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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780425098646
ISBN number: 0425098648
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: September 15, 1986
Publishing house: Berkley
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When a strange disease escapes from a scientific lab as a result of a deadly conspiracy, the citizens of Black River are overcome by its unusual symptom, a night chill that causes them to perform unspeakable acts. Reissue.
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Normally I would not have picked up this book [I AM THE KEY][I AM THE LOCK].[PICK UP THE BOOK!] But, I had this overwhelming compulsion. So, here I am, there IT is and [READ THE BOOK!] I began reading the book. I must read the book. I will die if I don't read the book.
Anyway, I don't know what overcame me [I AM THE KEY][I AM THE LOCK]. But, I finally [FINISH THE BOOK] finished the book.
I didn't think it was ALL that great [I AM THE KEY][I AM THE LOCK]. But, then again [WRITE A GREAT REVIEW] I think it is the greatest book I have every read. [GOOD, THANK YOU].
The book is about a diabolical trio of men who work to perfect a means of subliminal control. [I AM THE KEY][I AM THE LOCK] They begin, as a test, to take over the little burg of Black River [DON'T SAY ANYMORE ABOUT BLACK RIVER].
In the end the good guys prevail, [I AM THE KEY][I AM THE LOCK] But, for an early Koontz novel it was pretty darn good [SAY NO MORE].....
Densel Myers
Yukon, Oklahoma
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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3BC29I51KHT15 Dean Koontz's Night Chills is a wildly implausible thriller about a small town in Maine, subjected to subliminal mind control at the hands of three corrupt pseudo-military scientists working privately to take over the world.
The thing I love about this book, as in a lot of early Koontz, is how sincere the terror in the novel is. Published originally in 1976, the concept underlying the story - subliminal mind control - was more topical and plausible then, and what works well about the story even yesterday is how clearly drawn the good guys and bad guys are.
This is early Koontz a few years before he'd reached bestseller status, and he writes with a kind of hunger and ambition that really makes the story move.
If you're looking for a lean thriller and don't care too much about character development or a story's plausibility, Night Chills is a terrific read.
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Night Chills was the very first Dean Koontz book I ever read. I read it when it was very first published in paperback in the mid seventies. After reading it I was hooked and have been a fan ever since.
The book seemed to confirm the general theme of Big Brother messing with our minds, trying to control the population by hook or crook, etc. I remember thinking that it was indeed a "horror" story just because it was within the realm of possibility.
If you want something that is creepy but not a "slasher, gory, monster" thing, I recommend this book. It is unsettling even now and a really good read!
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Night chills gave me NIGHTMARES and I'm not joking. I read this book some 20 or more years after it was written and I found it strikingly relevant to the times even then. I'm not a conspiracy theorist and don't honestly spend a lot of my day pondering whether or not I should wear a tin foil hat to block the government's secret satellites from shooting x-rays into my skull. But I do often think of the mind control theories put forth in this book and about how plausible it was presented even amid the back drop of such obvious fiction.
The thing about Koontz is that he weaves characters that draw you in. Once you're sucked into their life, once you take them into your heart, you care about what happens to them... so when bad things start to happen to the characters in this book, well, you care.
Koontz is positively masterful and this book is a prime example!
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I'm a big fan of Dean Koontz, and have read nearly all of his fifty or so novels. NIGHT CHILLS is one of Koontz's earliest books, written in the mid-1970s. It's a suspenseful read about mind control, and how a person with the power to control minds can abuse that power.
I enjoyed this novel, but it's a rather unique novel by Koontz standards. The mood of this book is dark, and there are a number of sexually explicit scenes. As time went by, Koontz toned down the sexuality of his books considerably. But this early novel has some rape scenes that are pretty unpleasant, and some readers may be turned off by that. As another reader pointed out, this is Koontz's edgiest novel, and a few libraries even banned it back in the 1970s and 1980s.
Still, this novel is great if you like hard-core horror, and it has a brutal effectiveness that really affected me. This is definitely one of Koontz's better novels, but it is not for the squeamish. If you like Richard Laymon, you will probably want to give this one a try.
If you enjoyed NIGHT CHILLS, you may want to read Koontz's FALSE MEMORY, a superior novel which is essentially a reworking of the same plot.
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