| 词条 | Darkfall (Koontz novel) |
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| name = Darkfall | image = Image:DarkfallK.jpg | caption = First edition (UK, with original title) | title_orig = Darkness Comes | author = Dean Koontz | cover_artist = Graham Potts | country = United States | language = English | series = | genre = Horror | publisher = W. H. Allen (UK) Berkley Books (US) | release_date = Feb 1984 (UK) Oct 1984 (US) | media_type = Paperback | pages = 351 | isbn = 0-491-03152-1 | oclc= 11997351 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} Darkfall is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1984. The novel is also known as Darkness Comes. SynopsisJack Dawson, a New York City detective, is dealing with a variety of situations in his life. His wife Linda has recently died, leaving him the sole caretaker for his two children, Penny and Davey. He is also forced to confront an especially brutal string of murders of Mafia criminals, which have been seemingly done by animals even though no living creature would simply tear a victim to pieces without actually eating anything. Finally, his partner Rebecca dismisses his eventual belief that there may be supernatural or magical factors in the killings. In truth, these creatures have been called forth from hell by a bocor named Baba Lavelle. Because of their small size, Lavelle assumed were just minor demons and the portal to Hell is not yet big enough to accommodate greater entities. At the end of the novel, Dawson is surprised to see that the portal has grown so big it has engulfed the shed where it is concealed. Numerous tentacles have sprouted from the pit and dragged Lavelle to hell. When Jack sees this, he comes to the conclusion that this was just a mere finger of a greater evil that was about to come. When holy water doesn't stop the pit from growing, Jack uses his blood from a wound inflicted by a tentacle to stop the pit. He fears that if he fails, he will be forced to sacrifice himself into the pit. The novel ends with all the denizens turning to mud and Jack hearing Rebecca say "I love you Jack" in thin air. Television adaptationAccording to Koontz in the afterword of a 2008 paperback reissue of The Eyes of Darkness, television producer Lee Rich purchased the rights for this book along with The Face of Fear, The Eyes of Darkness, and a fourth unnamed novel for a television series based on Koontz's work. Koontz himself wrote the script for Darkfall.[1] A change in studio heads, however, resulted in the project being put into turnaround as the new head of the network, according to Koontz, "didn't want to make a movie about 'little creatures living in the walls.'"[2] Ultimately, The Face of Fear was the only book of the four made into a television movie. References1. ^{{cite journal |date=November 16, 1989 |title=Lee Rich Propping Four TV Features |url=http://www.varietyultimate.com/archive/issue/image/variety/1989/1989-1117/DV-11-16-1989-3 |deadurl= |journal= |location=varietyultimate.com |publisher=Variety |archiveurl= |archivedate=November 16, 1989 |accessdate=June 30, 2014 }} 2. ^{{cite book |last=Koontz |first=Dean |date=December 2, 2008 |title=Afterword for The Eyes of Darkness |url= |location= |publisher=Berkley; Reissue edition |pages=369–374 |isbn=978-0425224861 }} External links
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