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The Funhouse

by Dean Koontz, Owen West (Goodreads Author)

3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 · rating details · 9,967 ratings · 219 reviews

Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate--and gave birth to a child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands. Twenty-five years later, she has a new life and two normal children. But her past still haunts her--and now the carnival is coming back to town...

Paperback, 333 pages

Published June 1994 by Berkley (first published 1980)

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Aug 19, 2009 Mike rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: i-still-remember-the-ending, potentially-life-changing

The book itself probably be no more than 4 stars, but because the idea of the book and the purpose it served for me I'll give it 5. I stole it from my mom's bookshelf in 8th grade and I remember it being the first definitive adult novel I ever read. I devoured it within days, it was such an easy read. From what I remember, the writing just flowed from one page to the next, making it simple for a relatively inexperienced reader like myself to follow along. I don't remember the sequence of events,...more

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Mar 01, 2009 Ryan Mishap rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: when-i-was-a-lad

I devoured Koontz and King back in middle school and part of high school. In retrospect, I could have spent my time on better books, but these chillers were an escape from things I didn't want to think about, especially at night when I couldn't sleep and my mind twisted my perceptions nauseatingly.
I'm not saying you should bother reading these, especially now that Koontz is openly being Christian and Stephen King thinks he is a writer, but I have a fondness for some of these books. If you are...more

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Oct 05, 2012 Rosemary O'Malley rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror

I often hear about the cliche of creepy carnivals. When this novel first came out, it was something new. It was the late 80's when I found it in a used bookstore. I love carnivals; the creepier and sleazier, the better - and thought this was right up my alley. I'd read Bradbury's and King's versions, both of which were essentially coming-of-age stories, centered around (mostly) pre-adolsecent boys. This one was different.

It turned out to be really freaking scary.

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Oct 06, 2011 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars

Despite that a funhouse is a clichéd setting, Dean Koontz does manage to serve up some genuine thrills and chills. The movie (of the same name) does not do the book justice at all. Whereas the movie is based on a rather banal teenage bet to spend the night in the funhouse, the book is centered on a more elaborate plot for revenge. Ellen marries a carnival man in her youth and gives birth to a deformed creature that she senses is evil. After killing the “baby” her husband, Conrad, vows to torture...more

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Nov 19, 2010 Johnny rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The first thing you should know when reading this book, is that it isn’t an original idea by Koontz. It’s based on the screenplay of what must have been a type of grind house horror movie (directed by Tobe Hooper by the way, of “Poltergeist” fame). Once you get past that, and you keep in mind the other books with elements of this story Koontz has written, it’s not all that bad. Basically it’s cheap thrills, but the characters are probably better worked out than in said screenplay.

Once upon a tim...more The first thing you should know when reading this book, is that it isn’t an original idea by Koontz. It’s based on the screenplay of what must have been a type of grind house horror movie (directed by Tobe Hooper by the way, of “Poltergeist” fame). Once you get past that, and you keep in mind the other books with elements of this story Koontz has written, it’s not all that bad. Basically it’s cheap thrills, but the characters are probably better worked out than in said screenplay.

Once upon a time, Ellen maried a carny named Conrad. At first I thought his last name would be Beezo, but turns out I got my clowns mixed up. Well, this Conrad isn’t a clown, but the clown face on his funhouse is made after his image. Conrad has a problem, though. Every child he conceives is heavily deformed. Think “Alien vs Predator”, with a dab of “Species”. Ellen kills their child, is thrown out by Conrad, and starts a new life somewhere else. She remarries, has two normal children. Then, years later, the carnival comes back to town. Conrad has spawned a new demon, which was allowed to grow up this time. When Conrad recognizes Ellen’s kids, revenge seeps up.

I always wonder whether Koontz would ever have written “Twilight Eyes” if he hadn’t first delivered “The Funhouse”; there are so many similarities between the description of carnival life, I think the idea of “Twilight Eyes” was first sparked as Koontz was doing research for “The Funhouse”. So I always consider this an exercise, a dry run, a familiarisation with the setting to later deliver – in my opinion – one of his best novels.

