The Pendleton stands in the summit of Darkness Hill at the best point of a vintage heartland city, a Gilded Age group palace built-in the later 1800s being a tycoon’s desire home. Almost from the beginning, its grandeur continues to be scarred by episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse. But since its rechristening in the 1970s as an extravagance house building, the Pendleton continues to be at peace. Because of its fortunate residents – a successful songwriter and her young boy, a disgraced ex girlfriend or boyfriend- about 77 Darkness Street senator, a widowed lawyer, and a powered money manager among them – the Pendleton’s magnificent quarters are a sanctuary, its dark past all but neglected. However now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible pictures, phantom voices mutter in unusual tongues, not-quite-human statistics lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths. With each moving hour, a terrifying certainty increases: Whatever drove the Pendleton’s previous occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again. Shortly, those within its boundaries will be engulfed by a dangerous tide from which few possess escaped. Dean Koontz transcends all anticipations as he will take readers on the gripping journey to a place where nightmare visions become real-and in which a band of singular individuals hold the important to humanity’s destiny. Welcome to 77 Darkness Street.