Into the Out Of

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name = Into the Out Of


author = Alan Dean Foster
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction novel Horror novel
publisher = Wildside Press
release_date = 1985
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 384 pp
isbn = ISBN 978-1587150470
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"Into the Out Of" (1986) is a horror/fantasy novel written by Alan Dean Foster.

Plot summary

The Maasai people become aware that a global crisis is approaching. Malevolent, unearthly creatures called shetani, which inhabit another dimension the Maasai know as the “Out Of” (because such things come "out of" it), are finding their way into the world. They are fomenting trouble between the superpowers, intent on causing mischief up to and including war. If not prevented, the barriers between the two dimensions will be breached and uncountable hordes of shetani will overrun the world, destroying all life.

Olkeloki, a Maasai elder, comes to Washington DC to warn the US President and seek help. He encounters Joshua Oak, a disenchanted FBI agent, and Merry Sharrow, a shy and unfulfilled call centre worker. He is convinced that they are the key people he has been seeking, and his persuasion, coupled with several dangerous encounters with shetani, convince them to return with him to Africa, where they join in Maasai attempts to hold back the shetani. Eventually Olkeloki takes Merry and Oak into the Out Of, where, with their help, he performs a ritual which seals the breach between dimensions, sacrificing his own supernatural powers in the process. All three return to this world, where the shetani’s tricks have ended and the diplomatic crisis is receding, and Oak and Merry realise they have found what they have been looking for in each other.

External links

* [http://www.alandeanfoster.com/ Alan Dean Foster homepage]