While he hasn’t yet had his own religious epiphany at this time, Koontz does recognize the importance of religion for his characters. After the prologue, Ellen has changed into someone close to the mother in “Carrie”. Conrad has gone the other way, becoming a Satanist. And throughout the last part of the tale, Ellen’s daughter Amy has some experiences which can only be described as divine guidance. Yet it feels like something is missing: the writer believing his own words.

Koontz has always juggled with the origin of evil; either it’s born, or it grows, usually during childhood. “The Voice of the Night” dealt heavily with this subject; we were all led to believe that Roy Borden was born evil, yet the conclusion tells us he became that way because of his parents’ reaction to what was essentially an accident. With “The Funhouse”, we get a very literal, physical manifestation of evil born. Though whether Conrad’s offspring can truly be called evil is up for debate, since they are more like mindless animals, thus having not much of a choice in their behavior.

Even though many people have stated their dislike of this novel, personally it never felt that much out of place. The original screenplay only dealt with the carnival scenes; everything leading up to those scenes, character backgrounds etc. were implemented by Koontz himself, as he explains in the afterword. That afterword actually reads as one huge apology for this book, blaming economic crisis. If you write something like that as a writer, you can’t expect people to take your novel seriously.

Like I said, it’s not half bad. There are probably worse stories. And Koontz probably didn’t have all that much freedom to begin with. Yet so much of the story is being “told” instead of “shown”, it’s like the entire history of these characters was quickly fabricated to work as an excuse for their actions in the original movie. This has the potential of a much better story, maybe in the style of “Life Expectancy”, and should have been revised more extensively upon republication.
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Jan 01, 2013 João Dias rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: terror-e-fantástico

Já lá vão alguns anos desde que li a primeira versão deste livro, por isso perdoem-me se não consigo estabelecer um paralelo consistente entre uma obra e outra. Bom, na verdade a obra é exactamente a mesma, embora, como diz o autor na introdução, muito melhor. Como autor que se encontra de momento a rever obras já publicadas para uma eventual republicação, compreendo que Dean Koontz diga isso. Aliás, qualquer autor tende (deve) a considerar a sua obra mais recente como a sua melhor.

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Nov 14, 2011 Gor93ous rated it 2 of 5 stars

Somewhere between 2 and 2.5 stars

The Funhouse isn't exactly FUN, but it's not that boring either. I like it slightly better than Mr. Koontz's Twilight Eyes for the fact that the gore is très yummy-licious. Without a doubt, hanging-out intestine is really my thing.

But, it's mighty unfortunate that I've actually read better books demonstrating better goreXploration.

Now, let's talk about the plot, the storyline. Ellen was married to a handsome carnie named Conrad Straker, who at first seems gentle...more

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Aug 05, 2011 Tina rated it 2 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Koontz says in his afterword that he wrote this after being offered to turn a movie script from a rather third-class horror movie (my impression,not his words)into a "real novel".
And that is exactly what this remembers one of. There is the young female main character,Amy. She's grown up in a rather religiously abusive household,has a lot of internalized self-hate and therefore starts rebelling a bit,then gets an abortion and after that her Catholic mom lets her do what she wants cause she's "giv...more Koontz says in his afterword that he wrote this after being offered to turn a movie script from a rather third-class horror movie (my impression,not his words)into a "real novel".
And that is exactly what this remembers one of. There is the young female main character,Amy. She's grown up in a rather religiously abusive household,has a lot of internalized self-hate and therefore starts rebelling a bit,then gets an abortion and after that her Catholic mom lets her do what she wants cause she's "given up"; anyway while she's out doing "bad" things like smoking weed and having sex (OMG!) she constantly thinks that she's "not like them"...or am I?
Of course at the end she "finds God" and is saved because she saves her little brother.
Then there's her best friend Liz who is painted very much over-the-top as "promiscuous" to the point that she aspires to be a Las Vegas escort girl (WTF this is a 17 year old girl from a rather bourgeois household - this just strikes me as unrealistic!),described as being wicked,a "tease" and oh the cherry on the shit sundae is her making an impression of a "Southern Negro" (original word choice) which I will not repeat so she's not only evil because she dares to have a sexuality,Koontz somehow thought that wouldn't be convincing enough so he makes her totally racist all of a sudden.
She is the one painted as becoming a coward as soon as things get serious and of course she is being raped and "torn apart" in a rather gruesome and tasteless scene near the end...because you know, these little sluts just gotta get their just desert,right? (Ouch that hurt to type.)

