| This
page contains the title(s) of each of Koontz'
novels/e-novellas; 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 usually 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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Author/pen name Publisher(s), first publication date, print status |
BOOK
COVER |
SUMMARY |
| 77 Shadow Street Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2011] |
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Enter the world of the
Pendleton: The original owner became a recluse - and
was rumored to be more than half mad - after his wife
and two children were kidnapped in 1896 and never
found. The second owner suffered a worse tragedy in
1935, when his house manager murdered him, his family,
and the entire live-in staff. For years, the
Pendleton is a happy place, until a bad turn comes
again. Voices in unknown languages are heard in
deserted rooms, disturbing shadows move along
walls but have no source, images on security monitors
show strange places that exist nowhere in the building
or its grounds, a young boy talks of an imaginary
playmate - who turns out to be terrifyingly real. A
figure like a man but clearly inhuman is glimpsed in
the courtyard gardens at night and in other locales,
perhaps a hoaxer of some kind, seemingly oblivious of
those who see it - until it suddenly takes an interest
in one of them... |
| A Darkness In My Soul Dean Koontz [DAW Books, 1972: out of print] |
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Superman - or Supermonster? Although he was
the first successful product of the Artificial
Creation laboratory - the government workshop for the
production of new talents by tampering with the genes
of the unborn - Simeon Kelly would work for them only
under compulsion. And the compulsion the generals
applied to get him to probe the mind of the thing
called Child had to be the greatest. Because Child was
anything but that. In that incredibly monstrous infant
appeared to be the potential for whole oceans of
inventions and an entire cosmos of total creativity.
But Child was vicious, insane, and short-lived. |
| After The Last Race Dean Koontz [Atheneum, 1974: out of print] |
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Edgar and Annie are tired of living by the rules. Hard work has earned them only debt and loneliness. They want wealth - no matter what the risk. Fearful but determined, they plan a clever, hideously dangerous robbery. The target: a thoroughbred race track on Sweepstakes Day. The goal: steal every dollar from the cash room and the mutual windows - plus one million dollars that is on display as a promotional gimmick. The attempt draws into their lives many unexpected, sharply delineated characters, including an arsonist, a psychopathic killer, a cancer-stricken gambler on his last fling, and a wise young track detective. |
| Anti-Man Dean Koontz [Paperback Library, 1970: out of print] |
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Sam was an android. His flesh was the ultimate miracle of science, artificially created and completely self sustaining. And he had the unusual power to heal others. In fact, Sam was too good to live. |
| A Werewolf Among Us Dean Koontz [Ballantine, 1973: out of print] |
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People - ordinary people - were afraid of
Baker St. Cyr. Patiently the cyberdetective would
explain that the computer half of his investigatory
symbiosis did not "take over" when his human half
joined with it. "A cyberdetective is part man and part
computer, meshed as completely as the two can ever be.
The highly microminiaturized components of the
bio-computer remember and relate things in a perfectly
mathematical manner that a human mind could never
easily grasp, while the human half of the symbiote
gives a perception of emotions and emotional
motivations that the bio-computer could never
comprehend. Together we make a precise and thorough
detective unit." (Released as an 'Ace Double' alongside Doom of the Green Planet by Emil Petaja) |
| Beastchild Dean Koontz [Lancer, 1970: out of print] [Charnel House, 1992: sold out] |
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The naoli came to earth as conquerors, while the last men skulked through the ruins of their civilization. The two races, human and naoli, were the most powerful intelligences in the galaxy - and destined to be immediate and perpetual enemies! The adult Hulann met the boy Leo ... and each became a traitor to his race. For it was only through treason that the future of each race could be assured! |
| Blood Risk
[Mike
Tucker
series] Brian Coffey [Bobbs-Merrill, 1973: out of print] |
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Four men waited on the narrow mountain road
for the Cadillac carrying 341,890, the biweekly taking
of a Mafia cell. Four men who had never failed in a
heist before, on their fourteenth operation in three
years: Shirillo, watching in the long grass; Pete
Harris with a submachine gun; Bachman in the getaway
car; and Mike Tucker, art dealer and professional
thief; the perfectionist. As the big Cadillac slewed
round the bend, none of them realized that this time
Tucker had made a fatal miscalcuation that would
plunge them all into a blood war against the Mafia. This is the first of three novels under the Coffey pseudonym and the first of three featuring the same lead character, Michael Tucker, who is a professional thief. (See also Surrounded and The Wall of Masks) |
| Breathless Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2009] |
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Carpenter
Grady
Adams
lives
a
quiet
life
in
Colorado,
creating
one-of-a-kind
furniture.
