Pseudonyms
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David Axton
Brian Coffey
Deanna Dwyer
K. R. Dwyer
John Hill
Leigh Nichols
Anthony North
Richard Paige
Owen West
Aaron Wolfe
Pseudonym used for one title.
Prison Of Ice
"The Crisis: a murderous famine caused by a worldwide drought. The possible solution: giant chunks of Arctic ice, split from the pack by high explosives and towed to northern ports to be melted for water.
Deep in a Arctic winter icefield, eight U.N. scientists have planted sixty powerful bombs set to detonate automatically at midnight. But before they can withdraw to the safety of their base camp, a shattering tidal wave breaks the ice on which they are working away from the main mass, setting it adrift and hopelessly marooning the scientists with the bombs in place, and ticking..."
1976
Lippincott US hardback.
ISBN 0-397-01182-2 $8.95 298 pages ??/1976.
First Edition stated on the copyright page, no numberline.
The back jacket flap states that David Axton is a pen name of an author who lives in Las Vegas.
1977 WH Allen UK hardback.
ISBN 0-491-01638-7 £3.95 219 pages 01/1977.
1977 Fawcett Crest US paperback.
SBN 449-23345-6 $1.75 252 pages ??/1977.
1978 Star UK paperback.
ISBN 0-352-39518-4 85p 219 pages 02/1978.
Lippincott Prison Of Ice
proof.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1995 Headline UK
reissue hardback - as ICEBOUND.
ISBN 0-7472-1195-7 £16.99 282 pages 01/1995.
1995
Ballantine US
reissue paperback - as ICEBOUND.
ISBN 0-345-38435-0 $6.99 408 pages 02/1995.
1995 Headline UK
reissue paperback - as ICEBOUND.
ISBN 0-7472-4740-4 £4.99 376 pages 08/1995.
Headline Icebound proof.
Thank you, Paul Evans!
Pseudonym used for five titles.
Three of which have never been reissued.
Blood Risk
Surrounded
The Wall Of Masks
The Face Of Fear
The Voice Of The Night
"Mike Tucker is a professional thief.
He is a specialist in his field: he steals only from institutions - banks, insurance companies, department stores - whose losses are fully covered by insurance. He never hits the little guy. His set-ups are elaborately planned and brilliantly executed. He has carried out thirteen operations in three years. He has never failed.
On the fourteenth heist, Tucker and his henchmen - Shirillo, Harris and Bachman - are going after very big money which belongs to a different and deadly dangerous kind of institution. They are going to lift the biweekly take of a Mafia cell.
Because of one detail left to chance, they fail. Rossario Baglio's lieutenants capture a wounded Bachman and retrieve the money suitcases as well. Tucker, Shirillo and Harris escape with just their lives. They know, though, that if Bachman is still alive, Baglio will get their identities out of him, and the three will be making time until they get hit.
They scatter until Tucker can think up a scheme to rescue Bachman. It must be foolproof and one hundred percent successful, for they also still want that take, and there won't be a third chance..."
1973
Bobbs-Merrill US hardback.
Library of Congress catalog card #72-89691 $5.95 160 pages ??/1973.
BCE-sized trade edition - as are all the Bobbs-Merrill and Arthur Barker releases.
The first title of the Mike Tucker "trilogy" - Blood Risk, Surrounded and The Wall Of Masks.
1974 Arthur Barker UK hardback.
ISBN 0-213-16468-X £1.95 160 pages 07/1974.
1975 Futura UK paperback.
ISBN 0-8600-7167-7 40p 160 pages 07/1975.
Prison Of Ice
"The Crisis: a murderous famine caused by a worldwide drought. The possible solution: giant chunks of Arctic ice, split from the pack by high explosives and towed to northern ports to be melted for water.
Deep in a Arctic winter icefield, eight U.N. scientists have planted sixty powerful bombs set to detonate automatically at midnight. But before they can withdraw to the safety of their base camp, a shattering tidal wave breaks the ice on which they are working away from the main mass, setting it adrift and hopelessly marooning the scientists with the bombs in place, and ticking..."
1976
Lippincott US hardback.ISBN 0-397-01182-2 $8.95 298 pages ??/1976.
First Edition stated on the copyright page, no numberline.
The back jacket flap states that David Axton is a pen name of an author who lives in Las Vegas.
1977 WH Allen UK hardback.ISBN 0-491-01638-7 £3.95 219 pages 01/1977.
1977 Fawcett Crest US paperback.SBN 449-23345-6 $1.75 252 pages ??/1977.
1978 Star UK paperback.ISBN 0-352-39518-4 85p 219 pages 02/1978.
Lippincott Prison Of Ice
proof.Thank you, Jim Olson!
1995 Headline UK
reissue hardback - as ICEBOUND.ISBN 0-7472-1195-7 £16.99 282 pages 01/1995.
1995
Ballantine US
reissue paperback - as ICEBOUND.ISBN 0-345-38435-0 $6.99 408 pages 02/1995.
1995 Headline UK
reissue paperback - as ICEBOUND.ISBN 0-7472-4740-4 £4.99 376 pages 08/1995.
Headline Icebound proof.Thank you, Paul Evans!
Pseudonym used for five titles.
Three of which have never been reissued.
Blood Risk
Surrounded
The Wall Of Masks
The Face Of Fear
The Voice Of The Night
"Mike Tucker is a professional thief.
He is a specialist in his field: he steals only from institutions - banks, insurance companies, department stores - whose losses are fully covered by insurance. He never hits the little guy. His set-ups are elaborately planned and brilliantly executed. He has carried out thirteen operations in three years. He has never failed.
On the fourteenth heist, Tucker and his henchmen - Shirillo, Harris and Bachman - are going after very big money which belongs to a different and deadly dangerous kind of institution. They are going to lift the biweekly take of a Mafia cell.
Because of one detail left to chance, they fail. Rossario Baglio's lieutenants capture a wounded Bachman and retrieve the money suitcases as well. Tucker, Shirillo and Harris escape with just their lives. They know, though, that if Bachman is still alive, Baglio will get their identities out of him, and the three will be making time until they get hit.
They scatter until Tucker can think up a scheme to rescue Bachman. It must be foolproof and one hundred percent successful, for they also still want that take, and there won't be a third chance..."
1973
Bobbs-Merrill US hardback.Library of Congress catalog card #72-89691 $5.95 160 pages ??/1973.
BCE-sized trade edition - as are all the Bobbs-Merrill and Arthur Barker releases.
The first title of the Mike Tucker "trilogy" - Blood Risk, Surrounded and The Wall Of Masks.
1974 Arthur Barker UK hardback.ISBN 0-213-16468-X £1.95 160 pages 07/1974.
1975 Futura UK paperback.ISBN 0-8600-7167-7 40p 160 pages 07/1975.
NEVER
REISSUED - no US
paperback edition released.
"The second in a new suspense series featuring Mike Tucker, successful art dealer, heir to a large (and unobtainable) fortune, and professional thief. Mike steals only from large institutions, and he has successfully carried out fourteen operations in four years. His last heist was from the Mafia.
This time, his target is less exotic but no less lucrative: to knock over a posh California shopping mall. The mall contains a well-heeled bank, a fabulous jewelry store, and eighteen other stores crammed with cash. With his colleagues Meyers and Bates, it's a matter of an hour to clean the place out.
But Meyers had held back one vital piece of information when he cased the joint. An alarm is sounded. They are surrounded by cops, and there is no way out..."
1974 Bobbs-Merrill US hardback.
ISBN 0-672-51859-7 $5.95 167 pages ??/1974.
First Edition stated on the copyright page.
1975 Arthur Barker UK hardback.
ISBN 0-213-16538-4 £2.50 167 pages 05/1975.
Bobbs-Merril Surrounded proof.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
"The second in a new suspense series featuring Mike Tucker, successful art dealer, heir to a large (and unobtainable) fortune, and professional thief. Mike steals only from large institutions, and he has successfully carried out fourteen operations in four years. His last heist was from the Mafia.
This time, his target is less exotic but no less lucrative: to knock over a posh California shopping mall. The mall contains a well-heeled bank, a fabulous jewelry store, and eighteen other stores crammed with cash. With his colleagues Meyers and Bates, it's a matter of an hour to clean the place out.
But Meyers had held back one vital piece of information when he cased the joint. An alarm is sounded. They are surrounded by cops, and there is no way out..."
1974 Bobbs-Merrill US hardback.ISBN 0-672-51859-7 $5.95 167 pages ??/1974.
First Edition stated on the copyright page.
1975 Arthur Barker UK hardback.ISBN 0-213-16538-4 £2.50 167 pages 05/1975.
Bobbs-Merril Surrounded proof.Thank you, Jim Olson!
NEVER
REISSUED - no US or UK
paperback editions released
"Mike Tucker is a modified modern-day Robin Hood. True, he steals only from heavily insured institutions or, in one heist, from the Mafia (which could well afford to lose a few hundred thousands). Also true, Tucker keeps the money for himself to support his expensive taste in art. But in the latest in a series of robberies, he rises to heights of altruism that will surprise even his staunchest admirers.
Tucker dreams up a fantastic robbery: the stealing of a Mayan wall of masks, hidden for hundreds of years in the jungles of Campeche. There is a Texas art collector (black market) who wants the wall. So does a corrupt Mexican general. In order to preserve the wall for the Mexican people, Tucker works out an ingenious plan to smuggle the wall out of the jungle. But he underestimates the cupidity of the Texan and the ruthlessness of the general. The three factions meet on a disastrous collision course. Getting the three-quarters-ton wall to Vera Cruz - a difficult feat in itself - proves to be only secondary to the problem of outwitting two dangerous killers."
1975 Bobbs-Merrill US hardback.
ISBN 0-672-51905-4 $6.95 167 pages ??/1975.
"Mike Tucker is a modified modern-day Robin Hood. True, he steals only from heavily insured institutions or, in one heist, from the Mafia (which could well afford to lose a few hundred thousands). Also true, Tucker keeps the money for himself to support his expensive taste in art. But in the latest in a series of robberies, he rises to heights of altruism that will surprise even his staunchest admirers.
