Man, those subtitles Kindle editions tack on sometimes are always overwrought, but this is a particularly painful example.

hero hurls holy water into a pit, then closes it with his own blood which is holy because he's a good guy, yes really.

What.

Koontz's decline really is a shame, because he has a good authorial toolkit if he'd only bother to focus on craft and not weird personal tangents and his characters being the Best and Purest Ever. Even in his awful later period, he sometimes comes up with premises I really like and wish I could read a better author's take on!