Night Chills

New York: Atheneum, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good +/very good +. A very good plus first edition, showing CIP data on copyright page. In a very good plus dust jacket showing usual bleed of pink onto jacket front only. Grey paper boards over blue quartercloth. Spotting on top edge. Portrait of Koontz in b/w on back of jacket. 334 pp. Octavo Night Chills is a suspense-horror novel by American writer Dean Koontz, originally published in 1976. It largely deals with the theme of mind control and is noted as one of Koontz's most graphic and violent works.Plot summaryWidower Paul Annendale has taken his two children, Rya and Mark, on their annual camping vacation to the small New England town of Black Water. What no one there knows is that the town has become a testing ground for a new experiment involving techniques related to subliminal advertising. Developed by amoral scientist Ogden Salsbury and funded by multi-millionaire Leonard Dawson, this newly discovered technique was introduced into the town with the aid of a chemical in the water supply, and allows anyone with a special code phrase to gain total mind control of an exposed subject. Together with local store owner Sam Edison, Paul intends to put a stop to this illegal conspiracy" --- Wikipedia