Please feel free to copy this in it's entirety. The only reason that this book was created was I wanted my own guide to his books. While compiling this I decided to add as much information that I could find. I do have the book by Katherine Ramsland, which I found very informative. I recommend this book for any Dean Koontz fan.

I would like to take a minute to explain where I got the content of this book. I found most of the information on the Internet, so I warn you that this information may not be correct. I made the attempt to verify the information with at least 2 sources on the Internet, but I wasn't able to check all the information. Please be patient. I will be revising this book when I have more time to devote to this project. I love Dean Koontz's books.

A note about the eBooks that I have published on the newsgroups. I don't like coping his work. I have 99% of all the books that I have posted in book format so I only keep these on my Pocket PC so I don't have to find the book. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that if you down load his books that you either buy it or already own it. The few that I don't have in book format I couldn't find so until I can I’ll use these, but I guarantee that if I find them I will buy them.

All my sources that I can remember are listed at the end of this eBook. Have fun using this book. All sources are listed with a * you can then find that information at the end of the book.

There's no escape

From Death's embrace,

Though you lead it on

A merry chase.

- The Book Of Counted Sorrows

Wee Wisdom

When Tempest-tossed,

Embrace chaos.

- The Book Of Counted Sorrows

Misc. Information

Dean Koontz misc. info:

Real Name: **

Dean Ray Koontz

Born: **

Monday, July 9, 1945

Parents: **

Florence and Ray Koontz

High School: **

Bedford High School

First Date: **

Was with a girl named Jamie Fries. Mother had to drive him since he was only 15.

College: **

Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania.

Married to and When: **

Married to Gerda Cerra on October 15, 1966

Dog: ****

Trixie

Home: **

Southern California

Dean Koontz - Pseudonyms

Deanna Dwyer

Leonard Chris

K. R. Dwyer

Brian Coffey

Anthony North

Aaron Wolfe

John Hill

David Axton

Leigh Nichols

Owen West

Richard Paige

The Books

- Forever Odd

Pub 2005 November

Publisher: Bantam Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: CD & Tape & MP3

Number CD's: Unknown

Abridged: No

Number of Cassettes: Unknown

Abridged: No

Hard Cover Pages: 416

Second book in the Odd Thomas series. * cDog

No other information available yet.

- Frankenstein: City of Night

Pub: July 2005

Publisher: Bantam Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: CD & Tape

Number CD's: ?

Number of Cassettes: ?

Paper Back Pages: ?

- Velocity

Pub: Schedule for Release May 2005

Publisher: Bantam Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: CD & Tape

Abridged: No

Hard Cover Pages: 416P

Paper Back Pages:

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 terrifyingknowledge 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. * BN

- Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

Pub: January 2005

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: CD & Tape

Abridged: Yes

Number CD's: 5

Number of Cassettes: 4

Paper Back Pages: 469p

It's no surprise that Deucalion, at almost seven feet tall and with half his face a mangled ruin, spent time as a European carnie sideshow attraction nicknamed the Monster. After enjoying several peaceful years at a monastery in Tibet, the introspective and enigmatic giant receives dire news: The man who created him centuries earlier, Victor Frankenstein, is inexplicably alive and living in New Orleans under the name of Victor Helios, a wealthy business owner and philanthropist. When Deucalion vows to leave his Tibetan sanctuary and destroy the man who created him, he soon realizes the critical magnitude of his mission -- Helios is in the process is secretly creating a new race of posthumans to take over the world! * BN

- Life Expectancy

Pub: 12/04

Publisher: Bantam Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: CD & Tape

Number CD's: 9

Abridged: No

Number of Cassettes: 7

Abridged: No

Hard Cover Pages: 416p

While a man is dying in the ICU, his daughter-in-law is giving birth in the same hospital's maternity ward. As his final moment approaches, this man bursts forth with a string of predictions about his unborn grandson. Rudy Tock, the father-in-waiting and the man's soon-to-be grieving son, faithfully records the ten predictions on the back of a circus pass only moments before confronting an enraged and murderous clown in the obstetrical unit's waiting room. And thus our tale begins. Koontz's (Doubting Thomas) latest is a sardonic narrative that follows Jimmy Tock through the trials and ordeals alluded to in his grandfather's predictions. * BN

- The Taking

Pub:5/04

Publisher: Bantam Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: CD

Abridged: No

Number CD's: 11

Hard Cover Pages: 464

"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. * BN

- Robot Santa:

The Further Adventures of Santa's Twin, Vol. 2

Pub: September 2004

Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages: 72

Santa's Twin is the story of two little girls, Charlotte and Emily, who set out to save Santa from his mischievous 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 into reindeer 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. * BN

- Odd Thomas

Pub: 2004

Publisher: Bantam Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages: 416

Paper Back Pages: 496

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. * Dean Koontz Site www.deankoontz.com

- The Face

Pub: 2003

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: CD & Tape

Number CD's: 16

Abridged: No

Number of Cassettes: 12

Abridged: No

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 649

"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." 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. * Unknown

- By the Light of the Moon

Pub:2002

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Movie: No

Hard Cover Pages: 448

Paper Back Pages: 460

"Dylan O'Conner 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.

* Unknown

- Paper Doorway

Pub: 2001

Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages: 160

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.With 225 million copies of his books sold, New York Times megaselling author Dean Koontz has been called America's most popular suspense novelist but that only begins to describe his endless talent and imagination. Following the success of his previous children's book, Santa's Twin, Koontz has created a richly inventive book of poems, illustrated in black-and-white by Phil Parks, that delivers a powerhouse combination of humor and spookiness. * Unknown

- The Book of Counted Sorrows

Pub: 2001

Publisher: Unknown

eBook Summary:

Being The Mind-Bending, Heart-Stopping, Bowel-Freezing, Spleen-Tickling History Of The Most Dangerous Book Of Poetry Ever Written, Including The Text Of That Cursed Book Itself, With The Prayer That God Will Protect You From A Spontaneous Head Explosion (And Even Worse Potential Fates) If You Dare Read It.

