| This page
contains the title(s) of each of Koontz' novels; the pen name used, if
any, publisher of each novel; the first date of publication under each
pen name or publisher; the current publisher; if out of print; one of
the cover images for each novel; plot
summary; and, occasionally, notes about the book, including references
to other books in the same series. Some books are/were available as a limited signed numbered or lettered edition (Charnel House, Dark Harvest, Cemetery Publications), and the status of that printing is also shown. For a straightfoward, printable list of all Dean Koontz novels, see the Timeline page.. |
| BOOK TITLE
Author/pen name Publisher(s), first date of publication, print status |
BOOK
COVER |
SUMMARY |
| After The Last Race
Dean Koontz [Atheneum, 1974: out of print] |
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Edgar and Annie are tired of living by the rules. Hard work has earned them only debt and loneliness. They want wealth - no matter what the risk. Fearful but determined, they plan a clever, hideously dangerous robbery. The target: a thoroughbred race track on Sweepstakes Day. The goal: steal every dollar from the cash room and the mutual windows - plus one million dollars that is on display as a promotional gimmick. The attempt draws into their lives many unexpected, sharply delineated characters, including an arsonist, a psychopathic killer, a cancer-stricken gambler on his last fling, and a wise young track detective. |
| Anti-Man
Dean Koontz [Paperback Library, 1970: out of print] |
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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. |
| Aphrodesiac Girl Dean & Gerda Koonz [Oval Books, 1973: out of print] |
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(This is a reissue of Bounce Girl) |
| The
Bad Place Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1990; Berkley] |
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Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning he awakens, he discovers something strange - like blood on his hands. A bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Detective team Bobby and Julie Dakota agree to investigate where Frank goes when he sleeps. They encounter an ominous figure stalking Frank and ultimately learn that bad places exist in the world of the living; places so steeped in evil that, in contrast, death seems almost a relief. 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...The Bad Place. |
| Beastchild
Dean Koontz [Lancer, 1970: out of print] [Charnel House, 1992: sold out] |
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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! The adult Hulann 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! |
| Blood Risk
[Mike
Tucker series] Brian Coffey [Bobbs-Merrill, 1973: out of print] |
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Four
men waited
on the narrow mountain road for the Cadillac carrying 341,890, the
biweekly taking of a Mafia cell. Four men who had never failed in a
heist before, on their fourteenth operation in three years: Shirillo,
watching in the long grass; Pete Harris with a submachine gun; Bachman
in the getaway car; and Mike Tucker, art dealer and professional thief;
the perfectionist. As the big Cadillac slewed round the bend, none of
them realized that this time Tucker had made a fatal miscalcuation that
would plunge them all into a blood war against the Mafia. This is the first of three novels under the Coffey pseudonym and the first of three featuring the same lead character, Michael Tucker, who is a professional thief. (See also Surrounded and The Wall of Masks) |
| Bounce
Girl Dean Koontz [Cameo Press, 1970: out of print] |
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Supposedly, this book was to have been issued under a pseudonym and Koontz was upset that it was not. (A copy of Bounce Girl sold for $825 on eBay, 1/99.) |
| Breathless Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2009] |
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Carpenter
Grady Adams lives a quiet life in Colorado, creating one-of-a-kind
furniture. While hiking one day, Grady observes two beautiful,
furred creatures unlike any he's ever seen. He contacts an old
friend, veterinarian "Cammy" Rivers, for help in learning their
origin. But while the two observe the creatures for clues, they
learn that they, too, are being watched. Soon Grady's home and
hundreds of miles of surrounding wilderness are placed under guarantine
by Homeland Security - and Cammy and Grady decide they must flee to
freedom with the two creatures. |
| Brother
Odd [Odd Thomas series] Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2006] [Charnel House, 2006: sold out] |
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St. Bartholomew's
Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California's
high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary
for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live
fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the
nuns and young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to
find his way. But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it
slinks back onto his path in the form of the sinister bodachs he has
met previously, the black shades who herald death and disaster, and who
come late one December night to hover above the abbey's most precious
charges. For Odd is about to face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet
encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and sheer
suspense that surpasses all that has come before. (See also Odd Thomas and Forever Odd) |
| By the Light of the
Moon Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2002] |
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Dylan O'Connor is attacked by a mysterious “doctor,” injected with a strange substance, and told he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him or transform his life. He is told he must flee before the doctor's enemies hunt him down. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police. Soon, Dylan and his brother Shep meet Jillian Jackson, who is also a carrier. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom they're running from--or why. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work “by the light of the moon.” |
