Darkness Under the Sun

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Darkness Under the Sun
Dean Koontz

An exclusive novella, available only as an eBook, from the international bestselling master of suspense.The chilling account of a pivotal encounter between innocence and ultimate malice, Darkness Under the Sun is the perfect read for Halloween – or for any haunted night – and reveals a secret, fateful turning point in the career of Alton Turner Blackwood, the killer at the dark heart of What the Night Knows, the forthcoming novel by Sunday Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.There once was a killer who knew the night, its secrets and rhythms. How to hide within its shadows. When to hunt.He roamed from town to town, city to city, choosing his prey for their beauty and innocence. His cruelties were infinite, his humanity long since forfeit. But still…he had not yet discovered how to make his special mark among monsters, how to come fully alive as Death.This is the story of how he learned those things, and of what we might do to insure that he does not visit us.Darkness Under the Sun is as chilling as it is unforgettable. It is available exclusively for download in electronic book format.

DARKNESS

UNDER

THE SUN

Dean Koontz

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I was Death, harvesting lives. I knew my destiny was epic. Yet I filled one at a time, one at a time, one at a time. If my killing spree had been music—and it was music to me—you could rightly call it the simplest folk song. But I had set out to create a symphony of death, an immortal opera of terror.

Then an unexpected encounter suddenly led me to understand that to fulfill my promise, to unleash my full potential, to compose truly memorable crescendos of destruction, I must kill entire families, use them first as I wished and then slaughter them. In killing any family, I was killing my own, which deserved to die.

Inspiration can come from surprising sources. A child showed me the way.

—from the journal of Alton Turner Blackwood