Dean Koontz bibliography
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This is a list of every work (novels, short stories, etc.) by American novelist Dean Koontz.
Series
[edit]Black Cat Mysteries / Mike Tucker Series
[edit]| Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Risk | 1973 | novel | 160 | As Brian Coffey |
| Surrounded | 1974 | novel | 220 | |
| The Wall of Masks | 1975 | novel | 167 |
| Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fear Nothing | 1998 | novel | 400 | |
| Seize the Night | 1999 | novel | 416 | |
| Ride the Storm | N/A | novel | (not published yet) |
| # | Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Odd Thomas | 2003 | novel | 400 | |
| 2 | Forever Odd | 2005 | novel | 400 | |
| 3 | Brother Odd | 2006 | novel | 464 | |
| 4 | Odd Hours | 2008 | novel | 432 | |
| 4.1 | Odd Interlude (novella) | 2012 | novella | 253 | A three-part ebook. Published as a paperback in 2013. |
| 5 | Odd Apocalypse | 2012 | novel | 368 | |
| 6 | Deeply Odd | 2013 | novel | 335 | |
| 6.1 | Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever | 2014 | novella | 38 | Ebook |
| 7 | Saint Odd | 2015 | novel | 352 |
Odd Thomas Graphic Novel Prequels
[edit]| # | Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In Odd We Trust | 2008 | graphic novel | 204 | with Queenie Chan |
| 2 | Odd Is on Our Side | 2010 | graphic novel | 186 | with Queenie Chan |
| 3 | House of Odd | 2012 | graphic novel | 216 | with Queenie Chan |
| Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prodigal Son | 2005 | novel | 512 | |
| City of Night | 2005 | novel | 496 | |
| Dead and Alive | 2009 | novel | 352 | |
| Lost Souls | 2010 | novel | 350 | |
| The Dead Town | 2011 | novel | 423 |
Makani Trilogy
[edit]| Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last Light | 2015 | novella | 84 | Ebook. |
| Final Hour | 2015 | novella | 82 | Ebook. |
| Troubled Times | 2018 | novella | N/A | Audio only, found in Darkest Desires |
| Darkest Desires: The Makani Trilogy | 2018 | omnibus | N/A | Audio only. |
Jane Hawk Series
[edit]| Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Silent Corner | 2017 | novel | 464 | |
| 2 | The Whispering Room | 2017 | novel | 528 | |
| 0.5 | The Bone Farm | 2018 | novella | N/A | Audio only |
| 3 | The Crooked Staircase | 2018 | novel | 512 | |
| 4 | The Forbidden Door | 2018 | novel | 464 | |
| 5 | The Night Window | 2019 | novel | 448 |
Nameless
[edit]Season One
[edit]| Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In the Heart of the Fire | 2019 | novella | 62 | Ebook. |
| 2 | Photographing the Dead | 2019 | novella | 58 | Ebook. |
| 3 | The Praying Mantis Bride | 2019 | novella | 61 | Ebook. |
| 4 | Red Rain | 2019 | novella | 50 | Ebook. |
| 5 | The Mercy of Snakes | 2019 | novella | 61 | Ebook. |
| 6 | Memories of Tomorrow | 2019 | novella | 55 | Ebook |
Season Two
[edit]| Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lost Soul of the City | 2021 | novella | 109 | Ebook. |
| 2 | Gentle Is the Angel of Death | 2021 | novella | 66 | Ebook. |
| 3 | Kaleidoscope | 2021 | novella | 71 | Ebook. |
| 4 | Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not | 2021 | novella | 66 | Ebook. |
| 5 | Corkscrew | 2021 | novella | 54 | Ebook. |
| 6 | Zero In | 2021 | novella | 60 | Ebook |
Standalone novels
[edit]| Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Star Quest | 1968 | novel | 127 | An Ace Double, H-70, b/w Emil Petaja, "Doom of the Green Planet" |
| Fear That Man | 1969 | novel | 129 | from 'In the Shield' (1969) and 'Where the Beast Runs' (1969) |
| The Fall of the Dream Machine | 1969 | novel | 131 | |
| The Dark Symphony | 1969 | novel | 205 | |
| Hell's Gate | 1970 | novel | 190 | |
| Dark of the Woods | 1970 | novel | 108 | |
| Beastchild | 1970 | novel | 189 | expanded from short story (1970) |