While
hiking
one
day, Grady observes two beautiful, furred creatures
unlike any he's ever seen. He contacts an old
friend, veterinarian "Cammy" Rivers, for help in
learning their origin. But while the two observe
the creatures for clues, they learn that they, too,
are being watched. Soon Grady's home and
hundreds of miles of surrounding wilderness are placed
under guarantine by Homeland Security - and Cammy and
Grady decide they must flee to freedom with the two
creatures. |
| Brother Odd [Odd
Thomas series book 3] Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2006] [Charnel House, 2006: sold out] |
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St. Bartholomew's Abbey
sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of
California's high Sierra, a haven for children
otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those
seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn
to live fully again, and among the eccentric monks,
their other guests, and the nuns and young students
of the attached convent school, he has begun to find
his way. But trouble has a way of finding Odd
Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in the form
of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the
black shades who herald death and disaster, and who
come late one December night to hover above the
abbey's most precious charges. For Odd is about to
face an enemy who eclipses any he has yet
encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery,
wonder, and sheer suspense that surpasses all that
has come before. (See also Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, and Odd Hours) |
| By the Light of the Moon
Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2002] |
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Dylan O'Connor is attacked by a mysterious doctor, injected with a strange substance, and told he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him or transform his life. He is told he must flee before the doctor's enemies hunt him down. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police. Soon, Dylan and his brother Shep meet Jillian Jackson, who is also a carrier. Now the three are on the run together, but with no idea whom they're running from--or why. What this unfathomable power is, how they can use it to stop the evil erupting all around them, and why they have been chosen are only parts of a puzzle that reaches back into the tragic past and the dark secrets they all share: secrets of madness, pain, and untimely death. Perhaps the answer lies in the eerie, enigmatic messages that Shep, with precious time running out, begins to repeat, about an entity who does his work “by the light of the moon. |
| Chase K.R. Dwyer [Random House, 1972: out of print] Dean Koontz [Headline; part of Strange Highways,1995] |
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Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter
memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit,
a mental breakdown - and massive guilt. So who will
believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get
him? When society is sick, the mad are sane - and
persecution is a killer's game. (Part of Strange Highways and separately as an audio book) |
| Children Of The Storm Deanne Dwyer [Lancer, 1972: out of print] |
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A veil of Caribbean
horror shrouds Sonya Carter's only chance for
love. 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 Dance With The Devil, The Dark Of Summer, Demon Child, and Legacy Of Terror) |
| City
of
Night [see Frankenstein: City of Night] |
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| Cold Fire Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1991; Berkley] |
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A deeply mysterious man rushes to faraway places and somehow manages to save people from the brink of death. When confronted by a sharp reporter, he admits to having a gift and feels he must save people. At the same time he also sees something far worse. Something dark and sinister that is coming and that is at the root of his gift that he (and the reporter) must somehow confront and destroy--before it destroys them. |
| Dance With The Devil Deanna Dwyer [Lancer, 1972: out of print] |
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Katherine Sellers
came to Owisden in the winter, to be the
secretary-companion to one of the wealthiest women in
the country. The job was an exciting challenge for
Katherine, and a needed change. But there was evil in
that mountain valley, a brooding evil that worshipped
at a dark altar; and Katherine was marked to
die. 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, The Dark Of Summer, Demon Child, and Legacy Of Terror) |
| Darkfall Darkness Comes in UK Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1984] |
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Baba Lavelle is a stranger in New York. A stranger with a mission to break the Mafia stronghold on the city's drug traffic, and take it over himself. He has no guns, no army of hoods, no friends in high places. But he has the Power - magical, ancient, and terrifyingly brutal. The Power that thrives in darkness. (Originally titled The Pit and written under Owen West persona, but the title and author were changed before publication) |
| Darkness Under the Sun Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2010] [Charnel House, 2010 w/What the Night Knows] Electronic & audiobook format only except Charnel House editions |
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Killer Alton Turner Blackwood knew the
night, its secrets and rhythms. How to hide within its
shadows. When to hunt. He roamed from town to town,
city to city, choosing his prey for their beauty and
innocence. His cruelties were infinite, his humanity
long since forfeit. But still . . . he had not yet
discovered how to make his special mark among
monsters, how to come fully alive as Death. This
is the story of how he learned those things, and of
what we might do to ensure that he does not visit us.
