MODERN NOVELS
1980 - PRESENT
Many thanks go out to:
Phil Stephensen-Payne - For numerous UK scans, proofs, and vital information.
Jim Olson - For proof and limited edition images, other rarities, and lots of info.
Paul Evans - For proof and limited/lettered edition images, other rarities, and even more info.
Allen Norby - For proof and lettered edition images.
Tom Daniels - For very rare Oval & Cameo Library images.
All the people who have worked so hard to gather obscure Dean Koontz items, through the years.
YOU - Contribute to Koontz Project and you will be recognized for your effort.
Thank you all!!
Without your kind efforts, this would not be possible.
1980
Whispers
1983
Phantoms
1984
Darkfall / Darkness Comes
1985
Twilight Eyes
1986
Strangers
1987
Watchers
1988
Lightning
Oddkins
1989
Midnight
1990
The Bad Place
1991
Cold Fire
1992
Hideaway
1993
Dragon Tears
Trapped
Mr. Murder
1994
Winter Moon
Dark Rivers of the Heart
1995
Icebound
Strange Highways
1996
Intensity
Santa's Twin
1997
Sole Survivor
Tick Tock
1998
Fear Nothing
1999
Seize The Night
False Memory
2000
From the Corner of His Eye
2001
The Book of Counted Sorrows
One Door Away From Heaven
The Paper Doorway
2002
By the Light of the Moon
2003
The Face
Every Day's A Holiday
Odd Thomas
2004
The Taking
Robot Santa
Life Is Good
Life Expectancy
2005
Frankenstein: Prodigal Son
Velocity
Frankenstein: City of Night
Christmas Is Good!
Frankenstein Screenplay
Forever Odd
"Bruno Frye is rich but unhappy, insecure. He lives in fear. He is afraid to sleep. He is afraid of the darkness because he thinks something is waiting for him in the night. And he's right. Frye is a killer, compelled to slaughter beautiful women. But there's a special dark place, filled with menacing whispers, where something hideous waits to kill Frye."
"The last book I wrote in total obscurity and the last book I wrote on a typewriter." Dean Koontz
1980
Putnam US hardback.ISBN 0-399-12351-2 $12.95 444 pages 06/1980.
Whispers was released with only 7000 1st trade edition copies, making it extremely rare and pricey. Look for a $12.95 price and an 8006 date code on the inside jacket flap, as well as 12 lines of text on the copyright page. In pictures the book club edition looks nearly identical, but is smaller and has 469 pages.
1981 WH Allen UK hardback.ISBN 0-491-02904-7 £7.95 444 pages ??/1981.
1981 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-04705-5 $2.95 502 pages 04/1981.
Although the mother publisher Putnam barely gave Whispers a hardback shove, the folks at Berkley did, and the paperback edition made it to the New York Times top five. Thank you Berkley!
1982 Star UK paperback.ISBN 0-352-30935-0 £?.?? 502 pages ??/1982.
Putnam proof copy.
Another Putnam proof.
1990
Headline UK reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0297-4 £14.95 444 pages 12/1990.
Literary Express, Inc.(New York Subsidiary of Doubleday Direct) faux
leather reissue - signature series.ISBN 1-58165-069-8 $??.?? 449 pages MO?/YR?.
One of four in the signature series - Whispers, Phantoms, Darkfall and Watchers.
All are bound with a silk bookmark, and have a printed replica of Dean Koontz' signature on the title page.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
You'll often see this hardback edition listed on ebay as a 1st - not
even
close.
Whispers movie
poster.FEAR SHOUTS - TERROR WHISPERS
1992 Wings US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-517-07369-2 $11.98 691 pages 07/1992.
Includes: Shattered, Whispers, and Watchers.
"Snowfield, California, was a charming little town. That was yesterday. Today, Snowfield is a place of nightmares. It is a glimpse of Hell. Today, over two hundred of Snowfield's five hundred residents have completely disappeared. At least one hundred fifty have died - suddenly, horribly, mysteriously. Something very strange is happening in Snowfield. And the worst is yet to come."
1983
Putnam US hardback.ISBN 0-399-12655-4 $15.95 352 pages 03/1983.
Roughly the same number of 1st editions as Whispers, making it very rare.
Look for a $15.95 price and an 8303 date code on the inside jacket flap, as well as twelve lines of text on the copyright page. As with Whispers, the book club edition looks nearly identical in pictures.
1983 WH Allen UK hardback.ISBN 0-491-03031-2 £8.95 446 pages 04/1983.
Thank you, Andrew Podger!
1983 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-05777-1 $3.95 426 pages 10/1983.
1984 Star UK paperback.ISBN 0-352-31437-0 £2.25 446 pages ??/1983.
1990
Headline UK reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0300-8 £13.95 446 pages 09/1990.
Graham Potts original Headline cover art for the Phantoms hardback
edition.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Literary
Express, Inc.(New York Subsidiary of Doubleday Direct) faux
leather reissue - signature series.ISBN 1-58165-072-8 $??.?? 449 pages MO?/YR?.
Phantoms movie script.
Phantoms movie poster.
1991
Wings US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-517-06487-1 $10.99 752 pages 07/1991.
Includes: The Servants Of Twilight, Darkfall, and Phantoms.
One of two Pauline Dunn books pulled from the market due to a
plagiarism
lawsuit won by Dean Koontz.
The second Pauline Dunn book. This book in particular was the
basis of the lawsuit.
"They found four corpses in four days. Each more hideously disfigured than the last, the bodies punctured with dozens of tiny wounds. At first they thought it was a savage psychopath. Then they thought it was a vicious gangland war. Then they thought packs of demonic rats were escaping through the ventilation system. Then they saw the nightmare itself, in all its mottled, slimy horror, coming after them from every direction, and they realized that the Gates of Hell had been left open..."
1984
Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-07187-1 $3.95 371 pages 10/1984.
No US trade hardback edition. Originally slated to be released as the third Owen West Jove paperback, entitled THE PIT - after the successes of Whispers and Phantoms Koontz' own name was outselling the West pseudonym so they went with his own name and the mainstream Berkley paperback line - on the dedication page Dean Koontz thanks Mr. Owen West(himself) for allowing him to use his own by-line. The cover came with a distinctive foil-like wrap.
1984 WH Allen UK hardback.Virtually the same book as Darkfall, released under a different title in the United Kingdom.
ISBN 0-491-03152-1 £9.95 352 pages 02/1984.
This is the true first release of this book, and is also Dean Koontz' preferred title.
1984
Berkley Books book club edition US hardback.Catalogue number 3749.
1984 Star UK paperback.ISBN 0-352-31479-6 £?.?? 351 pages ??/1984.
Literary
Express, Inc.(New York Subsidiary of Doubleday Direct) faux
leather reissue - signature series.ISBN 1-58165-071-X $??.?? 289 pages MO?/YR?.
WH
Allen Darkness Comes proof.
Darkfall television script - to the best of my knowledge, it never
happened.Thank you, Jim Olson!
1991
Wings US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-517-06487-1 $10.99 752 pages 07/1991.
Includes: The Servants Of Twilight, Darkfall, and Phantoms.
"Slim MacKenzie sees what others cannot see. He possesses a strange, unwanted gift: the ability to look deep into the heart of darkness. And he has discovered something looking back at him. Slim is a desperate fugitive who dares not glance behind. Seeking sanctuary in the summer of his seventeenth year, he seems to find safe harbor as a worker in the Sombra Brothers Carnival. However - though it boasts the usual thrill rides, freaks, girly shows, and gaudy glamor - this is no ordinary carnival. Beyond the lights and tinsel, there is eerieness, danger, and brooding mystery. Within the exotic realm of the of the dazzling midway, there moves a creature of which the carnies are unaware, something dark, something dangerous."