What else? Oh, I LOLd at the description of Gunther the Monster and his way of talking. It couldn't have been more stereotypical,eh?
"Smell woman. Smell good. Want pretty." This is disrespectful towards ANYONE who is actually developmentally disabled, because he ends up sounding like a caricature of the "How is Babby formed" Neanderthal.

Despite that all - I cannot give this book only one star...it IS surprisingly well written in general, and it's fun to read because the characters ARE believable and not one-dimensional,also it's finished quickly. However, Mr Koontz can and has done better than this sexist,ableist and occasionally racist drivel.(less)

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Jul 05, 2010 Maciek rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: horror, owned-books, own-in-paperback, read-in-2010, reviewed

I as going to give it one star, but couldn't. It's a bad potboiler, a great example that teenage slasher-carnival themed moies should never be novelised. I think only VC Andrews could have pulled of such story with grace; she's the queen of trashy books after all. Koontz fails at this; but after all he was still a developing writer and needed the money to fuel his career and write better books.

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May 07, 2011 Joshua rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: owned

As a humongous fan of classic simplistic slasher films dating from about the late 80s back, I was not ignorant of Tobe Hooper's further addition to the genre with 1981's The Funhouse. What I didn't know was that it also came in the form of a novelization by Owen West, who was actually Dean Koontz. Disappointed by the film not actually standing out from the slasher crowd as entertainment or originality, I picked up the book in hopes of finding something better. Well, disappointed was I...once aga...more

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Apr 28, 2013 Danell rated it 2 of 5 stars

I'm only giving this a 2 because I did finish reading it instead of giving up on it; but with that said, it was very disappointing. The ending was very predictable, and a lot of loose ends were left hanging. The climax was over practically as soon as it started, and there was very little suspense built up to it. The idea of the story itself is intriguing, and it could have been a story that had me on the edge of my seat, but instead I was left saying "that's it?", at the last page. Way too many...more

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Jul 11, 2011 Jo Bennie rated it 2 of 5 stars

This early Koontz story was written under one of his pseudonym Owen West and is a novelisation of a screenplay, which explains much of its lack of development. The characters are very two dimensional and sympathy is difficult to find for them. Amy Harper is a confused teenager, the daugther of a fanatical catholic alcoholic, Amy is torn between feeling that she is wicked and that her mother is the one that is not normal. Her brother Joey is terrified by her mother's night time visits to his beds...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Gina rated it 2 of 5 stars

Ick. This book is horrible. The characters are horrible even the protagonist Amy. I think she's the protagonist? Anyways there are so many questions that have not been explained. Was Ellens first baby really a demon from hell or was it just a human who was really badly deformed with some rare disease or disorder that hasn't even been discovered yet by mankind? And why was Ellen's first baby and conrad's second kid badly deformed? Just b/c he accidentally burned down his family's house when he wa...more

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Jul 30, 2012 Suby rated it 4 of 5 stars

Dean Koontz gives us a detailed background of the happenings in the early life of his characters and then goes on to narrate how they behave later in life.
Here we have a woman who killed her deformed baby early if life and the father of the baby who continues to bear a grudge on her.
Funhouse is actually macabre. But I guess we like to read about psychopathic killers. Thats why we have authors of all hues providing us with books of this genre.
This book should be ideally be read in one sitting. Bu...more

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Feb 07, 2012 David Watson rated it 5 of 5 stars

A great Dean Koontz book written in 1980 called The Funhouse. Ellen ran away from home one night and joined up with a traveling carnival, she eventually married the man who runs the carnival and they had a deformed child. Ellen killed the child and ran away. She now has a new family but the carnival is coming to town and her ex-husband wants to do to her children what she did to his.