| Chase K.R. Dwyer [Random House, 1972: out of print] Dean Koontz [Headline; part of Strange Highways,1995] |
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Ben
Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard
drinking habit, a mental breakdown - and massive guilt. So who will
believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him? When society
is sick, the mad are sane - and persecution is a killer's game. (Part of Strange Highways and separately as an audio book) |
| Children Of The Storm Deanne Dwyer [Lancer, 1972: out of print] |
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A veil of
Caribbean horror shrouds Sonya Carter’s only
chance for love. Gothic-romance novel written to meet a publisher's
guidelines
and "stave
off
starvation and buy
a little time to write what I really cared about." (See also Dance With The Devil, The Dark Of Summer, Demon Child, and Legacy Of Terror) |
| Cold
Fire Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1991; Berkley] |
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A deeply mysterious man rushes to faraway places and somehow manages to save people from the brink of death. When confronted by a sharp reporter, he admits to having a gift and feels he must save people. At the same time he also sees something far worse. Something dark and sinister that is coming and that is at the root of his gift that he (and the reporter) must somehow confront and destroy--before it destroys them. |
| The
Crimson
Witch Dean Koontz [Curtis Books, 1972: out of print] |
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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. |
| Dance With
The Devil Deanna Dwyer [Lancer, 1972: out of print] |
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Katherine Sellers
came to Owisden in the winter, to be the
secretary-companion to one of the wealthiest women in the country. The
job was an exciting challenge for Katherine, and a needed change. But
there was evil in that mountain valley, a brooding evil that worshipped
at a dark altar; and Katherine was marked to die. Gothic-romance
novel written to meet a publisher's
guidelines
and "stave
off
starvation and buy
a little time to write what I really cared about." (See also Children Of The Storm, The Dark Of Summer, Demon Child, and Legacy Of Terror) |
| The Darkest Evening of the
Year Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2007] [Charnel House, 2008] |
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No one is
surprised when Amy Redwing, who has dedicated her
life to rescuing golden retrievers, risks her life to save Nickie, nor
when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy
and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred
and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion. And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amy’s every move and that, whoever it is, he’s not alone.... |
| Darkfall Darkness Comes in UK Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1984] |
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Baba Lavelle is a stranger in New York. A stranger with a mission to break the Mafia stronghold on the city's drug traffic, and take it over himself. He has no guns, no army of hoods, no friends in high places. But he has the Power - magical, ancient, and terrifyingly brutal. The Power that thrives in darkness. (Originally titled The Pit and written under Owen West persona, but the title and author were changed before publication) |
| A Darkness In My Soul
Dean Koontz [DAW Books, 1972: out of print] |
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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. |
| The
Dark Of
Summer Deanna Dwyer [Lancer, 1972: out of print] |
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Gothic-romance
novel written to meet a publisher's
guidelines
and "stave
off
starvation and buy
a little time to write what I really cared about." (See also Children Of The Storm, Dance With The Devil, Demon Child, and Legacy Of Terror) |
| Dark
of the
Woods Dean Koontz [Ace, 1970: out of print] |
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Blessed
shalt
thou be in the city and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Thou shalt
be blessed above all... Our holy empire of the Alliance
of mankind has fulfilled our destiny. Remember the many heroic humans
who have died in conquering the stars for you. Therefore, do not let
misguided sympathy toward inferior and conquered animals deter you from
your
inherent title of divine rulers of the universe. (A double book, published alongside Soft Come The Dragons) |
| Dark Rivers of the
Heart Dean Koontz [Knopf, 1994; Bantam] [Charnel House, 1994: sold out] |
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A man and a woman - she a figure of mystery, he a mystery even to himself - meet by chance in 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 architect of the chase is a man of uncompromising 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 material. Both of them - survivors of singularly horrific pasts - have lived hidden, nomadic, solitary lives. Now, they are plunged into a struggle for the freedom of their country, and for the sanctity of their own lives. |
| The
Dark
Symphony Dean Koontz [Lancer, 1969: out of print] |
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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. |
| Demon
Child Deanna Dwyer [Lancer, 1971: out of print] |
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A child accursed
calls Jenny to a house of terror--and an
appointment with death. Gothic-romance novel written to meet a publisher's
guidelines
and "stave
off
starvation and buy
a little time to write what I really cared about." (See also Children Of The Storm, Dance With The Devil, The Dark Of Summer, and Legacy Of Terror) |
| Demon
Seed Dean Koontz [Bantam, 1973] Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1997] |
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Susan
Harris
lived in a self-imposed seclusion, in a mansion featuring numerous
automated systems controlled by a state-of-the-art computer.
Every comfort was provided, and in this often unsafe world of ours, her
security was absolute.