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| Dark of the Woods Dean Koontz [Ace, 1970: out of print] |
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Blessed shalt thou be in the city and
blessed shalt thou be in the field. Thou shalt be
blessed above all... Our holy empire of the Alliance
of mankind has fulfilled our destiny. Remember the
many heroic humans who have died in conquering the
stars for you. Therefore, do not let misguided
sympathy toward inferior and conquered animals deter
you from your inherent title of divine rulers of the
universe. (A double book, published alongside Soft Come The Dragons) |
| Dark Rivers of the Heart
Dean Koontz [Knopf, 1994; Bantam] [Charnel House, 1994: sold out] |
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A man and a woman - she a figure of mystery, he a mystery even to himself - meet by chance in Santa Monica bar. Suddenly - first separately, and then together - they are fleeing the long arm of a clandestine and increasingly powerful renegade government agency. The architect of the chase is a man of uncompromising madness and cruelty, ruthless, possibly psychotic, and equipped with a vast technological arsenal: untraceable access to the government's electronic information banks, its surveillance systems, weaponry, and material. Both of them - survivors of singularly horrific pasts - have lived hidden, nomadic, solitary lives. Now, they are plunged into a struggle for the freedom of their country, and for the sanctity of their own lives. |
| Dead and Alive [see Frankenstein: Dead and Alive] | ||
| Deeply Odd Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2013] |
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In a
sinister encounter with a rogue truck driver tricked
up like a rhinestone cowboy, Odd has a disturbing
vision of a shocking multiple homicide that has not
yet been committed. Across California, into Nevada,
and back again, Odd embarks on a riveting road chase
to prevent the tragedy. Along the way, he meets—and
charms—a collection of eccentrics who become his
allies in a terrifying battle against a sociopath of
singular boldness and cleverness—and a shadowy network
of mysterious, like-minded murderers whose chilling
resources seem almost supernatural. |
| Demon
Child Deanna Dwyer [Lancer, 1971: out of print] |
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A child accursed
calls Jenny to a house of terror--and an appointment
with death. 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, The Dark Of Summer, and Legacy Of Terror) |
| Demon Seed Dean Koontz [Bantam, 1973] Dean Koontz [Berkley, 1997] |
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Susan Harris lived in a self-imposed
seclusion, in a mansion featuring numerous automated
systems controlled by a state-of-the-art
computer. Every comfort was provided, and in
this often unsafe world of ours, her security was
absolute. But now her security system has been
breached, her sanctuary from the outside world
violated by an insidious artificial intelligence which
has taken control of her house. In the privacy
of her own home, and against her will, Susan will
experience an inconceivable act of terror.
She will become the object of the ultimate computer's
consuming obsession: to learn everything there
is to know about the flesh. (Second release was a significant revision.) |
| Dragon Tears Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1993; Berkley] |
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Detective Harry Lyon is forced to kill someone in the line of duty one day and is later confronted by a man who predicts Harry's demise by nightfall. Soon after he and his partner, Connie Gulliver, are forced into a nightmare existence that destroys their relatively peaceful lives and must fight what must only be a bewildering evil entity in an insane world. |
| Dragonfly K.R. Dwyer [Random House, 1975: out of print] |
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An innocent man has been turned into a
walking time bomb. In 4 days, he will kill
100,000 people. |
| False Memory Dean Koontz [Cemetery Dance, 1999] [Bantam, 1999] |
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Dustin and Martie Rhodes are a young couple married only three years. Martie is a compassionate woman who escorts her agoraphobic friend, Susan Jagger, to therapy sessions twice a week...until the day when Martie begins to develop a deeply bizarre phobia of her own: autophobia, the fear of one's self. Martie's world rapidly falls apart over the course of a single day, as she spirals down into a hell of irrational dread. |
| Fear That Man
Dean Koontz [Ace Books, 1969: out of print] |
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The Galaxy had
forgotten war and evil - until the man without a past
intervened. (A double book, published alongside Toyman by E.C.Tubb) |
| Fear Nothing
[Christopher Snow
series] Dean Koontz [Cemetery Dance, 1998: out of print] [Bantam, 1998] |
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Christopher Snow is
different from all the other residents of Moonlight
Bay, different from anyone else you've ever met. For
Christopher Snow has made a strange peace with a
rare genetic disorder shared by 1,000 other
Americans--a disorder that leaves him extremely
vulnerable to the light. Christopher knows the night
as no one else ever will or can. But his freedom is
suddenly, tragically, infringed upon, after he
witnesses a murder in the night that only he can
solve. (See also Seize the Night and Ride the Storm) |
| Forever Odd
[Odd Thomas series book
2] Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2005] [Charnel House, 2005: sold out] |
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A childhood friend of Odd's has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. (See also Odd Thomas, Brother Odd, and Odd Hours) |
