Koontz channels full-throttle nightmare energy in a story where reality keeps bending and the monsters are both human and otherworldly. A terrified amnesiac wakes with blood on his hands and something impossible stalking him, sending a husband-and-wife detective team into a case filled with psychic violence, genetic horror, and a family so twisted they feel engineered in the dark. The pace is breathless, the imagery wild, and the danger feels like it’s coming from every dimension at once. Weird, vicious, and compulsively readable, The Bad Place is Koontz at his most unhinged and inventive.