1985
Land of Enchantment oversized US hardback.ISBN 0-9603828-4-4 $32.00 263 pages ??/1985.
Koontz was approached by LOE, and having been impressed by their edition of Stephen King's Cycle Of The Werewolf, decided to work with them. His short novel ended up being over twice as long as was originally agreed upon.
Beautifully illustrated by Phil Parks - to the best of my knowledge this was the first of their many efforts together. Published by Chris (Oddkins) Zavisa.
1985 LOE signed/numbered limited edition, 250 copies.ISBN 0-9603828-3-6 $75.00 263 pages ??/1985.
Numbers 1-50 had an inscription by Koontz and a piece of original artwork by Phil Parks.
1985 LOE signed/lettered limited edition, 24 copies.Thank you, Allen Norby!
Phil Parks made 10 special limited editions - each of which contained a
handmade illustration on the title page, drawn by him. His
personal copy was the only one to have two illustrations.
Here is an example
- his personal copy.
1987 WH Allen UK hardback.The first release to contain the entire story.
ISBN 0-491-03475-X £11.95 478 pages 04/1987.
1987 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-10065-0 $4.95 451 pages 09/1987.
Also contains the full story.
1991 Headline UK reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0293-1 £14.95 478 pages 05/1991.
Thank you, Andrew Podger!
Twilight
Eyes LOE promotional magazine, with about 19 pages from the book.Thank you, Paul Evans!
Twilight Eyes LOE promotional poster.
Berkley Twilight Eyes
promotioal booklet.Thank you, Paul Evans!
Berkley Twilight Eyes proof.
"Strangers are utterly mystified until a pattern of puzzling clues and tentative contacts begins to surface. What could these disparate individuals have shared that would make powerful and ruthless agents strive so hard to make them forget it? Finding the answer, the Strangers stumble toward one another, leading to a stunning climax that will change their lives forever."
1986
Putnam US hardback.ISBN 0-399-13143-4 $17.95 526 pages 04/1986.
The last Koontz trade hardback to be released in relatively low numbers.
Look for a $17.95 price and an 8604 date code on the inside flap, as well a 1-10 number line on the copyright page.
1986 WH Allen UK hardback.ISBN 0-491-03802-X £10.95 712 pages 03/1986.
First trade release.
Due to WH Allens' low print run this release is more difficult to find than the US edition.
1986 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-09217-8 $4.50 681 pages 12/1986.
1987 STAR UK paperback.ISBN 0-352-31986-0 £3.95 710 pages 03/1987.
Putnam Strangers proof.
Putnam ARC.
1991
Headline UK reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0292-3 £14.95 537 pages 04/1991.
Graham Potts original Headline cover art for the Strangers hardback
edition.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Putnam Strangers 9x12 inch promotional flyer, opens to 36x12.
Strangers bookplate.
1994 Putnam US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-399-13927-3 $11.98 752 pages 04/1994.
Includes: Strangers, The Voice Of The Night, and The Mask.
"Out of a government laboratory so sinister and secret that its very name cannot be whispered come two escaped creatures, one murderous and one benign, and both "changed". To the people who encounter them they spell either doom or a touching new kind of love."
"Many consider(Watchers) the most accomplished novel of this decade"
Ed Gorman
1987
Putnam US hardback.ISBN 0-399-13263-5 $17.95 352 pages 02/1987.
Look for a $17.95 price and an 8702 date code on the inside flap, as well as a 1-10 number line on the copyright page.
1987
Headline UK hardback.After much disappointment with WH Allen, and their low print runs, Dean Koontz switched publishers to the upstart Headline.
ISBN 0-7472-0041-6 £10.95 352 pages 09/1987.
1988 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-10746-9 $4.95 483 pages 04/1988.
1988 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3061-7 £3.50 507 pages 05/1988.
Putnam Watchers ARC.
Headline Watchers proof.
Literary
Express, Inc.(New York Subsidiary of Doubleday Direct) faux
leather reissue - signature series.ISBN 1-58165-070-1 $??.?? 421 pages MO?/YR?.
Berkley Watchers promotional flyer; 9x12 inches, opens to 18x24.
Watchers movie promotional
book.Thank you, Paul Evans!
Watchers bookplate.
1992 Wings US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-517-07369-2 $11.98 691 pages 07/1992.
Includes: Shattered, Whispers, and Watchers.
2004 BCA UK hardback omnibus.949 pages ??/2004.
Includes: Watchers and Sole Survivor.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
"Spirited Laura Shane lives a life whose escapes and rewards are inevitably weighed against the reckoning of a mysterious and fearsome creditor. Her existence is marked by crisis, from the hour of her birth on a stormy January night in 1955, when "there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years." She narrowly escapes death as a stranger materializes out of a blizzard to guard her from the not-so-tender mercies of a drunken doctor and ensure her safe passage into the world. The years go by, and ever more terrifying troubles plaque her, but with increasing strength and courage Laura prevails - often with the almost miraculous involvement of the same stranger."
1988 Putnam US hardback.ISBN 0-399-13319-4 $18.95 351 pages 01/1988.
Look for an $18.95 price and 8801 date code on the inside sleeve, as well as a 1-10 number line on the copyright page.
1988 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0069-6 £11.95 351 pages 05/1988.
1989 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-11580-1 $4.95 355 pages 05/1989
1989 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3164-8 £3.50 439 pages 03/1989.
Putnam Lightning proof.
Headline Lightning
proof.Thank you, Paul Evans!
1988
Ultramarine Press signed/limited edition, 200 copies.Thank you, Paul Evans!
1988
Ultramarine Press signed/lettered edition, 26 copies.Thank you, Paul Evans!
Lightning bookplate.
1992
Chancellor Press UK
hardback omnibus.ISBN 1-85152-214-X £6.99 842 pages 07/1992.
Includes: Lightning, Midnight, and The Bad Place.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1993 Putnam US
hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-399-13843-9 $11.98 704 pages 05/1993.
Includes: Lightning, The Face Of Fear, and The Vision.
2004
BCA UK hardback omnibus.981 pages ??/2004.
Includes: Lightning and Intensity.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
A Fable For All Ages
"To the world, the Oddkins are just stuffed animals. But all these soft, cuddly, sweet-faced toys share a wonderful, magical secret...they're alive! Created by Mr. Isaac Bodkins, the old toymaker, the Oddkins are made only for very special children, those who must face something difficult in life and need a true friend. The Oddkins are given to these children to inspire them, help them, and love them as long as the children need them. Only now the toys themselves - Amos, the brave stuffed bear; Skippy, the rabbit who dreams of being a superstar; Butterscotch, the gentle, floppy-eared pup; as well as Burl the elephant; Gibbons; and Patch the cat - are the ones in need of help."
1988 Warner Books US hardback.ISBN 0-446-51490-X $17.95 183 pages 10/1988.
Look for a $17.95 FPT price and a 1088 date code on the inside jacket flap, as well as a 1-10 number line on the copyright page.
Beautifully illustrated by Phil Parks.
1988 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0112-9 £12.95 183 pages 11/1988.
1989 Headline UK trade paperback.ISBN 0-7472-7992-6 £6.95 185 pages 10/1989.
Warner Oddkins proof. Original title was to be STUFFINS.Thank you, Jim Seels!
Unbound Proof sent to Dean's Swedish agent, as ODDKINS NIGHT -
with the NIGHT crossed-out. NOTE: The cover sheet has the
"correct" title. Includes several examples of Phil
Park's illustrations.Thank you, Jim Olson!