Ever wonder where best-selling author Dean Koontz found all of those clever epitaphs at the beginning of his novels? Their alleged source, an elusive tome of poetry called The Book of Counted Sorrows, has mystified Koontz fans for years. Each year, Koontz receives thousands of letters from fans who have searched the bookstores and libraries for this inspirational book. Now in response, Dean Koontz reveals the compelling history of The Book of Counted Sorrows as well as the near-complete collection of poetry. This "mind bending, heart-stopping, bowel-freezing, spleen-tickling history of the most dangerous book of poetry every written" will captivate new and established Koontz fans.

* eBookmall.com

- One Door Away from Heaven

Pub: 2000

Publisher: Bantam Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: Tape

Abridged: No

Number of Cassettes: 13

Paper Back Pages: 720

A woman in her late 20s, Micky Bellsong is beginning to feel the pressures of not having her life sorted out. She drinks too much, has no romantic relationship, and still lacks stable employment. While staying in the trailer home of her Aunt Geneva, Micky meets the hyper intellectual but physically deformed Leilani Klonk, a nine-year-old whose wild personal stories involve aliens and a murderous stepfather called Dr. Doom who preys on the frail and the elderly. Initially, Micky believes Leilani is just an imaginative child, but she soon realizes that there may be some truth to the tall tales. Before she can clearly understand what's going on at the trailer home next door, Micky must make a choice when Leilani's family packs up and hits the road: Forget everything she's heard, or pursue the girl and learn the facts, no matter what the cost. * Unknown

- From the Corner of His Eye

Pub: 2000

Publisher: Bantam Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: Tape

Number of Cassettes: 12

Abridged: No

Paper Back Pages: 768

Bartholomew "Barty" Lampion is born on a day marked by tragedy. Both of his parents will die, though thanks to some quick medical help, his mother, Agnes, will return to the living. Little Barty proves himself to be an amazing child almost from the first day -- a prodigy who, by the age of three, is reading at an eighth-grade level. Then tragedy strikes again when a rare type of cancer forces the removal of both of Barty's eyes, leaving him totally blind. Yet despite this setback, Barty continues to amaze everyone with his boundless love of life, his steely determination, and more than a few astonishing perceptions.

Angel White is born on the same day as Barty, and the circumstances are just as tragic. Not only was Angel conceived during a violent rape, Angel's mother, Seraphim, a 15-year-old African American and the daughter of a Baptist minister, dies during the birth. But something amazing happens first, something that will affect the lives of both the doctor delivering the child and Seraphim's older sister, Celestina, who raises Angel. This child, too, proves to be exceptional.

It will be three years before these two remarkable children meet, though their lives are mysteriously intertwined from the moment of their births. Each possesses a unique and rare ability that changes the way they, and those around them, see the world. But a vicious killer wants them both dead, and their eventual confrontation will have a mind-shattering outcome, the effect of which will eventually be felt throughout the universe. * Unknown

- False Memory

Pub: 1999

Publisher: Bantam Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: Tape

Abridged: No

Number of Cassettes: 10

Paper Back Pages: 784p

Hard Cover Pages: 751p

Martie Rhodes is married to a man she adores and has a successful career as a video-game designer and a life many would envy. But there are a few hitches. Once a week, Martie escorts her best friend, Susan, to a psychiatrist's office, where Susan receives treatment for the severe case of agoraphobia that suddenly took over her life 18 months before. And Martie's husband, Dusty, has a younger brother who is sweet, naive, and addicted to drugs.

Still, Martie's life is relatively stable until the morning she awakens with a sudden and inexplicable fear of her own. It is a fear unlike any she has ever encountered or even considered. It is a fear she may not be able to control. It is a fear of the one thing she should be able to master but can't. It is a fear of herself.

It begins innocently enough with a sense of disquiet that Martie experiences while walking the dog, an odd feeling of fright when she sees her own shadow. But things quickly escalate, and within hours, horrifying images fill Martie's mind, images of blood and violence committed by her own hands, committed against herself and the one person she loves most: her husband, Dusty.

Martie soon learns that her condition has a name: auto phobia. When she shares her fears with her husband, Dusty finds himself torn. On the one hand he is desperate to be there for Martie, to learn the cause of her mental condition and try to find a way to fight it. On the other hand there is his brother, Skeet, whose recent backslide has led to a suicide attempt -- a harrowing scene that nearly costs Dusty his life as well.

It's while caring for his poor, drug-addled brother that Dusty accidentally stumbles upon a quirk, a quirk that suggests Skeet's problems may not all be of his own making. When Dusty discovers that the same quirk may be behind Martie's mental illness, he is thrown into a nightmare of astonishing proportions. To save those he loves, Dusty must confront a monster whose power over him, Skeet, and Martie is unthinkable, a monster who has already destroyed dozens of lives and thinks nothing of racking up a few more. * Unknown

- Seize the Night

Pub: 11/99

Publisher: Bantam Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 480

Hard Cover Pages:

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. From their homes. From the streets. The police cannot be trusted to solve the mystery because in Moonlight Bay the police work their hardest to conceal crimes and silence the complainants rather than catch the perpetrators. They were long ago corrupted by a greater authority, hidden behind the supposedly shuttered walls of the adjacent military base, Fort Wyvern. When he sets out to find the missing five-year-old son of a former sweetheart, Christopher Snow believes the lost children are still alive. He is convinced the disappearances have everything to do with the catastrophic effects of secret research conducted deep within Fort Wyvern. To keep those secrets, extremely violent and powerful forces are willing to conceal even the most heinous crimes. But Christopher Snow has developed a secret advantage of his own. His rare genetic disorder - xeroderma pigmentosum, XP - leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. Forced to live in the shadows, Christopher Snow knows the night world better than anyone, even those adversaries who seem at one with darkness. * Unknown

- Fear Nothing

Pub: 1997

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Audio Book: Tape

Abridged: No

Number of Cassettes: 10

Hard Cover Pages: ?

