| 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.. For a display of the covers for each book, see the Thumbnail Scans pages. |
| A-O | P-Z | ||
| BOOK TITLE Author/pen name Publisher(s), first date of publication, print status |
BOOK COVER | SUMMARY |
| 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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| Prodigal Son [see Frankenstein: Prodigal Son] | ||
| 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seems likely to not be published for several years) "When I started the third Chris Snow book, I quickly discovered that it was likely to be a huge adventure story, packed full of wild stuff,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) |
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| 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) |
| 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
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. |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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When all the world's a stage, director Cockley will run it. (A double book, published alongside Star Venturer by Kenneth Pulmer) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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.... |
| 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." |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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 Moonlit Mind: A Tale of
Suspense Dean Koontz [Random House Digital, Inc., 2011] |
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The
Moonlit Mind is the mesmerizing tale of Crispin, a
twelve-year-old boy who lives wild in the city and has
no friend but Harley, though Harley never speaks.
Plagued by fearsome memories, Crispin moves in the
shadows, through a metropolis both familiar and
infinitely strange, evading an evil that also knows
the city well and hungers for this special child. [Available as an e-book
only] |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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.) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| What
the
Night
Knows Dean Koontz [Bantam, Dec. 28, 2010] [Charnel House, 2010? (w/Darkness Under the Sun)] |
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In the late summer of a long ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, recreating in detail Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family--his wife and three children--will be targets in the fourth crime, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer. As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return. (The summary at Amazon completely changed in August - previously it had been about a mysterious dog. Read why here.) |
| 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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