Darkfall (Koontz novel)

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Darkfall
Cover of Darkfall
Author	Dean Koontz
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Horror
Publisher	Berkley Publishing
Publication date	1984
Media type	Paperback
Pages	384
ISBN	ISBN 0-425-10434-6

For the novel by Isobelle Carmody see Darkfall (Carmody novel)

Darkfall is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1984.

The novel is also known as Darkness Comes.

[edit] Synopsis

Jack Dawson is a New York Detective dealing with a variety of situations in his life. His wife Linda has recently died, and that leaves him the sole caretaker for his two children Penny and Davey. Aside from missing his wife very much; he is confronted by an especially brutal string of murders of Mafia criminals. These murders are both grisly and unearthly, seemingly done by animals, although forensics cannot determine any living creature that would simply tear a victim to pieces without actually eating anything. Finally, his partner Rebecca is a woman that does not share his approach to this crimewave. Dawson believes that there may be supernatural or magical factors in the killings, while Rebecca believes this to be absurd. Dawson's instincts are seldom wrong; and although he can't deny the initial absurdity of some kind of magic, alternative explanations are disappearing quickly.

As Dawson investigates further, he is pulled into a dangerous situation that involves everything he cares for; his partner, his children as well as his own sanity. Does voodoo exist? Who is Baba Lavelle, the seemingly fictional character of dark magic whose name keeps appearing in his investigations? And can Carver Hampton, a practitioner of white magic, help him stop these killings?