Paper Back Pages: 432

Because Chris Snow has xeroderma pimentosum -- a rare, and usually fatal, genetic disorder -- even a brief exposure to sunlight can cause irreparable damage leading to blindness and fatal skin cancers. So Snow only comes at night. The novel opens with the death of Snow's father, a tragic, but seemingly innocent incident that tears open the fabric of Snow's life. He soon becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that seems to involve everyone in the small town of Moonlight Bay, where Snow has spent his entire life.* Unknown

- Sole Survivor

Pub: 1997

Publisher: Knopf

Movie: Yes

Audio Book: Tape

Number of Cassettes: 8

Abridged: No

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 416

The story begins with a catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash. Three hundred and thirty dead, no survivors. Among the victims, the wife and two young daughters of Los Angeles Post crime reporter Joe Carpenter. A year later, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, unable to work, unable to imagine any relief but his own death, Joe encounters a woman named Rose. She claims to have survived the crash, and holds out a tantalizing possibility: 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 from the families of the victims?) and a hope almost as unbearable as his grief (if there really was one survivor, could there have been others?), Joe sets out to find the woman: "The resolution of this mystery was his mission, his purpose, and perhaps an unknowable redemption." But 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. And Joe's connection to her - the nature of which he comes to understand only by inches - makes him part of the quarry. The novel 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. * Unknown

- Tick Tock

Pub: 1996

Publisher: Ballantine

Movie: No

Audio Book: Tape

Number of Cassettes: 4

Abridged: Yes

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 352

Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist, living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside. That night, Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll's heart. And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan's reality will be torn apart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth, something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something that he can't destroy. It wants Tommy's life and he doesn't know why. He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress he meets by chance--or by a design far beyond his comprehension. He has too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Because the vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning on Tommy's computer screen: The deadline is dawn. * Unknown

- Santa's Twin

Pub: 1996

Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages: 72

Paper Back Pages: 72

FROM THE PUBLISHER

- Intensity

Pub: 1995

Publisher: Knopf

Movie: TV

Audio Book: CD & Tape

Number CD's: 10

Abridged: No

Number of Cassettes: 12

Abridged: Yes

Hard Cover Pages: ?

Paper Back Pages: 436

British Fantasy Society (nominee)

In the space of 24 hours, self-proclaimed "homicidal adventurer" Edgar Foreman Vess sets out to murder everyone in the home of Chyna Shepherd. But a drive even stronger than survival spurs Chyna to unexpected heights of courage and daring, thrusting her into a deadly confrontation with a remorseless, relentless killing machine. Knopf. * Unknown

My synopsis: Chyna Shepherd has a tormented past. She walked out on her mother, a junkie with a record of evil specimens as boyfriends, when she was sixteen. Now she studies psychology and she's going to spend a tranquil week-end with her friend Laura's family in Napa Valley. Yet she's about to experience a sudden, dangerous nosedive in a night of sheer terror, as she happens to be in the hunting territory of a vicious sociopath, a ruthless psycho who breaks into the house where she's hosted to massacre everyone he finds. * Tiscali

Edgler Vess is a self-proclaimed "homicidal adventurer", who believes he's in such a deep communion with every living thing that he can draw upon their vital force in the very moment of their death. Chyna comes unscathed out of the mayhem but finds herself tangled in a web of intricate and terrifying situations as she stalks (or is stalked by?!) the killer through the whole night. She'll spend the following 36 hours in a pulse-pounding hide-and-seek in which her courage, hardened by a childhood of loathsome violence, will be her only lifeline.

* Tiscali

- Dark Rivers of the Heart

Pub: 1994

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: Tape

Number of Cassettes: 12

Abridged: No

Paper Back Pages: 592

FROM THE PUBLISHER

A Man and a Woman - she is a figure of mystery, he is a mystery even to himself - meet by chance in a Santa Monica bar. Suddenly - first separately, and then together - they are fleeing the long arm of a clandestine and increasingly powerful renegade government agency: the woman hunted for the information she possesses, the man mistaken as her comrade in a burgeoning resistance movement. The architect of the chase is a man of uncommon madness and cruelty, ruthless, possibly psychotic, and equipped with a vast technological arsenal: untraceable access to the government's electronic information banks, its surveillance systems, weaponry, and materiel. He is the brazen face of an insidiously fascistic future. And he is virtually unstoppable. * BN

SYNOPSIS

A man and a woman meet by chance in a bar. Suddenly, they find themselves fleeing from a powerful agency the woman hunted for what she knows, and the man mistaken as her comrade in a resistance movement. * BN

- Winter Moon

Pub: 1993

Publisher: Paperback Ballantine

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 480

"In Los Angeles, a hot Hollywood director, high on PCP, turns a city street into a fiery apocalypse. Five die. Heroic LAPD officer Jack McGarvey is badly wounded and lands in the hospital for months, uncertain he'll walk again. While he's out of commission, his wife and young son are left to defend themselves against both the criminals that control an increasingly violent city and the dead director's cult of fanatic fans. In a lonely corner of Montana, Eduardo Fernandez, the father of McGarvey's murdered partner, witnesses a strange nocturnal sight. The stand of pines outside his house suddenly glows with eerie amber light, and Fernandez senses a watcher in the winter woods. As the seasons change, the very creatures of the forest seem in league with a mysterious presence. Fernandez is caught up in a series of chilling incidents that escalate toward a confrontation that could rob him of his sanity or his life - or both. As events careen out of control, the McGarvey family is drawn to Fernandez's Montana ranch. In that isolated place they discover their destiny in a terrifying and fiercely suspenseful encounter with a hostile, utterly ruthless, and enigmatic enemy, from which neither the living nor the dead are safe."

