Very rarely does his work tread into outright fantasy (a notable exception being the Odd Thomas books, which include real ghosts). One notable aspect of Koontz' writing is that almost anytime there is a supernatural occurrence, its explanation, as outlandish as it might sometimes be, is usually physically possible, at least in theory. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled."ĭean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author known for writing suspense thrillers, many of which also contain elements of horror, action, science fiction, romance and satire. There's the grieving mother who's haunted by the death of her child and then there's the whole government X-Files-like conspiracy with the virus."Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. It's like there are two different stories in one. It starts out a bit slow for the first half and then the latter does pick up a bit. Overall, The Eyes Darkness is an intriguing read. Only one scout, Danny, happens to be immune to the virus, and for the past year, the scientists have experimented on him over and over again! The government eventually finds out what has occurred and cleans up the mess by faking a bus accident.
Instead of telling his bosses what had happened, he leaves the facility, goes into the woods, and runs into a group of scouts. One of the scientists accidentally gets infected.
It turns out the government was experimenting with a man-made virus called Wuhan-400. The plot centers around a grieving mother who begins to suspect that her son is somehow alive. I'm not for sure what I was expecting but I got a completely different story than what I had heard about. Well, that's until she finds a strange message on the easel-chalkboard in Danny's bedroom. Very slowly, she has been picking up the pieces and moving on with her life. With her marriage now over, she has put all her time and energy into producing the show Magyck! at the Golden Pyramid in Reno. The story centers around Tina Evans, a grieving mother whose son, Danny, died in a bus accident along with several other boy scouts nearly one year ago. The Eyes of Darkness was published in 1981 under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. It seems readers were saying Koontz predicted the COVID-19 virus, which if you've actually read the novel, then you would know it's a false claim. Considering there's a worldwide epidemic, and add in the fact that I suffer from anxiety issues, the last thing I should be doing is reading a book about a man-made virus, but that's exactly what I did after I noticed author Dean Koontz was making online headlines with his 1981 thriller The Eyes of Darkness.
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