When I read The Funhouse I noticed that when I got towards the end, the story seemed very familiar. When I was do...more

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Oct 28, 2011 Alissa Cook rated it 3 of 5 stars

Also known as "the funhouse" by Dean Koontz ... Owen West was one of his pen-names, and this was one of his early books. (on my Koontz copy, it even has the name Owen West printed in small print on the cover at the bottom..) I'm only half-way thru as of 10/25/11, but it's not bad, I've read worse, definitely read better... hey, it's keeping me reading til 3AM tryna figure out what happens, so, yeah, it could be worse! I def wouldn't be able to deal if the murder/rape scenes were any more descrip...more Also known as "the funhouse" by Dean Koontz ... Owen West was one of his pen-names, and this was one of his early books. (on my Koontz copy, it even has the name Owen West printed in small print on the cover at the bottom..) I'm only half-way thru as of 10/25/11, but it's not bad, I've read worse, definitely read better... hey, it's keeping me reading til 3AM tryna figure out what happens, so, yeah, it could be worse! I def wouldn't be able to deal if the murder/rape scenes were any more descriptive than they already are though... I don't do gore, but I'll take it over Koontz's well known kooky sci-fi themes... I HATE sci-fi....

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There's something wierd about this book... Deep down inside, for some unknown reason, I truly have a strong desire to hate this book, but i can't! I have NO idea why I think I should feel that way, I don't know anyone that's read it and hated it, therefore I haven't gotten any bad reviews on it; there's absolutely no logical reason why I should dislike it! But, all in all, the book was good, but not great. It was decent enough to keep me reading and wanting to know what happens. The story progressed somewhere between too slow and very quickly.. I guess the story progressed right in the middle. I have a strange yet exciting interest in carnivals, so maybe that is one reason why I was kept so interested? Idk.. I remember when I read "House of Thunder" ....or tried to read it at least....That I was SO uninterested that before I even got to chapter 5, I put the book down and never picked it up again. For some reason I was hesitant to start reading "The Funhouse," thinking I would do the same with it. (And I HATE starting a book and not finishing it. Even if I'm bored or don't like the story, I always still want to know what happens in the end! ...And I'm definitely not the type to skip to the last chapter or two to find out the ending...NO! if I don't read it the full way through, then I don't allow myself to find out the ending! One reason is because, maybe my reading interest might make a u-turn one day and i might be interested in giving the novel a second chance, who knows? But also, A LOT can happen in a couple hundred pages, so if you skip, you might not always be able to make sense of what you're reading anyway!...Not like you're supposed to be able to at least!) Anyway, Koontz even states himself in the afterword (which was interesting!) that it's certainly NOT his best work, but definitely not his worst either. I couldn't have said it better myself! In the end, I do not regret reading "The Funhouse." I'd say, if you're an avid Koontz reader then you should give this one a go just to add to your "already read" list. Otherwise, I wouldn't totally put this one off, but if you have other novels to read that you think might interest you more, then go ahead with them first... But whatever you choose to read, ENJOY! ....I have a closet full of some 428 unread novels that I've collected from thrift stores, books stores, garage sales, etc... so choosing my next read is DEFINITELY going to be a chore!!(less)

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Dec 12, 2011 Kathy Jackson rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Koontz fans

Shelves: related

Goodreads describes the book as the following:

Years after leaving the carnival, her hated first husband, and the child she could never love, Ellen has a new life, a new husband, and two beautiful children, but now the carnival is coming back to town, and Ellen is going to have to pay for her sins.

