The hiding place (novel)
Das Versteck (Original: "Hideaway", 1992) is a 1993 novel by Dean Koontz in German . The author deals specifically with the topics of resuscitation and telepathy.
action
Hatch and Lindsay Harrison are hospitalized after a car accident. While Lindsay is only slightly injured, Hatch has been dead for 80 minutes. But the team of doctors around Dr. Jonas Nyebern manages to reanimate him. He doesn't appear to have been injured. However, he soon had strange visions and dreams that connect him to a young man who calls himself Vassago.
Vassago too has moments when he sees the things Hatch is looking at. He decides to add Lindsay to his collection of corpses, which he has artfully arranged in the underground of an abandoned amusement park. He begins to use the information he receives from the visions and follows the path to the Harrisons. Vassago kidnaps Regina, a ten-year-old physically disabled girl who was adopted by the Harrisons a few days earlier. Hatch and Lindsay take up the chase.
It turns out that Vassago's real name is Jeremy and the son of Dr. Jonas Nyebern is. Jeremy began murdering at the age of twelve and killed his sister, mother and ultimately himself at eighteen in hopes of going to Hell through those acts. However, Dr. Jonas Nyebern revive his son and since then Jeremy has thought of himself as Vassago, a prince of the underworld. Since then he has continued to kill people and create works of art with their corpses in order to gain another right to a place in hell.
When Hatch and Lindsay Harrison reach the abandoned amusement park shortly after Jeremy, they look for him in the corridors below the park. You can find him in his hiding place where he keeps Regina prisoner. After Lindsay is incapacitated by a fall, Hatch pounces on Jeremy. Jeremy calls him Uriel and lets himself be overwhelmed.
background
- Vassago : is considered a powerful prince of hell in demonology and is benign.
- Uriel : is one of the four archangels of the classical Judeo-Christian doctrine of angels.
filming
The novel was filmed in 1995 by Brett Leonard with the actors Jeff Goldblum , Christine Lahti , Alicia Silverstone and Jeremy Sisto . The premiere in Germany took place on June 6, 1996 under the title "Hideaway - Das Böse". Since Dean Koontz was disappointed with the film, he had his name removed from the credits.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kempley, Rita. Hideaway , The Washington Post , March 4, 1995.
literature
- Dean Koontz: The hiding place , German from Alexandra v. Reinhardt and Susanne Dickerhof-Kranz, Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3455039901