Tucker dreams up a fantastic robbery: the stealing of a Mayan wall of masks, hidden for hundreds of years in the jungles of Campeche. There is a Texas art collector (black market) who wants the wall. So does a corrupt Mexican general. In order to preserve the wall for the Mexican people, Tucker works out an ingenious plan to smuggle the wall out of the jungle. But he underestimates the cupidity of the Texan and the ruthlessness of the general. The three factions meet on a disastrous collision course. Getting the three-quarters-ton wall to Vera Cruz - a difficult feat in itself - proves to be only secondary to the problem of outwitting two dangerous killers."
1975 Bobbs-Merrill US hardback.ISBN 0-672-51905-4 $6.95 167 pages ??/1975.
NEVER
REISSUED - no UK
hardback, US or UK
paperback editions released.
"Nietzsche strikes again, this time through the personality of a New York 'superman' who hopes that the terror resulting from his killing of women will enable him to seize political power. A policeman himself, 'the butcher' gets away with a number of grisly murders until he comes up against Harris, an ex-mountaineer whose fall from Everest has rendered him psychic and who actually 'sees' one of the murders during a TV talk show...
The Butcher traps Harris and his girlfriend, at night, in a Lexington Avenue office building, having shot the guards and short-circuited the elevators. A cat-and-mouse game played up and down the inside of the building is continued outside it as Harris, with a game leg and terrified of heights, and his girlfriend, with no climbing experience, try to descend the building mountaineer-style from the fortieth floor. There's a blizzard blowing, to boot."
1977 Bobbs-Merrill Us
hardback.
ISBN 0-672-52312-4 $8.95 244 pages ??/1977.
First Printing stated on the copyright page.
There was also a Doubleday Book Club edition - similar cover, but smaller.
1978 Peter Davies UK
hardback.
SBN 432-03551-6 £4.50 239 pages 03/1978.
Note: This title appeared as another of Koontz' pen names in the UK, as by K. R. Dwyer.
1978 Ballantine US
paperback.
ISBN 0-345-27117-3 $1.95 232 pages 05/1978.
1980 Sphere UK/Canada
paperback.
ISBN 0-7221-13148-8 £1.10 232 pages 07/1980.
Also as by K. R. Dwyer.
Note: the above info was taken from the second pictured copy, which was printed in Canada. If you have any pertinent information about the UK printing, please email me.
Bobbs-Merrill The Face Of Fear proof.
Thank you, Paul Evans!
1985 Berkley US
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-424-11984-X $?.?? 306 pages ??/1985.
1989 Headline reissue
paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3296-2 £3.50 314 pages 11/1989.
1989 Headline UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0174-9 £12.95 314 pages 12/1989.
Graham Potts original Headline cover art for The Face Of Fear
hardback.
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.
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.
1990, January 8 - both editions. The Face Of Fear teleplay.
The first is by Alan J. Gluckman, revised by Dean Koontz.
The second is by Dean Koontz.
"Colin Jacobs is a shy, awkward, bookish fouteen-year-old. His parents are divorced, his mother works, and his only real friends are creatures from the horror and science fiction stories he likes to read. But his life changes when Roy Borden, the most popular kid in town, becomes his 'blood brother'. For the first time ever, Colin Jacobs feels like somebody.
There's only one problem. Roy Borden has a secret - a secret so bizarre that Colin has trouble imagining it at first. By the time Colin can face the truth of it, it's almost too late. His own life is in danger - and no one will believe him."
1980
Doubleday US hardback.
ISBN 0-385-15258-2 $10.95 277 pages ??/1980.
First Edition stated on copyright page.
An intersting note - the copyright page states: Copyright © 1980 by Dean Koontz.
1981 Robert Hale UK hardback.
ISBN 0-7090-8991-5 £6.50 256 pages 05/1981.
Thank you, Jim Seels!
1981 Signet US paperback.
ISBN 0-451-09966-4 BN 451-E9966 $2.75 213 pages 08/1981.
Copyright page states: First Signet Printing, August, 1981 - and has a 1-9 numberline.
As with the Doubleday hardback, this edition also clearly shows Dean Koontz as the author.
Doubleday The Voice Of The Night proof.
Thank you, Jim Olson.
1985 Star UK reissue
paperback.
ISBN 0-352-31608-X £2.25 277 pages 11/1985.
Thank you, Andrew Podger!
1989 WH Allen UK reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-491-03169-6 £12.95 277 pages 02/1989.
1990 Headline UK reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3519-8 £3.99 277 pages 03/1990.
With other printings that followed.
1991 Headline UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0295-8 £14.95 340 pages 03/1991.
1991
Berkley US reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-424-12816-4 $5.95 339 pages 07/1991.
With other printings that followed.
1999 Thorndike Press mystery series reissue hardback.
ISBN 0786217650 ??? 447 pages 04/1999.
Graham Potts original Headline cover art for The Voice Of The Night
hardback.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
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.
Pseudonym used for five gothic paperbacks.
None of which have ever been reissued - and likely never will.
Formulaic gothic romance novels to pay the bills.
Supposedly the estranged wife of K. R. Dwyer - another Koontz pseudonym.
Demon Child
Legacy Of Terror
Dance With The Devil
Children Of The Storm
The Dark Of Summer
DEMON CHILD
"Freya was seven, a beautiful child. When Jenny Brighton came to the ancestral home of her cousins to recover from the horror of the sudden death of her parents, she fell in love with the little girl. With her brother Frank, Freya could have stepped from a portrait of idealized childhood. But the beauty was on the surface only; the guiless blue eyes hid the secret of an inheritance of long dead evil. For Freya was possessed by something from the dark. The child would slip without warning into a strange trance... and Death would stalk the grounds of the Brucker Estate. The first victims were animals but soon the taste of blood became too strong for the unseen stalker to resist, and Jenny found herself plunged into a nightmare world... where she was marked as the next victim!"
1971 Lancer US
paperback.
SBN 447-75201-095 95¢ 224 pages ??/1971.
1973 Lancer US
paperback.
SBN 447-75498-095 95¢ 224 pages 09/1973.
Thank you, Phil Stephensen-Payne!
A CHRISTMAS NIGHTMARE
"It was the season to be jolly, a time made for children, and all grownups who would never grow old... but Death knows no season"
THE SEASON OF EVIL
1971 Lancer US
paperback.
SBN 447-75256-095 95¢ 207 pages ??/1971.
THE DEVIL'S COUNTRY
"Katherine Sellers came to Owlsden in the winter, to be the secretary-companion to Lydia Boland, one of the wealthiest women in the country. The job was an exciting challenge for Katherine, and a needed change from events she'd sooner forget. And her new employer was a charming and gracious lady. If only all the people of Owlsden and the little mountain village that huddled against the estate for protection were so nice, Katherine's happiness would be assured. However, beneath the charm stirred other emotions, other forces. There was evil in that mountain valley, a brooding evil that worshipped at a dark altar... an altar that had been built for unspeakable sacrifice! And Katherine was marked from the moment she arrived... marked to die!"
1972 Lancer US
paperback.
SBN 447-75309-095 95¢ 205 pages ??/1972.
1972 Magnum US
paperback.
SBN ???-75309-150 $1.50 205 pages ??/1972.
DARK DISTINGUE
"It was hard for Sonya Carter to believe that she was only half an hour from civilization, for the feeling of isolation from the world on the tiny island in the Caribbean was almost complete. The people in the two haouses on the island could have been cast adrift from reality, inhabiting a universe of their own. Sonya had come to Distingue to escape the dark days of her recent past; the offer of a job as tutor to the Dougherty children seemed heavensent. And for a time Distingue seemed to live up to the promise of its name - a place of elegance. But there was a darker force on the island, an insane power that sought to bring terror to the most innocent victims of all, the children. Someone was determined to murder them - and only Sonya stood in his way!"
1972 Lancer US
paperback.
SBN 447-75365-095 95¢ 352 pages ??/1972.
1972 Magnum US
paperback.
SBN ???-75365-??? $?.?? 352 pages ??/1972.
"Death blights Gwyn Keller's season of joy, destroying her only chance for love..."
1972 Lancer US
paperback.
SBN 447-75393-095 95¢ 351 pages ??/1972.
Pseudonym used for three titles, as well as the UK release of The Face Of Fear
Dean's first hardback was released using this pen name - Chase.
KRD is DRK backwards - coincidence?
As early as the mid-seventies, Dean already regretted not having used his own byline for Chase.
Chase
Shattered
Dragonfly
The Face Of Fear UK
"When Benjamin Chase was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, he accepted without ceremony - by mail. He stunned the hometown press and nearly demolished the sports car given him as a token of the esteem by the local merchants.
He had almost managed to make the newspapers forget him when he became a hero again. He save a girl's life. He took a knife-wielding madman, who had already killed Lois Allenby's lover, and drove him off. Thus buying another unwanted batch of publicity.
But that was the least he had to worry about. Chase had also bought the hatred of a psychopathic killer. The voice on the telephone was tense and ugly. "You messed in where you had no right messing... I just want to tell you that it doesn't end here. I'll deal with you, Mr. Chase, once I've researched your background and have weighed a proper judgement on you. Then, once you've been made to pay, I'll deal with the whore, the Allenby girl."
"Deal with?" Chase asked.
"I'm going to kill you and her, Chase."
Chase believed him. However, once the police learned about his endless sessions with a psychiatrist and his service disability pension for having suffered a nervous breakdown, nobody believed Chase.
Slowly, painfully, Chase had to return from his penitent retreat and face reality again. He had to find the killer before the killer got to him. Fortunately, he had been trained in stealth and mayhem by the best school in the world - the U.S. Army. Unfortunately, the killer - who called himself judge - had also learned a few things."
1972 Random House US
hardback.
ISBN 0-394-47990-4 $5.95 178 pages ??/1973.
During this period Random House hardbacks had a numberline beginning with "2" for their first printings. They also stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. On the back of Chase's dustjacket flap, it states "Printed in the U.S.A. 1/73", so it had to have hit the shelves in early 1973, even though it was copytighted in 1972. That should make it all as clear as mud - and the two seperate release dates are not a typo. Dean's first hardback release. If you have any info regarding the true release date, please email me.
1974 Arthur Barker UK
hardback.
ISBN 0-213-16469-8 £?.?? 178 pages 06/1974.
1984 Star UK reissue
paperback.
ISBN 0-352-31489-3 £1.95 214 pages 10/1984.
