| 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. |
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| 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likely to not be published for several years) In late 2013, Koontz mentioned he is still planning on writing "the final Snow novel." (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) |
| Saint Odd Dean Koontz [Bantam, ??] |
The
promise made to Odd and Stormy by the carnival
fortune-telling machine, Gypsy Mummy - "You are destined to be
together forever" - will be kept [though
perhaps not in a way that you will expect.] |
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| 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 City Dean Koontz [Bantam, July 2014] |
The
lead character is a musician, a piano man, named Jonah
Kirk, who has had some mysterious experiences in the
city he loves, including one night when he "died and
woke and lived again." [Aside: For several weeks in 2013,
Amazon indicated that a Koontz booked title "Secret
Forest" was going to published in July 2014.] |
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| 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 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. |
| 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] |
| Secret Forest Dean Koontz [Bantam, July 8, 2014] |
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yet] |
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| 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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