 First edition | |
| Author | Dean Koontz (as Leigh Nichols) |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Suspense, horror |
| Publisher | Pocket Books |
Publication date | 1979 (1995 in paperback) |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 392 |
| ISBN | 0-671-80915-6 |
| OCLC | 32377348 |
| Preceded by | The Vision |
| Followed by | The Funhouse |
The Key to Midnight is a suspense-horror novel by American writer Dean Koontz, released in 1979 under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. It is considered Koontz's first success. [1]
In the 1995 paperback edition, Koontz states that The Key to Midnight "is not like anything else I have done"; he also explained that he revised the novel for that year's edition, cutting 30,000 words and adding 5,000. [2] In August 2010, Koontz released a "better" version in Paperback.
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