Night of the magic animals

Night of the Magic Animals (orig. Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages ) is a fantasy novel published in 1988 by the American writer Dean Koontz . The German edition appeared in 1989.

action

For many years, Isaac Liebmann (orig. Bodkins) in his small factory stuffed animals here. He affectionately calls them "magic animals". The job of the magic animals is to comfort children and bring them joy. The magic animals call their creator "Father Isaac". For him, the magic animals are his children.

But one evening the old toy maker dies and all of his creations are not only deeply sad, but also deeply fearful: an evil force awakens in the cellar of the factory. Evil tin toys wake up from the old cardboard boxes . With the death of father Isaac they see their chance to build a cruel regime on earth, because they want to put fear and terror into all children of the world.

To prevent the evil force from conquering the world, Amos the teddy bear , Skippy the rabbit, Puss In Boots, Einstein the elephant, Caramel the bitch and the old man, a rag doll with the appearance of an old man, must go to Martha Miller, so that she may become Isaac's successor. Martha Miller has to succeed him that same night, then not only the stuffed animals but also the world will be saved.

A dangerous journey through the city at night begins for the six magic animals to come to Martha Miller. But the travelers want to destroy a few tin toys led by the Rex puppet .

But there is still another danger for the stuffed animals: the child-hating Zacharias Zack wants to take over the factory from father Isaak to help the evil power with their plans for conquest. He wants to persuade Viktor Liebmann, the late Isaak's nephew, to sell the factory to him.

filming

The Warner Brothers Studios bought the film rights to the book and Tim Burton was to film the book.

Dean Koontz was thrilled about it, but Tim Burton rejected the filming. Dean Koontz feared that his book would be badly filmed. So he offered Warner Brothers a book of short stories to get back the film rights to his novel.