Title: Generic horror.
Product review: Stock characters and monsters fill this story of a town that has suffered a mysterious and complete disappearance of all it's inhabitants. The first half or so builds up interest, but the rest is by the numbers. Worse is Koontz' tedious writing style, the way he has to not only explicitly spell out every last detail of what is happening (either in action or in the characters' thoughts), but he has to then beat the concepts into the readers' heads. PHANTOMS might be okay beach or travel reading, but I can't recommend it any other way at all.
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