Thank you, Alan Podger!
1985 WH Allen UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-491-03454-7 £11.95 224 pages 06/1985.
1990 Headline UK
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3525-2 £3.50 214 pages 05/1990.
1991 Headline UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0301-6 £14.95 244 pages 07/1991.
1995 Warner Books
US hardback.
ISBN 0-446-51974-X $23.95 561 pages 05/1995.
A revised edition of Chase was included in the Koontz anthology, Strange Highways. My understanding is that it was included only in the US edition.
1996 Warner Vision US paperback.
ISBN 0-446-60339-2 614 pages 08/1996.
"Alex Doyle and his new wife's eleven-year-old brother, Colin, set out from Philadelphia on a drive across the country to their new home in San Francisco, it should have been a fine adventure.
Colin was precocious, savvy beyond his years, good company. Alex was a successful young commercial artist on his way to a new job as well as to a new wife whom he deeply loved, and he had no worries to detract from his enjoyment of the trip. He intended to teach Colin a few things about the old U.S.A. And knowing Colin, Doyle expected the boy to do some teaching of his own. It would be a learning experience for both of them.
One of the things they would learn in the next five days was the true nature of terror.
"We're being followed, Alex," Colin said when they were only four blocks into their long journey.
Doyle played along with the fantasy. He was used to Colin's elaborate games, and he enjoyed them himself. By chance, the small delivery van remained a steady quarter-mile behind them for the next two hours, giving Colin's grandiose imagination an opportunity to evolve all sorts of melodramatic explanations: spies, highwaymen, FBI agents...
But then it became obvious that the van's steady pursuit of them was not coincidental. It was deliberate. They were being followed. And then, on the second day of their journey, on the deserted plains of Missouri, the van tried to run them off the road. After a harrowing fifty-mile chase, they managed to escape with their-lives.
Temporarily. Several hours later, as if the driver knew the preplanned itinerary, he showed up on the roadbehind them. And the violence began again.
From the long night of stalk and counterstalk in the inhumanly gray corridors of a huge motel outside of Denver, to the desperate chase across the deserts of Utah and Nevada, Alex and Colin search for a clue to the identity of the madman behind them. But he remains faceless... until the final confrontation in San Francisco, when Courtney Doyle - wife and sister of the pursued - becomes the focal point of a paranoid nightmare."
1973 Random House US
hardback.
ISBN 0-394-48529-7 $5.95 182 pages 12/1973.
1974 Arthur Barker UK hardback.
ISBN 0-213-16470-1 £1.95 182 pages 07/1974.
1983 Star UK reissue
paperback.
ISBN 0-352-31440-0 £1.80 207 pages ??/1983.
1984 WH Allen UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-491-03243-9 £8.95 208 pages 09/1984.
Thank you, Alan Grimason!
1985 Berkley US
reissue paperback.
ISBN 09933-4 $?.?? ??? pages ??/1985.
1990 Headline UK
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3523-6 £3.99 207 pages 03/1990.
1990 Headline UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0299-0 £13.95 245 pages 11/1990.
1992 Wings US hardback omnibus.
ISBN 0-517-07369-2 $11.98 691 pages 07/1992.
Includes: Shattered, Whispers, and Watchers.
"The Committee, a group of powerful CIA fanatics, has friends in the mafia, the Congress, in every important department of the government up to and including the President's Oval Office. They are funded by a reclusive billionaire, and they have always gotten what they wanted. Now they want everything
Enraged by the Chinese-American détente, the Committee conceives a sinister plot to destroy vital portions of the Chinese population. Their weapon is a Chinese youth (code name: Dragonfly) who has been surgically implanted with a deadly virus. He has no memory of what has been done to him, yet he walks around, a human time bomb, set to explode at the right moment and release the plague within him, killing hundreds of thousands of his countrymen.
He must be found."
1975
Random House US hardback.
ISBN 0-394-49214-5 $7.95 244 pages 08/1975.
1976 Ballantine US
paperback.
SBN 345-25140-7-175 $1.75 261 pages 08/1976.
1977 Peter Davies UK
hardback.
ISBN 0-432-03550-8 £3.50 256 pages 03/1977.
1978 The Thriller Bookclub UK bce edition hardback.
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1979 Sphere UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-7221-3149-6 95p 244 pages 07/1979.
Random House Dragonfly proof.
"Nietzsche strikes again, this time through the personality of a New York 'superman' who hopes that the terror resulting from his killing of women will enable him to seize political power. A policeman himself, 'the butcher' gets away with a number of grisly murders until he comes up against Harris, an ex-mountaineer whose fall from Everest has rendered him psychic and who actually 'sees' one of the murders during a TV talk show...
The Butcher traps Harris and his girlfriend, at night, in a Lexington Avenue office building, having shot the guards and short-circuited the elevators. A cat-and-mouse game played up and down the inside of the building is continued outside it as Harris, with a game leg and terrified of heights, and his girlfriend, with no climbing experience, try to descend the building mountaineer-style from the fortieth floor. There's a blizzard blowing, to boot."
1977 Bobbs-Merrill Us
hardback.ISBN 0-672-52312-4 $8.95 244 pages ??/1977.
First Printing stated on the copyright page.
There was also a Doubleday Book Club edition - similar cover, but smaller.
1978 Peter Davies UK
hardback.SBN 432-03551-6 £4.50 239 pages 03/1978.
Note: This title appeared as another of Koontz' pen names in the UK, as by K. R. Dwyer.
1978 Ballantine US
paperback.ISBN 0-345-27117-3 $1.95 232 pages 05/1978.
1980 Sphere UK/Canada
paperback.ISBN 0-7221-13148-8 £1.10 232 pages 07/1980.
Also as by K. R. Dwyer.
Note: the above info was taken from the second pictured copy, which was printed in Canada. If you have any pertinent information about the UK printing, please email me.
Bobbs-Merrill The Face Of Fear proof.Thank you, Paul Evans!
1985 Berkley US
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-424-11984-X $?.?? 306 pages ??/1985.
1989 Headline reissue
paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3296-2 £3.50 314 pages 11/1989.
1989 Headline UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0174-9 £12.95 314 pages 12/1989.
Graham Potts original Headline cover art for The Face Of Fear
hardback.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.
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.
1990, January 8 - both editions. The Face Of Fear teleplay.The first is by Alan J. Gluckman, revised by Dean Koontz.
The second is by Dean Koontz.
"Colin Jacobs is a shy, awkward, bookish fouteen-year-old. His parents are divorced, his mother works, and his only real friends are creatures from the horror and science fiction stories he likes to read. But his life changes when Roy Borden, the most popular kid in town, becomes his 'blood brother'. For the first time ever, Colin Jacobs feels like somebody.
There's only one problem. Roy Borden has a secret - a secret so bizarre that Colin has trouble imagining it at first. By the time Colin can face the truth of it, it's almost too late. His own life is in danger - and no one will believe him."
1980
Doubleday US hardback.ISBN 0-385-15258-2 $10.95 277 pages ??/1980.
First Edition stated on copyright page.
An intersting note - the copyright page states: Copyright © 1980 by Dean Koontz.
1981 Robert Hale UK hardback.ISBN 0-7090-8991-5 £6.50 256 pages 05/1981.
Thank you, Jim Seels!
1981 Signet US paperback.ISBN 0-451-09966-4 BN 451-E9966 $2.75 213 pages 08/1981.
Copyright page states: First Signet Printing, August, 1981 - and has a 1-9 numberline.
As with the Doubleday hardback, this edition also clearly shows Dean Koontz as the author.
Doubleday The Voice Of The Night proof.Thank you, Jim Olson.
1985 Star UK reissue
paperback.ISBN 0-352-31608-X £2.25 277 pages 11/1985.
Thank you, Andrew Podger!
1989 WH Allen UK reissue hardback.ISBN 0-491-03169-6 £12.95 277 pages 02/1989.
1990 Headline UK reissue paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3519-8 £3.99 277 pages 03/1990.
With other printings that followed.
1991 Headline UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0295-8 £14.95 340 pages 03/1991.
1991
Berkley US reissue paperback.ISBN 0-424-12816-4 $5.95 339 pages 07/1991.
With other printings that followed.
1999 Thorndike Press mystery series reissue hardback.ISBN 0786217650 ??? 447 pages 04/1999.
Graham Potts original Headline cover art for The Voice Of The Night
hardback.Thank you, Jim Olson!
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.
Pseudonym used for five gothic paperbacks.
None of which have ever been reissued - and likely never will.
Formulaic gothic romance novels to pay the bills.
Supposedly the estranged wife of K. R. Dwyer - another Koontz pseudonym.
Demon Child
Legacy Of Terror
Dance With The Devil
Children Of The Storm
The Dark Of Summer
DEMON CHILD
"Freya was seven, a beautiful child. When Jenny Brighton came to the ancestral home of her cousins to recover from the horror of the sudden death of her parents, she fell in love with the little girl. With her brother Frank, Freya could have stepped from a portrait of idealized childhood. But the beauty was on the surface only; the guiless blue eyes hid the secret of an inheritance of long dead evil. For Freya was possessed by something from the dark. The child would slip without warning into a strange trance... and Death would stalk the grounds of the Brucker Estate. The first victims were animals but soon the taste of blood became too strong for the unseen stalker to resist, and Jenny found herself plunged into a nightmare world... where she was marked as the next victim!"
1971 Lancer US
paperback.SBN 447-75201-095 95¢ 224 pages ??/1971.
1973 Lancer US
paperback.SBN 447-75498-095 95¢ 224 pages 09/1973.
Thank you, Phil Stephensen-Payne!
A CHRISTMAS NIGHTMARE
"It was the season to be jolly, a time made for children, and all grownups who would never grow old... but Death knows no season"
THE SEASON OF EVIL
1971 Lancer US
paperback.SBN 447-75256-095 95¢ 207 pages ??/1971.
THE DEVIL'S COUNTRY
"Katherine Sellers came to Owlsden in the winter, to be the secretary-companion to Lydia Boland, one of the wealthiest women in the country. The job was an exciting challenge for Katherine, and a needed change from events she'd sooner forget. And her new employer was a charming and gracious lady. If only all the people of Owlsden and the little mountain village that huddled against the estate for protection were so nice, Katherine's happiness would be assured. However, beneath the charm stirred other emotions, other forces. There was evil in that mountain valley, a brooding evil that worshipped at a dark altar... an altar that had been built for unspeakable sacrifice! And Katherine was marked from the moment she arrived... marked to die!"