1989 Warner/Phil
Parks signed/limited edition hardback, 12 copies.In 1989 Phil Parks created 12 hand-illustrated limited edition copies of Oddkins; six with drawings of the good toys, and six with drawings of the evil toys - all signed by Phil and Dean.
Any copy would be priceless.
In 1990 he created two handsigned/illustrated copies for himself, which were later also signed by Dean.
The
two examples of Phil Parks' personal copies.Thank you, David Murrills and Allen Norby!
Warner Books Oddkins promotional poster.
Oddkins bookplate.
Original Oddkins toys, circa 1969.
"Strange deaths have occurred in picturesque Moonlight Cove, an idyllic northern California coastal town - "the edge of paradise" to some but increasingly the edge of sheer terror for others. Certain residents harbor a secret so dark it could cost even more lives - in and beyond Moonlight Cove."
1989 Putnam US hardback.ISBN 0-399-13390-9 $19.95 383 pages 01/1989.
Look for a $19.95 price and 8901 date code on inside jacket flap, as well as a 1-10 number line on the copyright page.
Midnight was Dean Koontz' first #1 bestseller hardback, as well as the first of five consecutive #1 bestsellers in hardback.
1989 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0124-2 £12.95 438 pages 04/1989.
1989 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-11870-3 $6.25 470 pages 11/1989.
1990 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3272-5 £4.50 502 pages 03/1990.
Putnam Midnight ARC.
Putnam Midnight proof. Cover is identical to the ARC but the
proof is about 1/8 inch thinner and states that is is an Uncorrected
Proof inside.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Headline Midnight proof.
1989
Headline promotional
book, including Midnight.Thank you, Paul Evans!
Midnight bookplate.
A
different Midnight bookplate.
Ray
Lago promotional black and white watercolor painting for
Midnight.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Midnight promotional T Shirt. 1992
Chancellor Press UK
hardback omnibus.ISBN 1-85152-214-X £6.99 842 pages 07/1992.
Includes: Lightning, Midnight, and The Bad Place.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1996
Putnam US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-399-14125-1 $12.98 804 pages 04/1996.
Includes: The House Of Thunder, Shadowfires, and Midnight.
"Frank Pollard awakens in an alley, knowing nothing but his name - and that he is in great danger. Having taken refuge in a motel, he wakes again only to find his hands covered in blood. As far as he knows, he's no killer. But who's blood is this, and how did it get there? Over the next few days Frank develops a fear of sleep, because each time he wakes he discovers strange objects in his hands and pockets - objects far more frightening than blood. Husband and wife detective team Bobby and Julie Dakota... out of compassion - and curiosity - they agree to get to the bottom of his mysterious, amnesiac fugues... Their lives are threatened, as is that of Julie's gentle, Down's-syndrome brother, Thomas. To Thomas, death is "the bad place" from which there is no return. But Julie and Bobby - and their tortured client - ultimately learn that equally bad places exist in the world of the living, places so steeped in evil that in contrast death seems almost a relief."
1990 Putnam US hardback.ISBN 0-399-13498-0 $19.95 382 pages 01/1990.
Look for a $19.95 price and a 9001 date code on the inside flap, as well as a 1-10 number line on the copyright page. Another #1 bestseller.
1990 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0222-2 £12.95 372 pages 03/1990.
1990 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-12434-7 $5.95 417 pages 12/1990.
1991 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3444-2 £4.99 500 pages 01/1991.
Putnam The Bad Place proof.
Headline The Bad Place proof.
1990
Putnam
signed/numbered limited edition, 250 copies.ISBN 0-399-13510-3 $150.00? 382 pages ??/1990.
Thank you, Jim Olson and Paul Evans!
The
Bad Place movie
screenplay - that nevered happened.Thank you, Paul Evans!
The
Bad Place bookplate. 1992
Chancellor Press UK
hardback omnibus.ISBN 1-85152-214-X £6.99 842 pages 07/1992.
Includes: Lightning, Midnight, and The Bad Place.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1998
Putnam US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-399-14442-0 $12.98 776 pages 11/1998.
Includes: The Bad Place, Demon Seed, and The Eyes Of Darkness.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
"Reporter Holly Thorne is intrigued by Jim Ironheart, who has saved 12 lives in the past three months. Holly wants to know what kind of power drives him, why terrifying visions of a churning windmill haunt his dreams, and just what he means when he whispers in his sleep that an enemy who will kill everyone is coming."
1991
Putnam US hardback.ISBN 0-399-13597-0 $22.95 382 pages 01/1991.
1991 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0328-8 £13.95 374 pages 01/1991.
1991 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-13071-1 $5.99 421 pages 12/1991.
1992 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3605-4 £4.99 506 pages 01/1992.
Putnam Cold Fire proof.
Headline Cold Fire proof.Thank you, Phil Stephensen-Payne!
1991
Putnam signed/numbered limited edition, 750
copies.ISBN 0-399-13591-X $150.00.
1993
Headline UK hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-7472-0805-0 £7.99 792 pages 07/1993.
Includes: Cold Fire, The Mask, and The Face Of Fear.
2000
Putnam US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-399-14626-1 $14.98 773 pages 12/2000.
Includes: Cold Fire, The Key To Midnight, and Hideaway.
"Although accident victim Hatch Harrison dies en route to the hospital, a brilliant physician miraculously resuscitates him. Given this second chance, Hatch and his wife Lindsey approach each day with a new appreciation of the beauty of life- until a series of mysterious and frightening events brings them face to face with the unknown.
Although Hatch was given no glimpse of an After Life during the period when his heart had stopped, he has reason to fear that he has brought a terrible Presence back with him... from the land of the dead.
When
people who have wronged
the Harrisons begin to die violently,
Hatch comes to doubt his own innocence- and must confront the
possibility that this life is just a prelude to another, darker place.
With growing desperation, Lindsey and Hatch seek the truth along a
twisted trail which leads eventually to an abandoned amusement park-
and a confrontation with purest evil."
1992 Putnam US hardback.ISBN 0-399-13673-8 $22.95 384 pages 01/1992.
1992 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0481-0 £14.99 307 pages 01/1992.
1992 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-13525-X $5.99 400 pages 12/1992.
1992 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3815-4 £5.99 501 pages 12/1992.
Putnam Hideaway proof.
Headline Hideaway proof.Thank you, Phil Stephensen-Payne!
Headline Hideaway proof
cover sheet.Thank you, Jim Olson!
1992
Putnam signed/numbered limited edition, 800
copies.ISBN 0-399-13682-7 $150.00.
1994
Headline UK
hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-7472-1031-4 £6.99 564 pages 08/1994.
Includes: Hideaway and The Vision.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
2000
Putnam US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-399-14626-1 $14.98 773 pages 12/2000.
Includes: Cold Fire, The Key To Midnight, and Hideaway.
"Harry Lyon is a cop who embraces tradition and order. He likes everything in his life to be neat and clean, from his immaculate condominium to his well-tailored clothes to his homicide case files with their error-free typing.
The biggest bane of his life is his partner, Connie Gulliver. Harry doesn't like the way she dresses for work, the messiness of her desk, her lack of social polish, or her sometimes casual attitude towards the law.
When Harry and Connie have to take out a hopped-up gunman in the restaurant where they're having lunch, the chase and shootout swiftly degenerate into a surreal nightmare that seems to justify Connie's view of the modern world."
1993 Putnam US Hardback.ISBN 0-399-13773-4 $22.95 377 pages 01/1993.
1993 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0643-0 £15.99 371 pages 01/1993.
