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Dean Koontz was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Bedford. He won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition when he was twenty and has been writing ever since. Mr. Koontz's books are published in 38 languages. Worldwide sales total more than 175 million copies, a figure that currently increases at a rate of more than 350 million copies a year. Dean and his wife, Gerda, live in southern California.

It was a scary read, that is for sure. I dons’t think I had as many f-ed up dreams as I did when I was reading this novel, Phantoms by Dean Koontz. The entire thing was creepy. A doctor and her younger sister (which, due to an age gap, dono’t know each other very well but don=’t have anyone else left) stumble upon a series of strange deaths. On top of that, the once busy town is deserted.

There is also an awful lot to dislike about the movie: like how everybody's character is written so thin (for the movie). Not that these folks are two dimensional. In fact, with the exception of Peter O'Toole (HIGH SPIRITS), who plays Peter O'Toole as a disenchanted British ex-Professor (huh! Imagine that!), everybody else at least appears to have some depth. As if the actors were capable of it, but the script (also by Koontz) and director didn't give them the opportunity. The director of PHANTOMS is Joe Chappelle. A name you'll recognize if you were unfortunate enough to see HALLOWEEN 4: The Return Of Michael Myers, or if you saw HELLRAISER IV: Bloodline. Believe me when I say that PHANTOMS is Joe's best movie yet. Go Joe!

If there's one thing that severely handicaps Phantoms, and has probably led to its critical downfall, is the lowering of its characters ages to a suspiciously youthful median. Koontz's characters tend to be defined by a major trauma lurking in their past - a trauma which, by dealing with the events that form the arc of the story, the characters finally overcome (or at least begin the healing process). Affleck and Going both seem far too young to occupy their current professional positions, Affleck especially as he is supposed to be a former FBI agent who accidentally killed a boy in a raid; the actor seems hardly old enough to have finished college, much less the stringent training of a Federal agent and had time enough in the field to have screwed up so mightily and gotten elected Sheriff in the aftermath.

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