![]() ![]() Slowly, Jenny and Lisa begin investigating, trying nearby houses, walking the streets, seeing friends and neighbours and the truth dawns that something bizarre and terrible has happened to the people of Snowfield. On arrival however, they find their house deserted and Jenny's housekeeper mysteriously, and hideously, dead. ![]() The book begins with Jenny Page, a doctor, and her fourteen year old sister Lisa driving to the small mountain town of Snowfield. One of the first things I noticed about the book was it's very classic horror structure, one which reminded me strongly of old interactive fiction games. Phantoms however, she assured me was a long way from cute, rather in the same way that Neptune is a long way from the Sun. The first two books I'd read by Koontz I'd found horrifying only in their overwhelming concentration of small town sugary American niceness, with every character a cutesy stereotype of one sort or another (really I was cheering on the bad guys just to cut the treacle). Dark recommended Dean Koontz to me, I was frankly sceptical. When, in a discussion of horror fiction, the soon to be Mrs. ![]()
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