But now her security system has been breached, her sanctuary from the
outside world violated by an insidious artificial intelligence which
has taken control of her house. In the privacy of her own home,
and against her will, Susan will experience an inconceivable act of
terror. She will become the object of the ultimate
computer's consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to
know about the flesh. (Second release was a significant revision.) |
| The Door To December
Leigh Nichols; Richard Paige [NAL/Signet, 1985] Leigh Nichols [Dark Harvest, 1988: out of print] Dean Koontz [NAL/Signet, 1994] |
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Little Melanie had been kidnapped when she was only three. She was nine when she was found wandering the L.A. streets, with blank eyes. What had become of her in all those years of darkness ... and what was the terrible secret, clutching at her soul, that she dared not even whisper? Her loving mother and the police desperately hunted for the answer. They needed Melanie to help get to the bottom of the most savage scene of carnage the city had ever seen. And they would do anything to save her from whatever dreadful force or thing had invaded her young life. But first they would have to save themselves from a rising tide of terror...and from an icy evil howling through - The Door to December. |
| Dragon
Tears Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1993; Berkley] |
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Detective Harry Lyon is forced to kill someone in the line of duty one day and is later confronted by a man who predicts Harry's demise by nightfall. Soon after he and his partner, Connie Gulliver, are forced into a nightmare existence that destroys their relatively peaceful lives and must fight what must only be a bewildering evil entity in an insane world. |
| Dragonfly K.R. Dwyer [Random House, 1975: out of print] |
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An
innocent man
has been turned into a walking time bomb. In 4 days, he will kill
100,000 people. |
| The Eyes Of Darkness
Leigh Nichols [Pocket Books, 1981: out of print] Leigh Nichols [Dark Harvest, 1989: out of print] Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1989] |
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She lost her son over a year ago in a horrible accident, but Tina Evans begins having strange nightmares that he is alive. For a brief moment, Tina also believes she sees him in a parking lot. Then she receives otherworldy messages that Danny is.... NOT DEAD. Struggling to come to terms with Danny's death, she must now find out the truth about his death and who is behind these messages. And why? Why would someone taunt her with Danny's death? With the help of a new friend, Elliot Stryker, she must uncover all the secrets. |
| The Face
Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2003] [Charnel House, 2003: sold out] |
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Channing
Manheim
is 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. 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. |
| The
Face Of Fear Brian Coffey [Bobbs-Merrill, 1977] Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1985] |
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Graham
Harris is
a former mountain-climbing enthusiast and a clairvoyant. While on a
television program, he psychically 'sees' the latest murder of the
Butcher, a serial killer. Now the Butcher targets Harris and his
girlfriend Connie Davis as his next victims. While New York detective
Ira Preduski tries to uncover the Butcher's identity, Harris and Davis
must escape from the killer, who has trapped them in a 40 story
skyscraper. |
| The Fall Of The
Dream Machine Dean Koontz [Ace Double Books, 1969: out of print] |
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(A double book, published alongside Star Venturer by Kenneth Pulmer) When all the world's a stage, director Cockley will run it. |
| False
Memory Dean Koontz [Cemetery Dance, 1999] [Bantam, 1999] |
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Dustin and Martie Rhodes are a young couple married only three years. Martie is a compassionate woman who escorts her agoraphobic friend, Susan Jagger, to therapy sessions twice a week...until the day when Martie begins to develop a deeply bizarre phobia of her own: autophobia, the fear of one's self. Martie's world rapidly falls apart over the course of a single day, as she spirals down into a hell of irrational dread. |
| Fear
That Man Dean Koontz [Ace Books, 1969: out of print] |
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The Galaxy had forgotten war and evil -
until the
man without
a past intervened. (A double book, published alongside Toyman by E.C.Tubb) |
| Fear Nothing
[Christopher
Snow
series] Dean Koontz [Cemetery Dance, 1998: out of print] [Bantam, 1998] |
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Christopher Snow is different from all
the other residents
of
Moonlight Bay, different from anyone else you've ever met. For
Christopher
Snow has made a strange peace with a rare genetic disorder shared by
1,000
other Americans--a disorder that leaves him extremely vulnerable to the
light. Christopher knows the night as no one else ever will or can. But
his
freedom is suddenly, tragically, infringed upon, after he witnesses a
murder
in the night that only he can solve. (See also Seize the Night and Ride the Storm) |
| The Flesh In
The Furnace
Dean Koontz [Bantam, 1972: out of print] |
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NO SYNOPSIS (A double book, published alongside Puppet Power) |
| Forever
Odd [Odd Thomas series] Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2005] [Charnel House, 2005: sold out] |
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A childhood friend of Odd’s
has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique
talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers
something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional
cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand
against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old,
some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no
innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between
despair and hope. (See also Odd Thomas) |
| [Frankenstein
series]
Book 1 - Prodigal Son Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson [Bantam, 2005] [Charnel House, 2005] |
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Prodigal Son is the
first volume in a four-book series that opens with
the "monster" - Deucalion - coming to modern-day New Orleans, where he
will join forces with a street-smart police detective and her partner
on the trail of a macabre serial killer...a serial killer spawned,
Deucalion will discover, by his own creator, Dr. Victor Frankenstein,
now Victor Helios. Deucalion has survived for two centuries, given near
immortality by the furious lightning storm that brought him to life.
