Turns out this is very much an Invoked Trope. All the while a massive pulsing ship and numerous smaller glowing craft hover overhead.

Alien Invasion: The weather changes and odd fungi grow everywhere in ways reminiscent of terraforming while people are massacred left and right by strange and aggressive creatures.

Eliot references, and, despite its Lovecraftian overtones, the notion that no matter what happens, good will prevail and darkness will die. The Taking is chock full of Nightmare Fuel, bizarre creatures, T. Like most of Koontz's stories it works on the premise of genuinely good people cast into horrific situations. Trying to find reason in the increasingly impossible happenings that seem intent on tearing them apart emotionally as well as physically, they soon find that whatever is taking the earth is changing it in ways profound and unnatural. Braving the horrors outside, they must rely on each other and hidden reserves of strength and humanity they didn't know they had to survive and help those who need it the most children. Molly and Neil leave as disagreement and paranoia and something far worse takes hold of everyone. Some stay behind, others plan to fortify and find refuge at the bank, and others want to fight back at what is threatening their world.ĭisturbing things happen to undermine the fragile morale of the townsfolk.

Molly and Neil leave their isolated home and gather with other townsfolk at the tavern in hopes of finding answers and safety.Ī purple fog enshrouds Black Lake.

News broadcasts tell of strange weather phenomena across the globe, and connections to the outside world begin to be severed as the menacing visitors close in. Neil wakes screaming from a nightmare, or more of a terrifying awareness of something passing overhead-some massive force like “a mountain coming down.” She finds the rain is faintly luminous, and has a subtle, repulsive scent. Her husband Neil slumbers soundly, while she can't sleep. Set in the California mountain town of Black Lake, it begins with Molly Sloan getting out of bed to investigate a strange, sudden rain storm. The Taking is a 2004 Horror/suspense novel by Dean Koontz, detailing an invasion by hostile alien forces who bend all that is right with the world in their quick, ruthless takeover, and one couple caught in the middle of it all.

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