Dean Koontz bibliography

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This is a list of every work (novels, short stories, etc.) by American novelist Dean Koontz .

Contents

Series

Black Cat Mysteries / Mike Tucker Series

TitleYearTypePagesNotes
Blood Risk1973novel160As Brian Coffey
Surrounded1974novel220
The Wall of Masks1975novel167

Moonlight Bay Series

TitleYearTypePagesNotes
Fear Nothing 1998novel400
Seize the Night 1999novel416
Ride the Storm N/Anovel(not published yet)

Odd Thomas Series

#TitleYearTypePagesNotes
1 Odd Thomas 2003novel400
2 Forever Odd 2005novel400
3 Brother Odd 2006novel464
4 Odd Hours 2008novel432
4.1 Odd Interlude (novella) 2012novella253A three-part ebook. Published as a paperback in 2013.
5 Odd Apocalypse 2012novel368
6 Deeply Odd 2013novel335
6.1 Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever 2014novella38Ebook
7 Saint Odd 2015novel352

Odd Thomas Graphic Novel Prequels

#TitleYearTypePagesNotes
1 In Odd We Trust 2008graphic novel204with Queenie Chan
2 Odd Is on Our Side 2010graphic novel186with Queenie Chan
3 House of Odd 2012graphic novel216with Queenie Chan

Frankenstein Series

TitleYearTypePagesNotes
Prodigal Son 2005novel512
City of Night 2005novel496
Dead and Alive 2009novel352
Lost Souls 2010novel350
The Dead Town 2011novel423

Makani Trilogy

TitleYearTypePagesNotes
Last Light2015novella84Ebook.
Final Hour2015novella82Ebook.
Troubled Times2018novellaN/AAudio only, found in Darkest Desires
Darkest Desires: The Makani Trilogy2018omnibusN/AAudio only.

Jane Hawk Series

TitleYearTypePagesNotes
1The Silent Corner2017novel464
2The Whispering Room2017novel528
0.5The Bone Farm2018novellaN/AAudio only
3The Crooked Staircase2018novel512
4The Forbidden Door2018novel464
5The Night Window2019novel448

Nameless

Season One

TitleYearTypePagesNotes
1In the Heart of the Fire2019novella62Ebook.
2Photographing the Dead2019novella58Ebook.
3The Praying Mantis Bride2019novella61Ebook.
4Red Rain2019novella50Ebook.
5The Mercy of Snakes2019novella61Ebook.
6Memories of Tomorrow2019novella55Ebook

Season Two

TitleYearTypePagesNotes
1The Lost Soul of the City2021novella109Ebook.
2Gentle Is the Angel of Death2021novella66Ebook.
3Kaleidoscope2021novella71Ebook.
4Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not2021novella66Ebook.
5Corkscrew2021novella54Ebook.
6Zero In2021novella60Ebook

