Strange Highways (story collection)

Infobox Book |
name = Strange Highways
author = Dean Koontz
country = United States
language = English
genre = Horror, Suspense
publisher = Cemetery Dance Publications, Warner
release_date = 1995
media_type = Print (Hardback, Paperback)

Strange Highways is a collection of 11 short stories and two novellas by best-selling American suspense author Dean Koontz, released in 1995.

Cemetery Dance Publications printed a limited edition hardcover of the book (ISBN 1-881475-15-8). It was slipcased and limited to 750 signed and numbered copies.

ynopsis of short stories and novellas featured in "Strange Highways"

*"Strange Highways" (novella): a failed author returns to his hometown after many years to attend his father's funeral, only to find himself suddenly and inexplicably thrust back through time to relive a traumatic event from his past. In the introduction, Koontz lists the Centralia, PA mine fire as an inspiration for this story.
*"The Black Pumpkin"
*"Miss Attila the Hun"
*"Down in the Darkness"
*"Ollie's Hands": about a young man with extraordinary psychic abilities and his tragic attempt to pursue a relationship with a woman whose life he saves.
*"Snatcher"
*"Trapped": about a woman and her son trying to fend off an attack by giant, mutated rats.
*"Bruno"
*"We Three"
*"Hardshell": a wounded cop stalks a killer through an abandoned warehouse, but there's more to this seemingly stereotypical situation than meets the eye.
*"Kittens": the first short story Koontz ever sold.
*"The Night of the Storm"
*"Twilight of the Dawn": about a devout atheist who finds his lack of faith challenged in the wake of his son's painful death from cancer.
*"Chase" (novella):

References

[http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/koontz01 Link to limited version on Cemetery Dance Publication's webpage]