But he is no monster--not anymore. For 200 years
Deucalion has thought himself alone among men, an aberrant creation of
an evil mind. Now he will find that his fellows are legion...that they
live among us at every strata of society...and that his nemesis, Victor
Frankenstein, has survived the centuries as well...and dreams of
seeding the earth with his creations. (Read about the movie.) (See also City of Night and Dead and Alive) |
| [Frankenstein
series]
Book 2 - City of Night Dean Koontz and Ed Gorman [Bantam, 2005] |
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They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created-and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios-once Frankenstein-can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time "monster" and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect human-and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have imagined-an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us. (See also Prodigal Son and Dead and Alive) |
| [Frankenstein
series] Book 3 - Dead and Alive Dean Koontz [Bantam, July 28, 2009] |
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The
monster, Deucalion, is
becoming human...and the doctor, Victor Helios, is becoming the
monster. (See also Prodigal Son and City
of Night) |
| [Frankenstein
series] Book 4 - Lost Souls Dean Koontz [Bantam, May 25, 2010] |
Lost Souls will pick up where Dead and Alive left off, with the setting moving to the American West and a new villain arriving on the scene. | |
| From the Corner of
His Eye Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2000] [Charnel House, 2001: sold out] |
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Bartholomew Lampion is born in Bright Beach, California, on a day of tragedy and terror, when the lives of everyone in his family are changed forever. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. And in San Francisco a girl is born, the result of a violent rape. Her survival is miraculous, and her destiny is mysteriously linked to the fates of Barty and the man who stalks him. At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons reluctantly remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure. |
| The
Funhouse Owen West [Jove Books, 1980] Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1994] |
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Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate - and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands... Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal children. Joey loves monster movies and Amy is about to graduate from high school. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer. The time has come for Amy and Joey to pray for her sins... because Amy is pregnant, and the carnival is coming back to town. |
| The
Good Guy Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2007] [Charnel House, 2007: sold out] |
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When
Timothy Carrier enters his friends' tavern, all he wants is a drink and
some lively banter. But when a man hands him an envelope containing
$10,000 in cash - and a woman's address and photo - and then leaves ...
what's going on? When another man approaches Tim, mistaking him for the
one who left, Tim finally realizes he's right in the middle of ordering
a contract killing! And then Tim discovers the killer-for-hire is
a cop ... Bantam held a competition for promotional trailers for The Good Guy and announced the winning trailer in early May 2007. You can see also see all the submissions. |
| Hanging On
Dean Koontz [Atheneum, 1973: out of print] [Dell, 1976: out of print] |
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M*A*S*H* meets CATCH-22 in the most riotous, ribald, WW II military madhouse ever! It 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. 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 mean anything could happen. |
| The Haunted
Earth Dean Koontz [Lancer Books, 1973: out of print] |
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The maseni were humanoid, but no creature with bulbous forehead, slit mouth and tentacles where fingers should be would ever be mistaken for a man. the maseni had been on earth for ten years - years in which the human race reeled under the shock not only of meeting an alien intelligence, but of knowing for the first time that earth did not belong to men alone.... |
| Hell's Gate
Dean Koontz [Lancer Books, 1970: out of print] |
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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! |
| Hideaway Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1992; Berkley] |
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Hatch Harrison dies en route to the hospital after a horrific car crash but is miraculously revived in a nearby hospital. Unfortunately, Hatch begins to suspect that he has brought back something else, something bad from his time in the afterlife. As people around him begin to die, Hatch must confront the evil that he cannot bear to face in order to protect himself, his family and the lives of other innocents. |
| The House Of Thunder
Leigh Nichols [Pocket Books, 1982] Leigh Nichols [Dark Harvest, 1988: out of print] Dean Koontz [Berkley] |
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Susan Thornton
wakes up in a hospital after a serious car accident with an odd,
selective amnesia. She can remember nothing of her job, yet she is
stricken with fear when the company she works for is named. And that's
not all. Thirteen years earlier, Susan had witnessed the murder of her
boyfriend during a brutal fraternity hazing; her testimony sent one of
the four men responsible to prison. Now she sees the same men, looking
not a day older, walking the corridors of the hospital. Even worse, she
has recurrent macabre hallucinations involving them and the decomposing
corpse of her boyfriend. Susan doubts her sanity until she stumbles
upon a bit of hard evidence right out of one of the "hallucinations." |
| Hung!
Leonard Chris [Cameo Press, 1970: out of print] [American Art Enterprises, 1989: out of print] |
"Adult" novel
about 3 men at college. (pseudonym per Stu Weaver) |
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| The
Husband Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2006] [Charnel House, 2006: sold out] |
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"We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash." Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious. He has Mitch's wife and he's named the price for her safe return. The caller doesn't care that Mitch runs a small two-man landscaping operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. If he loves his wife enough. . . Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself. He's got 72 hours to prove it. He has to find the two million by then. But he'll pay a lot more. He'll pay anything. |
| Icebound Dean Koontz [Bantam, 1995] Prison of Ice David Axton [Lippincott, 1976; Fawcett-Crest, 1977: out of print] |
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Conducting a
strange and urgent experiment of the Arctic icefield, 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 irretrievably
deep . . . and ticking. Then they discover that a member of the team is
an assassin with mission of his own. |
| Intensity
Dean Koontz [Franklin Library, 1996; Knopf, 1996; Bantam] |
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His name is Edgler Foreman Vess. He likes to make words from the letters of his name-GOD, DEMON, SAVE, RAGE, ANGER, FEAR, FOREVER, are just a few of them-and then make sentences of the words. One of his favorites, GOD FEARS ME, is sometimes the last thing he whispers to his victims. On this night, his adventure - murdering everyone in the house - becomes Chyna's long nightmare. Trapped in Vess's deadly orbit, Chyna thinks only of getting out alive. But when she inadvertently learns the identity of Vess's intended next victim, Chyna is gripped by concern for this innocent. Driven now by a sense of responsibility for another, by a purpose and meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna rises to unexpected heights of courage and daring - her only hope as the threat of Edgler Foreman Vess closes in and grows more horrifying moment by moment. |
| Invasion Aaron Wolfe [Ontario: Laser Books, 1975: out of print] |
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(See Winter Moon, though it was a significant revision.) |
| The Key To Midnight
Leigh Nichols [Pocket Books, 1979: out of print] Leigh Nichols [Dark Harvest, 1990: out of print] Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1995] |
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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... |
| Legacy Of
Terror Deanna Dwyer [Lancer, 1971: out of print] |
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Gothic-romance novel written to meet a publisher's guidelines
and "stave
off
starvation and buy
a little time to write what I really cared about." (See also Children Of The Storm, Dance With The Devil, The Dark Of Summer, and Demon Child) |
| Life
Expectancy Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2004] [Charnel House, 2004: sold out] |
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Jimmy
Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it.
