The Bad Place (1990) by Dean Koontz
Readers unfamiliar with The Bad Place may wish to read my notes only after reading the novel.
The Bad Place (1990) is a sprawling and ambitious horror melodrama.
It begins with thirty-something private security firm owners and Big Band music fans Bobby and Julie Dakota undertaking a new client, Frank Pollard. Pollard knows his time is running out: he cannot stay ahead of his murderous siblings and survive on his wits any longer.
The Pollard clan make Flowers in the Attic look like Little House on the Prairie. Its most remorseless member is Frank's younger brother, Candy. Fortune has given Candy a permanent chip on his shoulder, along with a messiah complex and a desire to sweep away anyone with physical disabilities or mental challenges.
The Dakotas and their team of experts investigate the Pollards and struggle to keep tabs on Frank. Unknown to Bobby and Julie, Julie's brother Thomas is inadvertently keeping tabs on Candy Pollard on the ethereal plane. (Thomas is institutionalized with …
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