Standalone novels

TitleYearTypePagesNotes
Star Quest 1968novel127An Ace Double, H-70, b/w Emil Petaja, "Doom of the Green Planet"
Fear That Man1969novel129from 'In the Shield' (1969) and 'Where the Beast Runs' (1969)
The Fall of the Dream Machine1969novel131
The Dark Symphony1969novel205
Hell's Gate1970novel190
Dark of the Woods1970novel108
Beastchild1970novel189expanded from short story (1970)
Anti-Man1970novel142expanded from 'The Mystery of His Flesh' (1970)
Demon Child1971novel224as "Deanna Dwyer"
The Crimson Witch1971novelexpanded from short story (1970)
Legacy of Terror1971novelas "Deanna Dwyer" [1]
Warlock1972novel
Time Thieves1972novel109
Starblood1972novelexpanded from 'A Third Hand' (1970)
The Flesh in the Furnace 1972novel
A Darkness in My Soul1972novelexpanded from 1968 short story
Chase 1972novel212as "K. R. Dwyer" [2] "extensively revised" into Strange Highways " [2]
Children of the Storm1972novelas "Deanna Dwyer" [1]
Dance with the Devil1972novelas "Deanna Dwyer" [1]
The Dark of Summer1972novelas "Deanna Dwyer" [1]
The Haunted Earth1973novel
Demon Seed 1973novel320rewritten 1997
A Werewolf Among Us1973novelas "Leigh Nichols"
Shattered 1973novel304as "K. R. Dwyer" [2]
Hanging On1973novel
Strike Deep1974novelas "Anthony North" [1]
After The Last Race1974novel
Nightmare Journey1975novel
The Long Sleep1975novelas "John Hill" [2]
Dragonfly 1975novel244as "K. R. Dwyer" [1]
Invasion 1975novel190as "Aaron Wolfe", [1] revised and rereleased as Winter Moon in 1994
Prison of Ice 1976novel408as "David Axton" [2]
Night Chills 1976novel384
The Face of Fear 1977novel320as "Brian Coffey" [2] and as "K. R. Dwyer" [1]
The Vision 1977novel368
The Key to Midnight 1979novel419as "Leigh Nichols", [2] revised and rereleased in 1995
The Funhouse 1980novel336as "Owen West", [2] novelization based on a screenplay by Larry Block
Whispers 1980novel502
The Voice of the Night 1980novel352as "Brian Coffey" [2]
The Eyes of Darkness 1981novel352as "Leigh Nichols" [1]
The Mask 1981novel336as "Owen West" [1]
The House of Thunder 1982novel432as "Leigh Nichols" [1]
Phantoms 1983novel448
Darkfall 1984novel384originally as Darkness Comes
Twilight 1984novel592as "Leigh Nichols" [1] also as The Servants of Twilight
Twilight Eyes 1985novel416much expanded 1987 as Twilight Eyes , this first version becomes the first half of the 1987 revision
The Door to December 1985novel416as "Richard Paige" [2] also as by "Leigh Nichols" [2]
Strangers 1986novel526
Watchers 1987novel406
Shadow Fires 1987novel528as "Leigh Nichols" [1]
Lightning1988novel351reprinted in 2003 with an author's afterword
Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages1988novel180
Midnight 1989novel480
The Bad Place 1991novel417
Cold Fire 1992novel448
Hideaway 1992novel416
Dragon Tears 1993novel432
Mr. Murder 1993novel496
Winter Moon 1994novel480rewritten from Invasion
Dark Rivers of the Heart 1994novel487
Icebound 1995novel408revised from Prison of Ice.
Intensity 1995novel448
Ticktock 1996novel335
Sole Survivor 1997novel436
False Memory 1999novel784
From the Corner of His Eye 2000novel768
One Door Away from Heaven 2001novel720
By the Light of the Moon 2002novel496
The Face 2003novel608
The Taking 2004novel448
Life Expectancy 2004novel496
Velocity 2005novel496
The Husband 2006novel416
The Good Guy 2007novel400
The Darkest Evening of the Year 2007novel368
Your Heart Belongs to Me 2008novel352
Relentless 2009novel368
Breathless 2009novel352
What the Night Knows 2010novel464
77 Shadow Street 2011novel451
Innocence2013novel352
The City2014novel416
Ashley Bell2015novel560
Devoted2020novel369
Elsewhere2020novel364
The Other Emily2021novel362
Quicksilver2022novel366
The Big Dark Sky2022novel390
The House at the End of the World2023novel416
After Death2023novel382
The Bad Weather Friend2024novel380
The Forest of Lost Souls2024, November 19novel
Going Home in the Dark2025, May 20novel


Collections

TitleYearPagesNotes
Soft Come the Dragons1970143
Strange Highways 1995576 [2]
The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse2001159

Short fiction

(The stories up to "Where No One Fell" first appeared in "The Reflector", a magazine issued by Shippensburg University, Pa., when Koontz was a student)

This list does not include short fiction from the Makani Trilogy, Jane Hawk series, Nameless or the Odd Thomas series.