As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long
hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room
and his dying father's bedside. At the very height of the storm's fury,
Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the first
and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is
that there will be 5 dark days in the life of his grandson--five dates
whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face.
What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What
nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel
unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the
path he must follow will defy every expectation. |
| Lightning Dean Koontz [Ultramarine Press, 1988; Putnam/Berkley, 1988; Berkley] |
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A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was borne, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. Through every part of her life, a guardian angel is present saving a woman's life or simply protecting her from harm. Was he the guardian angel he seemed? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond time and space? Now, as an adult with a young son, she finally learns the identity and dark secrets of the guardian angel-man and why he must keep her alive. |
| The Long Sleep
John Hill [Popular Library, 1975: out of print] |
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Expanded from the story "Grayworld" which appeared in the short story collection Infinity Five. 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 the Sandman. Was Joel the only sane human in a world gone mad? Or was he a hopeless maniac living out hid fearful fantasies? Joel's long sleep was over - and his nightmare had just begun. |
| The Mask Owen West [Jove Books, 1981: out of print] Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1988] |
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Such a pretty face. So young, so sweet. She appeared out of nowhere, in the middle of traffic, on a busy day. A teenager with no past, no family-no memories. Such a lovely child. So blond and beautiful. Carol and Paul were drawn to her-she was the child they'd never had. A dream come true. And then Carol's nightmares began - the ghastly sounds in the night...the bloody face in the mirror...the razor-sharp axe. Such relentless evil. So deceptively innocent. Most mothers would die for such a darling little angel. And that's what frightened Carol the most. |
| Midnight Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1989; Berkley] |
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Tessa
Lockland comes to picturesque Moonlight Cove, California, to probe her
sister's seemingly unprompted suicide. Independent and clever, she
meets up with Sam Booker, an undercover FBI agent sent to Moonlight
Cove to discover the truth behind the mysterious deaths. They meet
Harry Talbot, a wheelchair-bound veteran, who has seen things from his
window that he was not meant to see. Together they begin to understand
the depth of evil in Moonlight Cove. Chrissie Foster, a resourceful
eleven-year-old, running from her parents who have suddenly changed and
in whom darkness dwells, joins them. Together they make a stand against
darkness and terror. |
| Mr. Murder Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1993; Berkley] |
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The lives of
Marty Stillwater, a famous well-to-do author, and his family are
completely torn apart when a crazed man bursts into their home and
declares that HE is the real Marty Stillwater and that the house is
his. When the confrontation turns violent and nothing seems to stop the
crazed pseudo-Marty, the family has no choice but to run and fight for
themselves in order to regain their sanity and
escape with their lives. (See also Santa's Twin and Robot Santa, which are takeoffs of a story line inside this book.) |
| Night Chills
Dean Koontz [Atheneum, 1976: out of print] |
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Night chills plague a small town. The inhabitants seem to have gone crazy, performing unspeakable acts of horror on themselves as a result of the chills. Incredibly, the origins of this plague comes from scientists, for it is an experiment of the human mind. Now, the whole truth is coming out and the truth is much more frightening than anything you could have ever imagined. |
| Nightmare
Journey Dean Koontz [Berkley/Putnam, 1975: out of print] |
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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. After man fled the stars, he tried to explore his own genetic frontier, creating horrible races of deformed beings - some scaled, some furred, tiny, winged and huge. Now Jask, a Pure who retains the original human genetic code, and Tedesco, a great bear with a human brain, are thrown together by their one shared and fatal trait - telepath. Hunted like animals by the fearful populace, they go in search of The Black Presence - which may be the key to mankind's place in the cosmos. |
| Odd Hours
[Odd Thomas series] Dean Koontz [Bantam, May 20, 2008] [Charnel House, 2008] |
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From St. Bartholomew's Abbey, which he left at the end of Brother Odd, Oddie has made his way to a picturesque but peculiar beach town on California's central coast. There he will have his most breathless and hair-raising adventure yet, in a story that promises to have the hard emotional punch of the first novel in the series. |
| Odd
Thomas [Odd Thomas series] Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2003] [Charnel House, 2003] |
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“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.