| Frankenstein:
City of Night
[book 2] Dean Koontz and Ed Gorman [Bantam, 2005] |
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They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created-and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor Helios-once Frankenstein-can stop the engineered killers he's set loose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now the only hope rests in a one-time "monster" and his all-too-human partners, Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison. Deucalion's centuries-old history began as Victor's first and failed attempt to build the perfect human-and it is fated to end in the ultimate confrontation between a damned creature and his mad creator. But first Deucalion must destroy a monstrosity not even Victor's malignant mind could have imagined-an indestructible entity that steps out of humankind's collective nightmare with one purpose: to replace us. (See also Prodigal Son,Dead and Alive, and Lost Souls and Dead Town) |
| Frankenstein:
Dead and Alive
[book 3] Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2009] |
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The monster, Deucalion, is becoming human...and the doctor, Victor Helios, is becoming the monster. (See also Prodigal Son, City of Night, Lost Souls, and Dead Town) |
| Frankenstein: Lost Souls [book 4] Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2010] [Charnel House, 2010] |
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Lost
Souls picks up the action two years later. As
the characters are settled into new lives, the setting
moves to the American West, primarily Montana. A
new villain makes the original Victor Frankenstein
look tame arrives on the scene. (See also Prodigal Son, City of Night, Dead and Alive, and Dead Town) |
| Frankenstein: Prodigal Son [book 1] Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson [Bantam, 2005] |
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Prodigal Son is the
first volume in a four-book series that opens with
the "monster" - Deucalion - coming to modern-day New
Orleans, where he will join forces with a
street-smart police detective and her partner on the
trail of a macabre serial killer...a serial killer
spawned, Deucalion will discover, by his own
creator, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, now Victor Helios.
Deucalion has survived for two centuries, given near
immortality by the furious lightning storm that
brought him to life. But he is no monster--not
anymore. For 200 years Deucalion has thought
himself alone among men, an aberrant creation of an
evil mind. Now he will find that his fellows are
legion...that they live among us at every strata of
society...and that his nemesis, Victor Frankenstein,
has survived the centuries as well...and dreams of
seeding the earth with his creations. (Read about the movie.) (See also City of Night, Dead and Alive, and Dead Town) |
| Frankenstein: The Dead Town [book 5] Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2011] |
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The war
against humanity is raging. As the small town of
Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege,
scattered survivors come together to weather the
onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the
world. As they ready for battle against
overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope
of Victor Frankenstein’s nihilistic plan to remake
the future—and the terrifying reach of his
shadowy, powerful supporters. Now the good will
make their last, best stand. In a climax that will
shatter every expectation, their destinies and the
fate of humanity hang in the balance. |
| From the Corner of His
Eye Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2000] [Charnel House, 2001: sold out] |
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Bartholomew Lampion is born in Bright Beach, California, on a day of tragedy and terror, when the lives of everyone in his family are changed forever. On this same day, a thousand miles away, a ruthless man learns he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew. And in San Francisco a girl is born, the result of a violent rape. Her survival is miraculous, and her destiny is mysteriously linked to the fates of Barty and the man who stalks him. At the age of three, Barty Lampion is blinded when surgeons reluctantly remove his eyes to save him from a fast-spreading cancer. At thirteen, Bartholomew regains his sight. How he regains it, why he regains it, and what happens as his amazing life unfolds results in a breathtaking journey of courage, heart-stopping suspense, and high adventure. |
| Hanging On Dean Koontz [Atheneum, 1973: out of print] [Dell, 1976: out of print] |
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M*A*S*H* meets CATCH-22 in the most riotous, ribald, WW II military madhouse ever! It all began when Major Kelly's Army engineers were dropped into Nazi-occupied France and ordered to keep a bridge open until the Allies arrived. Except the mission was a secret and nobody knew they were there--nobody except the Luftwaffe, which kept bombing the bridge ... which meant the GI's kept rebuilding it ... which meant the Luftwaffe kept bombing it... which meant the tension was doing funny things to Major Kelly's men's minds ... which mean anything could happen. |
| Hell's Gate Dean Koontz [Lancer Books, 1970: out of print] |
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He came out of the dark night with only another man's name...a man who would soon be found floating in a distant river. He was a man without a past, without a future; he had only a bloody mission. His first act was violent murder! He was a man...or was he? Just who was Victor Salsbury? And if he was not a man, then...what was he? And who were the unseen masters, who issue orders only on whim? What were their plans for the world... plans so horrifying that they could change an unfeeling, nonhuman creature into a frightened human! |
