![]() ![]() Whether it's a victim's eyelids sewn shut or a decayed human finger dangling from a wind chime, Koontz provides enough horrific detail and gross-out gore to turn a pathologist's stomach.īut it's the scene in which Mr. The author also makes prodigious reference to the heroes and villains of pop-culture violence.Īnd you can't avoid Koontz's numerous, gratuitously gruesome glimpses of the killer's craft. This is just the first of many heavy-handed ironies, dualities, dichotomies, mangled metaphors (a pack of Doberman guard dogs become lethal when they hear the name Nietzsche, passive when they hear the name Seuss). ![]() And try not to wince at the trite irony of the killer raping and murdering a psychology student on her bed, beneath a scowling poster of Sigmund Freud. Never mind that the killer, a satanically handsome gent named Edgler Foreman Vess, has just annihilated a picture-postcard California family. ![]() ![]() You know you're in for some seriously revolting scenes when Chyna Shepherd, the unlikely heroine of Dean Koontz's appropriately titled new thriller, "Intensity," secretly observes a blood-drenched serial killer devour a spider - alive. ![]()
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