... (See also Forever Odd.) Read an excerpt from Odd Thomas. |
| One Door Away from
Heaven Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2001] |
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Micky Bellsong is a young woman at a crisis point in her life, using a stay at her Aunt Geneva's to sort things out. Then the precocious and deformed Leilani Klonk walks into her life, telling stories of her stepfather and drugged-up mother, who believe aliens will beam the girl into their mothership and heal her deformities before her 10th birthday. But tales of the stepfather's vicious past, including his hand in several murders, leave Micky believing that a far more terrible fate awaits her friend. So when the parents take off with Leilani, Micky pursues. |
| Phantoms Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1983; Berkley] |
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Over 150 people dead. Many hundred more were missing. The town of Snowfield, California had turned into a deathly ghost town. As a woman returns back to her hometown, she discovers all the death and destruction and somehow manages to discover the pure evil that lies behind the deaths. An evil so dark and deadly beyond her wildest imagination. |
| Prison of Ice
(see
Icebound) |
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| Relentless Dean Koontz [Bantam, June 2009] [Charnel House, 2009] |
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Cubby
Grenwich is a best-selling novelist. Cubby has been married for years
to a author/illustrator, and they have a young son named Milo
(nicknamed Spooky) and a dog named Lassie. They lead an
unremarkable, unstressful life, until the day a reviewer gives a
"snarky, ugly, nasty review" of Cubby's new book. Cubby
eventually discovers that the reviewer is the "psychopath of all
psychopaths" ... and then he meets the reviewer's mother. (Relentless was the name Koontz
chose; the publishers changed it to The Other Side of the Woods,
and then changed it back to Relentless before publication.) |
| Ride
the Storm [Christopher Snow
series] Dean Koontz, ??? |
(Not written yet -
seems likely to not be published for several years) "When I started the third Chris Snow book, I quickly discovered that it was likely to be a huge adventure story, packed full of wild stuff, and more epic in scope than the first two. I put it aside to think about it, intending to write FALSE MEMORY and then go back to it—and instead have written a series of books while I work on the third Snow, which is titled RIDE THE STORM. It will be done one day, but it's a book that insists on setting its own pace." (see also Fear Nothing and Seize the Night) |
| Robot
Santa: The
Further
Adventures of Santa's Twin Dean Koontz [HarperCollins, 2004] |
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The Claus family's
bad seed, Bob, is back and dishing out a second
helping of holiday havoc and headaches for his twin brother, Santa.
Exactly a year has passed since Bob kidnapped Santa and visited
Charlotte and Emily in his stead, bearing gifts of mud pies, cat poop,
and broccoli. After his defeat at the hands of the two brave sisters,
Bob has worked hard to redeem himself in Santa's eyes. Unfortunately
Bob's spare time has been spent secretly building a robot Santa Claus.
Super Santa One was designed to help Santa halve his delivery time, but
Bob has left a screw loose on his creation (several screws, actually),
and this Christmas Eve, a badly malfunctioning robot Santa Claus is
coming to town. (sequel to Santa's Twin) |
| Santa's
Twin Dean Koontz [HarperCollins, 1996] |
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Santa's
Twin is the hilarious and heartwarming story of two
little
girls, Charlotte and Emily, who set out to save Santa from his
mischievous
twin - Bob Claus. 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.
The
first major new Christmas story in decades, Santa's Twin breathes new
life
and warmth into the world's most beloved legend. (see also Robot Santa: The Further Adventures of Santa's Twin) |
| Seize the Night [Christopher
Snow series] Dean Koontz [Cemetery Dance, 1998: out of print] [Bantam, 1999] |
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In
Moonlight Bay, California, children are
disappearing.