1993 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-14003-2 $6.99 401 pages 10/1993.
1993 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-4167-8 £5.99 502 pages 12/1993.
Putnam Dragon Tears proof.
Headline Dragon Tears
proof.Thank you, Paul Evans!
1993
Putnam signed/numbered limited edition, 700
copies.ISBN 0-399-13789-0 $150.00.
"White rats locked in a laboratory cage - but try not to pity them.
These dome-headed monsters are huge, bioengineered smart rats. And out they break one stormy winter night. They take over the nearby house of widowed mother Meg Lassiter. Hatred glows in their clever red eyes. Meg and Tommy are their first victims. Trapped, loathsome humans..."
1993
Eclipse US trade paperback.ISBN 0-06-105004-0 $9.99 80 pages 04/1993.
A graphic adaptation of a short story of the same title from the anthology Stalkers.
Adapted by Ed Gorman, illustrated by Anthony Bilau.
Comic book format.
1993
Eclipse/HarperPaperbacks UK trade paperback.ISBN 0-586-21753-3 £6.99 80 pages 04/1993.
1993 Eclipse US
hardback.ISBN 1-56060-170-1 $22.95 80 pages 05/1993.
"For Martin Stillwater life couldn't be more perfect. He and Paige are happy together - absurdly happy considering how many of their friends are divorced, separated or cheating on each other - and their two daughters, Charlotte and Emily, are intelligent, well-adjusted and healthy. At last, Martin's novels are achieving long-hoped-for levels of success, with the two most recent paperbacks being bestsellers, and, though he doesn't like publicity, he's about to be in People magazine. So what's going wrong? Why does Martin feel such dread, experience sudden blackouts? There must be a simple explanation. Mustn't there?
The killer doesn't know his name, only the names he uses. He has no family, no friends, no home. He cannot recall who gives him his assignments, and he doesn't know why his targets must die. He has no past memory and no knowledge of what he will do before he does it. He does not know who he is. Sometimes in despair, he is overwhelmed by his loneliness, and tortured by the meaninglessness of his life. Then he sobs as if a child. Now he's reached a turning point, is trembling on the brink of an insight that will change his life.
"I need to be............ to be............ I need to be someone"
And he senses that beyond the horizon, in a town he can't yet envision, a life awaits him, a place to call home, with family and friends. Charlotte knows there is something wrong and is troubled as she blinks back her tears. The man stands, sits and sounds like daddy. But he doesn't smile as quickly or as often as usual. And when he does smile he seems to be pretending. Daddy isn't daddy."
1993 Putnam US Hardback.ISBN 0-399-13874-9 $23.95 415 pages 10/1993.
1993 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0832-8 £16.99 409 pages 09/1993.
First trade release.
1994 Berkley US paperback.ISBN 0-424-14442-9 $6.99 481 pages 12/1994.
1994 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-4223-2 £5.99 567 pages 08/1994.
Putnam Mr. Murder proof.
Headline Mr. Murder UK proof.
1993
Putnam signed/numbered limited edition, 600
copies.ISBN 0-399-13899-4 $150.00.
"Deepest night, Montana. An eerie light proclaims the arrival of a mysterious watcher in the woods. And one solitary man begins a desperate battle against something unknown -- and unknowable.
Broad daylight, Los Angeles. An ordinary morning erupts in cataclysmic violence. A young family is shattered in a heartbeat.
Fate will lead this family to an isolated Montana ranch, but their sanctuary will become their worst nightmare. For there they will face a chillingly ruthless enemy, from which no one -- living or dead -- is safe."
1994 Ballantine US paperback.ISBN 0-345-38610-8 $6.99 472 pages 02/1994.
No US trade hardback released.
Formerly known as Invasion by Aaron Wolfe.
Although the scope of this section of KoontzProject is to cover the novels released using his own name from 1980 to present, this book and Icebound were essentially re-written and modernized, so they will appear both here and in the pseudonym sections.
For several years Invasion was thought to have been written by Stephen King.
1994
Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0910-3 £16.99 345 pages 01/1994.
First release of this title.
1994
Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-4289-5 £5.99 472 pages 12/1994.
199? US bce edition reissue hardback.
Headline Winter Moon proof.Thank you, Jim Olson!
"Do you dare step through the red door?"
"Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one--including the U.S. government--and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he'd buried years ago--inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don't first."
1994 Knopf US hardback.ISBN 0-679-42524-1 $24.00 487 pages 11/1994.
Dean switched US hardback publishers - feeling like he could never quite gain any real respect in Putnam's eyes - instead of celebrating each new #1 bestseller with him they'd tell him things along the line of don't get used to it or that it was just a fluke.
1994 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0962-6 £14.99 537 pages 11/1994.
1995 Ballantine US paperback.ISBN 0-345-39657-X $7.99 566 pages 12/1995.
1995 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-4449-9 £5.99 728 pages 11/1995.
Knopf Dark Rivers Book Club Edition (BCE).Generally, book club editions are very similar to the original only smaller, but in this case it was a completely different cover design.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Knopf Dark Rivers proof.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Knopf Dark
Rivers ARC.
1994
Charnel
House signed/numbered limited edition, 500 copies.Front and back covers, as well as book with slipcase shown.
Illustrated and also signed by Stephen Gervais.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1994
Charnel
House signed/lettered limited edition, 26 copies.
Dark
Rivers UK paperback
promotional kit which was offered to book sellers - including a copy of
the book, a watch, a signed book plate, and a publicity sheet listing
numerous things a book seller could order - all inside a chrome
slipcase.Thank you, Jim Olson!
2001
Bright Sky Press US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-9709987-1-6 $12.95 700 pages 12/2001.
Includes: Dark Rivers Of The Heart, Sole Survivor, and Intensity.
"The arctic night is endless. The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white. Cold-blooded murder seems right at home....the chill of the grave."
1995 Ballantine US paperback.ISBN 0-345-38435-0 $6.99 408 pages 02/1995.
No US trade hardback released.
Formerly known as Prison Of Ice by David Axton.
Although the scope of this section of KoontzProject is to cover the novels released using his own name from 1980 to present, this book and Winter Moon were essentially re-written and modernized, so they will appear both here and in the pseudonym sections.
1995
Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-1195-7 £16.99 282 pages 01/1995.
First release of this title.
1995
Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-4740-4 £4.99 376 pages 08/1995.
???? Readers Digest UK
hardback.ISBN etc. ???????.
Icebound was part of a UK Readers Digest condenced edition; along with A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follet, Hidden Riches by Nora Roberts, and The Magic Bullet by Harry Stein.
Headline Icebound proof.Thank you, Paul Evans!
"STRANGE HIGHWAYS is Koontz's spellbinding collection of tales interconnected by the strange highways of human experience-the adventures, terrors, failures, and triumphs encountered on the roads that are chosen, and on those detoured by fate."
1995 Warner Books US hardback.ISBN 0-446-51974-X $23.95 561 pages 05/1995.
1995
Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-1333-X £16.99 439 pages 04/1995.
First trade release.
1996 Warner Vision US paperback.ISBN 0-446-60339-2 $?.?? 614 pages 08/1996.
1996 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-4839-7 £5.99 564 pages 04/1996.
Warner Books Strange Highways ARC.
Headline Strange Highways proof.Thank you, Jim Olson!
1995
Cemetery Dance signed/limited edition, 750
copies.ISBN 1-881475-15-8 $150.00.
"Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty- six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventure," Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as the arise, to immense himself in sensation, t o live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit.
Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl--as moment by moment, the terrifying threat Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies."
