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    The Neighbor
    The Neighbor
    The Neighbor
    Audiobook1 hour

    The Neighbor

    Written by Dean Koontz

    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Every city has its wonders and mysteries. For the Pomerantz family, the most disturbing mystery at the moment is the identity and the intentions of their new neighbor, in this eBook original short story—a prequel to The City, the gripping and moving new novel by Dean Koontz.

    The year is 1967. Malcolm Pomerantz is twelve, geeky and socially awkward, while his seriously bright sister, Amalia, is spirited and beautiful. Each is the other’s best friend, united by a boundless interest in the world beyond their dysfunctional parents’ unhappy home. But even the troubled Pomerantz household will seem to be a haven compared to the house next door, after an enigmatic and very secretive new neighbor takes up residence in the darkest hours of the night.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 28, 2017
    ISBN9781536663952
    The Neighbor
    Author

    Dean Koontz

    Dean Koontz is the author of more than a dozen New York Times No. 1 bestsellers. His books have sold over 450 million copies worldwide, and his work is published in 38 languages. He was born and raised in Pennsylvania and lives with his wife Gerda and their dog Anna in southern California.

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    • 5/5
      A quick read and suspenseful a boy & his sister
    • 5/5
      This book was very different from authors novels. However it was written very well and to the point. Loved the relationship between brother and sister.
    • 1/5
      Unimaginative. Expected better from this author. The ghost story has been done to death. Authors struggle to make the next good one. Very few do.
    • 5/5
      Fabulous as ever, a brilliant short story by a master author.
    • 4/5
      I don't usually read shot stories but this one caught my attention for three reasons. 1. It was a ghost story...2. It was written by one of my all time favorite authors, Dean Koontz...and 3. It was one I knew I had never read, or even heard of. So...off to an afternoon with "Uncle Dean". It didn't make an afternoon ...it barely made it to an hour but it was a fascinating well told little ghost story. It had hidden elements that were slowly brought out that made it all the more interesting. It didn't try to gloss over the happenings that caused the haunting with disbelieves and denials. It just told the story and left it to the reader to believe it or not. As for Malcolm and his sister Amalia...no one had to convince them that the horror that dwelled yet next door was anything other than what it was. Excelled story...but way too short. I guess that's what makes it a "short story???:)
    • 5/5
      This is a prequel to The City: A Novel and should be read first.***

      This short eerie story explains about the vacant house next to Malcom and Amalia's childhood home. They discover secrets they would have rather not know in the pursuit of being neighborly with the new neighbor they assume moved in at 3 am the night before. Full of suspense, this short and chilling thriller sets a very supernatural tone to the neighborhood where the characters from The City: A Novel, grow up. I don't want to give spoilers but this is a definite prerequisite for reading the novel.

      Dean Koontz is BACK! The author of some of my favorite novels from my youth has returned, in this novel. And I, for one, am incredibly happy to see/read his return! JUST the same tone as older novels, like The Watchers, and Whispers, and The Funhouse. Yay! I cannot wait to read The City, now.

      5 stars for this very short story, happily.

      ***This novella and the corresponding book are suitable for adult readers due to mature and sensitive subject matter
    • 4/5
      The Neighbor by Dean Koontz – Twelve-year old Malcolm Pomerantz and his older sister Amalia noticed that someone seemed to have moved into the their deceased neighbor’s vacant house. They decide to meet their new neighbor, but they discover a vacant, cluttered and dirty house. But there is someone in that house who beckons to them. This is a very well-done short story that I enjoyed very much.
    • 5/5
      Dean Koontz’s THE NEIGHBOR, a novella, e-short story to prepare- tantalize, readers for the exiting upcoming book, THE CITY.

      PS. Just finished THE CITY, as received an ARC (it is like no other book-5 stars). Had to go back and read, the e-short story, (as did not want to miss a thing)!

      THE NEIGHBOR gives you a little background of Malcom Pomerantz, a little OCD, a musician, and saxophone child prodigy, and very inquisitive young boy of twelve.

      Malcom is white and his best friend, Jonah is black, also a musician and a piano prodigy. They met in 1967, when Jonah and his mom moved in with Jonah’s grandfather, across the street from Malcom’s family. THE CITY is more about Jonah, even though Malcom and his sister are part of the book, as well.

      Jonah is eccentric, talented, smart, intuitive and Malcom is a talented, comedian, and geek misfit. Together they make a dynamic duo of music, mischief, and dreams---you cannot even imagine. They meet when Jonah is ten and Malcom, twelve.

      They grow up friends, and at age fifty-seven and fifty-nine, Jonah tells his story into a tape recorder—his story will become THE CITY, starting back before age seven.

      Along with this incredible, suspenseful, an engaging, story and a big part of THE CITY, is Amalia, Malcom’s big sister, age seventeen. They were very close—she is smart, talented, a writer, and an old soul.

      In early June, nearly a month before Jonah moved across the street, some strange things began happening one door west of him, at the former Rupert Clockenwall place (who died of a massive heart attack the month prior). Is there a story here about this guy, and was he really Teacher of the Year material?

      The late Clockenwall’s only surviving relative was a brother who lived far away and the house is empty with ghosts and much more, as they discover a past and evidence which proves this guy was very disturbed.

      Of course, having the usual fantasy life of a twelve-year-old there was sometimes imagined dramas when none existed. Rupert seemed to have been too bland a soul to come back from the grave on a haunt? Who was Melinda Lee—a middle school girl who three months before her thirteenth birthday, went missing? What does this guy have to do with his sister and the cross she began wearing at age fifteen?

      Read both books.Mesmerizing. You will not be disappointed!