The Mask (Koontz novel)

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The Mask
First edition
Author	Dean Koontz (as Owen West)
Language	English
Genre	Mystery, Suspense
Publisher	Jove Books
Publication date	1981
Publication place	United States
Media type	Paperback
Pages	305
ISBN	0-515-05695-2
OCLC	27721515

The Mask is a thriller novel by American writer Dean Koontz originally released under the pseudonym Owen West in 1981. Koontz later re-released the novel under his own name.

Plot summary

An amnesic blonde girl appears in the middle of traffic on a busy day. Carol and Paul, a married couple, are drawn to her, seeing her as the child they never had, they take her in. Then Carol begins to have nightmares about ghastly noises in the dead of night, a bloody face in a mirror, and a razor-sharp ax.

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v t e Works by Dean Koontz
Novels	Star Quest (1968) The Flesh in the Furnace (1972) Chase (1972) Demon Seed (1973) Shattered (1973) Dragonfly (1975) Invasion (1975) Night Chills (1976) The Face of Fear (1977) The Vision (1977) The Key to Midnight (1979) The Voice of the Night (1980) The Funhouse (1980) Whispers (1980) The Mask (1981) The Eyes of Darkness (1981) The House of Thunder (1981) Phantoms (1983) Darkfall (1984) The Servants of Twilight (1984) Twilight Eyes (1985) The Door to December (1985) Strangers (1986) Watchers (1987) Shadow Fires (1987) Lightning (1988) Midnight (1989) The Bad Place (1990) Cold Fire (1991) Hideaway (1992) Mr. Murder (1993) Dragon Tears (1993) Winter Moon (1994) Dark Rivers of the Heart (1994) Icebound (1995) Strange Highways (1995) Intensity (1996) Ticktock (1996) Sole Survivor (1997) Fear Nothing (1998) Seize the Night (1998) False Memory (1999) From the Corner of His Eye (2000) One Door Away from Heaven (2001) By the Light of the Moon (2002) The Face (2003) Odd Thomas (2003) The Taking (2004) Life Expectancy (2004) Prodigal Son (2005) Velocity (2005) City of Night (2005) Forever Odd (2005) The Husband (2006) Brother Odd (2006) The Good Guy (2007) The Darkest Evening of the Year (2007) Odd Hours (2008) Your Heart Belongs to Me (2008) Relentless (2009) Dead and Alive (2009) Breathless (2009) Lost Souls (2010) What the Night Knows (2010) The Dead Town (2011) 77 Shadow Street (2011) Odd Apocalypse (2012) Deeply Odd (2013) Innocence (2013) The City (2014) Saint Odd (2015)
Film adaptations	Demon Seed (1977) The Passengers (1977) Watchers (1988) Whispers (1990) Watchers II (1990) The Face of Fear (1990) Servants of Twilight (1991) Watchers 3 (1994) Hideaway (1995) Intensity (1997) Mr. Murder (1998) Phantoms (1998) Watchers Reborn (1998) Sole Survivor (2000) Black River (2001) Frankenstein (2004) Odd Thomas (2013)
Children's books	Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages (1988)
Other	The Book of Counted Sorrows

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