1996 Knopf US hardback.ISBN 0-679-42525-X $25.00 308 pages 01/1996.
Six weeks as #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.
1995 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-1334-8 £14.99 343 pages 11/1995.
First trade release.
1996 Ballantine US paperback.ISBN 0-345-38436-9 $7.99 436 pages 11/1996.
1996 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-4840-0 £5.99 469 pages 10/1996.
1997 Ballantine mini-series tie-in US paperback.ISBN 0-345-91189-X $?.?? ??? pages 11/1997.
Knopf Intensity proof.
Knopf Intensity typescript.
Knopf Intensity ARC.
Headline Intensity proof.
1996
Franklin Library signed/limited edition. 2001
Bright Sky Press US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-9709987-1-6 $12.95 700 pages 12/2001.
Includes: Dark Rivers Of The Heart, Sole Survivor, and Intensity.
2004
BCA UK hardback omnibus.981 pages ??/2004.
Includes: Lightning and Intensity.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
"Someone has stolen Santa's bank card!"
"Santa's Twin is the hilarious and heartwarming story of two little girls, Charlotte and Emily, who set out to save Santa from his mischievious twin--Bob Claus--who has not only stolen Santa's sleigh, but has stuffed his toy bag with mud pies, cat poop, and broccoli! Plus, he's threatening to turn Donner, Blitzen and the rest of the reindeer into soup! And look at the mess he's leaving under the tree!
How the brave but foolhardy sisters fly to the north pole and rescue Santa from his "deeply troubled" twin is an utterly charming and unforgettable story that will add sparkle to your holiday season."
1996 Harper Prism US hardback.ISBN 0-061-05355-4 $20.00 72 pages 11/1996.
Illustrated by Phil Parks.
1996 Harper Collins UK hardback.ISBN 0-00-225606-1 £9.99 72 pages 12/1996.
2004 Perennial
Currents US trade paperback.ISBN 0-060-57223-X $12.95 64 pages 10/2004.
"A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead -- no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.
A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any questions, she slips away.
Driven now by rage (have the authorities withheld information?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (if there is one survivor, are there others?), Joe sets out to find the mysterious woman. His search immediately leads him into the path of a powerful and shadowy organization hell-bent on stopping Rose before she can reveal what she knows about the crash.
Sole Survivor unfolds at a heart-stopping pace, as a desperate chase and a shattering emotional odyssey lead Joe to a truth that will force him to reassess everything he thought he knew about life and death -- a truth that, given the chance, will rock the world and redefine the destiny of humanity."
1997 Knopf US hardback.ISBN 0-679-42526-8 $25.95 321 pages 02-1997.
1997 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-1756-4 £16.99 312 pages 01/1997.
First trade release.
1997 Ballantine US paperback.ISBN 0-345-38437-7 $7.99 403 pages 11/1997.
1997 Headline UK paperback.0-7472-5434-6 £5.99 437 pages 10/1997.
2000
Bantam mini-series
tie-in paperback.ISBN 0-553-58294-1 $?.?? 416 pages 04/2000.
Knopf Sole Survivor ARC.
Headline Sole Survivor bound typescript ARC.Thank you, Phil Stephensen-Payne!
2001
Bright Sky Press US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-9709987-1-6 $12.95 700 pages 12/2001.
Includes: Dark Rivers Of The Heart, Sole Survivor, and Intensity.
2004 BCA UK hardback omnibus.949 pages ??/2004.
Includes: Watchers and Sole Survivor.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
"Tommy Phan is a 30-year-old Vietnamese-American detective and novelist living in Southern California, and a chaser of the American Dream. He drives home his brand-new Corvette one day to discover a strange doll on his doorstep. It's a rag doll made entirely of white cloth, with no face or hair or clothes. Where the eyes should be, there are two crossed stitches of black thread. Five sets of crossed black stitches mark the mouth, and another pair form an X over the heart.
He brings it into the house. That night, he hears an odd little popping sound and looks up to see the crossed stitches over the doll's heart breaking apart. When he picks up the doll, he feels something pulsing in its chest. Another thread unravels to reveal a reptilian green eye --and not a doll's eye, because it blinks.
Tommy Phan pursues the thing as it scrambles away into his house -- and then is pursued by it as it evolves from a terrifying and vicious minikin into a hulking and formidable opponent bent on killing him."
1997 Ballantine US paperback.ISBN 0-345-38430-X $7.99 338 pages 04/1997.
No US hardback issued.
1996 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-1398-4 £16.99 311 pages 07/1996.
First release of this novel - by several months.
By all rights this release should have been listed before Sole Survivor, but to stick with the pattern of maintaining a continuous flow of US releases, it ended up here - if Koontz were a UK author it most certainly wouldn't have.
1997
Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-4972-5 £5.99 311 pages 01/1997.
Even the UK paperback was released before the first US edition.
"Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)--a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, cannot sit at a computer. Chris's natural element is the night, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in Moonlight Bay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape his own--roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in the moonlight, exploring while most people sleep.
But Chris's brilliant mother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, and as the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer; Chris's protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris as he is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoon sun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his father tells Chris he is "sorry" and that Chris should "fear nothing"--cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to.
Steven Snow's body is removed to the hospital basement for transport to the funeral home/crematorium, and when Chris goes downstairs for a final moment of farewell, he witnesses a frightening and clandestine encounter: the funeral director and another man Chris doesn't recognize are substituting the body of a hitchhiker for Steven Snow's body--which is being taken not to the crematorium but to some secret destination.
For Chris, this scene is the first intimation of a conspiracy that he will come to realize envelopes many of his townspeople. His parents knew of it and wanted to protect Chris from it. His best friend has had hints of something wrong because of the frightening nocturnal visitors that have come to his beachhouse. And the first person to try to explain to Chris what's going on--and warn him about the special danger he himself is in--will be hideously murdered.
In the 24 hours this book encompasses, Christopher Snow will find out that, sheltered though he's been, he has the soul of a fighter and an adventurer. By the end of the book he will have killed a man, will have discovered the role his own mother played in the birth of the conspiracy, will have come to recognize the extraordinary guardians that, unknown to him, have watched over him for years. He will realize that some people hate him, others revere him, and neither his own life nor those of anyone he knows will ever be the same."The first installment of the Chris Snow trilogy.
1998 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-10664-3 $26.95 391 pages 02/1998.
Koontz trades US publishers again.
1997 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-2055-7 £15.99 373 pages 12/1997.
First trade release.
1998 Bantam US paperback.ISBN 0-553-57975-4 $7.99 433 pages 12/1998.
1998 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-5832-5 £5.99 503 pages 06/1998.
Bantam Fear Nothing proof.
1998
Cemetery Dance signed/numbered limited edition, 698 copies.
$150.00.
1998
Cemetery Dance signed/lettered limited edition, 52 copies.
$350.00.
Bantam Fear Nothing promotional kit.Thank you, Jim Olson!
"Moonlight Bay, California. A safe, secluded small town that is at its most picturesque in the gentle nighttimes that inspired its name. Now, somewhere in the night, children are disappearing. The police cannot be trusted since they were long ago corrupted by a greater authority, hidden behind the supposedly shuttered walls of the adjacent military base, Fort Wyvern.
Christopher Snow, victim of a rare
genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light,
believes the lost children are still alive and is convinced the
disappearances have everything to do with the catastrophic effects of
secret research conducted deep within Fort Wyvern. Forced to live in
the shadows, he knows the night world better than anyone, and sets out
to find the missing five-year-old son
of a former sweetheart."
The
second installment of the Chris Snow trilogy.
1999 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-10665-1 $26.95 401 pages 12/1998.
