Voices as Meaningless as Wind in Dry Grass. “The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot.
In the Twilight Kingdom. “The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot.
The Pain of Living and the Drug of Dreams. “Animula” by T. S. Eliot.
The Red-Eyed Scavengers Are Creeping. “A Cooking Egg” by T. S. Eliot.
We Are Encompassed with Snakes. “Choruses from ‘The Rock.’” by T. S. Eliot.
What Life Have You If You Have Not Life Together? “Choruses from ‘The Rock’” by T. S. Eliot.
The Only Wisdom We Can Hope to Acquire. “East Coker” by T. S. Eliot.
Here in Death’s Dream Kingdom. “Eyes That I Last Saw in Tears” by T. S. Eliot.
Life You May Evade, but Death You Shall Not. “Choruses from ‘The Rock’” by T. S. Eliot.
A Troubled Guest on the Dark Earth. “The Holy Longing” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
There Comes a Moment When Everything Is Still and Ripens. “Grappa in September” by Cesare Pavese.
With Spiders I Had Friendship Made. “The Prisoner of Chillon” by Lord Byron.
Who Rides at Night, Who Rides So Late? “The Invisible King” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The Night Isn’t Dark; the World Is Dark. “Departure” by Louise Glück.
Deep into the Darkness Peering. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe.
Nothing at All around Me but the Beast. “The Inferno” by Dante Alighieri.
Everything That Rises Must Converge. The title of a short story by Flannery O’Connor.
Of What Is Past, or Passing, or to Come. “Sailing to Byzantium” by William Butler Yeats.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
International bestselling author Dean Koontz was only a senior in college when he won an Atlantic Monthly fiction competition. He has never stopped writing since. Koontz is the author of The House at the End of the World, The Big Dark Sky, Quicksilver, The Other Emily, Elsewhere, Devoted, and seventy-nine New York Times bestsellers, fourteen of which were #1, including One Door Away from Heaven, From the Corner of His Eye, Midnight, Cold Fire, The Bad Place, Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Intensity, Sole Survivor, The Husband, Odd Hours, Relentless, What the Night Knows, and 77 Shadow Street. He’s been hailed by Rolling Stone as “America’s most popular suspense novelist,” and his books have been published in thirty-eight languages and have sold over five hundred million copies worldwide. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, he now lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirits of their goldens Trixie and Anna. For more information, visit his website at www.deankoontz.com.