Books like The Door to December by Dean Koontz
When a midnight call leads psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey to the storm‑battered streets of Los Angeles, she finds her husband brutally murdered and her daughter Melanie—the one he kidnapped six years earlier—potentially still in danger. The police lead Laura to a seemingly abandoned lab where chilling experiments and a rising tide of terror await. Driven by both love and suspicion, Laura must confront a menacing world of psychological manipulation and poltergeist‑like phenomena while racing against time to rescue her daughter.
First publish date: 1985
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Dean Koontz
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