DRAGON TEARS by Dean Koontz

Author:Dean Koontz [Koontz, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Fantasy, Paranormal, Supernatural, Mystery Thriller, Science Fiction
Goodreads: 127363066
Publisher: BERKLEY
Published: 1993-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Dragon Tears

The threebedroom house was not large, but the space was well designed.

Like the exterior, the interior lacked sharp angles. All corners were soft radiuses, and many rooms had at least one curved wall. Radiused, extremely shiny whitelacquered moldings were used throughout.

Highgloss white paint had been applied to most walls, too, which lent the rooms a pearly luster, though the dining room had been fitixfinished to give the illusion that it was upholstered in plush beige leather.

The place felt like the interior of a cruise ship, and it should have been soothing if not cozy. But Harry was edgy, not just because the moonfaced killer had lived there or because they had entered illegally, but for other reasons that he could not pin down.

Maybe the furnishings had something to do with his apprehension. Every piece was Scandinavian modern, severe, unornamented, in flatyellow maple veneers, as angular as the house was softedged and rounded. The extreme contrast with the architecture made the sharp edges of the chair arms and end tables and sofa frames seem as if they were bristling at him. The carpet was the thinnest Berber with minimal padding; if it gave at all underfoot, the resilience was too minor to be detected.

As they moved through the living room, dining room, den, and kitchen, Harry noted that no artwork adorned the walls. There were no decorative objects of any kind; tables were utterly bare except for plain ceramic lamps in white and black. No books or magazines were to be found anywhere.

The rooms had a monastic feel, as if the person living in them was doing longterm penance for his sins.

Ordegard seemed to be a man of two distinct characters. The organic lines and textures of the house itself described a resident who had a strong sensual nature, who was easy with himself and his emotions, relaxed and selfindulgent to some extent. On the other hand, the relentless sameness of the furniture and utter lack of ornamentation indicated that he was cold, hard on himself and others, introverted, and brooding.

“What do you think?” Connie asked as they entered the hall that served the bedrooms.

“Creepy” “I told you. But why exactly?”

“The contrasts ... . too extreme.”

“Yeah. And it just doesn't look livedin.”

Finally in the master bedroom, there was a painting on the wall directly opposite the bed. Ordegard would have seen it first thing upon waking and last thing before falling asleep each night. It was a reproduction of a famous work of art with which Harry was familiar, though he had no idea what the title was. He thought the artist was Francisco de Goya; that much had stuck with him from Art Appreciation 101. The work was menacing, abrasive to the nerves, conveying a sense of horror and despair, not least of all because it included the figure of a giant, demonic ghoul in the act of devouring a bloody and headless human body Profoundly disturbing, brilliantly composed and executed, it was without doubt a major work of artbut more suited to the walls of a museum than to a private home.

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