| Anti-Man | 1970 | novel | 142 | expanded from 'The Mystery of His Flesh' (1970) |
| Demon Child | 1971 | novel | 224 | as "Deanna Dwyer" |
| The Crimson Witch | 1971 | novel | expanded from short story (1970) | |
| Legacy of Terror | 1971 | novel | as "Deanna Dwyer"[1] | |
| Warlock | 1972 | novel | ||
| Time Thieves | 1972 | novel | 109 | |
| Starblood | 1972 | novel | expanded from 'A Third Hand' (1970) | |
| The Flesh in the Furnace | 1972 | novel | ||
| A Darkness in My Soul | 1972 | novel | expanded from 1968 short story | |
| Chase | 1972 | novel | 212 | as "K. R. Dwyer"[2] "extensively revised" into Strange Highways"[2] |
| Children of the Storm | 1972 | novel | as "Deanna Dwyer"[1] | |
| Dance with the Devil | 1972 | novel | as "Deanna Dwyer"[1] | |
| The Dark of Summer | 1972 | novel | as "Deanna Dwyer"[1] | |
| The Haunted Earth | 1973 | novel | ||
| Demon Seed | 1973 | novel | 320 | rewritten 1997 |
| A Werewolf Among Us | 1973 | novel | as "Leigh Nichols" | |
| Shattered | 1973 | novel | 304 | as "K. R. Dwyer"[2] |
| Hanging On | 1973 | novel | ||
| Strike Deep | 1974 | novel | as "Anthony North"[1] | |
| After The Last Race | 1974 | novel | ||
| Nightmare Journey | 1975 | novel | ||
| The Long Sleep | 1975 | novel | as "John Hill"[2] | |
| Dragonfly | 1975 | novel | 244 | as "K. R. Dwyer"[1] |
| Invasion | 1975 | novel | 190 | as "Aaron Wolfe",[1] revised and rereleased as Winter Moon in 1994 |
| Prison of Ice | 1976 | novel | 408 | as "David Axton"[2] |
| Night Chills | 1976 | novel | 384 | |
| The Face of Fear | 1977 | novel | 320 | as "Brian Coffey"[2] and as "K. R. Dwyer"[1] |
| The Vision | 1977 | novel | 368 | |
| The Key to Midnight | 1979 | novel | 419 | as "Leigh Nichols",[2] revised and rereleased in 1995 |
| The Funhouse | 1980 | novel | 336 | as "Owen West",[2] novelization based on a screenplay by Larry Block |
| Whispers | 1980 | novel | 502 | |
| The Voice of the Night | 1980 | novel | 352 | as "Brian Coffey"[2] |
| The Eyes of Darkness | 1981 | novel | 352 | as "Leigh Nichols"[1] |
| The Mask | 1981 | novel | 336 | as "Owen West"[1] |
| The House of Thunder | 1982 | novel | 432 | as "Leigh Nichols"[1] |
| Phantoms | 1983 | novel | 448 | |
| Darkfall | 1984 | novel | 384 | originally as Darkness Comes |
| Twilight | 1984 | novel | 592 | as "Leigh Nichols"[1] also as The Servants of Twilight |
| Twilight Eyes | 1985 | novel | 416 | much expanded 1987 as Twilight Eyes, this first version becomes the first half of the 1987 revision |
| The Door to December | 1985 | novel | 416 | as "Richard Paige"[2] also as by "Leigh Nichols"[2] |
| Strangers | 1986 | novel | 526 | |
| Watchers | 1987 | novel | 406 | |
| Shadow Fires | 1987 | novel | 528 | as "Leigh Nichols"[1] |
| Lightning | 1988 | novel | 351 | reprinted in 2003 with an author's afterword |
| Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages | 1988 | novel | 180 | |
| Midnight | 1989 | novel | 480 | |
| The Bad Place | 1991 | novel | 417 | |
| Cold Fire | 1992 | novel | 448 | |
| Hideaway | 1992 | novel | 416 | |
| Dragon Tears | 1993 | novel | 432 | |
| Mr. Murder | 1993 | novel | 496 | |
| Winter Moon | 1994 | novel | 480 | rewritten from Invasion |
| Dark Rivers of the Heart | 1994 | novel | 487 | |
| Icebound | 1995 | novel | 408 | revised from Prison of Ice. |
| Intensity | 1995 | novel | 448 | |
| Ticktock | 1996 | novel | 335 | |
| Sole Survivor | 1997 | novel | 436 | |
| False Memory | 1999 | novel | 784 | |
| From the Corner of His Eye | 2000 | novel | 768 | |
| One Door Away from Heaven | 2001 | novel | 720 | |
| By the Light of the Moon | 2002 | novel | 496 | |
| The Face | 2003 | novel | 608 | |
| The Taking | 2004 | novel | 448 | |
| Life Expectancy | 2004 | novel | 496 | |
| Velocity | 2005 | novel | 496 | |
| The Husband | 2006 | novel | 416 | |
