Yeah, that's exactly what I liked about it.

Just finished "Julia", by Peter Straub... not quite as good as most of his latter work, but a Damn Spooky novel in its own right. Talk about your twisted developments...

As for Koontz... I have never got into him and have never read "The bad place". I have, however, read "Servants of twilight"... I found it far too naive for my tastes. I dunno, I have read a couple of his novels and one or two of his short stories, and he just doesn't seem my kind of writer. He strikes me as the Steven Spielberg of horror literature: skilled but too childish for his own good.