1972 Lancer US
paperback.SBN 447-75309-095 95¢ 205 pages ??/1972.
1972 Magnum US
paperback.SBN ???-75309-150 $1.50 205 pages ??/1972.
DARK DISTINGUE
"It was hard for Sonya Carter to believe that she was only half an hour from civilization, for the feeling of isolation from the world on the tiny island in the Caribbean was almost complete. The people in the two haouses on the island could have been cast adrift from reality, inhabiting a universe of their own. Sonya had come to Distingue to escape the dark days of her recent past; the offer of a job as tutor to the Dougherty children seemed heavensent. And for a time Distingue seemed to live up to the promise of its name - a place of elegance. But there was a darker force on the island, an insane power that sought to bring terror to the most innocent victims of all, the children. Someone was determined to murder them - and only Sonya stood in his way!"
1972 Lancer US
paperback.SBN 447-75365-095 95¢ 352 pages ??/1972.
1972 Magnum US
paperback.SBN ???-75365-??? $?.?? 352 pages ??/1972.
"Death blights Gwyn Keller's season of joy, destroying her only chance for love..."
1972 Lancer US
paperback.SBN 447-75393-095 95¢ 351 pages ??/1972.
Pseudonym used for three titles, as well as the UK release of The Face Of Fear
Dean's first hardback was released using this pen name - Chase.
KRD is DRK backwards - coincidence?
As early as the mid-seventies, Dean already regretted not having used his own byline for Chase.
Chase
Shattered
Dragonfly
The Face Of Fear UK
"When Benjamin Chase was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, he accepted without ceremony - by mail. He stunned the hometown press and nearly demolished the sports car given him as a token of the esteem by the local merchants.
He had almost managed to make the newspapers forget him when he became a hero again. He save a girl's life. He took a knife-wielding madman, who had already killed Lois Allenby's lover, and drove him off. Thus buying another unwanted batch of publicity.
But that was the least he had to worry about. Chase had also bought the hatred of a psychopathic killer. The voice on the telephone was tense and ugly. "You messed in where you had no right messing... I just want to tell you that it doesn't end here. I'll deal with you, Mr. Chase, once I've researched your background and have weighed a proper judgement on you. Then, once you've been made to pay, I'll deal with the whore, the Allenby girl."
"Deal with?" Chase asked.
"I'm going to kill you and her, Chase."
Chase believed him. However, once the police learned about his endless sessions with a psychiatrist and his service disability pension for having suffered a nervous breakdown, nobody believed Chase.
Slowly, painfully, Chase had to return from his penitent retreat and face reality again. He had to find the killer before the killer got to him. Fortunately, he had been trained in stealth and mayhem by the best school in the world - the U.S. Army. Unfortunately, the killer - who called himself judge - had also learned a few things."
1972 Random House US
hardback.ISBN 0-394-47990-4 $5.95 178 pages ??/1973.
During this period Random House hardbacks had a numberline beginning with "2" for their first printings. They also stated "First Edition" on the copyright page. On the back of Chase's dustjacket flap, it states "Printed in the U.S.A. 1/73", so it had to have hit the shelves in early 1973, even though it was copytighted in 1972. That should make it all as clear as mud - and the two seperate release dates are not a typo. Dean's first hardback release. If you have any info regarding the true release date, please email me.
1974 Arthur Barker UK
hardback.ISBN 0-213-16469-8 £?.?? 178 pages 06/1974.
1984 Star UK reissue
paperback.ISBN 0-352-31489-3 £1.95 214 pages 10/1984.
Thank you, Alan Podger!
1985 WH Allen UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-491-03454-7 £11.95 224 pages 06/1985.
1990 Headline UK
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3525-2 £3.50 214 pages 05/1990.
1991 Headline UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0301-6 £14.95 244 pages 07/1991.
1995 Warner Books
US hardback.ISBN 0-446-51974-X $23.95 561 pages 05/1995.
A revised edition of Chase was included in the Koontz anthology, Strange Highways. My understanding is that it was included only in the US edition.
1996 Warner Vision US paperback.ISBN 0-446-60339-2 614 pages 08/1996.
"Alex Doyle and his new wife's eleven-year-old brother, Colin, set out from Philadelphia on a drive across the country to their new home in San Francisco, it should have been a fine adventure.
Colin was precocious, savvy beyond his years, good company. Alex was a successful young commercial artist on his way to a new job as well as to a new wife whom he deeply loved, and he had no worries to detract from his enjoyment of the trip. He intended to teach Colin a few things about the old U.S.A. And knowing Colin, Doyle expected the boy to do some teaching of his own. It would be a learning experience for both of them.
One of the things they would learn in the next five days was the true nature of terror.
"We're being followed, Alex," Colin said when they were only four blocks into their long journey.
Doyle played along with the fantasy. He was used to Colin's elaborate games, and he enjoyed them himself. By chance, the small delivery van remained a steady quarter-mile behind them for the next two hours, giving Colin's grandiose imagination an opportunity to evolve all sorts of melodramatic explanations: spies, highwaymen, FBI agents...
But then it became obvious that the van's steady pursuit of them was not coincidental. It was deliberate. They were being followed. And then, on the second day of their journey, on the deserted plains of Missouri, the van tried to run them off the road. After a harrowing fifty-mile chase, they managed to escape with their-lives.
Temporarily. Several hours later, as if the driver knew the preplanned itinerary, he showed up on the roadbehind them. And the violence began again.
From the long night of stalk and counterstalk in the inhumanly gray corridors of a huge motel outside of Denver, to the desperate chase across the deserts of Utah and Nevada, Alex and Colin search for a clue to the identity of the madman behind them. But he remains faceless... until the final confrontation in San Francisco, when Courtney Doyle - wife and sister of the pursued - becomes the focal point of a paranoid nightmare."
1973 Random House US
hardback.ISBN 0-394-48529-7 $5.95 182 pages 12/1973.
1974 Arthur Barker UK hardback.ISBN 0-213-16470-1 £1.95 182 pages 07/1974.
1983 Star UK reissue
paperback.ISBN 0-352-31440-0 £1.80 207 pages ??/1983.
1984 WH Allen UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-491-03243-9 £8.95 208 pages 09/1984.
Thank you, Alan Grimason!
1985 Berkley US
reissue paperback.ISBN 09933-4 $?.?? ??? pages ??/1985.
1990 Headline UK
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3523-6 £3.99 207 pages 03/1990.
1990 Headline UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0299-0 £13.95 245 pages 11/1990.
1992 Wings US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-517-07369-2 $11.98 691 pages 07/1992.
Includes: Shattered, Whispers, and Watchers.
"The Committee, a group of powerful CIA fanatics, has friends in the mafia, the Congress, in every important department of the government up to and including the President's Oval Office. They are funded by a reclusive billionaire, and they have always gotten what they wanted. Now they want everything
Enraged by the Chinese-American détente, the Committee conceives a sinister plot to destroy vital portions of the Chinese population. Their weapon is a Chinese youth (code name: Dragonfly) who has been surgically implanted with a deadly virus. He has no memory of what has been done to him, yet he walks around, a human time bomb, set to explode at the right moment and release the plague within him, killing hundreds of thousands of his countrymen.
He must be found."
1975
Random House US hardback.ISBN 0-394-49214-5 $7.95 244 pages 08/1975.
1976 Ballantine US
paperback.SBN 345-25140-7-175 $1.75 261 pages 08/1976.
1977 Peter Davies UK
hardback.ISBN 0-432-03550-8 £3.50 256 pages 03/1977.
1978 The Thriller Bookclub UK bce edition hardback.???????????.
1979 Sphere UK
paperback.ISBN 0-7221-3149-6 95p 244 pages 07/1979.
Random House Dragonfly proof.Never reissued
"It is during a late-night television interview about his detective work as a clairvoyant that Graham Harris, whose gift has come to him after a serious climbing accident, "sees" another murder actually being committed; and he "knows" too that the murderer is the man the police have named the Butcher, the perpetrator of nine particularly horrible previous killings of young women.
The newspaper reports of the interview quickly tell the murderer of Harris's psychic identification, and as with all his other carefully planned attacks - there are others on the way - the Butcher stalks Harris and his girlfriend, Connie Davis. He contrives to trap them both at night in the vast forty-two storey business building where Harris works.
Hunted from floor to floor by the Butcher through endless offices, with the lifts put out of action and the staircases exposed to gun attack, the pair are left with only one other line of escape - but Harris's lost climbing nerve and Connie's total ignorance of climbing techniques the risk is appalling."
1978 Peter Davies UK
hardback.
SBN 432-03551-6 £4.50 239 pages 03/1978.
Note: This title appeared as another of Koontz' pen names in the US, as by Brian Coffey.
1980 Sphere UK/Canada
paperback.
ISBN 0-7221-13148-8 £1.10 232 pages 07/1980.
Also as by Brian Coffey in the US. Note: the above info was taken from the second pictured copy, which was printed in Canada. If you have any pertinent information about the UK printing, please email me.
To see all other releases refer to the Brian Coffey section.
Pseudonym used for one title.
Reflects the change in direction for Koontz, as with Aaron Wolfe, he was now using pen names for the science fiction releases - just the opposite of what he'd previuosly done.
The Long Sleep
MIND-RAPED
"He woke to a dreamlike future world where every fantasy came true, and every nightmare horror was real.
He woke - and discovered that somehow, somewhere, his mind had been ravished, his memory erased, and his only clue to his identity was his name: Joel.
But he was not alone. Around him the omnipresent computers typed out messages he could not decipher. Embracing him was a beautiful woman. Reassuring him was a kindly, white-haired man who told him one lie after another. And pursuing him was a figure without a face who called himself Sandman
Was Joel the only sane human in a world gone mad? Or was he a hopeless maniac living out his fearful fantasies? Joel's long sleep was over - and his nightmare had just begun...."
1975 Popular Library US paperback.
SBN 445-00325-125 $1.25 192 pages ??/1975.
An expansion of the basic storyline of the novelette, Grayworld, from Infinity Five.
