Children of the Shadows — Don L. Freeman

CHILDREN OF DARKNESS

They were the legacy of the United States' chemical warfare in Vietnam. Children blind, deaf, and mute; so deformed, they could survive only in the artificial environment of a life support capsule. Just one, Lan, was functional enough to move around in an electric wheelchair. The mutant children knew nothing of the world beyond the care provided by Dr. Owen Arbus, the scientist assigned by the U.S. government to observe them, study them, and report any unusual data...

CHILDREN OF TERROR

Lan discovered it first. Their special gift. Their bodies may have been forever bound to the machinery that kept them alive, but their minds were free to travel the world in whatever shape their imaginations conjured up. Lan did it first, then he taught the others how to follow him. But the more they experienced of the real world, the more they hated what they were, and the people out there who had made them this way. So far their power had been limited by their imaginations. Now they were ready to enter the unimaginable...