The Eyes of Darkness
By Dean Koontz as Leigh Nichols
pgs: 369
This story is one of Dean Koontz’s five stories he wrote under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. The story is not as developed as Koontz’s novels that one reads to do. However, I did find the plot of his story to be very unique and engaging. He does not focus on character development in this tale as in his later work and he does not cushion the story with a lot of extra information that you find in his tales today. In addition, the ending is very abrupt and he does not tie everything together like his later works. However, the plot line is so unique that I would recommend this tale to anyone who likes Dean Koontz’s novels. This story focuses on a mother who is in the process of grieving the death of her son when she begins to have nightmares that he is actually alive. In addition, she has a lot of supernatural events that occur to her. It involves a government conspiracy and a little romance. A good quick read.