"It is during a late-night television interview about his detective work as a clairvoyant that Graham Harris, whose gift has come to him after a serious climbing accident, "sees" another murder actually being committed; and he "knows" too that the murderer is the man the police have named the Butcher, the perpetrator of nine particularly horrible previous killings of young women.
The newspaper reports of the interview quickly tell the murderer of Harris's psychic identification, and as with all his other carefully planned attacks - there are others on the way - the Butcher stalks Harris and his girlfriend, Connie Davis. He contrives to trap them both at night in the vast forty-two storey business building where Harris works.
Hunted from floor to floor by the Butcher through endless offices, with the lifts put out of action and the staircases exposed to gun attack, the pair are left with only one other line of escape - but Harris's lost climbing nerve and Connie's total ignorance of climbing techniques the risk is appalling."
1978 Peter Davies UK
hardback.SBN 432-03551-6 £4.50 239 pages 03/1978.
Note: This title appeared as another of Koontz' pen names in the US, as by Brian Coffey.
1980 Sphere UK/Canada
paperback.ISBN 0-7221-13148-8 £1.10 232 pages 07/1980.
Also as by Brian Coffey in the US. Note: the above info was taken from the second pictured copy, which was printed in Canada. If you have any pertinent information about the UK printing, please email me.
To see all other releases refer to the Brian Coffey section.
Pseudonym used for one title.
Reflects the change in direction for Koontz, as with Aaron Wolfe, he was now using pen names for the science fiction releases - just the opposite of what he'd previuosly done.
The Long Sleep
MIND-RAPED
"He woke to a dreamlike future world where every fantasy came true, and every nightmare horror was real.
He woke - and discovered that somehow, somewhere, his mind had been ravished, his memory erased, and his only clue to his identity was his name: Joel.
But he was not alone. Around him the omnipresent computers typed out messages he could not decipher. Embracing him was a beautiful woman. Reassuring him was a kindly, white-haired man who told him one lie after another. And pursuing him was a figure without a face who called himself Sandman
Was Joel the only sane human in a world gone mad? Or was he a hopeless maniac living out his fearful fantasies? Joel's long sleep was over - and his nightmare had just begun...."
1975 Popular Library US paperback.SBN 445-00325-125 $1.25 192 pages ??/1975.
An expansion of the basic storyline of the novelette, Grayworld, from Infinity Five.
Never reissued, nor
US
hardback or any UK edition released.
Pseudonym used for five US titles.
Used for six UK titles - The Door To December - aka Richard Paige in the US.
All initial US releases were in paperback only, and one BCE - Shadowfires - which was also Koontz' last release using a pen name.
The Key To Midnight
The Eyes Of Darkness
The House Of Thunder
Twilight
The Door To December UK
Shadowfires
ZURICH: 1968
"A group of scientists known as "The Clinic" has perfected Midnight a terrifying form of total mind control
JAPAN: 1978
Millionaire investigator Alex Hunter hadn't come to Kyoto to fall in love, but Joanna Rand was the most beautiful, most exciting woman he'd ever seen. What disturbed him was the certainty he'd seen her before. In pictures of a senator's daughter, who'd disappeared ten years ago. Slowly, tenderly, he helped awaken her to a terrifying fact that she was not who she thought she was... that her mind, her memories, had been created for her
What could she have known that was so important?
What could they have done to bury it so completely?
The answer was hidden half a world away in a conspiracy neither of them could have suspected. Now, with death dogging their footsteps, Alex and Joanna went out together to find... The Key To Midnight."
1979 Pocket US
paperback.
ISBN 0-671-80915-6 $2.50 392 pages 06/1979.
1980 Magnum UK paperback.
ISBN 0-417-05700-8 £1.35 400 pages 02/1980.
1985 Piatkus UK
hardback.
ISBN 0-861-88480-9 £8.95 400 pages ??/1985.
1985 Fontana UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-00-617001-3 £2.50 383 pages 11/1985.
1988 Fontana UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-00-617001-3 £3.50 383 pages 04/1988.
Pocket advance Key To Midnight preview booklet, 12 pages.
1988 Dark Harvest US
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-913165-51-4 $19.95 330 pages 01/1990.
All the Dark Harvest reissues were illustrated by Phil Parks.
Dark
Harvest signed/numbered
limited edition, 550 slipcased copies. $48.00.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest signed/lettered
limited edition, 52 slipcased copies.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest The Key To
Midnight proof.
There were only 24 proof copies made for each of the five Dark Harvest Leigh Nichols reissues.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1992 Headline UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0398-9 £15.99 311 pages 02/1992.
1992 Headline UK
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3646-1 £4.99 440 pages 08/1992.
1995 Berkley US
reissued & revised paperback.
ISBN 0-425-14751-7 $6.99 419 pages 06/1995.
1995 BCE edition reissue hardback.
1996 Thorndike Press large print Americana series reissue
hardback.
ISBN 0786205792 ??? ??? pages 03/1996.
Pocket Key To Midnight proof.
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.
"It is a year since Tina Evans lost her little boy Danny in a tragic accident... a year since she began the painful process of forgetting, of trying to go on.
But today this shocking message appeared on the blackboard in Danny's room:
NOT DEAD HELP ME
Was it someone's grim joke? The tangible evidence of her own tormented unconscious? Or something... more?
The search for the answer will begin now... A search that will drive a beautiful anguished woman and her compassionate lover through the neon clamor of Las Vegas nightlife, the sun-scorched desert, the mighty shadows of Boulder Dam and the frozen towers of the High Sierras.
People will die now, coldly, brutally, while a buried truth struggles to the surface... a truth so incredible, so frightening, so dangerous that its secret must be kept at the price of any life - any man, any woman... any child."
1981 Pocket US
paperback.
ISBN 0-671-82784-7 $2.75 312 pages 02/1981.
1981 Piatkus UK
hardback.
ISBN 0-861-88201-6 £?.?? 312 pages ??/1981.
1982 Fontana UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-00-616508-7 £1.50 312 pages ??/1982.
1988 Fontana
UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-00-616508-7 £3.50 312 pages 04/1988.
1989 Dark Harvest US
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-913165-42-5 $18.95 257 pages 04/1989.
Dark
Harvest signed/numbered
limited edition, 400 slipcased copies. $45.00.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark Harvest signed/lettered
limited edition, 52 slipcased copies.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest The Eyes Of
Darkness proof.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1991 Headline UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0435-7 £14.95 307 pages 10/1991.
1992 Headline UK
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3769-7 £4.99 468 pages 05/1992.
1996 Berkley US
reissued & revised paperback.
ISBN 0-425-15397-5 $7.50 369 pages 07/1996.
1996
BCE edition reissue hardback.
Graham Potts original Headline cover art for The Eyes Of Darkness
hardback.
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!
IN A CAVERN CALLED
THE HOUSE OF THUNDER
"Susan Thorton watched in terror as her lover died a violent death in a college hazing.
And in the next few years, the four young men who participated in that grim fraternity rite likewise died violently.
Or did they?
12 YEARS LATER
Susan awakens in the aftermath of an accident, suffering amnesia. Her only comfort - the handsome, reassuring Dr. Jeffrey McGee. Slowly her convalescence unfolds into a fearful nightmare. Can the four ageless young men in the corridors possibly be the killers of her boyfriend or phantoms of her tormented memory?
Have the dead come back to life? Are the answers locked in her haunted mind? Or has Susan plunged into the abyss of madness? Now the gentile doctor and a brilliant woman will watch a plot of complex and dangerous dimensions unravel. A plot whose monstrous purpose echoes back to... THE HOUSE OF THUNDER."
1982 Pocket US
paperback.
ISBN 0-671-43266-4 $2.95 342 pages 05/1982.
1983 Fontana UK
paperback. ISBN 0-00-616509-5 £1.75
342
pages 02/1983.
1983 Piatkus UK
hardback.
ISBN 0-861-88262-8 £7.95 352 pages 04/1983.
1988 Fontana UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-00-616509-5 £3.50 329 pages 04/1988.
1988 Dark Harvest US
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-913165-34-4 $18.95 255 pages 11/1988.
Dark
Harvest signed/numbered
limited edition, 550 copies.
ISBN 0-913165-33-6 $45.00.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest signed/lettered
limited edition, 52 copies.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest The House Of
Thunder proof.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1992 Headline UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0480-2 £15.99 311 pages 04/1992.
1992 Berkley US
reissued & revised paperback.
ISBN 0-425-13295-1 $5.99 360 pages 06/1992.
1992 BCE edition US reissue hardback.
1994 Headline UK
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3661-5 £5.99 438 pages 04/1994.
1996
Putnam US hardback omnibus.
ISBN 0-399-14125-1 $12.98 804 pages 04/1996.
Includes: The House Of Thunder, Shadowfires, and Midnight.
2000 Thorndike Press Famous Authors series reissue hardback.
ISBN 0786228652 ??? 465 pages 12/2000.
Beyond the Reach of Day and Night...
Beyond the Realm of Life and Death...
A Child's Voice is Crying
"A parking lot in southern California. A screaming woman, a threat - and then an act of grotesque violence.
Suddenly Christine Scavello's life is a nightmare. Her pride and joy, her only child, has been targeted for death by a group of religious fanatics. They've branded him the Antichrist... and they won't stop until he's dead.
Christine, her son, and the one man who's risked everything to help them, are running, running from the hounds of death, running beyond the edge of terror, into the realm of... TWILIGHT."
1984 Pocket US
paperback.
ISBN 0-671-43267-2 $3.95 440 pages 11/1984.
1985 Piatkus UK
hardback.
ISBN 0-861-88318-7 £9.95 320 pages 06/1985.
Note: with every release from here on out, the title was The Servants Of Twilight - Koontz' preferred title.
1985 Fonatana UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-00-616923-6 £1.95 379 pages 02/1985.
1988 Fontana UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-00-616923-6 £3.50 379 pages 04/1988.
1988 Dark Harvest US
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-913165-24-7 $18.95 327 pages 07/1988.
Dark
Harvest signed/numbered
limited edition, 600 slipcased copies.
ISBN 0-913165-14-X $45.00.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark Harvest signed/lettered
limited edition, 52 slipcased copies.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest The Servants Of
Twilight proof.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1990 Berkley US
reissued & revised paperback.