* Tiscali

- Mr. Murder

Pub: 1993

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: Yes

Audio Book: Tape

Number of Cassettes: 10

Abridged: No

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 481

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Because he has a happy marriage, two adorable small daughters, and a successful career, mystery writer Marty Stillwater counts himself a lucky man. But all this is shattered when a stranger breaks into his house one rainy afternoon to announce: "You stole my wife, my life, and my children. I want them back." Claiming to be the real Martin Stillwater, the madman wages a relentless and terrifying campaign to eliminate Marty and recapture the family and life he believes to be his. When even bullets fail to stop this savage intruder, the police are hard-pressed to believe the Stillwaters' harrowing account. Unable to rely on the protection of the authorities, the family goes on the run. But no matter where they hide, their enemy finds them. In Mr. Murder, Dean Koontz creates the most endearing family to appear in a novel in a long time, makes us love them and makes us tear for them as they cross the path of a psychotic killer unlike any who has previously haunted the pages of fiction. Exploring contemporary society's tendency to draw an ever-thinner line between fiction and reality, Mr. Murder is blisteringly paced, terrifying, thought-provoking, and utterly fresh. * BN

- Dragon Tears

Pub: 1992

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: CD

Number CD's: 11

Abridged: No

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 401

Tuesday was a fine California day, full of sunshine and promise, until Harry Lyon had to shoot someone at lunch. From that first sentence, Dragon Tears explodes across the page with the excitement, chilling suspense, emotion, and deeply drawn characters that have earned Dean Koontz enormous worldwide popularity. Police detective Harry Lyon is a perfectionist who likes his condo immaculate, his suits well tailored, and his homicide files typed error-free. To Harry's dismay, his partner, Connie Gulliver, embraces chaos, urging him to "get in touch with the rhythms of destruction." But when Harry and Connie have to kill in the line of duty, the ensuing surreal nightmare makes Connie's cynical world view seem all too accurate. That same afternoon, a hulking street person prophesies that Harry will be dead by dawn, then self-destructs before his eyes. As twilight falls, Harry glimpses strange creatures in the shadows, and finds his rational world transformed into a place of bizarre surprises and unimaginable dangers. As dawn ticks closer, Harry is caught in a whirlwind of terror that threatens to sweep away not only him but Connie and everyone he loves. * Unknown

- Hideaway

Pub: 1991

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: Yes

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 400

Awards: Bram Stoker (nominee)

ANNOTATION

The New York Times #1 bestseller by the author of Dragon's Tears. Pronounced clinically dead after his car plunges into an icy river, Hatch Harrison is miraculously revived by a special team of doctors. Now Hatch approaches each day with a new appreciation . . . until he starts to see terrifying images of madness and murder. For he brought something back from his visit with death--and its murderous rampage has just begun. (Occult Fiction) * BN

FROM THE PUBLISHER

- Cold Fire

Pub: 1991

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: CD & Tape & MP3 CD

Number CD's: 12

Abridged: No

Number of Cassettes: 9

Abridged: No

MP3 - Brilliance Audio

Abridged: No

Paper Back Pages: 448

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. * Unknown

- Strange Highways

Pub: 1991

Publisher: Warner Books Inc

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 624

You are about to experience what may be the publishing event of the year. The author - one of the most prolific writers of our time, the creator of such classic New York Times bestsellers as Dragon Tears, Midnight, The Bad Place, Watchers, and Hideaway. The book - an extraordinary first-ever collection of two complete novels, plus a compilation of twelve novelettes and short stories, as only the man universally hailed as a master of imaginative fiction can create them. You are about to travel along the strange highways of human experience: the adventures and terrors and failures and triumphs that we know as we make our way from birth to death, along the routes that we choose for ourselves and along others onto which we are detoured by fate. It is a journey down wrong roads that can lead to unexpectedly and stunningly right destinations ... into subterranean depths where the darkness of the human soul breeds in every conceivable form ... over unfamiliar terrain populated by the denizens of hell. It is a world of unlikely heroes, haunted thieves, fearsome predators, vengeful children, and suspiciously humanlike robots. * Unknown

- The Bad Place

Pub: 1989

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: CD & Tape

Number CD's: 13

Abridged: No

Number of Cassettes: 10

Abridged: No

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 427

Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange—like blood on his hands—a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person—a young man with Down's Syndrome—can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns.

* Unknown

- Midnight

Pub: 1989

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: CD & Tape

Number CD's: 13

Abridged: No

Number of Cassettes: 10

Abridged: No

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 477

Awards: Bram Stoker (nominee)

Four people are the last hope of Moonlight Cove, because one by one the rest of the citizens are changing into boogiemen, werewolves, mythical creatures, or something entirely new. They are the New People, willing victims of a seductive experiment in chemically induced evolution. They can transform their bodies at will and eliminate unproductive emotions, like grief and compassion. In fact, the only instinct left to the New People is self-preservation, and their only emotion is fear. And they want the rest of humanity to join them. * Unknown

- Oddkins

Pub: 1988

Publisher: Warner Books Inc

Movie: Yes

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages: 192

"To the world, the Oddkins are just stuffed animals. But all of these soft, cuddly, sweet-faced toys share a wonderful, magical secret -- they're alive!

Created by Mr. Isaac Badkins, the old toy maker, 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 and his friends Skippy, Butterscotch, Burl, Gibbons and Patch - are the ones in need of help.

Mr. Bodkins has passed away before he can give his life-giving powers to Colleen Shannon, the toy maker he had chosen to replace him. Yet before he dies, the old man takes Amos aside, appoints him leader of the Oddkins, and gives him a dire warning: Watch out for an evil toy maker - and something much, much worse!

The Oddkins have only one choice: to go on a journey in search of Colleen Shannon's toy shop. The night is stormy and black; the way is filled with peril. And the Oddkins have to face a danger that threatens not only their magic -- but the magic in us all." * Tiscali

- Lightning

Pub: 1987

Publisher: Penguin Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 363

Lightning strikes--and the blond-haired stranger appears to save Laura from tragedy again and again. Is he the guardian angel he appears to be or the devil in disguise? Or is he the master of a haunting destiny beyond this world--beyond time and space? "Lightning sizzles!"