The story is that Ellen killed her first child who was somewhat of a cross between human and the creature from the black lagoon. She is repulsed by the child and convinced it is evil. Her husband vows...more

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Mar 15, 2011 Esme rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: horror-fantasy-scifi

"The Funhouse" ("Geisterbahn") erinnert an ältere Horror-B-Movies und das nicht ohne Grund.
Dean Koontz schrieb zu diesem frühen Roman ein Nachwort. Es war eine Auftragsarbeit, nach einem Drehbuch einen Roman zu schreiben. Er stellte fest, dass das Drehbuch nur Stoff für etwa 20% eines Romans hergab und fing an, die Hauptpersonen zu entwickeln und ihnen einen Hintergrund zu verschaffen, so dass sich die Ereignisse hin zum Showdown auf dem Jahrmarkt folgerichtig entwickeln konnten. Für dieses Fina...more

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Apr 16, 2012 Tina (Martina ♥ Bookaholic) rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller, read-in-english, book-paper, also-for-men, tauschbörse, thriller, adult

I like Koontzs writing style, 'cause its easy to read and the suspense ist great. Still good storyline but it's not one of my favorits of his books.

Handlung:
Es wird die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes erzählt der Dämonen sehen kann, sie sich aber Geschickt als Menschen tarnen, so dass es ‚Normalsterbliche’ nicht sehen können, nur er kann durch die Fassade blicken und ihre wahre, furchterregende Gestalt erkennen….

Meine Gedanken:
Finde das Buch hat am Anfang eine Zeit gebraucht bis es spannend w...more

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Nov 01, 2010 Mark R. rated it 3 of 5 stars

***1/2

This book always confused me. I'd heard the Tobe Hooper movie "The Funhouse" was based on it, but then also heard that the book wasn't really related to the movie. Decided to check it out this Halloween season, and looked into it more and found that Dean Koontz was hired to write the book as a novelization of the screenplay by Larry Block, and that the movie was delayed and the book came out in advance of the movie. In the afterword of the 1994 edition of the novel, Koontz describes the pr...more

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Dec 29, 2010 Graceann rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: suspense

This is one of Koontz's earlier efforts, written under the pseudonym "Owen West." He was asked to turn the screenplay into a novel. This is the opposite of how these things usually go, and he was intrigued by the challenge. The film that was made, which would usually boost a book's sales, was so terrible that it took the book sales down with it, too.

This is a shame, because The Funhouse, while no masterpiece, is a fun little scarer. In 1955, Ellen is married to an evil man and has given birth t...more

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Jan 09, 2011 Ashley (Bookaholics Anonymous) rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 1of5stars, demons, book-i-own-read

Well in the spirit of halloween I thought I need to do a few more reviews so why not this one. I read this sometime last year so I don't remember alot from it, but what I do remember is one word. Weird! I originally bought it at Goodwill because the plot sounded somewhat interesting. I mean, it's about a funhouse and carnival it couldn't be that bad right? Wrong! Oh so very wrong. In a way this makes me not want to go to a funhouse or carnival. It's about a mother who tried to kill her baby, and...more

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Dec 19, 2009 Erin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: own-book-form, horror

The carnival is always a unique, exciting setting for any horror novel. Amidst all the freaks, gloomy funhouses, maniacally grinning clowns, and … well, candy, there’s a man with a mission. To seek out and destroy his ex-wife’s children, the ex-wife who had taken away his own mutated son. Besides this juicy tidbit, there’s also a misled creature that delights in killing innocent men and raping/shredding apart women in each town it visits.

One thing that really made The Funhouse work was the chara...more The carnival is always a unique, exciting setting for any horror novel. Amidst all the freaks, gloomy funhouses, maniacally grinning clowns, and … well, candy, there’s a man with a mission. To seek out and destroy his ex-wife’s children, the ex-wife who had taken away his own mutated son. Besides this juicy tidbit, there’s also a misled creature that delights in killing innocent men and raping/shredding apart women in each town it visits.

One thing that really made The Funhouse work was the characterization. Their lives were so rich, so deep, I truly cared and believed. Each one had their own internal struggle going on. Each one with their own personal demons to slay, their unique hurdles to stumble over, and their ultimate prices to pay.

The characters are the meat behind The Funhouse.

