Book Review
Elijah Piepkow
Phantoms by Dean Koontz is a great book. Koontz always seems to find a way to keep you holding his books until you pass out. Phantoms starts off with Dr. Jennifer Paige driving her little sister up to the remote mountains in Snowfield, where Jennifer lives.
The thing about Koontz is his superb way at using imagery throughout the whole book. He even finds use of a long boring drive up to the mountains in the first few pages. “The trees- pine, fir, spruce- looked as if they had been fashioned from the same felt that covered billiard tables”(Koontz pg.10). Then, just as soon as they get to the mountains things get suspicious. Even though this place is basically a ghost town out of ski season, there is no one walking down the street and there is an eerie silence.
They reach Jennifer’s office/house and call the maid with no reply and there was no note saying that she had left. Jennifer’s little sister walks around the isle in the kitchen and makes a horrendous discovery, Hilda Beck (the maid) was dead. The scene was odd, she had signs of being dead for days; however, the food on the countertop was still warm. There was no sign of resistance and it seemed as if it had happened quickly as she was in mid-scream when she had died.
They leave to tell the deputy, but they find him in the same state. They walk around the small town to find that the residents are like this or missing. Well, all except for the owners of the bakery. Jennifer and Lisa (her sister) walk into the bakery and find a very gruesome scene. A pair of dismembered hands stuck to a rolling pin along with a couple of decapitated heads in the ovens. The imagery through these parts of the book only increases the excitement of wanting to finish this book.
Something mysterious is lurking in the remote mountains of Snowfield. To find out what is attacking all of the people and if/how they attempt to stop it, you’ll just have to get this book and delve deep into the mind of the master himself.
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