| The Good Guy | 2007 | novel | 400 | |
| The Darkest Evening of the Year | 2007 | novel | 368 | |
| Your Heart Belongs to Me | 2008 | novel | 352 | |
| Relentless | 2009 | novel | 368 | |
| Breathless | 2009 | novel | 352 | |
| What the Night Knows | 2010 | novel | 464 | |
| 77 Shadow Street | 2011 | novel | 451 | |
| Innocence | 2013 | novel | 352 | |
| The City | 2014 | novel | 416 | |
| Ashley Bell | 2015 | novel | 560 | |
| Devoted | 2020 | novel | 369 | |
| Elsewhere | 2020 | novel | 364 | |
| The Other Emily | 2021 | novel | 362 | |
| Quicksilver | 2022 | novel | 366 | |
| The Big Dark Sky | 2022 | novel | 390 | |
| The House at the End of the World | 2023 | novel | 416 | |
| After Death | 2023 | novel | 382 | |
| The Bad Weather Friend | 2024 | novel | 380 | |
| The Forest of Lost Souls | 2024, November 19 | novel | ||
| Going Home in the Dark | 2025, May 20 | novel |
Collections
[edit]| Title | Year | Pages | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soft Come the Dragons | 1970 | 143 | |
| Strange Highways | 1995 | 576 | [2] |
| The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse | 2001 | 159 |
Short fiction
[edit](The stories up to "Where No One Fell" first appeared in "The Reflector", a magazine issued by Shippensburg University, Pa., when Koontz was a student)
This list does not include short fiction from the Makani Trilogy, Jane Hawk series, Nameless or the Odd Thomas series.
| Title | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| "This Fence" | 1965 | |
| "The Kittens" | 1965 | Later revised in 1966 as "Kittens" Strange Highways |
| "Of Childhood" | 1965 | |
| "A Miracle is Anything" | 1966 | |
| "Cloistered Walls" | 1966 | |
| "Flesh" | 1966 | |
| "For a Breath I Tarry" | 1966 | |
| "Hey, Good Christian" | 1966 | |
| "Holes" | 1966 | |
| "It" | 1966 | |
| "I've Met One" | 1966 | |
| "Mold in the Jungle" | 1966 | |
| "Sam: the Adventurous Exciting Well-traveled Man" | 1966 | |
| "Some Disputed Barricade" | 1966 | |
| "Something About This City" | 1966 | |
| "The Rats Run" | 1966 | |
| "The Standard Unusual" | 1966 | |
| "Soft Come the Dragons" | 1967 | rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons |
| "To Behold the Sun" | 1967 | rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons |
| "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter One" | 1967 | In "SF Opinion #4" (Dean Koontz fanzine) |
| "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Two" | 1967 | In "SF Opinion #5" (Dean Koontz fanzine) |
| "Love 2005" | 1968 | |
| "A Darkness in My Soul" | 1968 | rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded into A Darkness in My Soul. |
| "The Psychedelic Children" | 1968 | rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons |
| "The Twelfth Bed" | 1968 | rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons |
| "Dreambird"[3] | 1968 | |
| "Glunk" | 1969 | In "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine, special Vaughn Bode issue); based on Bode's comic strip "Junkwaffel" |
| "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Three" | 1969 | In "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine) |
| "Whoop, the Dead Gerkle" | 1969 | In "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine) |
| "In the Shield" | 1969 | Combined with "Where the Beast Runs" as Fear That Man |
| "Temple of Sorrow" | 1969 | |
| "Killerbot!"[4] | 1969 | rp in Soft Come the Dragons as "A Season for Freedom". Revised and re-issued in 1977. |
| "The Face in His Belly" Part One | 1969 | |
| "Where the Beast Runs" | 1969 | Combined with "In the Shield" as Fear That Man |
| "Dragon In the Land" | 1969 | In Soft Come the Dragons |
| The Face in His Belly" Part Two | 1969 | |
| "Muse" | 1969 | A Leonard Chris story |
| "A Third Hand" | 1970 | rp in Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded as Starblood. |
| "The Good Ship Lookoutworld" | 1970 | |
| "Unseen Warriors" | 1970 | |
| "The Mystery of His Flesh" | 1970 | expanded as Anti-Man |
| "Beastchild" | 1970 | expanded as Beastchild |
| "The Crimson Witch" | 1970 | slightly expanded as The Crimson Witch |
| "Shambolain" | 1970 | |
| "Nightmare Gang" | 1970 | |
| "Emanations" | 1970 | |
| "Bruno" | 1971 | A Jake Ash story; revised rp in Strange Highways |
| "The Terrible Weapon" | 1972 | |
| "Cosmic Sin" | 1972 | A Jake Ash story |
| "Altarboy" | 1972 | |
| "Ollie's Hands" | 1972 | Revised and re-issued in 1987, rp in Strange Highways |
| "A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village" | 1972 | In Again, Dangerous Visions; In the original Afterword, Koontz mentions having written Hung, "set in the hippie subculture of a small university",[5] which tried to show that Marshall McLuhan's concept of the global village was "on the right track" and that "our world was already being compressed"; his novel, The Fall of the Dream Machine, and stories, 'A Dragon in the Land', and 'A Mouse..' were extrapolations of the concept. |
| "Grayworld" | 1973 | Expanded as The Long Sleep as by John Hill |
| "The Sinless Child" | 1973 | |
| "Wake Up To Thunder" | 1973 | |
| "Terra Phobia" | 1973 | |
| "The Undercity" | 1973 | |
| "We Three" | 1974 | revised rp in Strange Highways |
| "The Night of the Storm" | 1974 | Re-issued as a graphic novel in 1976; revised in Strange Highways |
| "Down in the Darkness" | 1986 | rp in Strange Highways |
| "Weird World" | 1986 | |
| "Snatcher" | 1986 | rp in Strange Highways |
| "The Monitors of Providence" | 1986 | collaboration |
| "The Black Pumpkin" | 1986 | rp in Strange Highways |
| "The Interrogation" | 1987 | |
| "Hardshell" | 1987 | revised rp in Strange Highways |
| "Miss Attila the Hun" | 1987 | revised rp in Strange Highways |
| "Twilight of the Dawn" | 1987 | revised rp in Strange Highways |
| "Graveyard Highway" | 1987 | |
| "Trapped" | 1989 | Re-issued as a graphic novel in 1992; rp in Strange Highways |
| "Strange Highways" | 1995 | short story that appears in the collection Strange Highways |
| "Santa's Twin" | 1996 | |
| "Pinkie" | 1998 | |
| "Black River" | 2000 | |
| "Robot Santa" | 2004 | |
| "Darkness Under the Sun" | 2010 | 60 pages |
| "The Moonlit Mind" | 2011 | [6]l 102 pages |
| "Wilderness" | 2013 | 30 pages |
| "The Neighbor" | 2014 | 32 pages |
| "Ricochet Joe" | 2017 | A Kindle motion book which contains moving pictures and interactive parts; 95 pages |
Non-fiction
[edit]- "How to Write Best Selling Fiction" (1981)
- "Writing Popular Fiction" (1972)
- "A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie" (2009)
Essays and introductions
[edit]- "Of Childhood" (Reflector, 1966)
- "Ibsen's Dream" (Reflector, 1966)
- Introduction to Great Escapes: New Designs for Home Theaters by Theo Kalomirakis (October 15, 2003). ISBN 9607037456.
- Foreword to Love Heels: Tales from Canine Companions for Independence (October 1, 2003)
- Foreword to A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement by Wesley J. Smith (April, 2009)
- Foreword to The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything by John D. MacDonald (2014, Trade Paperback Edition)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "All Books". deankoontz.com. Retrieved January 2, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Facts for Collectors". deankoontz.com. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/1968-09_IF#page/n125/mode/2up
- ^ Killerbot! title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20160317224034/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/isfac/t82.htm#A1426
- ^ The Moonlit Mind title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database