# Strange Highways

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- Book: [Strange Highways](https://www.bookquiver.com/dean-koontz/strange-highways) ([Strange Highways.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dean-koontz/strange-highways.md))
- Authors: [Dean Koontz](https://www.bookquiver.com/dean-koontz)
- Publisher: headline
- ISBN: 978-07-4724-839-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2006-09-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the stunning title story 'Strange Highways', a failed author returns to his hometown after many years to attend his father's funeral, only to find himself suddenly and inexplicably thrust back through time to relive a traumatic event from his past. One rain-swept Sunday night when he was twenty years old, on his way back to college after a weekend with his family, Joey Shannon took the wrong highway - and from that moment, nothing ever went right for him again. Now, exactly twenty years later, on another rain-swept night, Joey finds himself at the same crossroads, looking down the road never taken. Which is odd. Because that road no longer exists. A superhighway replaced it nearly twenty years ago, and the old state route - which had crossed a web of perpetually burning, abandoned coal mines - was condemned as too dangerous and was torn up. But now the highway is exactly as it was on that long-ago night, and when Joey turns on to it, he begins an eerie, terrifying journey toward a truth so dark and stunning that it will change everything he believes about himself, his past, and the nature of life.