| Hideaway Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1992; Berkley] |
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Hatch Harrison dies en route to the hospital
after a horrific car crash but is miraculously revived
in a nearby hospital. Unfortunately, Hatch begins to
suspect that he has brought back something else,
something bad from his time in the afterlife. As
people around him begin to die, Hatch must confront
the evil that he cannot bear to face in order to
protect himself, his family and the lives of other
innocents. |
| Icebound
Dean Koontz [Bantam, 1995] Prison of Ice David Axton [Lippincott, 1976; Fawcett-Crest, 1977: out of print] |
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Conducting a strange and urgent experiment of the Arctic icefield, a team of scientists has planted sixty powerful explosive charges that will detonate at midnight. Before they can withdraw to the safety of the base camp, a shattering tidal wave breaks loose the ice on which they are working. Now they are hopelessly marooned on an iceberg during a violent winter storm. The bombs beneath them are buried irretrievably deep . . . and ticking. Then they discover that a member of the team is an assassin with mission of his own. |
| Innocence Dean Koontz [Bantam, 1/2014] |
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He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from society, which will destroy him if he is ever seen. She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found. But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance—and nothing less than destiny—has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching. |
| Intensity Dean Koontz [Franklin Library, 1996; Knopf, 1996; Bantam] |
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His name is Edgler Foreman Vess. He likes to make words from the letters of his name-GOD, DEMON, SAVE, RAGE, ANGER, FEAR, FOREVER, are just a few of them-and then make sentences of the words. One of his favorites, GOD FEARS ME, is sometimes the last thing he whispers to his victims. On this night, his adventure - murdering everyone in the house - becomes Chyna's long nightmare. Trapped in Vess's deadly orbit, Chyna thinks only of getting out alive. But when she inadvertently learns the identity of Vess's intended next victim, Chyna is gripped by concern for this innocent. Driven now by a sense of responsibility for another, by a purpose and meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna rises to unexpected heights of courage and daring - her only hope as the threat of Edgler Foreman Vess closes in and grows more horrifying moment by moment. |
| Invasion Aaron Wolfe [Ontario: Laser Books, 1975: out of print] |
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(See Winter Moon, though it was a significant revision.) |
| Legacy Of Terror Deanna Dwyer [Lancer, 1971: 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, The Dark Of Summer, and Demon Child) |
| Life Expectancy Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2004] [Charnel House, 2004: sold out] |
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Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. At the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the first and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is that there will be 5 dark days in the life of his grandson--five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. |
| Lightning Dean Koontz [Ultramarine Press, 1988; Putnam/Berkley, 1988; Berkley] |
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A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was
borne, and there was a strangeness about the weather
that people would remember for years. Through every
part of her life, a guardian angel is present saving a
woman's life or simply protecting her from harm. Was
he the guardian angel he seemed? The devil in
disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond
time and space? Now, as an adult with a young son, she
finally learns the identity and dark secrets of the
guardian angel-man and why he must keep her alive. |
| Lost Souls [see Frankenstein: Lost Souls) | ||
|
Midnight
Dean Koontz[Putnam/Berkley, 1989; Berkley] |
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Tessa Lockland comes to picturesque Moonlight Cove, California, to probe her sister's seemingly unprompted suicide. Independent and clever, she meets up with Sam Booker, an undercover FBI agent sent to Moonlight Cove to discover the truth behind the mysterious deaths. They meet Harry Talbot, a wheelchair-bound veteran, who has seen things from his window that he was not meant to see. Together they begin to understand the depth of evil in Moonlight Cove. Chrissie Foster, a resourceful eleven-year-old, running from her parents who have suddenly changed and in whom darkness dwells, joins them. Together they make a stand against darkness and terror. |
| Mr. Murder Dean Koontz [Putnam/Berkley, 1993; Berkley] |
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The lives of Marty Stillwater, a famous
well-to-do author, and his family are completely torn
apart when a crazed man bursts into their home and
declares that HE is the real Marty Stillwater and that
the house is his. When the confrontation turns violent
and nothing seems to stop the crazed pseudo-Marty, the
family has no choice but to run and fight for
themselves in order to regain their sanity and escape
with their lives. (See also Santa's Twin and Robot Santa, which are takeoffs of a story line inside this book.) |
| Night Chills Dean Koontz [Atheneum, 1976: out of print] |
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Night chills plague a small town. The
