77 Shadow Street

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

Enter the world of the Pendleton: The original owner became a recluse - and was rumored to be more than half mad - after his wife and two children were kidnapped in 1896 and never found. The second owner suffered a worse tragedy in 1935, when his house manager murdered him, his family, and the entire live-in staff....

Craftsmen and laborers working on renovations disappear or go mad....

For years, the Pendleton is a happy place, until a bad turn comes again....

Voices in unknown languages are heard in deserted rooms, everywhere and nowhere....

Disturbing shadows move along walls but have no source....

Images on security monitors show strange places that exist nowhere in the building or its grounds....

A young boy talks of an imaginary playmate - who turns out to be terrifyingly real....

A figure like a man but clearly inhuman is glimpsed in the courtyard gardens at night and in other locales, perhaps a hoaxer of some kind, seemingly oblivious of those who see it - until it suddenly takes an interest in one of them....

©2011 Dean Koontz (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

Really dissapointing

Would you try another book from Dean Koontz and/or Peter Berkrot?

Yes, I'm a Dean Koontz fan

What was most disappointing about Dean Koontz’s story?

I just couldn't follow this storyline and later I didn't care.

Have you listened to any of Peter Berkrot’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

First time. It compares OK.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Sigh...

great read!

this was just another Dean Koontz masterpiece, I just love the way it ended, surprisingly!!

love it!

One of the first full novels I ever read, it was just as good this second time! performance is great and super easy to listen to. Dean Koontz is a great writer.

A little disappointing.

Not my favorite Koontz novel. I hate to say anything bad about one of my most favorite authors but this story seemed a bit jumbled and hard to follow.

Dean, where has your Intensity gone?

This book is disappointing and predictable. And it's a fairly long book too. 😕 It's hard to find a fast-paced scary book anymore.

Koontz- great as usual!

Dean Koonzts never disappoints. I am not a fan of the Frankenstein novels, or the mysteries, but al of his scifi horror novels are engaging and fun...Also, the readers are always pretty good or great.

It was amazing!

The book is so well written, I meant this by saying that there are a bunch of characters but he wrote them to where they won’t blend together! Each character has their own personality, ways of speaking, and storyline. 10/10

I applaud the narrator!

The best narration of any audible I've listened to. ..and there have been many! This guy is by far my favorite! So many characters in this story and he handled them brilliantly. ..with different inflection for each one, easy to recognize each player. He was the reason I finished listening to this one. Interesting enough, but in my opinion, not Konntz's best. Not believable, as I have found most of his novels, but will keep reading this author!

Dean never disappoints

I loved everything about this story and Dean always writes true to form as his readers will attest

There are no dogs to save you this time!

Dean Koontz spins a horror story that does not require a dog to save the world!

The poor (well, not too poor) residents of an old building encounter odd goings on. Are they hallucinating when the building appears to change? Have alien beings descended? Are those other-worldly ghosts or tricks of the mind?

77 Shadow Street is a book for the masses and will likely shovel in quite a few new Koontz readers. The book seems reminiscent of another Koontz titled The Taking but it is certainly not a re-hash. Sadly though, I kept comparing 77 Shadow to The Taking and it started getting on my nerves because so many strange things happen in this book that were just enough alike for me to keep doing a comparison.

Likely Koontz wanted people to be more scared and unnerved by the goings-on in the building and while I did get that eery claustrophobic feeling a few times it did not scare me as much as I would have liked.

Peter Berkrot read for the audiobook and was not the right choice as he did not bring that sense of forboding required to bring 77 Shadow Street to life. This is one of those books where I wonder "If I read it would I like it more?". Likely I would have liked it more but it's too late now.

If you are a Dean Koontz fan, you will like it. It has all the trimmings with unique characters, some fun evil people, a fast-paced storyline and a very unique plot. Trixie fans will still like the book with the lack of dogs since the cats are naturally quite evil, proving Labrador Retrievers are still the best companion when all hell is breaking loose.

-Bill