1998 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-2056-5 £16.99 408 pages 11/1998.
First trade release.
1999 Bantam US paperback.ISBN 0-553-58019-1 $7.99 443 pages 12/1999.
1999 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-5833-3 £5.99 503 pages 06/1999.
Bantam Seize The Night proof.
1998 Cemetery Dance signed/numbered limited edition, 698 copies.
$150.00.
1998 Cemetery Dance signed/lettered limited edition, 52 copies.
$400.00.
Seize The Night promotional pin. One inch square with tie-tack
type pin on back.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Bantam Seize The Night promotional kit, including the essay Koontz on
Koontz.Thank you, Jim Olson!
"It's a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It's the one fear you cannot escape, no matter where you run...no matter where you hide. It's the fear of yourself. It's real. It can happen to you. And facing it can be deadly."
"Fear for your mind."
1999 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-10666-X $26.95 627 pages 12/1999.
1999 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-2057-3 £16.99 626 pages 11/1999.
First trade release.
2000 Bantam US paperback.ISBN 0-553-58022-1 $7.99 751 pages 12/2000.
2000 Headline UK paperback.0-7472-5834-1 £5.99 818 pages 08/2000.
Bantam False Memory ARC.
Headline False Memory ARC - anonymous edition.There was no mention of Dean Koontz, nor the title of the book, anywhere on this ARC - not even on the copyright page.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1999 Cemetery Dance signed/numbered limited edition, 698 copies.
$150.00.
1999 Cemetery Dance signed/lettered limited edition, 52 copies.
$400.00.
"Bartholomew Lampion is born on a day of tragedy and terror that will mark his family forever. All agree that his unusual eyes are the most beautiful they have ever seen. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns that he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. He embarks on a relentless search to find this enemy, a search that will consume his life. And a girl is born from a brutal rape, her destiny mysteriously linked to Barty and the man who stalks him.
At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. As he copes with his blindness and proves to be a prodigy, his mother counsels him that all things happen for a reason and that every person’s life has an effect on every other person’s, in often unknowable ways.
At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds and entwines with others results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure."
2000 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-80134-1 $26.95 623 pages 12/2000.
2000 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-7071-6 £17.99 645 pages 12/2000.
2001 Bantam US paperback.ISBN 0-553-58274-7 $7.99 731 pages 12/2001.
2001 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-6680-8 £6.99 820 pages 08/2001.
Bantam From The
Corner Of His Eye proof.Thank you, Allen Norby!
Bantam From The Corner Of His Eye ARC.
Bantam signed/limited ARC. Estimated 500 copies.
2001 Charnel House signed/numbered limited edition, 500 copies.
$175.00.
2001 Charnel House
signed/lettered limited edition, 26 copies. $1000.00.
"Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces."
Thus began the epic Book of Counted Sorrows in The Mask
2001 Barnes & Noble eBook.
2003 Charnel House signed/numbered limited edition, 1250 copies.
$175.00.
2003
Charnel House
signed/lettered limited edition, 26 copies. $???.??.
"In a dusty trailer park on the far edge of the California dream, Michelina Bellsong contemplates the choices she has made. At twenty-eight, she wants to change the direction of her troubled life but can’t find her way — until a new family settles into the rental trailer next door and she meets the young girl who will lead her on a remarkable quest that will change Micky herself and everything she knows — or thinks she knows — forever.
Despite the brace she must wear on her deformed left leg, and her withered left hand, nine-year-old Leilani Klonk radiates a buoyant and indomitable spirit that inspires Micky. Beneath Leilani’s effervescence, however, Micky comes to sense a quiet desperation that the girl dares not express.
Leilani’s mother is little more than a child herself. And the girl’s stepfather, Preston Maddoc, is educated but threatening. He has moved the family from place to place as he fanatically investigates UFO sightings, striving to make contact, claiming to have had a vision that by Leilani’s tenth birthday aliens will either heal her or take her away to a better life on their world.
Slowly, ever more troubling details emerge in Leilani’s conversations with Micky. Most chilling is Micky’s discovery that Leilani had an older brother, also disabled, who vanished after Maddoc took him into the woods one night and is now “gone to the stars.”
Leilani’s tenth birthday is approaching. Micky is convinced the girl will be dead by that day. While the child-protection bureaucracy gives Micky the runaround, the Maddoc family slips away into the night. Micky sets out across America to track and find them, alone and afraid but for the first time living for something bigger than herself.
She finds herself pitted against an adversary, Preston Maddoc, as fearsome as he is cunning. The passion and disregard for danger with which Micky pursues her quest bring to her side a burned-out detective who joins her on a journey of incredible peril and startling discoveries, a journey through terrible darkness to unexpected light."
2001 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-80137-6 $26.95 610 pages 12/2001.
2001 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-7072-4 £16.99 597 pages 11/2001.
First trade release.
2002 Bantam US paperback.ISBN 0-553-58275-5 $7.99 686 pages 11/2002.
2002 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-6681-6 £6.99 760 pages 08/2002.
Bantam One Door Away From Heaven ARC.
Headline By The Light Of The Moon proof.Thank you, Jim Olson!
One
Door Away From Heaven promotional T-Shirt, front and back.
Funny Verse and Nothing Worse
"I lost myself inside a book last night. Then found myself in a galactic fight ..."
"A
thrilling world awaits
you inside The
Paper Doorway!
From "The Woggle Wrangler" to "The Wart," from "Boogeyman" to "The Bear
with One Green Ear," from "The Monstrous Broccoli Excuse" to "An Angry
Poem by a Dragon's Mother," Dean Koontz's poetry is wickedly
entertaining fun.""
2001 Harper Collins US hardback.ISBN 0-060-29488-4 $17.95 160 pages 10/2001.
Illustrated by Phil Parks.
2003 US Harper Trophy trade paperback.ISBN 0-064-40984-8 160 pages 03/2003.
"Dylan O’Connor is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He’s on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious “doctor,” injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctor’s enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police.
Stunned, disbelieving, Dylan is turned loose to run for his life...and straight into an adventure that will turn the next twenty-four hours into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. It is a journey that begins when Dylan and Shep’s path intersects with that of Jillian Jackson. Before that evening Jilly was a beautiful comedian whose biggest worry was whether she would ever find a decent man. Now she too is a carrier. And even as Dylan tries to convince her that they’ll be safer sticking together, cold-eyed men in a threatening pack of black Suburbans approach, only seconds before Jilly’s classic Coupe DeVille explodes into thin air.
Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom they’re running from--or why. Meanwhile Shep has begun exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior. And whatever it is that’s coursing through their bodies seems to have plunged them into one waking nightmare after another. Seized by sinister premonitions, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to crime scenes--just minutes before the crimes take place.
What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work “by the light of the moon.”"
2002 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-80143-0 $26.95 431 pages 12/2002.
2002 Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-7073-2 £18.99 373 pages 11/2002.
First trade release.
2003 Bantam US paperback.ISBN 0-553-58276-3 $7.99 460 pages 11/2003.
2003 Headline UK paperback.ISBN 0-7472-6682-4 £6.99 472 pages 08/2003.
Bantam By The Light Of The Moon ARC.
Headline Light Of The Moon
cover sheet - unique, in that it's similar to the proof and hardback
covers but isn't either.Thank you, Jim Olson!
"He’s Hollywood’s most dazzling star, whose flawless countenance inspires the worship of millions and fires the hatred of one twisted soul. His perfectly ordered existence is under siege as a series of terrifying, enigmatic “messages” breaches the exquisitely calibrated security systems of his legendary Bel Air estate.
