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| Author | Dean Koontz |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction, weird, horror |
| Publisher | Putnam |
Publication date | March 1983 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback) |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 0-399-12655-4 |
| OCLC | 48925027 |
| LC Class | CPB Box no. 1919 vol. 16 |
Phantoms is a horror novel by American writer Dean Koontz, first published in 1983. The story is a version[1][2] of the now-debunked[3] urban legend[4] involving a village mysteriously vanishing at Angikuni Lake.
The novel includes many literary tips of the hat to the work of H. P. Lovecraft; the novel suggests the 'Ancient Enemy' is Lovecraft's god Nyarlathotep, also known as the 'Crawling Chaos', and the air force specialist in potential contact with non-human intelligence is named 'Captain Arkham' (cf. Lovecraft's invention Arkham).[5] Most of these Lovecraftian references were excised from the 1998 film version of Koontz's novel.
- ^ The Angikuni Mystery: The Case of the Missing Village (20 May 2013) Paranormal People.
- ^ What happened at the Anjikuni village, back in 1930? Archived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine (November 24th, 2013) BubbleWS
- ^ Dunning, Brian (16 July 2013). "Skeptoid #371: The Vanishing Village of Angikuni Lake". Skeptoid. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
- ^ Royal Canadian Mounted Police Historical Notes
- ^ Charles P. Mitchell, The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Filmography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 20001, pp. 167-68.