Brother Odd: Dean Koontz

This was a book about superhuman powers and how you can never escape them. Brother Odd,supposed to be name Todd, but there was a mistake on his birth certificate, can see the harbingers of death. He has been a guest in an Abbey for a few months when suddenly these creatures appear around the children. He and another brother "knuckles", who was in the witness protection program, set out to stop whatever catastrophe is about to occur. The creatures they find confuse them and appear to be made of bone. After destroying one of them it slowly shrinks and disappears. In the end they find out one of the brothers at the Abbey, who is also a patron, had been a renown physicist who experimented with reality. This brother, John, had a handicapped son who was being cared for at the abbey and who he had shunned his who life. Brother odd finds out John has figured out how to play God. God could create life by thought and so can John. John's subconscious was creating creatures who looked like they were made of bone, which had already killed two monks and were going to kill all of the "imperfect" children.