Master suspense novelist Dean Koontz has once again written a story, a novella, that send shivers up your spine and makes you fear the bogeyman. Eleven year old Howie Dugley has met him - twice. His own father tried to kill him and Howie has burns to remind him. He encounters his second bogeyman, Alton Turner Blackwood, on the roof of the Boswell Building. Blackwood sends young Howie for sandwiches, strikes up a friendship, and asks for pictures of his mother and sister. Blackwood tells Howie that he will teach Bleeker, a bully who has been bothering Howie, a lesson. When Howie discovers the boy stabbed and attached to the wall in the abandoned building and finds newspaper articles relating rapes and murder among Mr. B's possessions, he takes his pictures back and hold vigil to keep his family safe. Years later , John Calvino, a detective on the Blackwood case says ..."Good usually triumphs, but I've also seen that evil never dies. It's always wise to remain vigilant."
Horror
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