The boxes arrive mysteriously, one by one, at Channing Manheim’s fortified compound. The threat implicit in their bizarre, disturbing contents seems to escalate with each new delivery. Manheim’s security chief, ex-cop Ethan Truman, is used to looking beneath the surface of things. But until he entered the orbit of a Hollywood icon, he had no idea just how slippery reality could be. Now this good man is all that stands in the way of an
insidious killer—and forces that eclipse the most fevered fantasies of a city where dreams and nightmares are the stuff of daily life. As a seemingly endless and ominous rain falls over southern California, Ethan will test the limits of perception and endurance in a world where the truth is as thin as celluloid and answers can be found only in the illusory intersection of shadow and light.
Enter a world of marvelous invention, enchantment, and implacable intent, populated by murderous actors and the walking dead, hit men and heroes, long-buried dreams and never-dying hope.
Here a magnificent mansion is presided over by a Scottish force of nature known as Mrs. McBee, before whom all men tremble. A mad French chef concocts feasts for the mighty and the malicious. Ming du Lac, spiritual adviser to the stars, has a direct line to the dead. An aptly named cop called Hazard will become Ethan’s ally, an anarchist will sow discord and despair, and a young boy named Fric, imprisoned by celebrity and loneliness, will hear a voice telling him of the approach of something unimaginably evil. Traversing this extraordinary landscape, Ethan will face the secrets of his own tragic past and the unmistakable premonition of his impending violent death as he races against time to solve the macabre riddles of a modern-day beast."
2003 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-80248-8 $26.95 609 pages 05/2003.
2003 Harper Collins UK hardback.ISBN 0-00-713069-4 £17.99 609 pages 08/2003.
Dean switches UK publishers again.
The Uk releases, which nearly always preceded the US, now often come several months later.
2004 Bantam US paperback.ISBN 0-553-58448-0 $7.99 651 pages 05/2004.
2004 Harper Collins UK paperback.ISBN 0-00-713071-6 £6.99 672 pages 01/2004.
Bantam The Face ARC slip-cover.
Bantam The Face ARC.
Charnel House
signed/numbered limited edition, 500 copies. $150.00.
Charnal House
signed/lettered limited edition, 26 copies. $1500.00.
Amusing Rhymes for Happy Times
" In Every Day's a Holiday, the ever inventive Dean Koontz ponders the origin of Valentine's Day; introduces Jinx, a guy who really gets into Halloween; and explains that extra "a" on the end of Kwanzaa. There are also holidays you may not have heard of -- but that you are sure to be celebrating soon -- including Praise-the-Chicken Day, Lost-Tooth Day, and Up-Is-Down Day."
2003 Harper Collins US hardback.ISBN 0-060-08584-3 $17.99 144 pages 09/2003.
Illustrated by Phil Parks.
Harper Collins Every Day's A Holiday proof, front and back covers.
"“The dead don't talk. I don't know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it’s a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd’s otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different.
A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd’s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15.
Today is August 14.
In less than twenty-four hours, Pico Mundo will awaken to a day of catastrophe. As evil coils under the searing desert sun, Odd travels through the shifting prisms of his world, struggling to avert a looming cataclysm with the aid of his soul mate and an unlikely community of allies that includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll. His account of two shattering days when past and present, fate and destiny converge is the stuff of our worst nightmares—and a testament by which to live: sanely if not safely, with courage, humor, and a full heart that even in the darkness must persevere."
2003 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-80249-6 $26.95 399 pages 12/2003.
2004 Harper Collins UK hardback.ISBN 0-00-713072-4 £17.99 388 pages 01/2004.
2004 US paperback.ISBN 0-553-58449-9 $7.99 446 pages 11/2004.
2004 Harper Collins UK paperback.ISBN 0-00-713074-0 £6.99 420 pages 08/2004.
Bantam Odd Thomas ARC with CD-Rom.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Harper Collins Odd Thomas proof.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Charnel House
signed/numbered limited edition, 500 copies. $150.00.
Charnel
House signed/lettered limited edition, 26 copies. $1500.00.
"On the morning that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken to the drumbeat of rain on their roof. It has haunted their sleep, invaded their dreams, and now they rise to find a luminous silvery downpour drenching their small California mountain town. A strange scent hangs faintly in the air, and the young couple cannot shake the sense of something wrong.
As hours pass and the rain continues to fall, Molly and Niel listen to disturbing news of extreme weather phenomena across the globe. Before evening, their little town loses television and radio reception. Then telephone and the Internet are gone. With the ceaseless rain now comes an obscuring fog that transforms the once-friendly village into a ghostly labyrinth. By nightfall the Sloans have gathered with some of their neighbors to deal with community damage...but also because they feel the need to band together against some unknown threat, some enemy they cannot identify or even imagine.
In the night, strange noises arise, and at a distance, in the rain and the mist, mysterious lights are seen drifting among the trees. The rain diminishes with the dawn, but a moody gray-purple twilight prevails. Soon Molly, Niel, and their small band of friends will be forced to draw on reserves of strength, courage, and humanity they never knew they had. For within the misty gloom they will encounter something that reveals in a terrifying instant what is happening to their world—something that is hunting them with ruthless efficiency."
2004 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-80250-X $27.00 338 pages 05/2004.
2004 Harper Collins UK hardback.ISBN 0-00-713075-9 £17.99 338 pages 08/2004.
2005
Bantam US
paperback.ISBN 0-553-58450-2 $7.99 448 pages 04/2005
2005
Harper Collins UK
paperback.ISBN 0-00-713077-5 £6.99 410 pages 01/2005.
Bantam The Taking ARC.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Charnel House
signed/numbered limited edition, 300 copies. $150.00.
Charnel
House signed/lettered limited edition, 26 copies. $1500.00.
The Further Adventures of Santa's Twin
"The Claus family's bad seed, Bob, is back and dishing out a second helping of holiday havoc and headaches for his twin brother, Santa. Exactly a year has passed since Bob kidnapped Santa and visited Charlotte and Emily in his stead, bearing gifts of mud pies, cat poop, and broccoli. After his defeat at the hands of the two brave sisters, Bob has worked hard to redeem himself in Santa's eyes. Unfortunately Bob's spare time has been spent secretly building a robot Santa Claus. Super Santa One was designed to help Santa halve his delivery time, but Bob has left a screw loose on his creation (several screws, actually), and this Christmas Eve, a badly malfunctioning robot Santa Claus is coming to town."
2004 Harper Collins US hardback.ISBN 0-060-50943-0 $19.99 72 pages 10/2004.
Illustrated by Phil Parks.
Ed Thomas at Book Carnival did 10 limited editions with inscriptions and signatures by Dean Koontz and Phil Parks - each with original artwork by Phil and custom plastic sleeves. Ed later had another 10 done - sans the plastic sleeves and inscriptions. The latter 10 were signed, dated, and with original artwork in 2005 by Phil Parks; he did the original 10 in 2004.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Two
examples of the original
10. Each copy is unique unto itself.Thank you, Paul Evans!
Two
examples of the latter
10. Each copy is unique.Thank you, Paul Evans!
Harper Collins Robot Santa proof, front and back covers.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Lessons in Joyful Living
""Books make life good! Books are fun. Dad’s books are especially fun. (I know where my kibble comes from.) Some books confuse me. Read WAR and PEACE by Tolstoy. Long book. Very long book. No dogs in significant roles. Why anyone write very long book not about dogs? Figured I read bad translation. Read it again in original Russian language. Still no dogs. Tolstoy was maniac, writing very long books not about dogs. WAR and PEACE gets a no-cookie rating from this critic. Plus I peed on book. Critic is entitled to strong opinion. Read Dad’s new book. Can give honest opinion even though I know who scoops my kibble. Am dog, after all. Am corruptible. Dad’s new book is suspenseful, funny, full of emotion, but has no dog in significant role. Am afraid Dad is losing mind. Will end up as nuts as Tolstoy though not Russian. Your life is an epic novel. Dare to be the hero."