From their homes. From the streets. The police cannot be trusted to
solve
their mystery, because in Moonlight Bay, the purpose of the police is
often
to conceal the crime, rather than to catch the perpetrator. Christopher
Snow,
whose rare genetic disorder, XP, leaves him dangerously vulnerable to
light,
sets out to find the missing son of a former sweetheart... and then the
other
lost children. Chris believes they are still alive. The disappearances
have
something to do with clandestine scientific experiments at a nearby
abandoned
military base, Fort Wyvern. With his exceptional dog, Orson, and his
friends,
Chris challenges those who would conceal even the most heinous crimes
in
order to keep the secrets of Fort Wyvern. (see also Fear Nothing and Ride the Storm) |
| The Servants Of
Twilight Twilight Leigh Nichols [Pocket Books, 1984: out of print] Leigh Nichols [Dark Harvest, 1988: out of print] Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1990] |
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Incredibly, Christine Scavello's young son is targeted by a group of religious fanatics and branded the Anti-Christ. They hunt him and want to kill him. Her only hope is to seek refuge and protection and try to protect herself and her son from a large band of killers. |
| Shadowfires
Leigh Nichols [Avon, 1987: out of print] Leigh Nichols [Dark Harvest, 1990; out of print] Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1990] |
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Rachel and her estranged husband are embroiled in a sour divorce battle when her husband is accidentally killed. Although relieved that such a bitter man was out of her life, she is shocked. Shock turns to fear when she discovers that there is someone stalking her... and the person looks just like her dead husband, whose body was just reported missing from the morgue |
| Shattered
K.R. Dwyer [Random House, 1973: out of print] Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1985] |
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Run...Or die. The van was in the back of them again. Closer this time. There could be no mistake - they were being followed. Run...or die. But why? The question kept nagging at Alex and Colin as they left Philadelphia behind and sped toward their new home in San Francisco. Courtney would be waiting for them, ready to begin a wonderful new life with her husband, her brother. Run...or die. Now, someone else is driving cross-country to see Courtney, too. Someone whose brain is rotting inside. Someone who knows their route, their stops, even their destination. Run...or die. He's got an axe. |
| Soft Come The Dragons
Dean Koontz [Ace, 1970: out of print] |
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Soft Come
the Dragons is an anthology of short stores: "Soft come
the Dragons," "A Third Hand," "A Darkness in My Soul," "The Twelfth
Bed," "A Season for Freedom," "The Psychedelic Children," "Dragon in
the Land," and "To Behold the Sun" (A double book, published alongside Dark Of The Woods) |
| Sole Survivor Dean Koontz [Knopf, 1997; Bantam] |
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There were no survivors in an inexplicable plane crash. Three hundred and thirty people dead. Among the dead are Joe Carpenter's wife and daughter. One year later, a person who claims to be the sole survivor of the crash comes to Joe and speaks of a powerful underground organization that is trying to kill her. She knows the powerful secret to the crash. Now, together they must find the truth before it's too late. |
| Star Quest
Dean Koontz [Ace Double Books, 1968: out of print] |
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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... (A double book, published alongside Doom Of The Green Planet by Emil Petaja) |
| Starblood
Dean Koontz [Lancer, 1972: out of print] |
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This straight science-fiction novel was written when the author was 24, and was based on his novella titled "A Third Hand." This is one of Koontz's lesser science-fiction efforts and will no doubt be kept out of print through the life of the copyright. |
| Strange Highways Dean Koontz [Cemetery Dance, 1995: out of print] [Warner Books, 1995] |
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You're 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 chose for ourselves...and along others
onto which we are detoured by fate. You'll be mesmerized. You'll be
scarified. You'll be changed...from the first page of this book...to
the last day of your life. Includes: "Strange Highways," "Miss Atilla the Hun," "We Three," "The Night of the Storm," "Bruno," "Hardshell," "Snatcher," "Kittens," "Chase,""Ollie's Hands," "The Black Pumpkin," "Down in the Darkness," "Twilight of the Dawn", and "Trapped." |
| Strangers
Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1986; Berkley] |
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A group of strangers have one thing in common. A strange experience that has given them unusual physical side effects. As they come together they realize they have shared an incredibly horrific and mind-shattering experience that someone is trying to hide from them. |
| Strike Deep
Anthony North [Dial Press, 1974: out of print] |
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This was an early novel about computer terrorism by hackers, though the term "hackers" was not yet in use. Veterans of Vietnam, one of them the son of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cooperate in a plot to steal defense secrets and sell them to a foreign power. In the end, the lead finds himself incapable of treason and at odds with the other conspirators. (A 1st Edition copy of Strike Deep sold for $525 on eBay, 11/2003.) |
| Surrounded [Mike
Tucker series] Brian Coffey [Bobbs-Merrill, 1974: out of print] |
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This is the
second of three novels under the Coffey pseudonym and the second of
three featuring the same lead character, Michael Tucker, who is a
professional thief. (See also The Wall of Masks and Blood Risk) |
| The
Taking Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2004] [Charnel House, 2004: sold out] |
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This
is the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the
terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their
neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death
traps. Molly and Niel Sloan and their small band of friends
will be forced to draw on reserves of strength, courage, and humanity
they never knew they had. 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. |
| TickTock Dean Koontz [Ballantine, 1996; Bantam] |
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When Tommy Phan discovers a mysterious rag doll on his doorstep one day, he's curious but tries to dismiss it. However, the thing seems ominously foreboding - a feeling borne out when he hears a sound from it that evening. When he picks up the doll, its heart actually appears to be beating. Then the threads of its eyes unravel, and a strange green eye appears - and blinks. Before long, Tommy is forced to flee an adversary that becomes larger, ever more formidable and seemingly indestructible. He must also use his journalistic skills to figure out not only what this thing is and where it has come from, but more importantly why it has been sent after him. And he has just nine hours before the arrival of dawn to do so... |
| Time Thieves
Dean Koontz [Ace Double Books, 1972: out of print] |
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"Mr. Mullion," one of the
triplets
said, looming up twenty feet away as Pete followed the smooth
railing. He stopped, his heart racing, but he felt a break in the
rail as he did so. He edged forward a foot or two and felt around
with his boot until he discovered a step. In a moment, blood
pounding in his temples, he was halfway down
toward the lower level, taking two risers at a time, no matter what the
danger
of a fall. He heard the mechanical man start after him as he set
foot
on the cement floor. (A double book, published alongside Against Arcturus by Susan K. Putney) |
| Trapped Dean Koontz [1993] |
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In
the midst of a snowstorm, young widow Meg Lassiter is trying to get
home.
