The Door to December

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Moniqua Plante, Troy Duran

A call in the middle of the night summoned psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey out into the rain-swept streets of Los Angeles. The police had found her husband—beaten to death. But what of her daughter, Melanie, whom he had kidnapped six years earlier? At the brutal murder scene, the police lead Laura into her husband's makeshift lab—and open the door to a rising tide of terror that has trapped Melanie in its midst...

©1985, 1994 Dean Koontz. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

”First-rate suspense, scary and stylish.”—Los Angeles Times

Fantastic

This has long been a favorite book of mine so I was very excited when I find it in audio. They did a fantastic job the characters sound the way I expected it! This is a must listen in my opinion.

Horrible narrator

The female narrator consistently put the wrong inflection on most words at the end of sentences. This made it very difficult to listen to. The storyline was not as good as the other Koontz books that I have listened to.

Someone needs to teach narrators about pronunciation

The story was good, but the dreadful mispronunciation of a word ending in “geist” was grating.

Dean Koontz never disappoints

This is one of the classic. I believe it originally released in 1985 and now the audiobook. The story is quite predictable but it’s still very fun to listen. Troy Duran is the GOAT, I can listen to him reading anything. It was first time for me listening Moniqua Plante, she was fantastic as well. The book created an intense scene and suspenseful also frightening as the story goes. I couldn’t stop listening. I would give it 6 stars just for the narrators.

One terrible narrator and one great narrator

I would have enjoyed this book so much more if the female narrator had not been one of the narrators. Her breathy and robotic narration made it difficult to push through. As a long time fan of Dean Koontz and the saving grace of the male narrator, I enjoyed this book. Fascinating story.