inhabitants seem to have gone crazy, performing
unspeakable acts of horror on themselves as a result
of the chills. Incredibly, the origins of this plague
comes from scientists, for it is an experiment of the
human mind. Now, the whole truth is coming out and the
truth is much more frightening than anything you could
have ever imagined. |
| Nightmare Journey Dean Koontz [Berkley/Putnam, 1975: out of print] |
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One hundred thousand years in the future, after man has been fatally humbled by his exploration of the stars and discovery of far more intelligent beings, civilization is struggling to return to the planet's surface. After man fled the stars, he tried to explore his own genetic frontier, creating horrible races of deformed beings - some scaled, some furred, tiny, winged and huge. Now Jask, a Pure who retains the original human genetic code, and Tedesco, a great bear with a human brain, are thrown together by their one shared and fatal trait - telepath. Hunted like animals by the fearful populace, they go in search of The Black Presence - which may be the key to mankind's place in the cosmos. |
| Odd Apocalypse
[Odd Thomas series book 5] [Bantam, July 31, 2012] [Charnel House, 2012] |
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Odd
finds refuge at a 20-acre estate, but soon discovers a
frightening presence. Odd Thomas has seen danger and
he has seen death. He lives between two worlds,
communicating with the lingering dead. He stands
between us and our darkest fears, never failing the
tests that confront him, whatever the cost. Now he has
found refuge in a crumbling mansion in Santa Barbara,
along with his closest friends both living and dead.
But the house is a place of terrible secrets, haunted
by lingering spirits. And there is a stranger, more
frightening presence still… |
| Odd Hours [Odd
Thomas series book 3] Dean Koontz [Bantam, May 20, 2008] [Charnel House, 2008] |
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From St. Bartholomew's Abbey, which he left at the end of Brother Odd, Oddie has made his way to a picturesque but peculiar beach town on California's central coast. There he will have his most breathless and hair-raising adventure yet, in a story that promises to have the hard emotional punch of the first novel in the series. (See also Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, and Brother Odd) |
| Odd Interlude
[Odd Thomas 3-part e-novella] Dean Koontz [Bantam, June 11, June 18, and June 25, 2012] |
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THERE’S
ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT. Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner offers everything a weary traveler needs—a cozy diner, a handy service station, a cluster of motel rooms . . . and the Harmony family homestead presiding over it all. But when Odd Thomas and companions stop to spend the night, they discover that there’s more to this secluded haven than meets the eye—and that between life and death, there is something more frightening than either. |
| Oddkins Dean Koontz [Warner Books, 1988: out of print] |
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To the world, the Oddkins are just stuffed animals. But all of these soft, cuddly, sweet-faced toys share a wonderful, magical secret -- they're alive! Created by Mr. Isaac Badkins, the old toymaker, the Oddkins are made only for very special children, those who must face something difficult in life and need a true friend. The Oddkins are given to these children to inspire them, help them, and love them as long as the children need them. Only now the toys themselves are the ones in need of help. Mr. Bodkins has passed away before he can give his life-giving powers to Colleen Shannon, the toymaker he had chosen to replace him. The Oddkins have only one choice: to go on a journey in search of Colleen Shannon's toy shop. The night is stormy and black; the way is filled with peril. And the Oddkins have to face a danger that threatens not only their magic -- but the magic in us all. (children's book) |
| Odd Thomas [Odd
Thomas series book 1] Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2003] [Charnel House, 2003: sold out] |
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"The dead don't
talk. I don't know why." But they do
try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small
desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd
Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if
possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico
Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most
beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe
he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been
sure, but he tries to do his best by the silent souls
who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and
Odd's otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's sympathetic
police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime.
Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's
different. ... (See also Forever Odd, Brother Odd, and Odd Hours) Read an excerpt from Odd Thomas. |
| One Door Away from Heaven
Dean Koontz [Bantam, 2001] |
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Micky Bellsong is a young woman at a crisis point in her life, using a stay at her Aunt Geneva's to sort things out. Then the precocious and deformed Leilani Klonk walks into her life, telling stories of her stepfather and drugged-up mother, who believe aliens will beam the girl into their mothership and heal her deformities before her 10th birthday. But tales of the stepfather's vicious past, including his hand in several murders, leave Micky believing that a far more terrible fate awaits her friend. So when the parents take off with Leilani, Micky pursues. |
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