| Why did Dean Koontz
use pen names? His early novels brought in very little money, so
he wrote several each year. When an unknown author writes in that
fashion, publishers urge him to use a pen name, since they feel
prolific works from the same author in a short timeframe won't receive
appropriate attention. Sometimes, too, when an author writes in
different genres, publishers encourage the use of a pen name for each
one. Koontz no longer uses pen names. |
| Pen Names | Book Title(s) |
| David Axton | Prison of Ice (re-released under Koontz as Icebound) |
| Leonard Chris | Hung! |
| Brian Coffey | Blood
Risk The Face of Fear (re-released under Koontz) Surrounded The Voice of the Night (re-released under Koontz) The Wall of Masks |
| Deanna Dwyer | Children
of the Storm Dance with the Devil The Dark of Summer Demon Child Legacy of Terror |
| K.R. Dwyer | Chase (re-released
under Koontz) Dragonfly Face of Fear (UK) (re-released under Koontz) Shattered (re-released under Koontz) |
| John Hill | The Long Sleep |
| Leigh Nichols | The
Door to December (re-released under Koontz)
The Eyes of Darkness (re-released under Koontz) The House of Thunder (re-released under Koontz) The Key to Midnight (re-released under Koontz) Twilight (re-released under Koontz as The Servants of Twilight) Shadowfires (re-released under Koontz) |
| Anthony North | Strike Deep |
| Richard Paige | The Door to December (re-released under Koontz) |
| Owen West | The
Funhouse (re-released under Koontz)
The Mask (re-released under Koontz) The Pit (never published; renamed Darkfall and published under Koontz) |
| Aaron Wolfe | Invasion (revised/re-released under Koontz as Winter Moon) |
