The hybrid between the mystery and horror genres is already a fixed background in all bookstores thanks to authors such as Stephen King or own Dean koontz, without a doubt two great authors who share origins in the northeastern United States.
Despite what it might seem, in many cases these types of writers offer us a very human look, close in that instinct of fear that on the one hand leads us to morbid observation, which scares us but also magnetizes us.
And if the author is capable of inserting characters that are easily mimicked, the novels end up providing a final residue for psychoanalysis of that contradictory drive for horror. Fear with the aroma of death, a grim reaper that ultimately awaits us all and that behind its dark curtain hide the greatest secrets of our existence.
It is only a matter of will to find these almost mystical aspects in a popular consumer literature in which everything is left in the hands of the characters.
A Pair of protagonists of dark stories that, loaded with the narrative gift of Versomilitud, guide us through labyrinthine paths in which each new turn can present us with the most ominous encounter with the minotaur of all time. Because fear is that, anguish and confusion. Fear is a Cretan labyrinth that we only venture into occasionally to satisfy the monster's voracity.
Koontz has profusely addressed fear as a central argument. But it is already known that this genre also ends up being linked with the mystery already indicated, with intrigue and thriller or even with science fiction in which any plot claim finds easier accommodation.
And so Koontz has been earning a prominent place among American bestsellers. in very different countries to which his work has reached. The question in such an unpredictable type is to discover what kind of story he presents to each new occasion. Although with his craft, the narrative tension and his characters always absolutely authentic, the literary spell is always served.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Dean Koontz
The husband
Let's start by enjoying that unpredictable side of Koontz. Let's discover a story with overtones of a psychological thriller. The beginning of the story, if we face it with a certain analytical aspect, raises certain disturbing doubts.
Why kidnap the wife of a gardener with meager financial resources? Are we missing something? What is the author hiding? Do they move with that improvisation that anticipates the abduction of any woman? Because of course, the 2 million ransom sounds abysmal, completely impossible for any ordinary citizen. And that's where we have to discover Mitch.
In love to the full with his wife, faithful husband and suddenly stripped of that basic support of his existence. He has only one voice with the fateful message of the rapture and a few days to execute the sinister barter required.
As Mitch begins to unfold in the plot we are getting caught up in his modus operandi, something escapes us and that ethereal foundation that slides into the plot is a firm hook that keeps us in feverish reading.
Little by little we are being pulled by the bait, the details and the clues appear for Mitch but also for us as readers, until that climax that marks the end of the reader orgasm when an impeccable twist is presented to us as an effect of the great conjurer.
My name is Rare Thomas
A book that begins a saga that comes to Spain by dropper. A strange story in the typical setting that jumps from the bland to the mystical, in that solitude of the open spaces that invites great fantasies in an author so capable of transforming everything as Koontz is.
Rare Thomas is a chef in a restaurant in the middle of the Californian desert who we soon discover in his most paranormal side. A girl who was raped and murdered contacted him to find out who did so much harm to him.
Even from beyond, the issues of justice are addressed for the most ominous cases, such as a struggle between good and evil in which Thomas passes as the lawyer of a possible God.
An appropriately brushed introduction by the author teaches us the causes that led to the simple Thomas as the ultrapsychic man.
But the most intense true plot comes with the stranger who arrives at the place and in which Thomas soon guesses his aversive load of evil. Together with his partner Stormy Llewellyn, they will chart the sinister destiny that augurs the arrival of the stranger. And so they will discover how they have no choice but to confront that evil that looms imminently.
The role of Elvis Presley and other ghosts who offer their help upset the vision of the work towards a magnetic and exciting dark fantasy.
The eyes of the dark
Tina survives her melancholy in part thanks to her dedication to a business show in which she must continue to appear the same energy and enthusiasm as always.
But Tina's ghosts are persistent in their rawness. Their 12-year-old son Danny died and the marriage breakdown marks a before and after in the recent period of the last year.
When a thriller is compatible with such a strong emotional part, it has won me over. And while this novel runs more lightly in terms of plot or twists, the weight of its human transcendence can take it all.
In her dark existence beyond the spotlight, one good or bad day Tina discovers a message in her son's room. From that moment we enter that paranormal scenario that the author likes so much, but this time everything is soaked by that feeling of epic overcoming in the face of death, of a possible recovery of communication with that person you forgot say for the last time "I love you."
Only Tina's son doesn't write the message just because. The reasons for claiming the attention of his mother take off a disturbing story of deep suspense that obviates any intention of terror to provide a review of emotions from the fantastic.
Accompanied by her friend Elliot Stryker, Tina will try to understand, assume and interpret her son's messages. What would not be done for a son even if he has already passed away?
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