ISBN 0-425-12125-9 $5.50 418 pages 05/1990.
On a personal note: this is the book, the one that grabbed me by the throat and got me hooked; I've been devouring Koontz ever since. Interesting, in that I discovered Dean's good friend, Robert McCammon - another fantastic author(Swan Song is in my all-time top ten), a full decade before. Add a healthy serving of Dan Simmons to the Koontz and McCammon mix, and you have a delicious recipe for perfect dark suspense/horror. Trivia time: on his website, Simmons credits Dean with interceding for the paperback release of Carrion Comfort, which the publisher wasn't interested in.
1990
BCE edition reissue hardback.
1991 Headline UK
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3638-0 £4.99 499 pages 05/1991.
1991 Headline UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0389-X £14.95 313 pages 08/1991.
2001 Thorndike Press Large Print Series reissue hardback.
ISBN 0786228660 $?.?? 723 pages 03/2001.
1991
Wings US hardback omnibus.
ISBN 0-517-06487-1 $10.99 752 pages 07/1991.
Includes: The Servants Of Twilight, Darkfall, and Phantoms.
"What was the secret her little girl dared not whisper...?
Six years before, Laura McCaffrey's three-year-old daughter Melanie had been kidnapped by Laura's estranged husband Dylan, and had seemingly vanished from the face of the earth.
Now Melanie had been found, a nine-year-old wandering the Los Angeles streets with blank eyes and a secret in her soul she would not or could not reveal.
Dylan had been found, too - or at least his mangled remains.
Melanie was home again, safe in her mother's arms. But would Melanie ever be safe again - as the floodgates of horror opened and the bloody torrent came pouring through...?"
1987 Fontana UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-00-617377-2 £3.50 432 pages 08/1987.
In essence, this title was the true final pseudonym released by Koontz, coming after Shadowfires by several months. The US Signet release, as by Richard Paige, was in 1985 - so I'll list it here in that timeline.
Note: The Door To December most likely would have been released as a Nichols book in the US, as well, had it not been for Koontz being in the process of switching paperback publishers. He was fed up with Pocket - just look at their "romance novel" cover for Twilight and you'll know why.
1988 Inner Circle UK
hardback.
ISBN 1-85018-067-9 £10.95 416 pages 01/1988.
Inner Cricle The Door To
December proof.
Thank you, Paul Evans!
HE'S DEAD
"Rachael's violently possessive ex-husband, hideously mangled in a freak accident, has disappeared from the city morgue.
HE'S ALIVE
Now someone, or something, is watching her. Calling her. Stalking her. And though no one will believe her, she knows who it is.
HE WANTS HER
His walking corpse a grotesque mockery of life. His brilliant, warped mind once again "alive" - and seething with jealous rage.
HE'S COMING HOME
Seeking unspeakable revenge beyond her worst nightmare. Stalking her with murderous lust that will not die.
HE'S AT THE DOOR
There's nowhere left to run, Rachael.
Don't bother to get up.
He has his own key."
1987 Avon US
paperback.
ISBN 0-380-75216-6 $3.95 436 pages 02/1987.
1987 US bce edition
hardback. I'll dig my copy out and scan it soon.
1987 Collins UK
hardback.
0-00-223164-6 £10.95 448 pages 12/1987.
1987 Fontana UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-00-617444-2 £3.50 479 pages 12/1987.
1990 Dark Harvest US
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-913165-53-0 $21.95 380 pages 12/1990.
Dark
Harvest signed/numbered
limited edition, 450 slipcased copies. $45.00.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark Harvest signed/lettered
limited edition, 52 slipcased copies.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest Shadowfires
proofs.
Thank you, Allen Norby!
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1991 Headline UK
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3681-X £4.99 598 pages 08/1991.
1991 Headline UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0427-6 £14.95 372 pages 09/1991.
1993 Berkley US
reissued & revised paperback.
ISBN 0-425-13698-1 $6.99 509 pages 06/1993.
1993 BCE edition reissue hardback.
2001 Thorndike Press famous authors series reissue hardback.
ISBN 0786228644 ??? ??? pages 08/2001.
1996
Putnam US hardback omnibus.
ISBN 0-399-14125-1 $12.98 804 pages 04/1996.
Includes: The House Of Thunder, Shadowfires, and Midnight.
Pseudonym used for one title
Strike Deep
The Proposition...
"Doug reached out and put one hand on Lee's wrist, gripped him firmly. 'We have the same motivations, you and me. We both want money. We both want to strike back.'
'Strike Deep...' Lee mused.
'Are you with me?'
'I don't know.'
'You've got to decide soon. We've got to move within the next week or so, before the code words are outdated.'
'There's so much to think about.'
What was this? What was the matter with him? Why didn't he say no right now, this minute? How could he even consider this insane proposition?
'I'll have to know by nine tomorrow morning.' Powell said. 'I'm staying at the Algonquin. Room 34. I'm registered under the name Walters.'
'If I start leaning your way,' Lee said, 'I'll want to hear the plan all over again, in detail.'
'Sure.' Powell got to his feet. 'You're going to come in with me, I know you. You've already accepted it."
1974 Dial Press US
hardback.
ISBN 0-8037-8338-8 $6.95 246 pages 07-1974.
There was also a later printing.
Pseudonym used for five US titles.
Used for six UK titles - The Door To December - aka Richard Paige in the US.
All initial US releases were in paperback only, and one BCE - Shadowfires - which was also Koontz' last release using a pen name.
The Key To Midnight
The Eyes Of Darkness
The House Of Thunder
Twilight
The Door To December UK
Shadowfires
ZURICH: 1968
"A group of scientists known as "The Clinic" has perfected Midnight a terrifying form of total mind control
JAPAN: 1978
Millionaire investigator Alex Hunter hadn't come to Kyoto to fall in love, but Joanna Rand was the most beautiful, most exciting woman he'd ever seen. What disturbed him was the certainty he'd seen her before. In pictures of a senator's daughter, who'd disappeared ten years ago. Slowly, tenderly, he helped awaken her to a terrifying fact that she was not who she thought she was... that her mind, her memories, had been created for her
What could she have known that was so important?
What could they have done to bury it so completely?
The answer was hidden half a world away in a conspiracy neither of them could have suspected. Now, with death dogging their footsteps, Alex and Joanna went out together to find... The Key To Midnight."
1979 Pocket US
paperback.ISBN 0-671-80915-6 $2.50 392 pages 06/1979.
1980 Magnum UK paperback.ISBN 0-417-05700-8 £1.35 400 pages 02/1980.
1985 Piatkus UK
hardback.ISBN 0-861-88480-9 £8.95 400 pages ??/1985.
1985 Fontana UK
paperback.ISBN 0-00-617001-3 £2.50 383 pages 11/1985.
1988 Fontana UK
paperback.ISBN 0-00-617001-3 £3.50 383 pages 04/1988.
Pocket advance Key To Midnight preview booklet, 12 pages.
1988 Dark Harvest US
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-913165-51-4 $19.95 330 pages 01/1990.
All the Dark Harvest reissues were illustrated by Phil Parks.
Dark
Harvest signed/numbered
limited edition, 550 slipcased copies. $48.00.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest signed/lettered
limited edition, 52 slipcased copies.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest The Key To
Midnight proof.There were only 24 proof copies made for each of the five Dark Harvest Leigh Nichols reissues.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1992 Headline UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0398-9 £15.99 311 pages 02/1992.
1992 Headline UK
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3646-1 £4.99 440 pages 08/1992.
1995 Berkley US
reissued & revised paperback.ISBN 0-425-14751-7 $6.99 419 pages 06/1995.
1995 BCE edition reissue hardback.
1996 Thorndike Press large print Americana series reissue
hardback.ISBN 0786205792 ??? ??? pages 03/1996.
Pocket Key To Midnight proof.
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.
"It is a year since Tina Evans lost her little boy Danny in a tragic accident... a year since she began the painful process of forgetting, of trying to go on.
But today this shocking message appeared on the blackboard in Danny's room:
NOT DEAD HELP ME
Was it someone's grim joke? The tangible evidence of her own tormented unconscious? Or something... more?
The search for the answer will begin now... A search that will drive a beautiful anguished woman and her compassionate lover through the neon clamor of Las Vegas nightlife, the sun-scorched desert, the mighty shadows of Boulder Dam and the frozen towers of the High Sierras.
People will die now, coldly, brutally, while a buried truth struggles to the surface... a truth so incredible, so frightening, so dangerous that its secret must be kept at the price of any life - any man, any woman... any child."
1981 Pocket US
paperback.ISBN 0-671-82784-7 $2.75 312 pages 02/1981.
1981 Piatkus UK
hardback.ISBN 0-861-88201-6 £?.?? 312 pages ??/1981.
1982 Fontana UK
paperback.ISBN 0-00-616508-7 £1.50 312 pages ??/1982.
1988 Fontana
UK
paperback.ISBN 0-00-616508-7 £3.50 312 pages 04/1988.
1989 Dark Harvest US
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-913165-42-5 $18.95 257 pages 04/1989.
Dark
Harvest signed/numbered
limited edition, 400 slipcased copies. $45.00.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark Harvest signed/lettered
limited edition, 52 slipcased copies.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest The Eyes Of
Darkness proof.Thank you, Jim Olson!
1991 Headline UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0435-7 £14.95 307 pages 10/1991.
1992 Headline UK
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3769-7 £4.99 468 pages 05/1992.
1996 Berkley US
reissued & revised paperback.ISBN 0-425-15397-5 $7.50 369 pages 07/1996.
1996
BCE edition reissue hardback.
Graham Potts original Headline cover art for The Eyes Of Darkness
hardback.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!
IN A CAVERN CALLED
THE HOUSE OF THUNDER
"Susan Thorton watched in terror as her lover died a violent death in a college hazing.
And in the next few years, the four young men who participated in that grim fraternity rite likewise died violently.
Or did they?
12 YEARS LATER
Susan awakens in the aftermath of an accident, suffering amnesia. Her only comfort - the handsome, reassuring Dr. Jeffrey McGee. Slowly her convalescence unfolds into a fearful nightmare. Can the four ageless young men in the corridors possibly be the killers of her boyfriend or phantoms of her tormented memory?