Laura Shane leads a troubled life: she is orphaned, nearly molested twice and loses one of her closest friends in a tragic accident, all before her 13th birthday. Even worse events would have befallen Laura if not for the mysterious guardian angel who periodically appears with a bolt of lightning to miraculously rescue her. The ``angel,'' Stefan, is in fact a time traveler who rides the ``lightning road'' through time to follow Laura throughout her adult life; unfortunately, Stefan himself is being chased through time by a pack of equally mysterious villains, and their pursuit of Stefan and Laura spans the second half of the novel.* Unknown

- Door to December

Pub: 5/02

Publisher: Penguin/Signet

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 528

The #1 New York Times best-selling author delivers a truly suspenseful novel of a mother who must save her daughter from a threat she can hardly understand. What happened to nine-year-old Melanie during the six years she was subjected to terrifying experiments? And what is the unstoppable power that she can unleash from behind the "Door to December"? * Unknown

- Shadowfires

Pub: 1987

Publisher: Avon Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 528

ANNOTATION

Rachel wants no part of her husband Eric's research empire or his fortune. She just wants to be free of his obsessions. Her request for a quick and clean divorce enrages Eric. Consumed by pure and terrifying hatred, he storms into the street--only to be killed in a horrible traffic accident. Rachel thinks her nightmare is over, but it's only just begun. Previously published by Avon under the pseudonym of Leigh Nichols. * BN

- Watchers

Pub: 1987

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: Yes

Audio Book: CD & Tape

Abridged: No

Number CD's: 13

Number of Cassettes: 10

Paper Back Pages: 512p

When Travis Cornell and Nora Devon meet "Einstein", they are touched by the dog's intelligence. Einstein is one of two altered life forms escaped from a top-secret lab. The other--The Outsider--is a deadly hybrid. To protect themselves, Travis and Nora must learn to be deadly as well. * Unknown

- Strangers

Pub: 1986

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 704

Awards: World Fantasy (nominee)

From Publishers Weekly

The author of Phantoms, Whispers and other thrillers takes an unconscionable time to tell his latest story. The "strangers" are thousands of miles apart when they begin to suffer inexplicable terrors. In California, Dom Corvaisis sleepwalks, fleeing from an unseen menace. In Massachusetts, gifted young Dr. Ginger Weiss's panic attacks threaten her career. A priest in the Midwest loses his faith suddenly, then finds he can heal fatally injured people. And, in Elko, Nevada, the owner of a motel a tough ex-Marine becomes paralyzed by fears of the dark. Mysterious clues bring these characters and others, similarly afflicted, to the motel, where apparently they had met long before. As they compare experiences, the victims realize they've been brainwashed and determine to find out why. That means facing death at the hands of a maniac in a scene that finally induces frissons of terror in the reader. But it's too late; Koontz has vitiated suspense throughout the narrative with numbing repetitions and long explanations of such matters as Jewish cooking, the baldachin over the altar at St. Patrick's Cathedral, a weaver's tools, etc. 75,000 first printing; $75,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild dual selection. * BN

- New American * ?

AKA: Richard Paige

Pub: 1985

No more info available. Sorry. I couldn't verify this information with multiple sources. So who knows. The information was collected from * Fantastic

- Twilight Eyes

Pub: 1985

Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources (Hardback)

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group (Paper Back)

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 451

Slim MacKenzie is both hunter and hunted. Sought by police for murder, Slim also stalks the diabolical Others, genetically engineered "demons" from a prior Earth civilization. * Unknown

"They're out there - Waiting, watching. Unseen by normal eyes, but all too visible to Slim MacKenzie, a young man blessed-or cursed-by Twilight Eyes... They're out there - Lurking in the darkest shadows of an eerie, moonlit carnival. Feeding their twisted needs with human suffering. And fiendishly plotting the downfall of the human race... They're out there - But don't scream. They'll hear you." * Tiscali

- The Servants of Twilight

AKA: Leigh Nichols

Pub: 1984

Publisher: Dark Harvest

Movie: Yes

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 432

ANNOTATION

A strange old woman descends upon Christine and her six-year-old son in an ordinary southern California parking lot and makes violent threats. Suddenly Christine's only son is targeted by a group of religious fanatics. They want to kill him . . . and they are everywhere! Previously published by Pocket under a pseudonym. (Occult/Horror) * BN

FROM THE PUBLISHER

- Dark Fall

AKA Darkness Comes

AKA: Owen West

Pub: 1984

Publisher: Penguin Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 384

ANNOTATION

At first the police thought they were dealing with a psychopath or a vicious gangland war. Then, they heard the eerie sounds in the ventilation system and saw the silver eyes in the night. In a city paralyzed by a blizzard, something watches--something whose ultimate victims are young and innocent. Reissue.

* BN

- Phantoms

Pub: 1983

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: Yes

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 448

The lights are on in Snowfield, California, a cozy ski village nestled in the Sierra Madres, but nobody seems to be home. When Dr. Jenny Paige returns to the small town, she finds tables set for dinner, meals being prepared, and music playing in living rooms, but there's no trace of the people who put the water on to boil or set an extra place for company at the dinner table. As she explores the town, Paige finds friends and neighbors felled by a mysterious force--the bodies show no visible signs of violence or disease, and no known plague kills victims before the ice in their dinner drinks has time to melt. But the deep quiet that surrounds her offers few clues about the fate of the town's inhabitants. Dean Koontz's Phantoms strikes fear in readers from the very beginning. The mystery deepens, paving the way for a chilling journey toward the truth. * Tiscali

- The House of Thunder

AKA: Leigh Nichols

Pub: 1982

Publisher: Dark Harvest

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 368

ANNOTATION

Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door--men who exactly resemble those who killed her boyfriend years before. Can these be the same men? As she tries to uncover the identities of those stalking her, Susan enters a terrifying nightmare--one from which she may never escape. Previously published by Pocket under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols (1982). (Occult) * BN

FROM THE PUBLISHER

- Eyes of Darkness

AKA: Leigh Nichols

Pub: 1981

Publisher: Dark Harvest

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 369

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Tonight, Tina Evans dreamed that her son Danny was still alive. And when she awoke, she found a message scrawled on Danny's chalkboard: NOT DEAD. Tomorrow, Tina Evans will search for the truth about what really happened to her son. And learn that there are some things worse than death. * BN