At the Lassiter farmhouse uninvited mutant rats are waiting. These rats
are not just seeking shelter, warmth, and food. They're seeking the
annihilation
of any human who crosses their path. Meg must find the strength and
courage
to face the genetically enhanced rats. Trapped in her snowbound home,
armed
with only a shotgun and the desire to survive, Meg wages a one-woman
war
against creatures scientifically engineered to outwit, outrun, and
outfight
the human race. (included in Strange Highways) (This separate book is a graphic novel, with painted artwork by Anthony Bilau) |
| Twilight (see The Servants of Twilight) |
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| Twilight Eyes Dean Koontz [Land of Enchantment, 1985; Berkley, 1987] |
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A young man has the power to see the impossible. He has Twilight Eyes and can see into the deep dark recesses of a person's heart and their true horrific faces. He can see all of the evil, and soon must learn what they want and how to stop them from destroying him and the entire world. |
| Velocity Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2005] [Charnel House, 2005: sold out] |
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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. Suddenly Bill’s average, seemingly innocuous life
takes on the dimensions and speed of an accelerating nightmare.
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| The Vision
Dean Koontz [Putnam, 1977; Berkley] |
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Mary Bergen is a clairvoyant, able to foresee murders that will happen in the near future, but unable to prevent them from taking place. But, now she is up against a power stronger than her own, a power that is taking over her and trying to kill her before she can identify it. |
| The
Voice of the Night Brian Coffey [Doubleday, 1980; Signet, 1981: out of print] Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1991] |
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Two best friends. One is shy, the other is outgoing. At school they spends lots of time together even though they are so different from one another. One day the aggressive, outgoing friend reveals himself as a sinister force and leads them both into a deep, dark path to terror. |
| The Wall of Masks [Mike Tucker series]
Brian Coffey [Bobbs-Merrill, 1975: out of print] |
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The third and
final Tucker novel Koontz wrote under his Brian Coffey pseudonym, in
which the modified modern-day Robin Hood learns about an imminent
transaction in Mexico involving the exchange of a large sum of money
for a pre-Columbian wall featuring carvings of exotic masks. (See also Blood Risk and Surrounded.) |
| Warlock Dean Koontz [Lancer, 1972: out of print] |
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THE BLANK was the time, near-forgotten but for the legends that remained as fancies, when the Earth's crust shifter mightily, and towering mountains rose where no mountains had existed before. New coastal lines were formed, while jungle became desert, and desert and grassy plain became the bottom of the new seas. The old world was gone...but the legends remained. And they told of marvels hard to believe, even among men who had mastered the powers of the mind. The stories told that before the Blank men possessed marvels almost unbelievable; it was even said that the old people had conquered the skies (and, in whispers, space itself). Men like Shaker Sandow knew there was truth in the fancies...and then a would-be master of the world uncovered a trove of pre-Blank treasures, and once more the world turned toward all-consuming war! |
| Watchers Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1987; Berkley] |
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From a top secret government laboratory came two genetically altered life forms. One is a magnificent dog of astonishing intelligence. The other, a hybrid monster of a brutally violent nature. And both are on the loose. |
| A Werewolf
Among Us Dean Koontz [Ballantine, 1973: out of print] |
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People - ordinary people -
were afraid of
Baker St. Cyr. Patiently the cyberdetective would explain that the
computer half of his investigatory symbiosis did not "take over" when
his human half joined with it. "A cyberdetective 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." (Released as an 'Ace Double' alongside Doom of the Green Planet by Emil Petaja) |
| Whispers Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1980; Berkley] |
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Hilary Thomas is still struggling to cope with the nightmarish memories of the abuse she suffered at the hands of her parents. Tony Clemenza is a police detective who dreams of earning a living as an artist. But he lacks faith in his talent and takes refuge in the fact that he is, at least, a good cop. Bruno Frye is rich but unhappy, insecure. Frye is a killer, compelled to slaughter beautiful women. But there’s a special dark place, filled with menacing whispers, where something hideous waits to kill Frye. Some people think Hilary’s report of Frye’s first attack on her is a lie or the work of a fevered imagination. But Tony believes and tries to help her. Tony and Hilary fall in love, but their chances of living to enjoy each other are slim. Frye is a persistent, efficient killing machine. Nothing will stop him – not even death. |
| Winter Moon Dean Koontz [Ballantine, 1994; Bantam] Invasion Aaron Wolfe [Laser Books, 1975: out of print] |
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In
Los Angeles, a hot Hollywood director,
high on
PCP,
turns a city street into a fiery apocalypse. Heroic LAPD officer Jack
McGarvey
is badly wounded and lands in the hospital for months, uncertain he'll
walk
again. Meanwhile, 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
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. |
| Your Heart Belongs to Me Dean Koontz [Bantam, November 25, 2008] [Charnel House, 2008] |
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Ryan Perry, 34, is diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a congenital disorder for which there is no cure -- except a heart transplant. A year after a successful surgery, a mysterious woman contacts Ryan, telling him that his heart belongs to her. When at last he gets a glimpse of her, she looks remarkably like the woman whose heart he received. Twists, turns, and surprises ensue. |
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