By Dean Koontz
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Welcome to the Pendleton. outfitted as a tycoon’s dream domestic within the Eighteen Eighties and switched over to luxurious condominiums no longer rather a century later, the Gilded Age palace on the summit of Shadow Hill is a sanctuary for its lucky citizens. Scant lines stay of the episodes of insanity, suicide, mass murder—and whispers of items some distance worse—that have scarred its grandeur nearly from the beginning.
yet now inexplicable shadows caper throughout partitions, defense cameras relay most unlikely photographs, phantom voices mutter in unusual tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk within the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths. With every one passing hour a terrifying walk in the park grows: no matter what drove the Pendleton’s earlier occupants to their unspeakable fates is at paintings back. And as nightmare visions turn into genuine, as a dangerous tide starts to engulf them, the folk at seventy seven Shadow highway will locate the most important to humanity’s destiny . . . in the event that they can continue to exist to exploit it.
Includes the bonus novella The Moonlit Mind—first time in print
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