- The Mask

AKA: Owen West

Pub: 1981

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 320

ANNOTATION

From the New York Times best-selling author of The House of Thunder and Hideaway. She appeared out of nowhere. And Paul and Carol were drawn to her immediately--the child they had never had. It was a dream come true--until the young girl's mask fell away to reveal the face of terrifying evil. Reissue. * BN

FROM THE PUBLISHER

A beautiful young girl appears out of nowhere. A teenager with no past, no family--no memories. Carol and Paul were drawn to her. She was the child they'd never had. Most mothers would die for such a darling little angel. And that's what frightened Carol most of all... * BN

- Funhouse

AKA: Owen West

Pub: 1980

Publisher: Sphere Books

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages: 333 (Sagebrush)

Paper Back Pages: 333 (Penguin)

ANNOTATION

Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and begat a child she could never love. Now Ellen has a new life, a new husband and two normal children. Memory is drowned in alcohol and prayers--neither of which will save her kids when the carnival comes back to town. A premiere release by the bestselling author of Dragon Tears.

* BN

- Voice of the Night

AKA: Brian Coffey

Pub: 1980

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 339

FROM THE PUBLISHER

No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. They were complete opposites. Colin was fascinated by Roy--and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day Roy asked: "You ever killed anything?" And from that moment on, the two were bound together in a game to terrifying to imagine.

* BN

- Whispers

Pub: 1980

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Movie: Yes

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 528

He's back--the terror that stalked Hilary Thomas as a child is back in her life, in her house, at her bedroom door. She killed him once. But he keeps coming back. Again. And again... * Fantastic

- The Key to Midnight

AKA: Leigh Nichols

Pub: 1979

Publisher: Dark Harvest

Paper Back Pages: 419

"Joanna Rand left America almost ten years ago to become a singer in a Japanese nightclub. Still, she could never escape the strange dream that haunted her night after night: a single, disturbing image of a man with steel fingers, reaching for a hypodermic syringe. When she awoke, she felt violated, used-and terrified. Alex Hunter desperately wanted to help this beautiful, fascinating woman. He knew he had seen Joanna before-in news photographs 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...And there was only one way to unlock the dark secret of her soul..." * Tiscali

- Face of Fear

AKA: Brian Coffey

Pub: 1977

Publisher: Penguin Group - Berkley(1985 Edition)

Movie: Yes

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 306

To stop a brutal killer, the NYPD enlists the help of clairvoyant Graham Harris. He sees the murders in his mind--sometimes at the moment they are happening. Then he sees the most terrifying vision of all--his own murder... * Tiscali

- Vision

Pub: 1977

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 368

Koontz provides another great thriller for the reading world. He writes of a clairvoyant named Mary Bergen that helps police officers on murder cases. She is asked to help on a case of a serial killer and after he is caught, he eerily says her name as he dies. Another case falls into her lap as soon as the last one is over, but there is something different about this case. This new case is strangely connected to her in a way that she can not describe. Mary fights her way through attacking animals and frightening, painful visions of upcoming murders as she tries to find the killer and understand what happened to her 24 years ago. The only problem is that she is scared to find out the truth to both of the problems. This book takes unexpected turns and leaves you wanting more after every page. The best part is that the killer isn't revealed until the very end of the book. I recommend this book to all Koontz lovers or anyone looking for a good thriller. * Tiscali

- Time Thieves

Pub: 1972

Publisher: Ace Double

From the back cover of the Italian edition: a man finds himself in his own garage, sitting behind the steering wheel of his car with the engine idling.

He turns it off and gets into his house, where his young wife slaps him in the face. Where's he been for twelve days? What has he done all this time? Why didn't he call?

The man is at a loss, he just can't remember, he's not even aware that he's disappeared for so long.

Even the people who believe him, though, settle on the easy explanation of a temporary amnesia.

As the clues pile up one after the other, though, the man starts to unravel a much more complicated mystery, and he tries to put back together the pieces of those twelve days that have been stolen from him. As he soon finds out, unfortunately, someone is not happy about this investigation.

Who are these manipulators of time and mind, who are they working for?

And who are they working against?

Punishment or prize, does mankind really deserve what they have in mind?

* Tiscali

- Icebound

Also Known as "Prisoner of Ice"

AKA: David Axton

Pub: 1976

Publisher: Headline

Movie: No

Audio Book: Tape (Icebound)

Number of Cassettes: 4

Abridged: Yes

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 416

FROM THE PUBLISHER (Bantam Books - Reissue)

A stunning and suspenseful thriller, about humanity's continuous and sometimes futile battle against nature from one of the most popular and best-selling authors in America.

Conducting a strange and urgent experiment of the Arctic ice field, a team of scientists has planted sixty powerful explosive charges that will detonate at midnight. Before they can withdraw to the safety of the base camp, a shattering tidal wave breaks loose the ice on which they are working. Now they are hopelessly marooned on an iceberg during a violent winter storm. The bombs beneath them are buried irretrievable deep . . . and ticking. And they discover that one of them is an assassin with mission of his won. This is classic Koontz.

* BN

- Night Chills

Pub: 1976

Publisher: Atheneum

Movie: No

Audio Book: None

Hard Cover Pages:

Paper Back Pages: 367

Reviewer: Theresa M - I live in Michigan, I'm 29 (Amazon.com)

Although this book was written in the 1970's, and during several parts it's obvious (especially when he says, "it's the 70's..."), however the book still stands up fairly well today.

I've read 95% of Koontz's books and have been a huge fan for over 10 years. I tend to enjoy his earlier works more than his later, they're all good, but the earlier books are more of a "fun" read. They're not extremely long and they're really more pure horror. I love it, definitely a guilty pleasure.

