Darkfall (Koontz novel)

Darkfall is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1984. The novel is also known as Darkness Comes.

Synopsis

Jack Dawson, a New York City detective, is dealing with a variety of situations in his life. His wife Linda died, leaving him the sole caretaker for their two children, Penny and Davey. He is also forced to confront an especially brutal string of murders of Mafia criminals, which have been seemingly done by animals even though no living creature would simply tear a victim to pieces without actually eating anything. Finally, his work partner Rebecca, with whom he begins a tentative personal relationship, dismisses his eventual belief that there may be supernatural or magical factors in the killings.

In truth, these creatures have been called forth from hell by a

According to Koontz in the afterword of a 2008 paperback reissue of The Eyes of Darkness, television producer Lee Rich purchased the rights for this book along with The Face of Fear, The Eyes of Darkness, and a fourth unnamed novel for a television series based on Koontz's work. Koontz himself wrote the script for Darkfall.^[1] A change in studio heads, however, resulted in the project being put into turnaround as the new head of the network, according to Koontz, "didn't want to make a movie about 'little creatures living in the walls.'"^[2] Ultimately, The Face of Fear was the only book of the four made into a television movie.

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