The atmosphere is a bit hard to explain. Below everything there is a seemingly endless sense of desperation, a struggle to sniff out what is right and what is wrong. To overcome the miserable lives led and make things better for themselves.

In short, the atmosphere is bleak, dark, and at times depressing -- but in the end uplifting and hopeful.

Amy is a strong heroine to latch on to. A typical teenage girl in a chaotic household, she longs for acceptance, excitement, change…but is also afraid of all those things, for she has secrets fears that her mother may be right - she really may be evil. Little Joey is adorable and I felt incredibly bad for him at several moments in the story. He’s a realistic little kid and I loved seeing through his young, impressionable eyes. The mother, Ellen, was just as enjoyable to read through, but unlike some of the others, not quite “fun”. Being in her mind was like walking on a psychological tight rope. Conrad is a unique enough villain of a man, but I would have enjoyed finding out a bit more on him. He was driven purely by hate and the lust for revenge, and that’s all Koontz really allowed him to show.

The pace is heady with it’s strength; just the beginning alone may get you high off the fumes of desperation and depression. It plunges into the abyss of despair immediately, does a few bumps and curves along the way, but never raises high enough so that you can feel the sun shining full force on your face.

Koontz’s style changes a bit from some books; here he writes well, enhances his characters to an amazing degree, describes things with fine detail but not overly so to where it becomes repetitive, and take care to allow terror to shine through when it should.

The Funhouse beams with an incredible array of colors. The ending is a bit of a let down, but that can be overlooked when it‘s all added together. When the last door of the carnival is locked, every last mark has gone home and is now safely snug in their beds, The Funhouse gets the rating of an event akin to sitting on an intense roller coaster that delivers all it originally promised.

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Sep 06, 2009 Jerri Brissette rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shivers!

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Oct 30, 2011 Anne rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: mystery, thriller

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May 02, 2008 Lilli rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: treasures-and-all-time-favorites

I think I've always liked reading, even as a kid, but this book really set me off. I picked it up myself in a airport one summer when I was flying home from my dads in florida to my moms in california. I read right thought entire flight, through the layover in St. Louis, and I kept reading when I got home til I finished this book a day or so later. Then I bought Dean Koontz books whenver I could. To this day my Grandma still clips newspaper articles about dean koontz and sends them to me, even t...more

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Sep 15, 2012 Kevin Lucia rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is one of his pen-name novels, written under "Owen West" - and while not as substantial as some of his best, certainly not his worst. Whatever you say about Dean Koontz, you can say this: his novels always MOVE. Some may view that as the worst mark of a hack. But while I love a deep, engrossing read as much as anyone else, I DON'T believe a novel has to be dense and nearly torturous to read just to be worthwhile. PACING is just as much a matter of craft as anything, and Koontz has always be...more

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Apr 06, 2013 Jeffery rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read this one a few summers ago. It's scary, fun and gory with interesting characters and a satisfying conclusion. This is definitely more horror than suspense, so fans of some of his lighter work such as In the Corner of his Eye should be warned. The most shocking thing was that this was a novelization of the screenplay that he just sort of "made his own." This is not deep like some of his other work. It's just a good, scary horror book.

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Sep 07, 2008 Kate rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 1993-to-1997, age-adult, horror

I really enjoyed this story, and especially I liked the introduction that told of Koontz being contracted to write a novelization of the new Tobe Hooper movie "The Funhouse" (he directed "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"), and how the book sold great until the movie was released and flopped.

I did like this book a lot, and spent years trying to find this "Funhouse" movie, and when I finally got it through Netflix, I was a little perplexed that I didn't remember ANYTHING that happened in the movie from t...more

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Apr 03, 2012 Katie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: koontz, disappointing

The Funhouse was an enticing tale of the horror and suspense we have come to expect of Koontz. The backstory and details were perfect and the whole story well-developed. However,the climax and action did not speed up my heart and put me on as much an edge as other works by Koontz. The Funhouse was a slight letdown in this respect, but still a great book overall.

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The Funhouse

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