Nigh Chills is about a scientist that has discovered a way to brainwash people, to open their minds using subliminal ads and then program them to do what you'd like. The concept is chilling. The story is interesting and you're kept on the edge of your seat most of the time. And the characters are enjoyable. If you're a fan of Koontz's earlier works, you'll enjoy this. * Amazon

- The Long Sleep

AKA: John Hill

Pub: 1975

Publisher: Unknown

No synopsis

- Dragonfly

AKA: K R Dwyer

Pub: 1975

Publisher: Random House

A Novel About a Conspiracy to Murder the World by K.R. Dwyer, which is one of many pen names used by Dean Koontz. * Fantastic

- Nightmare Journey

Pub: 1975

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group

Set one hundred thousand years in the future. After man has been fatally humbled by his exploration of the stars and discovery of far more intelligent beings, civilization is struggling to return to the planet's surface. Tape on front cover but not for repair purposes.

* Fantastic

- After the Last Race

Pub: 1974

Publisher: Atheneum

Well, if you're going to write genre novels, you might

as well cover every genre. This is Koontz' first, and

really only, attempt at a straight hardboiled-style

thriller. A loose-knit gang of would-be thieves have a

plan to hold up a racetrack on a day when there will

be at least two million dollars on the premises.

Simple, easy to understand, with some nice plot twists

and excellent characterization. Koontz takes a

jaundiced look at the excesses of the seventies and

the excesses of thriller writers like Spillane all in

one gulp.

* sotty

- The Haunted Earth

Pub: 1973

Publisher: Lancer

This is a science-fiction fantasy novel set in a near future wracked by tremendous changes, wherein mythical figures like vampires and werewolves and banshees are proven to be real co-inhabitants of our world. It's a comic novel, too, indicating Koontz's early interest in making readers laugh as well as shiver.

* Tiscali

- A Werewolf Among Us

Pub: 1973

Publisher: Paperback Ballantine

"A cyber detective is part man and part computer, meshed as completely as the two can ever be. The highly microminiaturized components of the bio-computer remember and relate things in a perfectly mathematical manner that a human mind could never easily grasp, while the human half of the symbiote gives a perception of emotions and emotional motivations that the bio-computer could never comprehend. Together we make a precise and thorough detective unit."

* Tiscali

- Shattered

AKA: K R Dwyer

Pub: 1973

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group (1985) Original: Unknown

Movie: Yes

It started out as a kid's game to while away the long drive across the country. It ends in a grotesque nightmare of death and destruction. Someone's out to get them. To destroy their dreams of the future. To plunge then into a paranoid world where every sound could be the last thing they hear. * Fantastic

- Demon Seed

Pub: 1973

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group

Movie: Yes

Audio Book: None

Paper Back Pages: 301

Reviewer: Will Culp (Greenville, South Carolina) Amazon.com

Susan Harris, a rich entrepreneur, is holed up in her secluded house, which is protected by an advanced security system, which runs every aspect of the house, from air conditioning to opening the windows. Other than her servants, which come for only a few hours each day, she is in basic seclusion with her security system. Without Susan knowing, a foreign virus, created by her husband's old company, takes over her security system, and it intends for Susan to give birth to the virus's child, an all-knowing and emotional being. As Susan desperately seeks to escape the virus's mindless grip, she must learn to destroy what cannot be killed... * Tiscali

- Hanging on

Pub: 1973

Publisher: Paperback AAA Dell first printing

All Began When Major Kelly's Army Engineers Were Dropped Into Nazi-occupied France And Ordered to Keep a Bridge Open Until the Allies Arrived. Simple, Except the Mission Was a Secret And Nobody Knew They Were There - Nobody Except the Luftwaffe, Which Kept Bombing the Bridge. which Meant the Gi's Kept Rebuilding It. which Meant the Luftwaffe Kept Bombing It. Which Meant the Tension Was Doing Funny Things to Major Kelly's Men's Minds. which Meant Anything Could Happen - And You Can Bet Your Last C-ration It Did!

Koontz's comic novel of WWII, "written before I realized comic novels don't sell" he says now. * Fantastic

- Warlock

Pub: 1972

Publisher: Lancer

Mankind has forgotten their past glories and only legends remain. Some believed in the legends that men posses sed marvels that conquered the skies and space itself. This is their journey back. * Fantastic

- The Flesh in the Furnace

Pub: 1972

Publisher: Paperback Bantam Books

Early Koontz story of a race of living puppets doing the bidding of the Puppet Master. * Fantastic

- Chase

Pub: 1972

Publisher: Unknown - Random First Hardback

A suspense novel first published in 1985 about a Vietnam war hero with a hard drinking habit and a history of mental breakdown who has to convince people that he is being pursued by a psychopath. By the author of MIDNIGHT and WATCHERS.

* Fantastic

- A Darkness in My Soul

Pub: 1972

Publisher: DAW

"Superman - or Supermonster? Although he was the first successful product of the Artificial Creation laboratory - the government workshop for the production of new talents by tampering with the genes of the unborn - Simeon Kelly would work for them only under compulsion. And the compulsion the generals applied to get him to probe the mind of the thing called Child had to be the greatest. Because Child was anything but that. In that incredibly monstrous infant appeared to be the potential for whole oceans of inventions and an entire cosmos of total creativity. But Child was vicious, insane, and short-lived." * Tiscali

- The Crimson Witch

Pub: 1971

Publisher: Curtis

Movie: No

This is a short science-fantasy novel, written in the short span of two weeks. Koontz considers it among his worst works, and he intends to keep it out of print.

A young man's struggle with destiny and desire in a post nuclear world. Jake Turnet's overdose of the drug PBT had opened the psychic doorway into a world where nuclear disaster had happened in a much earlier century - a world where sorcery had replaced science. * Tiscali

- Hell's Gate

Pub: 1970

Publisher: Lancer

Movie: No

"He came out of the dark night with only another man's name...a man who would soon be found floating in a distant river. He was a man without a past, without a future; he had only a bloody mission. His first act was violent murder! He was a man...or was he? Just who was Victor Salsbury? And if he was not a man, then...what was he? And who were the unseen masters, who issue orders only on whim? What were their plans for the world... plans so horrifying that they could change an unfeeling, nonhuman creature into a frightened human!" * Tiscali

- The Dark Symphony

Pub: 1970

Publisher: Lancer

Movie: No

Mutants from the atomic bomb ridden Earth meet Mankind from the stars who escaped just before the destruction. The mutants won't give up and let space-man rule Earth once again.* Tiscali

- Anti-man

Pub: 1970

Publisher: Paperback Paperback Library

Movie: No

"Sam was an android. His flesh was the ultimate miracle of science, artificially created and completely self sustaining. And he had the unusual power to heal others. In fact, Sam was too good to live." * Tiscali

- Beast Child

Pub: 1970

Publisher: Venture Science Fiction

Later publication by Lancer in the same year.

