Strangers (Dean Koontz novel)

Strangers

First edition
Author Dean Koontz
Country United States
Language English
Genre Horror novel
Publisher Putnam
Publication date
 1986
Media type Print
Pages 526
ISBN 0-399-13143-4
OCLC 50819625
LC Class CPB Box no. 2097 vol. 17

Strangers is a novel written by Dean Koontz, released in 1986.

Story

A group of people who are brought together by their different and equally strange maladies. There is Dominick who suffers from somnambulism, Ginger who lapses into a fugue state with no apparent reason, Father Brendan who loses his faith and later gains a miraculous 'gift', and Ernie who suffers from nyctophobia.

Dominick receives Polaroids that eventually leads him to the Tranquility Motel, situated in the middle of the Nevada 'high-desert', thirty miles west of Elko. Together with Ned and Sandy, who run the restaurant next door to the motel, they discover that their true memories from the summer of the previous year may have been hidden.

Later Ginger, Jorja, and the other people who stayed at the Tranquility Motel are contacted and invited to join the group. Ginger shares that their memories are hidden behind Azrael Blocks - a means of brainwashing induced through drugs and hypnotism, after she herself was regressed through hypnotism to try and uncover the cause of her malady.

The Tranquility 'community' try to figure out what was done to them and who could have done it, but little do they know that they are being watched by the people who have done this to them. Joined by Jack Twist (who was led to the Tranquility Motel by a series of postcards placed there by an insider) the group finally come up with a strategy to uncover the government secret that has been hidden deep beneath the hills at the Thunder Hill Depository.

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