WHISPERS

by Dean R. Koontz ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 19, 1980

More gothic-horror goo from the author of The Vision. Screenwriter Hilary Thomas, a hot property whose latest project has just been sold to Warner Bros. with her as writer-director, is attacked in her mansion by Bruno Frye, a vintner with a body-build like Arnold Schwarzenegger's. Bruno is a drooling psycho who believes his dead mother has returned and is living in Hilary's body. She shoots him, but he escapes, cops Tony and Frank arrive but offer no real help, and then Bruno returns, again tries to rape and murder Hilary--and this time she stabs him fatally. Then we follow the course of Bruno's body through the morgue (a minor autopsy, the infusion of formaldehyde at the funeral home, the burial) but--you guessed it--Bruno returns a third time! Hilary escapes, persuades cop Tony (now her lover) that her story is true, and they hide out together while conducting an investigation into Bruno's background. . . which reveals that his mother was sexually abused by his grandfather since her infancy, that Bruno is one of her incestuous twin sons born in a whorehouse, and that he and his brother were raised in semi-secrecy by the lone mother who took them as lovers while instilling in them a mortal fear of the demon in their penises. Arghh. . . .

Pub Date: May 19, 1980

ISBN: 042520992X

Page Count: -

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1980

Categories: FICTION