Ticktock 📖

Ticktock

Koontz, Dean Ray
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horror supernatural thriller past tense third limited POV ~345 pp high worldbuilding

Vibe

tense macabre paranoid

A dark horror. Expect rich worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 85
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 40
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 65
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 90%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 20%
nonecentral
Speculative hardness soft/vibes → hard sci-fi / rigorous magic

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count86,325
Page count~345 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited