"Gloves of blood."The Vision
by Dean Koontz
(Putnam, 1977)
My earlier post on Koontz and Cain reminded me of this novel. It's one of my favorites because it applies a spare Cain-like style to a supernatural horror story. In her Koontz bio, Katherine Ramsland writes that Koontz "had noticed how many contemporary horror novels were written in a dense, baroque style, and he pondered what it would be like to cross horror with the stripped-down language of the fast-paced detective fiction of the 1930s." This "experiment" became The Vision. If only more horror novels cooked like this one.
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