Have the dead come back to life? Are the answers locked in her haunted mind? Or has Susan plunged into the abyss of madness? Now the gentile doctor and a brilliant woman will watch a plot of complex and dangerous dimensions unravel. A plot whose monstrous purpose echoes back to... THE HOUSE OF THUNDER."
1982 Pocket US
paperback.ISBN 0-671-43266-4 $2.95 342 pages 05/1982.
1983 Fontana UK
paperback. ISBN 0-00-616509-5 £1.75
342
pages 02/1983.
1983 Piatkus UK
hardback.ISBN 0-861-88262-8 £7.95 352 pages 04/1983.
1988 Fontana UK
paperback.ISBN 0-00-616509-5 £3.50 329 pages 04/1988.
1988 Dark Harvest US
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-913165-34-4 $18.95 255 pages 11/1988.
Dark
Harvest signed/numbered
limited edition, 550 copies.ISBN 0-913165-33-6 $45.00.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest signed/lettered
limited edition, 52 copies.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest The House Of
Thunder proof.Thank you, Jim Olson!
1992 Headline UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0480-2 £15.99 311 pages 04/1992.
1992 Berkley US
reissued & revised paperback.ISBN 0-425-13295-1 $5.99 360 pages 06/1992.
1992 BCE edition US reissue hardback.
1994 Headline UK
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3661-5 £5.99 438 pages 04/1994.
1996
Putnam US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-399-14125-1 $12.98 804 pages 04/1996.
Includes: The House Of Thunder, Shadowfires, and Midnight.
2000 Thorndike Press Famous Authors series reissue hardback.ISBN 0786228652 ??? 465 pages 12/2000.
Beyond the Reach of Day and Night...
Beyond the Realm of Life and Death...
A Child's Voice is Crying
"A parking lot in southern California. A screaming woman, a threat - and then an act of grotesque violence.
Suddenly Christine Scavello's life is a nightmare. Her pride and joy, her only child, has been targeted for death by a group of religious fanatics. They've branded him the Antichrist... and they won't stop until he's dead.
Christine, her son, and the one man who's risked everything to help them, are running, running from the hounds of death, running beyond the edge of terror, into the realm of... TWILIGHT."
1984 Pocket US
paperback.ISBN 0-671-43267-2 $3.95 440 pages 11/1984.
1985 Piatkus UK
hardback.ISBN 0-861-88318-7 £9.95 320 pages 06/1985.
Note: with every release from here on out, the title was The Servants Of Twilight - Koontz' preferred title.
1985 Fonatana UK
paperback.ISBN 0-00-616923-6 £1.95 379 pages 02/1985.
1988 Fontana UK
paperback.ISBN 0-00-616923-6 £3.50 379 pages 04/1988.
1988 Dark Harvest US
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-913165-24-7 $18.95 327 pages 07/1988.
Dark
Harvest signed/numbered
limited edition, 600 slipcased copies.ISBN 0-913165-14-X $45.00.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark Harvest signed/lettered
limited edition, 52 slipcased copies.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest The Servants Of
Twilight proof.Thank you, Jim Olson!
1990 Berkley US
reissued & revised paperback.ISBN 0-425-12125-9 $5.50 418 pages 05/1990.
On a personal note: this is the book, the one that grabbed me by the throat and got me hooked; I've been devouring Koontz ever since. Interesting, in that I discovered Dean's good friend, Robert McCammon - another fantastic author(Swan Song is in my all-time top ten), a full decade before. Add a healthy serving of Dan Simmons to the Koontz and McCammon mix, and you have a delicious recipe for perfect dark suspense/horror. Trivia time: on his website, Simmons credits Dean with interceding for the paperback release of Carrion Comfort, which the publisher wasn't interested in.
1990
BCE edition reissue hardback.
1991 Headline UK
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3638-0 £4.99 499 pages 05/1991.
1991 Headline UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0389-X £14.95 313 pages 08/1991.
2001 Thorndike Press Large Print Series reissue hardback.ISBN 0786228660 $?.?? 723 pages 03/2001.
1991
Wings US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-517-06487-1 $10.99 752 pages 07/1991.
Includes: The Servants Of Twilight, Darkfall, and Phantoms.
"What was the secret her little girl dared not whisper...?
Six years before, Laura McCaffrey's three-year-old daughter Melanie had been kidnapped by Laura's estranged husband Dylan, and had seemingly vanished from the face of the earth.
Now Melanie had been found, a nine-year-old wandering the Los Angeles streets with blank eyes and a secret in her soul she would not or could not reveal.
Dylan had been found, too - or at least his mangled remains.
Melanie was home again, safe in her mother's arms. But would Melanie ever be safe again - as the floodgates of horror opened and the bloody torrent came pouring through...?"
1987 Fontana UK
paperback.ISBN 0-00-617377-2 £3.50 432 pages 08/1987.
In essence, this title was the true final pseudonym released by Koontz, coming after Shadowfires by several months. The US Signet release, as by Richard Paige, was in 1985 - so I'll list it here in that timeline.
Note: The Door To December most likely would have been released as a Nichols book in the US, as well, had it not been for Koontz being in the process of switching paperback publishers. He was fed up with Pocket - just look at their "romance novel" cover for Twilight and you'll know why.
1988 Inner Circle UK
hardback.ISBN 1-85018-067-9 £10.95 416 pages 01/1988.
Inner Cricle The Door To
December proof.Thank you, Paul Evans!
To see all other
releases,
go to the Richard Paige section.
HE'S DEAD
"Rachael's violently possessive ex-husband, hideously mangled in a freak accident, has disappeared from the city morgue.
HE'S ALIVE
Now someone, or something, is watching her. Calling her. Stalking her. And though no one will believe her, she knows who it is.
HE WANTS HER
His walking corpse a grotesque mockery of life. His brilliant, warped mind once again "alive" - and seething with jealous rage.
HE'S COMING HOME
Seeking unspeakable revenge beyond her worst nightmare. Stalking her with murderous lust that will not die.
HE'S AT THE DOOR
There's nowhere left to run, Rachael.
Don't bother to get up.
He has his own key."
1987 Avon US
paperback.ISBN 0-380-75216-6 $3.95 436 pages 02/1987.
1987 US bce edition
hardback. I'll dig my copy out and scan it soon.
1987 Collins UK
hardback.0-00-223164-6 £10.95 448 pages 12/1987.
1987 Fontana UK
paperback.ISBN 0-00-617444-2 £3.50 479 pages 12/1987.
1990 Dark Harvest US
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-913165-53-0 $21.95 380 pages 12/1990.
Dark
Harvest signed/numbered
limited edition, 450 slipcased copies. $45.00.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark Harvest signed/lettered
limited edition, 52 slipcased copies.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Dark
Harvest Shadowfires
proofs.Thank you, Allen Norby!
Thank you, Jim Olson!
1991 Headline UK
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3681-X £4.99 598 pages 08/1991.
1991 Headline UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0427-6 £14.95 372 pages 09/1991.
1993 Berkley US
reissued & revised paperback.ISBN 0-425-13698-1 $6.99 509 pages 06/1993.
1993 BCE edition reissue hardback.
2001 Thorndike Press famous authors series reissue hardback.ISBN 0786228644 ??? ??? pages 08/2001.
1996
Putnam US hardback omnibus.ISBN 0-399-14125-1 $12.98 804 pages 04/1996.
Includes: The House Of Thunder, Shadowfires, and Midnight.
Pseudonym used for one title
Strike Deep
The Proposition...
"Doug reached out and put one hand on Lee's wrist, gripped him firmly. 'We have the same motivations, you and me. We both want money. We both want to strike back.'
'Strike Deep...' Lee mused.
'Are you with me?'
'I don't know.'
'You've got to decide soon. We've got to move within the next week or so, before the code words are outdated.'
'There's so much to think about.'
What was this? What was the matter with him? Why didn't he say no right now, this minute? How could he even consider this insane proposition?
'I'll have to know by nine tomorrow morning.' Powell said. 'I'm staying at the Algonquin. Room 34. I'm registered under the name Walters.'
'If I start leaning your way,' Lee said, 'I'll want to hear the plan all over again, in detail.'
'Sure.' Powell got to his feet. 'You're going to come in with me, I know you. You've already accepted it."
1974 Dial Press US
hardback.ISBN 0-8037-8338-8 $6.95 246 pages 07-1974.
There was also a later printing.
Never Reissued, nor
US
paperback or any UK edition.
Pseudonym used for one US paperback title, as Leigh Nichols in the UK.
The Door To December
WHAT WAS THE SECRET HER LITTLE GIRL DARED NOT EVEN WHISPER...?
"Six years before, Laura McCaffrey's three-year-old daughter Melanie had been kidnapped by Laura's estranged husband Dylan, and had seemingly vanished from the face of the earth.
Now Melanie had been found, a nine-year-old wandering the Los Angeles streets with blank eyes and a secret in her soul she would not or could not reveal.
Dylan had been found, too - or at least his mangled remains.
Melanie was home again, safe in her mother's arms. But would Melanie ever be safe again - as the floodgates of horror opened and the bloody torrent came pouring through...?"
1985 Signet US
paperback.
ISBN 0-451-13605-5 $3.95 405 pages 06/1985.
1987 Fontana UK
paperback.
As by Leigh Nichols.
ISBN 0-00-617377-2 £3.50 432 pages 08/1987.
1988 Inner Circle UK
hardback.
As by Leigh Nichols.
ISBN 1-85018-067-9 £10.95 416 pages 01/1988.
1990 Signet
US paperback.
ISBN 0-451-13605-5 $4.99 405 pages 04/1990.
1991
Headline UK reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0436-5 £14.95 312 pages 11/1991.
1993 Headline UK
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3705-0 £4.99 472 pages 04/1993.
1994 Thorndike Press large print Americana series reissue
hardback.
ISBN 0786202505 ??? ??? pages 07/1994.
1994 Signet US reissue & revised
paperback.
ISBN 0-451-18137-9 $6.99 510 pages 10/1994.
Graham Potts original Headline cover art for The Door To December
harback.
Thank you, Jim Olson!
Pseudonym used for two releases.
Nearly used for Darkfall as well - see modern novels section.
