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Horror

Strange Highways

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  • 1995 first published
  • 563 pages
  • ★ 3.7 (7 ratings)
  • 23 editions
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Published in 1995, Strange Highways is a horror story collection by Dean Koontz.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.7 out of 5 from 7 ratings, and 74 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 23 editions across 3 languages.

It runs to roughly 563 pages — 10–11 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Strange Highways

You are about to travel along the strange highways of human experience: the adventures and terrors and failures and triumphs that we know as we make our way from birth to death, along the routes that we choose for ourselves and along others onto which we are detoured by fate. It is a journey down wrong roads that can lead to unexpectedly and stunningly right destinations... into subterranean depths where the darkness of the human soul breeds in every conceivable form... over unfamiliar terrain populated by the denizens of hell. It is a world of unlikely heroes, haunted thieves, fearsome predators, vengeful children, and suspiciously humanlike robots. As profound as it is mesmerizing STRANGE HIGHWAYS is a remarkable achievement. As the Washington Post Book World put it: "His perennial bestsellers are engrossing entertainments that transcend the possibilities of any one of the genres from which they borrow."
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  • Horror
  • Suspense thrillers
  • Short stories, Single author
  • American Horror tales

Quick answers

Who wrote Strange Highways?

Strange Highways was written by Dean Koontz and first published in 1995.

What genre is Strange Highways?

It is usually shelved as Horror.

How long is Strange Highways?

The median edition has 563 pages, about 10–11 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Strange Highways?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, House of Leaves and At the Mountains of Madness.

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