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False Memory

Cover of False Memory
AuthorDean Koontz
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Suspense, Horror novel
PublisherCemetery Dance Publications and Bantam Books
Publication date1999
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback )
Pages784 pp
ISBNISBN 1-881475-85-9 and ISBN 0-553-58022-1


False Memory is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1999. The main idea of the story is the creation of false memories or a memory that never occurred. In the novel, Martie Rhodes is a young woman who accompanies her friend Susan Jagger on visits to Doctor Ahriman, a doctor who specializes in mental diseases. Susan is said to have agoraphobia, or the fear of open spaces.

False Memory was first released by Cemetery Dance Publications as a limited edition hardcover (ISBN 1-881475-85-9) that came in two different versions:
  • A limited edition of 698 signed, numbered, and slipcased copies (signed by Dean Koontz and Phil Parks who did the illustrations for the Cemetery Dance versions).
  • A lettered edition of 52 signed, lettered, and traycased copies (also signed by Dean Koontz and Phil Parks)

Synopsis

While Martie deals with her friend Susan, Martie's husband, Dusty Rhodes, is also dealing with his brother Holden Caulfield, who goes by the name of "Skeet". His brother was in rehab for drug use, and when he first appears in the story, he is high and tries to commit suicide by taking a plunge off of a roof that he is supposed to be repairing. Dusty ends up having to take him back to rehab due to drug overdose.

The novel switches viewpoints between Dusty and Martie, showing the trials each one is going through throughout the novel. During many visits to Doctor Ahriman's office, Martie suddenly develops a mysterious case of fear of autophobia, fear of oneself, and returns home on the current day in the novel to find herself frightened her own reflection. Later, her condition worsens, and soon she becomes afraid of pointed objects, although she is actually afraid of the harm she might cause with them.

When the novel switches back to Dusty's viewpoint, he is with Skeet in a room in the rehab center, and later, when Dusty leaves, he notices a shadow lurking in his brother's room window. From this point on, strange things begin happening to both Dusty and Martie, involving Skeet, Martie's autophobia, and hypnotism.

Links and references

Limited Edition information on Cemetery Dance Publications' website
Dean Koontz
Pseudonym: Aaron Wolfe, Brian Coffey, David Axton, Deanna Dwyer, John Hill, K.R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Leonard Chris, Owen West, Richard Paige
Born: July 9 1945 (1945--)
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A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
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Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
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Suspense or tension is the feeling of uncertainty and interest about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. However, suspense is not exclusive to literature.
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Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of an evil—or, occasionally, misunderstood—supernatural element into everyday human
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Cemetery Dance Publications is a specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense. Cemetery Dance was founded by Richard Chizmar, a horror author, while he was in college.
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A hardcover (or hardback or hardbound) is a book bound with rigid protective covers (typically of cardboard covered with cloth, heavy paper, or sometimes leather).
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Dean Koontz
Pseudonym: Aaron Wolfe, Brian Coffey, David Axton, Deanna Dwyer, John Hill, K.R. Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Leonard Chris, Owen West, Richard Paige
Born: July 9 1945 (1945--)
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False Memories is a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Buffy television series.

Story description

General synopsis

Remember that time when Buffy's little sister Dawn first found out that Buffy is the Slayer? And then when Angel
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Agoraphobia
Classification & external resources

ICD-10 F40.00 Without panic disorder, F40.01 With panic disorder
ICD-9 300.22 Without panic disorder, 300.
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Cemetery Dance Publications is a specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense. Cemetery Dance was founded by Richard Chizmar, a horror author, while he was in college.
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Autophobia may have the following meanings
  • Autophobia, fear of being alone
  • Self-hatred, a synonym of
  • Autophobia, fear of oneself, a definition coined in the novel False Memory by Dean Koontz

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