Strange Highways

An extraordinary collection of short fiction, including the title novel, nine novellas, and six stories, explores the intriguing, vast variety of human experiences--failures, triumphs, adventures, terrors, joys, and more--that occur along the path from birth to death. 500,000 first printing. $500,000 ad/promo. Two novels, plus novellas and short stories. In Chase, a killer stalks couples in a lovers' lane, in Down in the darkness, a Vietnam War veteran revenges himself on the man who tortured him, while The Night of the storm is on a world ruled by robots. You are about to travel along the strange highways of human experience: the adventures and terrors and failures and triumphs that we know as we make our way from birth to death, along the routes that we choose for ourselves and along others onto which we are detoured by fate. It is a journey down wrong roads that can lead to unexpectedly and stunningly right destinations... into subterranean depths where the darkness of the human soul breeds in every conceivable form... over unfamiliar terrain populated by the denizens of hell. It is a world of unlikely heroes, haunted thieves, fearsome predators, vengeful children, and suspiciously humanlike robots. As profound as it is mesmerizing STRANGE HIGHWAYS is a remarkable achievement. As the Washington Post Book World put it: "His perennial bestsellers are engrossing entertainments that transcend the possibilities of any one of the genres from which they borrow." "An extraordinary first-ever collection of two complete novels, plus a compilation of twelve novelettes and short stories. You are about to travel along the strange highways of human experience: the adventures and terrors and failures and triumphs that we know as we make our way from birth to death, along the routes that we choose for ourselves and along with others onto which we are detoured by fate"--Front jacket flap ON THAT AUTUMN AFTERNOON, WHEN HE DROVE THE RENTAL CAR INTO Asherville, Joey Shannon broke out in an icy sweat. A collection of two novels and twelve short stories and novelettes by horror fiction writer Dean Koontz