77 Shadow Street / Dean Koontz / 451 pages

There are few books by Dean Koontz that I wouldn't recommend.  He writes "just right" horror stories and knows how to hit that squeamish, tingling nerve that sends chills down  your spine and makes the hair on your neck stand up.  In 77 Shadow Street we experience a cataclysm in time that occurs every 38 years in the Pendleton which is a huge old mansion that has been converted to condos for the wealthy.  The past, the present and the future all collide and the residents of the Pendleton must try to figure out what is happening, survive deadly waves of glowing fungus, horrible creatures, killing machines with probing tubes that expel a viscous substance of billions of nanomachines down your throat and take over your body, and wiggly white things growing in the walls and save humanity.  Koontz always has a message about where the human race is headed but his books also have hope and confidence in people who do the right thing.  Thank you Pat K.who introduced me to Dean Koontz.