"Loving nature makes joyful life. Mother Nature made me, made you. Also made scorpions, cockroaches. Mother Nature is little nuts but very creative. Mother Nature gives warm sun, cool rain, pretty ferns. She gives us tornadoes, hurricanes. Mother Nature is like wacky aunt from Cleveland, comes visiting with nice gifts, also eye-watering garlic breath and killer farts, but is family, so you got to love her."
"Accept affection. Encourage affection. Position yourself in hallway or other high-traffic area. As giver-of-affection approaches, look cute, reach out with one paw, then roll onto back with all four paws in the air, offering glorious furry belly for rubbing. If you don’t have glorious furry belly this might not work as well for you as does for me.""Trixies’s Top 8 Reasons WHY DOGS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE CARS
1) We are by nature obedient. Would break no traffic laws. Except when toilet stops require brief parking in front of fireplugs. 2) Look so cute. Sight of driving dog lift spirits of human drivers, make highways friendlier. 3) Because ears tend to flap in wind, dogs make better use of convertibles than humans do. 4) Dogs do not drink alcoholic beverages. So can never drive under influence and never blast passengers with beer farts. 5) Guide dogs who drive could better serve blind people. 6) Is civil rights issue. 7) Have better self image, bark less, wag more. 8) Dogs don’t need maps. Can smell our way anywhere.
2004 Yorkville Press US hardback.ISBN 0-972-94277-7 $17.95 79 pages 11/2004.
Koontz' outlook on life through the eyes of Trixie Koontz, his pet golden retriever.
"Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke.
What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson--five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his twentieth year; the second in his twent-third year; the third in his twenty-eighth; the fourth in his twenty-ninth; the fifth in his thirtieth.
Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the time of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactyly--the unexplained anomal of fused digits--on his left foot. Suddenly the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance.
What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days when his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrous--a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through."
2004 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-80414-6 $27.00 416 pages 12/2004.
2005 Harper Collins UK hardback.ISBN 0-00-719694-6 £17.99 416 pages 01/2005.
2005 Bantam US
paperback.ISBN 0-553-58824-9 $7.99 624 pages 10/2005.
2005
Harper Collins UK
paperback.ISBN 0-00-719695-4 £6.99 544 pages 08/2005.
Bantam Life Expectancy ARC.
Never used alternate US hardback jacket image which appeared on
Bantam's
website
for months.
Charnel
House signed/numbered limited edition, 300 copies. $150.00.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Charnel
House signed/lettered limited edition, 26 copies. $1500.00.
Prodigal Son
"Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself–and that just may be where this case ends up. For the no-nonsense O’Connor is suddenly talking about an ages-old conspiracy, a near immortal race of beings, and killers that are more–and less–than human. Soon it will be clear that as crazy as she sounds, the truth is even more ominous. For their quarry isn’t merely a homicidal maniac–but his deranged maker."
2005 Bantam US paperback.ISBN 0-553-58788-9 $7.99 512 pages 01/2005.
Dean Koontz teams with Kevin J. Anderson to publish his true vision of the ill-fated USA Network scipt.
2005 Harper Collins UK paperback.ISBN 0-00-720313-6 £5.99 400 pages 04/2005.
2005 Bantam US large print hardback.ISBN 0-375-43470-4 $27.95 480 pages 01/2005.
Bantam Frankenstein proof.Thank you, Jim Olson!
"Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. But that is about to change. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don’t take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours.
It seems like a sick joke, and Bill’s friend on the police force, Lanny Olson, thinks so too. His advice to Bill is to go home and forget about it. Besides, what could they do even if they took the note seriously? No crime has actually been committed. But less than twenty-four hours later, a young blond schoolteacher is found murdered, and it’s Bill’s fault: he didn’t convince the police
to get involved. Now he’s got another note, another deadline, another ultimatum…and two new lives hanging in the balance.
Suddenly Bill’s average, seemingly innocuous life takes on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare. Because the notes are coming faster, the deadlines growing tighter, and the killer becoming bolder and crueler with every communication–until Bill is isolated with the terrifying knowledge that he alone has the power of life and death over a psychopath’s innocent victims. Until the struggle between good and evil is intensely personal. Until the most chilling words of all are: The choice is yours."
2005 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-80415-4 $27.00 416 pages 05/2005.
2005 Harper Collins UK hardback.ISBN 0-00-719696-2 £17.99 400 pages 08/2005.
Bantam Velocity bound typescript.
Bantam Velocity ARC.
Charnel House
signed/numbered limited edition, 300 copies. $200.00. Charnel House
signed/lettered limited edition, 26 copies. $2000.00.
City Of Night
"They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created–and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios–once Frankenstein–can stop the engineered killers he’s set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time “monster” and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion’s centuries-old history began as Victor’s first and failed attempt to build the perfect human–and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor’s malignant mind could have imagined–an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind’s collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us."
2005 Bantam US paperback.ISBN 0-553-58789-7 $7.99 512 pages 07/2005.
Dean Koontz and his longtime friend Ed Gorman team for the second installment.
2005
Random House large print hardback.ISBN 0-375-43471-2 $27.95 ??? pages 07/2005.
2005 Harper
Collins UK paperback.ISBN 0-00-720312-8 £5.99 400 pages 10/2005.
Trixie Treats & Holiday Wisdom
2005 Yorkville Press US hardback.ISBN 0-976-74423-6 $9.95 64 pages 10/2005.
The Original Screenplay
The original screenplay for the two-hour pilot episode of the USA Network television series
"Taken directly from the author’s computer disk and replicating his script in book form. Now you can read Dean’s production design notes on how he envisioned the sets as well as his direction in how the dialogue was to be spoken. This script was not used and the show changed drastically. Now we can see Dean’s vision of a modern day Frankenstein story."
2005 Charnel House
signed/numbered limited edition, 750 copies.$150.00 12/2005.
2005
Charnel House signed/lettered limited edition, 26 copies.$1600.00 12/2005.
"Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enough–readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mystery–and altogether irresistibly odd.
We’re all a little odd beneath the surface. He’s the most unlikely hero you’ll ever meet–an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But there’s so much more to any of us than meets the eye–and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead–it’s something that just happened. But as the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, he’s got a duty to do the right thing. That’s the way Odd sees it and that’s why he’s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death.
A childhood friend of Odd’s has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. Whether you’re meeting Odd Thomas for the first time or he’s already an old friend, you’ll be led on an unforgettable journey through
a world of terror, wonder and delight–to a revelation that can change your life. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas."
2005
Bantam US
hardback.ISBN 0-553-80416-2 $27.00 416 pages 11/2005.
2005
Harper Collins Uk
hardback.ISBN 0-00-719698-9 £17.99 400 pages 12/2005.
Bantam Forever Odd ARC.
2006 Charnel
House Signed/Numbered limited edition, 300 copies.$200.00 02/2006.
2006 Charnel
House Signed/Lettered limited edition, 26 copies.$1500.00 02/2006.
Forthcoming
The Husband
2006 Bantam US hardback.ISBN 0-553-80479-0 $27.00 416 pages 05/2006.
2006 HarperCollins UK hardbackISBN 0-00-722655-1 £17.99 400 pages 07/2006.