The Funhouse
The Mask
FOR 25 YEARS IT GREW IN THE SHADOWS
TONIGHT IT WAITS FOR AMY IN
THE FUNHOUSE
"The carnival has come to town, and tonight Amy and her high-school friends are spending the evening in The Funhouse, a place for enjoying gondola rides through gory delights and harmless horror.
But there is unspeakable evil waiting for unsuspecting Amy in the dark of The Funhouse, a secret evil that began 25 years ago. It was then that a lonely young woman, who had run off and married a carnival barker, gave birth to a monstrous offspring. One night, in a drunken stupor, she destroyed it. Her disturbed husband divorced her, and vowed to go to any lengths to exact his terrible revenge.
Now the night he has been waiting for has finally arrived. Amy, refusing to heed the carnival fortune teller's warnings, excitedly takes her place on The Funhouse ride... to keep her date with terror."
1980 Jove US paperback
- based on the screenplay by Larry Block.
ISBN 0-515-05726-6 $2.75 275 pages 11/1980.
1980 SFBC US bce
edition hardback, 213 pages.
1981 Sphere UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-7221-9001-8 £1.25 275 pages 07/1981.
Jove
The Funhouse ARC.
1992 Headline UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0560-4 £15.99 313 pages 08/1992.
1993 Headline UK
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3898-7 £4.99 313 pages 08/1993.
1994 Berkley US
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-425-14248-5 $6.99 333 pages 06/1994.
1994 US bce edition
reissue hardback.
Headline The Funhouse
proof.
Thank you, Paul Evans!
US
and Australian The
Funhouse promotional movie posters.
HELLO, I'M NOBODY
"She appeared out of nowhere, in the middle of traffic, on a busy day. A teenager with no past, no family - no memories. Carol and Paul were drawn to her - she was the child they'd never had. It was almost too good to be true.
Then the hauntings began - ghastly sounds in the night, a bloody face in the mirror... the half-felt horror and deja vu...
Where did Jane come from? Is she just an orphan in need of love? Or a visitor from a dark place in Hell? Who is the girl behind THE MASK"
1981 Jove US
paperback.
ISBN 0-515-05695-2 E5695 $2.95 305 pages 11/1981.
Contains the first ever appearance of a quote from The Book Of Counted Sorrows.
1982 Coronet UK
paperback.
ISBN 0-340-32824-X £1.95 320 pages 08/1992.
1988 Berkley US
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-425-09777-3 $4.50 305 pages 12/1988.
19?? US bce edition
reissue hardback.
1989 Headline UK
reissue paperback.
ISBN 0-7472-3262-8 £3.50 342 pages 07/1989.
1989 Headline UK
reissue hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0134-X £12.95 341 pages 08/1989.
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.
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.
Pseudonym used for one title.
Invasion
"Having just about concluded that it was nothing more than the wind and the storm that was upsetting the horses - and now they were all leaping and snorting more furiously than ever, as if they were not three ordinary nags but a trio of high-strung thoroughbreds - I turned toward the door and quite accidentally caught sight of the light which glowed eerily just beyond the only window in the entire building. There were two lights, actually, both a warm amber shade and of dim wattage. They appeared to pulse and to shimmer - and then they were gone, as if they had never been: blink!
I hurried to the barn door, slid it open, and stepped into the snow-filled night. The arctic wind struck me like a mallet swung by a blacksmith who was angry with his wife, and it almost blew me back into the stable row. Switching on the nearly useless flashlight, I bent against the wind and pulled the door shut behind me. Laboriously, cautiously, I inched around the side of the barn in the direction of the window, peering anxiously at the ground ahead of me.
I stopped before I reached the window, for I found precisely what I had been afraid that I would find: those odd, eight-pointed tracks which Toby and I had seen on the slope earlier in the day. There were a great many of them, as if the animal had been standing there, moving back and forth as it searched for better vantage points, for a long while - at least all the time that I had been inside with the horses.
It had been watching me."
1975 Laser US
paperback, #9.
ISBN 0-373-72009-095 95¢ 190 pages ??/1975.
1994
Headline UK hardback.
ISBN 0-7472-0910-3 £16.99 345 pages 01/1994.
Reissued as Winter Moon.
1994 Ballantine US paperback.
ISBN 0-345-38610-8 $6.99 472 pages 02/1994.
As Winter Moon.
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!
Pseudonym used for one US paperback title, as Leigh Nichols in the UK.
The Door To December
WHAT WAS THE SECRET HER LITTLE GIRL DARED NOT EVEN WHISPER...?
"Six years before, Laura McCaffrey's three-year-old daughter Melanie had been kidnapped by Laura's estranged husband Dylan, and had seemingly vanished from the face of the earth.
Now Melanie had been found, a nine-year-old wandering the Los Angeles streets with blank eyes and a secret in her soul she would not or could not reveal.
Dylan had been found, too - or at least his mangled remains.
Melanie was home again, safe in her mother's arms. But would Melanie ever be safe again - as the floodgates of horror opened and the bloody torrent came pouring through...?"
1985 Signet US
paperback.ISBN 0-451-13605-5 $3.95 405 pages 06/1985.
1987 Fontana UK
paperback.As by Leigh Nichols.
ISBN 0-00-617377-2 £3.50 432 pages 08/1987.
1988 Inner Circle UK
hardback.As by Leigh Nichols.
ISBN 1-85018-067-9 £10.95 416 pages 01/1988.
1990 Signet
US paperback.ISBN 0-451-13605-5 $4.99 405 pages 04/1990.
1991
Headline UK reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0436-5 £14.95 312 pages 11/1991.
1993 Headline UK
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3705-0 £4.99 472 pages 04/1993.
1994 Thorndike Press large print Americana series reissue
hardback.ISBN 0786202505 ??? ??? pages 07/1994.
1994 Signet US reissue & revised
paperback.ISBN 0-451-18137-9 $6.99 510 pages 10/1994.
Graham Potts original Headline cover art for The Door To December
harback.Thank you, Jim Olson!
Pseudonym used for two releases.
Nearly used for Darkfall as well - see modern novels section.
The Funhouse
The Mask
FOR 25 YEARS IT GREW IN THE SHADOWS
TONIGHT IT WAITS FOR AMY IN
THE FUNHOUSE
"The carnival has come to town, and tonight Amy and her high-school friends are spending the evening in The Funhouse, a place for enjoying gondola rides through gory delights and harmless horror.
But there is unspeakable evil waiting for unsuspecting Amy in the dark of The Funhouse, a secret evil that began 25 years ago. It was then that a lonely young woman, who had run off and married a carnival barker, gave birth to a monstrous offspring. One night, in a drunken stupor, she destroyed it. Her disturbed husband divorced her, and vowed to go to any lengths to exact his terrible revenge.
Now the night he has been waiting for has finally arrived. Amy, refusing to heed the carnival fortune teller's warnings, excitedly takes her place on The Funhouse ride... to keep her date with terror."
1980 Jove US paperback
- based on the screenplay by Larry Block.ISBN 0-515-05726-6 $2.75 275 pages 11/1980.
1980 SFBC US bce
edition hardback, 213 pages.
1981 Sphere UK
paperback.ISBN 0-7221-9001-8 £1.25 275 pages 07/1981.
Jove
The Funhouse ARC.
1992 Headline UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0560-4 £15.99 313 pages 08/1992.
1993 Headline UK
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3898-7 £4.99 313 pages 08/1993.
1994 Berkley US
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-425-14248-5 $6.99 333 pages 06/1994.
1994 US bce edition
reissue hardback.
Headline The Funhouse
proof.Thank you, Paul Evans!
US
and Australian The
Funhouse promotional movie posters.HELLO, I'M NOBODY
"She appeared out of nowhere, in the middle of traffic, on a busy day. A teenager with no past, no family - no memories. Carol and Paul were drawn to her - she was the child they'd never had. It was almost too good to be true.
Then the hauntings began - ghastly sounds in the night, a bloody face in the mirror... the half-felt horror and deja vu...
Where did Jane come from? Is she just an orphan in need of love? Or a visitor from a dark place in Hell? Who is the girl behind THE MASK"
1981 Jove US
paperback.ISBN 0-515-05695-2 E5695 $2.95 305 pages 11/1981.
Contains the first ever appearance of a quote from The Book Of Counted Sorrows.
1982 Coronet UK
paperback.ISBN 0-340-32824-X £1.95 320 pages 08/1992.
1988 Berkley US
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-425-09777-3 $4.50 305 pages 12/1988.
19?? US bce edition
reissue hardback.
1989 Headline UK
reissue paperback.ISBN 0-7472-3262-8 £3.50 342 pages 07/1989.
1989 Headline UK
reissue hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0134-X £12.95 341 pages 08/1989.
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.
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.
Pseudonym used for one title.
Invasion
"Having just about concluded that it was nothing more than the wind and the storm that was upsetting the horses - and now they were all leaping and snorting more furiously than ever, as if they were not three ordinary nags but a trio of high-strung thoroughbreds - I turned toward the door and quite accidentally caught sight of the light which glowed eerily just beyond the only window in the entire building. There were two lights, actually, both a warm amber shade and of dim wattage. They appeared to pulse and to shimmer - and then they were gone, as if they had never been: blink!
I hurried to the barn door, slid it open, and stepped into the snow-filled night. The arctic wind struck me like a mallet swung by a blacksmith who was angry with his wife, and it almost blew me back into the stable row. Switching on the nearly useless flashlight, I bent against the wind and pulled the door shut behind me. Laboriously, cautiously, I inched around the side of the barn in the direction of the window, peering anxiously at the ground ahead of me.
I stopped before I reached the window, for I found precisely what I had been afraid that I would find: those odd, eight-pointed tracks which Toby and I had seen on the slope earlier in the day. There were a great many of them, as if the animal had been standing there, moving back and forth as it searched for better vantage points, for a long while - at least all the time that I had been inside with the horses.
It had been watching me."
1975 Laser US
paperback, #9.ISBN 0-373-72009-095 95¢ 190 pages ??/1975.
1994
Headline UK hardback.ISBN 0-7472-0910-3 £16.99 345 pages 01/1994.
Reissued as Winter Moon.
1994 Ballantine US paperback.ISBN 0-345-38610-8 $6.99 472 pages 02/1994.
As Winter Moon.
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!