TitleYearNotes
"This Fence"1965
"The Kittens"1965Later revised in 1966 as "Kittens" Strange Highways
"Of Childhood"1965
"A Miracle is Anything"1966
"Cloistered Walls"1966
"Flesh"1966
"For a Breath I Tarry"1966
"Hey, Good Christian"1966
"Holes"1966
"It"1966
"I've Met One"1966
"Mold in the Jungle"1966
"Sam: the Adventurous Exciting Well-traveled Man"1966
"Some Disputed Barricade"1966
"Something About This City"1966
"The Rats Run"1966
"The Standard Unusual"1966
"Soft Come the Dragons"1967rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons
"To Behold the Sun"1967rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons
"Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter One"1967In "SF Opinion #4" (Dean Koontz fanzine)
"Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Two"1967In "SF Opinion #5" (Dean Koontz fanzine)
"Love 2005"1968
"A Darkness in My Soul"1968rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded into A Darkness in My Soul.
"The Psychedelic Children"1968rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons
"The Twelfth Bed"1968rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons
"Dreambird" [3] 1968
"Glunk"1969In "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine, special Vaughn Bode issue); based on Bode's comic strip "Junkwaffel"
"Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Three"1969In "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine)
"Whoop, the Dead Gerkle"1969In "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine)
"In the Shield"1969Combined with "Where the Beast Runs" as Fear That Man
"Temple of Sorrow"1969
"Killerbot!" [4] 1969rp in Soft Come the Dragons as "A Season for Freedom". Revised and re-issued in 1977.
"The Face in His Belly" Part One1969
"Where the Beast Runs"1969Combined with "In the Shield" as Fear That Man
"Dragon In the Land"1969In Soft Come the Dragons
The Face in His Belly" Part Two1969
"Muse"1969A Leonard Chris story
"A Third Hand"1970rp in Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded as Starblood.
"The Good Ship Lookoutworld"1970
"Unseen Warriors"1970
"The Mystery of His Flesh"1970expanded as Anti-Man
"Beastchild"1970expanded as Beastchild
"The Crimson Witch"1970slightly expanded as The Crimson Witch
"Shambolain"1970
"Nightmare Gang"1970
"Emanations"1970
"Bruno"1971A Jake Ash story; revised rp in Strange Highways
"The Terrible Weapon"1972
"Cosmic Sin"1972A Jake Ash story
"Altarboy"1972
"Ollie's Hands"1972Revised and re-issued in 1987, rp in Strange Highways
"A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village"1972In Again, Dangerous Visions ; In the original Afterword, Koontz mentions having written Hung, "set in the hippie subculture of a small university", [5] which tried to show that Marshall McLuhan's concept of the global village was "on the right track" and that "our world was already being compressed"; his novel, The Fall of the Dream Machine, and stories, 'A Dragon in the Land', and 'A Mouse..' were extrapolations of the concept.
"Grayworld"1973Expanded as The Long Sleep as by John Hill
"The Sinless Child"1973
"Wake Up To Thunder"1973
"Terra Phobia"1973
"The Undercity"1973
"We Three"1974revised rp in Strange Highways
"The Night of the Storm"1974Re-issued as a graphic novel in 1976; revised in Strange Highways
"Down in the Darkness"1986rp in Strange Highways
"Weird World"1986
"Snatcher"1986rp in Strange Highways
"The Monitors of Providence"1986collaboration
"The Black Pumpkin"1986rp in Strange Highways
"The Interrogation"1987
"Hardshell"1987revised rp in Strange Highways
"Miss Attila the Hun"1987revised rp in Strange Highways
"Twilight of the Dawn"1987revised rp in Strange Highways
"Graveyard Highway"1987
"Trapped"1989Re-issued as a graphic novel in 1992; rp in Strange Highways
"Strange Highways"1995short story that appears in the collection Strange Highways
"Santa's Twin"1996
"Pinkie"1998
"Black River"2000
"Robot Santa"2004
"Darkness Under the Sun"201060 pages
"The Moonlit Mind"2011 [6] l 102 pages
"Wilderness"201330 pages
"The Neighbor"201432 pages
"Ricochet Joe"2017A Kindle motion book which contains moving pictures and interactive parts; 95 pages

Non-fiction

  1. "How to Write Best Selling Fiction" (1981)
  2. "Writing Popular Fiction" (1972)
  3. "A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie" (2009)

Essays and introductions

  1. "Of Childhood" (Reflector, 1966)
  2. "Ibsen's Dream" (Reflector, 1966)
  3. Introduction to Great Escapes: New Designs for Home Theaters by Theo Kalomirakis (October 15, 2003). ISBN   9607037456.
  4. Foreword to Love Heels: Tales from Canine Companions for Independence (October 1, 2003)
  5. Foreword to A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement by Wesley J. Smith (April, 2009)
  6. Foreword to The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything by John D. MacDonald (2014, Trade Paperback Edition)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "All Books". deankoontz.com. Retrieved January 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Facts for Collectors". deankoontz.com. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
  3. https://archive.org/stream/1968-09_IF#page/n125/mode/2up
  4. Killerbot! title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  5. https://web.archive.org/web/20160317224034/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/isfac/t82.htm#A1426
  6. The Moonlit Mind title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database