This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2011 by Dean Koontz
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
A signed, limited edition has been privately printed by Charnel House. Charnelhouse.com
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Title page art from an original photograph by Dora Pete
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
77 Shadow Street: a novel / Dean Koontz.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345- 53236-7
1. Haunted places—Fiction. 2. Parapsychology—Fiction. I. Title.
II. Title: Seventy-seven Shadow Street.
PS3561.O55S38 2011
813?.54—dc22 2011031435
Jacket design: Scott Biel
Jacket images: Stephen Youll (house), David Muir/Getty Images (key)
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Contents
Part One - Where the Shadows Gather
Chapter 1 - The North Elevator
Chapter 2 - The Basement Security Room
Chapter 3 - The Basement Pool
Chapter 4 - Apartment 3-C
Chapter 5 - Apartment 2-C
Chapter 6 - Apartment 3-C
Chapter 7 - Apartment 2-A
Chapter 8 - Apartment 2-C
Chapter 9 - Apartment 2-A
Chapter 10 - The Basement Security Room
Chapter 11 - Apartment 3-F
Chapter 12 - Apartment 3-A
Chapter 13 - Apartment 3-D
Chapter 14 - Apartment 2-G
Chapter 15 - Apartment 2-A
Chapter 16 - Topper’s
Chapter 17 - Apartment 3-D
Chapter 18 - Apartment 1-C
Chapter 19 - Apartment 2-G
Chapter 20 - Apartment 3-F
Chapter 21 - Here and There
Chapter 22 - Apartment 2-F
Chapter 23 - Apartment 3-H
Chapter 24 - Here and There
Part Two - Something Deeply Hidden