be by some other writer, but Koontz manages to make

you live in the novel's world and see EVERYTHING, especially the dark force monster. I kind of wanted to see the dark force monster win, though, the kid survive, and another book build on that.

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LibraryThing member amacmillen

Jack Mcgarvey and his family find themselves confronted with a dark shadowy monster alien from space. They become posed by it as it tries to take over their bodies. In the end they return to their home in LA from the Montana farm they have inherited.

LibraryThing member cave.blogem

I am absolutely certain I have read this, now, since I remember the opening 30 or so pages vividly. But reading the synopses of other readers, I do not remember the rest of the book at all. Koontz seems to have this effect on me a lot. Is there some sort of hypnotic command at the end that makes me

forget the entire plot after I finish the book?

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LibraryThing member MagicDrum

Excellent story. About a cop that gets wounded in L.A. and moves to Montana. Big theme is about how cities have gone to hell.

LibraryThing member tysdad

much darker Koontz than many of his others, but one of the best. It was spooky suspense, but not horror.

LibraryThing member starkravingmad

Weak story of Aliens (in the form of Octopi) with telepathic powers who occupy the Montana ranch of a newly moved in family (Dad, Mom, son) from LA. Aspects of the "Shining" though this is a much inferior work.

LibraryThing member NickHowes

Great storytelling as an LA cop moves his family to an unexpected inheritance, a house deep in the woods, but one besieged by a mysterious enemy. Marked, as usual, by Koontz's great writing, pacing, and an ability to come up with a story unlike his previous work.

LibraryThing member Carol420

I love Dean Koontz's books because you just never know what his rich imagination is going to come up with...but whatever it is it's always a huge surprise. This is one of the scariest books that he's written in all of the years I have had the pleasure of reading his works. Usually there is a

suspenseful story with some horror moments thrown in....this one has a dark undertone with both gory and psychological horror from the start to finish.

The book is actually two stories in parallel... Jack McGarvey, a cop, and his family in Los Angeles, and Eduardo Fernandez...Jack's deceased partner's father who lives on a ranch in Montana. Sometimes these two part stories clash and go off in different directions but Dean Koontz has managed to bring them together clean and neatly into an explosive ending. Anyone that is a fan of horror and the supernatural will want to make friends with not only this book... but the rest of this author's offerings.

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LibraryThing member SumisBooks

This book was "meh". The beginning was pretty good but the ending just dragged on. The climax seemed to last forever. Good plot though. Characters ok. More cops from Mr. Koontz as usual. Good for a casual read.

LibraryThing member aeceyton

I really just couldn't finish this book. The first couple of chapters is just right-wing whining about how 'urban scum' are ruining the world. The writing itself is awful.

LibraryThing member JHemlock

One of Koontz's older books; Originally published under a different title and name. Good Story, typical Koontz. You know where it is going to wind up but regardless...prepare to be shaken up.

LibraryThing member SharonMariaBidwell

Oddly, I had completely forgotten about this book. The premise didn’t ring a bell, and neither did I recollect anything when I began re-reading. I find this surprising, as it’s quite a good story. More purely science-fiction than much of Dean Koontz’s work, which I think of as supernatural

and paranormal thrillers. Perhaps I had forgotten it, because while the first half of the book contains tension, it flows around two separate men with seemingly no connection. One dealing with the adversity of being a cop injured in the line of duty, and the other dealing with a no lesser threat but undeniably strange. It’s in the second half of the book that the tension escalates, ending at a fast pace towards the end. If I have any negatives to add, it’s that although the story is over, the conclusion feels a little rushed after so much tension, which left me feeling a little dropped. I’m also not entirely certain the final decision the family makes felt entirely satisfying to me — I felt that had to be a better compromise. Still, these are small niggles, and I thoroughly recommend this book. Perhaps one to enjoy as a modern twist on the Lovecraft universe.

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