Movie: No

Paper Back Pages: Unknown

"The naoli came to earth as conquerors, while the last men skulked through the ruins of their civilization. The two races, human and naoli, were the most powerful intelligences in the galaxy - and destined to be immediate and perpetual enemies! Then the adult Hulaan met the boy Leo ... and each became a traitor to his race. For it was only through treason that the future of each race could be assured!" * Tiscali

- Fear That Man

Pub: 1969

Publisher: Ace Double

Paper Back Pages: Unknown

"The Galaxy had forgotten war and evil - until the man without a past intervened." * Tiscali

- The Fall of the Dream Machine

Pub: 1969

Publisher: Ace Double

Movie: No

Paper Back Pages: Unknown

"When all the world's a stage, director Cockley will run it." * Tiscali

- Star Quest

Pub: 1968

Publisher: Ace Double

Movie: No

Paper Back Pages: Unknown

"In a universe that had been ravaged by a thousand years of interplanetary warfare between the star-shattering Romaghins and the equally voracious Setessins, there seemed now but one thing that might bring the destruction to an end..." * Tiscali

- The Movies ***

Frankenstien (Concept) - 2004

Black River (Novella) - 2001

Sole Survivor (TV Series) - 2000

Mr. Murder (TV) - 1998

Watchers Reborn - 1998

Phantoms - 1998

Intensity (TV) - 1997

Hideaway - 1995

Watchers III - 1994

The Servants of Twilight - 1991

The Face of Fear (TV) - 1990

Watchers II - 1990

Wispers - 1989

Watchers - 1988

CHiPs - 1977 (episode "Counterfeit" as Brian Coffey)

Passegers Les - 1977 (Shattered)

- More Movie info

- Black River

Directed by Jeff Bleckner

Teleplay Daniel Taplitz

Actor Character

Jay Mohr Bo Aikens

Susan Bain Frannie Fineman

Paul Batten Peter Duncan

- Sole Survivor

Directed by Mikael Salomon

Teleplay - Richard Christian Matheson

Actor Character

Billy Zane Joe Carpenter

John C. McGinley Yates

Isabella Hofmann Barbara Chrisman

- Mr. Murder

Directed by Dick Lowry

Teleplay Stephen Tolkin

Actor Character

Stephen Baldwin Marty Stillwater/Alfie

Julie Warner Paige Stillwater

Bill Smitrovich Lt. Lowbock

- Watchers Reborn

Directed by John Carl Buechler

Writing Sean Dash

Actor Character

Mark Hamill Murphy

Lisa Wilcox Grace

Stephen Macht Lem Johnson

- Phantoms

Directed by Joe Chappelle

ScreenPlay Dean Koontz

Actor Character

Ben Affleck Sheriff Bryce Hammond

Peter O'Toole Dr. Timothy Flyte

Rose McGowan Lisa Pailey

Joanna Going Jennifer Pailey, M.D.

Liev Schreiber Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle

- Intensity

Directed by Yves Simoneau

Teleplay Stephen Tolkin

Actor Character

John C. McGinley Edgler Foreman Vess

Molly Parker Chyna Shepherd

- Hidaway

Directed by Brett Leonard

Screenplay Andrew Kevin Walker

Actor Character

Jeff Goldblum Hatch Harrison

Christine Lahti Lindsey Harrison

Alicia Silverstone Regina Harrison

- Watchers III

Directed by Jeremy Stanford

Screenplay Michael Palmer

Actor Character

Wings Hauser Ferguson

Gregory Cummins Benetti

- The Servants of Twilight

Directed by Jeffrey Obrow

Screenplay Stephen Carpenter

Actor Character

Bruce Greenwood Charlie Harrison

Jarrett Lennon Joey Scavello

- The Face of Fear

Directed by Farhad Mann

Teleplay Dean Koontz

Actor Character

Pam Dawber Connie Weaver

Lee Horsley Graham Harris

- Watchers II

Directed by Thierry Notz

Writing Henry Dominic

Actor Character

Timothy Marlowe Jason

Marc Singer Paul Ferguson

- Whispers

4 Stars out of 10 - IMDB

Directed by Douglas Jackson

Screenplay Anita Doohan

Actor Character

Victoria Tennant Hilary

Jean LeClerc Bruno

Chris Sarandon Tony

- Watchers

4 - 10 stars - IMDB

Directed by Jon Hess

Actor Character

Michael Ironside Lem Johnson

Christopher Cary T.V. Newscaster

- Demon Seed

6 - 10 stars - IMDB

Directed by Donald Cammell

Writing Robert Jaffe

Actor Character

Julie Christie Susan Harris

Fritz Weaver Alex Harris

- Passegers Les (French)

(US - The Intruder)

5 - 10 stars - IMDB

Directed by Serge Leroy

Actor/Character

Jean-Louis Trintignant .. Alex Moineau

Mireille Darc .... Nicole

- Sources

* Dean Koontz Site = www.deankoontz.com

BN = Barnes & Noble www.bn.com

Amazon = Amazon.com

Tiscali = http://web.tiscali.it/luigiurato/longfiction/68_69.htm

Sotty = http://www.xs4all.nl/~sotty/horror/

Fantastic = http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Dean_R_Koontz.htm

eBookmall.com = eBookmall.com

** Dean Koontz - A Writer's Biography - by Katherine Ramsland.

*** IMDB Internet Movie Database = www.imdb.com

**** Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz