Dean Koontz bibliography
This is a list of every fiction book written by Dean Koontz.
Novels
Black Cat Mysteries / Mike Tucker Series
Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes |
Blood Risk | 1973 | novel | | |
Surrounded | 1974 | novel | | |
The Wall of Masks | 1975 | novel | | |
Moonlight Bay Series
Odd Thomas Series
Odd Thomas Graphic Novel Prequels
Frankenstein Series
Ivy Elgin Trilogy
Title | Year | Type | Pages | Notes |
The Silent Corner | 2017 | novel | ? | |
Standalones
Essays and introductions
- "Of Childhood" (Reflector, 1966)
- "Ibsen's Dream" (Reflector, 1966)
- Introduction to Great Escapes: New Designs for Home Theaters by Theo Kalomirakis (October 15, 2003)
- 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)
Short fiction
(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 Fence" (1965)
- "The Kittens" (1965) (later revised [1966] as "Kittens") in 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)
- "Where No One Fell" (1967)
- "Soft Come the Dragons" (1967) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
- "To Behold the Sun" (1967) rp in 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 Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded into A Darkness in My Soul
- "The Psychedelic Children" (1968) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
- "The Twelfth Bed" (1968) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
- "Dreambird" (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!" (1969)[3] 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",[4] 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
- "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 {collaboration}" (1986)
- "The Black Pumpkin" (1986) rp in Strange Highways
- "The Interrogation" (1987)
- "Hardshell" (1987) revised rp in Strange Highways
- "Miss Attila the Hun" (1987) rp in Strange Highways
- "Twilight of the Dawn" (1987) 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" (1999)
- "The Moonlit Mind" (2011)[5]
Non-fiction
- "How to Write Best Selling Fiction" (1981)
- "Writing Popular Fiction" (1972)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "All Books". deankoontz.com. Retrieved January 2, 2013.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Facts for Collectors". deankoontz.com. Retrieved December 14, 2012.
- ↑ Killerbot! title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ↑ "Contents Lists". Retrieved January 4, 2013.
- ↑ The Moonlit Mind title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database