This is the third novel by Dean Koontz that features Odd - a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly; following Odd Thomas and Forever Odd.

'Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because his fans ate up that kind of story. But rock star Jude indeed 'bought' himself a vengeful ghost that chase him out of his home and send him running for this life.

Hannibal Lecter is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. This novel narrates his becoming as death's prodigy

It was bone-chilling discovery of a never-before-published demonic 'memoir' penned in the year 1438, when it was printed - one copy only - and then buried until now by an assistant who worked for the inventor of the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg.