Notable Articles About, Appearances, Interviews, Parodies, and References
Notable Articles About & Interviews With Dean
New York Times BR January 12, 1975
- New York Times BR February 26, 1976
- New York Times BR May 22, 1977
- New York Times BR September 11, 1977
- Chicago Tribune Book World April 12, 1981
- Times Literary Supplement September 11, 1981
- Analog January 1984
- Mystery Scene “America’s Most Successful Least-Known-Writer” by Ed Gorman Vol. 1 No. 2, 1985, p21
- People Weekly “Best-Selling Novelist Dean Koontz may be a Titan of terror but He’s a Timid Type at Heart”
v27 April 13, 1987 p77 (2) – Andrea Chambers - Fantasy Review “Dean R. Koontz” – Charles de Lint
Vol. 10, No. 6, Issue No. 103, July/August 1987 p14(4) - LA Times “Rooms that Speak Volumes”
October 1987, Style section –Dennis McLellan Writer’s Digest, November 1989
“Dean R. Koontz in the Fictional Melting Pot” by Stanley Waiter- The Overlook Connection “Dean Koontz News”
Issue #10, 1989 p7 - LA Times “America’s least-known best-selling author”
Jan 7 1990 sec MAG p17 -Sean Michael - Book and Magazine Collector “Dean R. Koontz: Horror & Science Fiction Writer”
“Dean R. Koontz Complete US & UK Bibliography”
February 1990, No. 71 (UK publication) - Locus “Headline new mass market imprint”
Dec 1990 p5 - Newsweek “The Cheery Titan of Terror”
v118 Feb 11, 1991 p62 – Karen Springen
- Fear “Stoking the Cold Fires of Fear”
#26, February 1991 p8 The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Critical and bibliographic History by Jack L. Chalker & Mark Owings, Third Edition Revised and Enlarged
The Mirage Press Ltd., September 30, 1991
A massive tome covering many small press genre publishers of the time. Relevant to Koontz there are entries for Charnel House, Dark Harvest, and Ultramarine Press. To note: Charnel House had just gotten started and had yet to publish Dean; the Dark Harvest bibliography includes the number of presentation copies released of Dean’s titles; and the authors take Ultramarine to task for just rebinding the trade edition pages. (Pictured is an advance copy of this title from my collection.)- Books Are Everything “Dean Koontz Rarities”
Vol. 4 No. 2, Whole Number 18, p47 –John Congriff
Brief article regarding the collectability of The Underground Lifestyles Handbook and The Pig Society. Includes cover images of both titles. “The Horrors of Science: The Creations of Dean R. Koontz” by Cosette Kies
Appears as Chapter 3 in Presenting Young Adult Horror Fiction by Cosette Keis, Twayne Publishers, February 1992.- New York Times “In 3-Book Deal, Koontz Changes Publishers”
v141 Aug 6, 1992 pB3 col 2 - Wall Street Journal “Advance Publications’ Knopf Lures Koontz Away From a Rival”
Aug 6, 1992 pB3 col 5 - Publisher’s Weekly “Putnam in Record Clancy Buy; Loses Koontz to Knopf”
v239 Aug 10, 1992 p9 (2) – Paul Nathan Firsts
“Collecting Dean Koontz”
October 1993, p28-36 – James T. Seels
Includes photos of Star Quest -Ace, The Servants of Twilight -Dark Harvest, The Key to Midnight -Dark Harvest, Bounce Girl, Aphrodisiac Girl, Prison of Ice (2 versions), The Underground Lifestyles Handbook, Pig Society, Whispers.
“Dean Koontz Pen Names”
“A Checklist with Approximate Values in First Editions”
The cover of this issue, mentioning Dean, is featured on the cover of the “Firsts: Five Year Index, Volumes One through Five”
“Critic” illustration by Koontz
According to Dean this issue contains “numerous errors”.
See also: Firsts, October 2003 (below)- Horror: The Magazine of the Horror & Dark Fantasy Field
“Horror Talks with Dean Koontz”
Issue #2, March 31, 1994 p7,45-46 – Roman A. Ranieri Deathrealm “Koontz Watch”
#22, Summer 1994, p23(2) – Roman A. Ranieri
(Issue #23 contains a letter with a reader who was definitely not a fan of this becoming a regular column.)
- People Weekly “Family Secrets”
November 28, 1994, p141(2) – Elizabeth Gleick - Orange Coast “Out of the Shadows”
November 1994, p42(7) – Jean Hastings Ardell - Fangoria “Horror in Print: Dean R. Koontz”
v3 no45, 1985, p40(3) 1985 World Fantasy Convention Dean is listed as member #279 (Gerda is #280) in an undated pre-conference newsletter titled “PROGRESS REPORT THREE”
- 1986 World Fantasy Convention Dean is listed as a judge in the program
He is also listed as a judge in two (undated) pre-conference update newsletter, one with a blue cover, the other with a yellow cover.
Both newsletters and the program are illustrated by guest of honor J.K. Potter. - LA Times “A Novelist Who Knows His Business”
March 2, 1995 pE1 Col 5 – Dennis McLellan - Publisher’s Weekly “Regaining Rights” Column.
March 13, 1995, v242, n11, p18 – Paul Nathan - Albany Times Union “Author Finds Gold in his Desk Drawers”
March 14, 1995 pC2 – Dennis McLellan - Publishers Weekly “Long Term Plan”
May 8, 1995 p33 – Paul Nathan
Discusses plans for White Cap Productions to do several mini-series based on Koontz works, starting with Dark Rivers of the Heart. Entertainment Weekly “His Truth is Stranger than Fiction”
March 22, 1996 p46(3) – Dana Kennedy- 1996 World Horror Convention “Grandmaster: Dean R. Koontz” – Michael R. Collings
3 page biography
Held in Eugene, OR, May 9th-12th, 1996, p23(3) - Reason “Contemplating Evil: Novelist Dean Koontz on Freud, fraud, and the Great Society”
November 1996, v28 n6, p.44(6)
Online: http://www.reason.com/9611/int.koontz.html
An excerpt from this article appears in the Wall Street Journal
Nov 5 1996 sec A p22 - International Herald-Tribune “People”
Dec 11 1996 - Newsday “Dean Koontz switches to new publisher”
Dec 11 1996 - Publishers Weekly “Koontz Switches Publishers”
V243 #51 Dec 16 1996 p51 – Judy Quinn - Publishers Weekly “Dean of Deals”
January 20, 1997 p33 – Lan N. Nguyen
Koontz to leave Knopf for Bantam
Washington Times “Meeting the Dean of prolific writers: Koontz knows suspense always sells”
Feb 18 1997 sec C p10 -Patricia Batters - American Writers Review “Eternal Optimist, an Interview with Dean Koontz”
March 1997 - Sunday Star-Tribune “Witness to evil gives writer edge”
Mar 16 1997 -Stacy Gregg - Insight on the News “Blockbuster-or-bust Approach”
March 10, 1997 p36(2) - Fangoria “Soul Survivor”
April 1997, #171 p48(5) – Jay Winchester - Locus “Milestones” column
v39 no6, Dec 1997, p10. (Regarding his new look and forthcoming projects” - USA Today “Traumatic childhood propels Koontz to Fear Nothing”
Jan 15 1998 sec D p7 -Deirdre Donahue
Mentions Fear Nothing and biography.
Article mentioned on front page along with photo - The New York Review of Science Fiction
“Dean Koontz: Hometown Boy Makes Good”
June 1998. Vol. 10, No. 10, Number 118 p1(3)
–Arthur D. Hlavaty Publishers Weekly “The Long Journey of Dean Koontz”
December 14, 1998, pS3(11) -Jeff Zaleski
Photographed by F. Stop Fitzgerald
Includes the following sub-articles:
“Koontz by the Numbers”
“Koontz on Film: Getting Sharper”
“Making the Past Perfect”
“Koontz on Audio Unabridged Champion”
“Collecting Koontziana”- Fangoria “How to Make the Dean’s List”
#182, May 1999, p12(2) -Frank Barron - Writer’s Block Magazine, Spring/Summer ’99, Volume VI No. 1
“Exclusive! A WBM Interview with Dean Koontz” by Michael MacCarty, p23-25
A checklist of titles incorrectly labeled “complete” is on page 25, listing Star Quest through Ride the Storm.
“A Tribute to Dean Koontz” by Michael McCarty, p26-30
Also includes additional “tributes from the following authors, each titled “[author name] on Koontz”: Ed Gorman, J.N. Williamson, Bentley Little, A.R. Morlan, William Nolan, Bobbi Sinha-Morey, and Charles de Lint
My copy is autographed by William F. Nolan on page 29, with the note on the cover as shown. - Forbes “The Celebrity 100: Dollar-Turners”
March 20, 2000, p216 “Dean Koontz” by Bob Madison
American Horror Writers by Bob Madison
Enslow Publisher, Inc., 2003
ISBN: 0-7660-1379-0
States: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1”
Essay: p57-64
Image via Archive.org- AudioFile “Koontz on Audio: All or Nothing” -Ruth P. Ludwig
Vol. 10, No. 5, February/March 2002, p33 - Pages “Night Light: Dean Koontz finds brightness in life’s dark misteries.”
January/February 2003, p56-9 -Dann Halem
Dean is on the cover. - “Born to Write” (interview) by Jessica Hatchigan
The Writer December 2003 p24-28 - “Dean Koontz 1945-” by Greg Beatty
Supernatural Fiction Writers: Contemporary Fantasy and Horror Volume II
Richard Bleiler, Editor
Thompson Gale, 2003
ISBN: 0-684-31252-2
States: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1”
Essay: p551-560
Dean is also mentioned in the articles about Bentley Little (p660) and Robert R. McCammon (p705)
Image via Archive.org Firsts “Ten Years Ago: Dean Koontz”
October 2003, p50-51 -No author attribution
An updated check-list and valuation of Dean’s books ten years after the original article in the October 1993 issue.- Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature by Brian Stableford
The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2004
Copyright © 2004 by Brian Stableford
Dean’s entry is on pages 165-166 - Dog Fancy “By the Light of the Dog”
July 2004, p31-33 – Kyra Kirkwood
An article about Dean’s use of dogs in his novels. The cover states “EXCLUSIVE! Best-selling Author Dean Koontz Talks Dogs” “KOONTZ, Dean R(ay) 1945-”
Contemporary Authors vol. 138
Thompson Gale, 2005
ISBN: 0-7876-7892-9
States: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1”
Essay: p272-278
Also contains cross-references for David Axton, Brian Coffey, Deanna Dwyer, K.R. Dwyer, John Hill, Leigh Nichols, Anthony North, Richard Paige, and Owen West
Image via Archive.org
- National Review “’Writing is a Spiritual Process’ The Novels—and ideas—of Dean Koontz”
June 2, 2008 p43(3) -John J. Miller - Brandweek “The Book’s Not Out Yet,–but a Movie is”
June 1, 2009 p8-8(1) -Jim Edwards - Orange County Business Journal “Horror Writer Balances Business, Simple Life”
April 26-May 2, 2010 p1(2) -Sheri Cru - Nightmare Magazine, Issue 17, February 2014
“Interview: Dean Koontz”
Original URL: http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/interview-dean-koontz/ - CAP Radio
Dean Koontz Takes Readers On A ‘Techno-Thriller’ Ride In His New ‘Jane Hawk’ Series
December 8, 2017 -Allen Pierleoni
Original URL: https://www.capradio.org/106690 Suspense Magazine “Dean Koontz is anything but ‘Nameless'”
Best of 2019 (December 2019) -John Raab- The Sacramento Bee “Author Dean Koontz talks to The Bee about dogs, vocabulary and his epitaph for life”
February 19, 2020 - Rogue Women Writers, Dean Koontz Goes Rogue!
March 27, 2020
Original URL: https://roguewomenwriters.com/2020/03/dean-kootz-goes-rogue.html - Harvard Business Review “Life’s Work”
March-April 2020 p152(1) -Alison Beard - Associated Press, “At book 78 and counting, Dean Koontz has no drought of ideas”
October 9, 2020, Alicia Rancilio - Suspense Magazine, Elsewhere summary and brief Q&A with Dean.
Best of 2020, (Winter 2020), p62 - Publishers Weekly, Putting the Heart in the Work: Close-up on Dean Koontz, June 11, 2021, Sponsored by Amazon Original Stories
- Financial Times, Dean Koontz: ‘When I finally put behind me all I’d been taught about writing, I began to sell my fiction’ January 29, 2022
Original URL: https://www.ft.com/content/34c56c9d-7bbd-431c-be05-da18f0acdd5b
If you’d like to read this article online try this alternate link. However, I have only been able to get this URL to work once per computer. Any follow-up visit will present you with their paywall as with the original URL listed above. - Authorlink, Looking into the Thoughts of Dean Koontz
March 1, 2022
Original URL: https://authorlink.com/interview/interview-looking-into-the-thoughts-of-dean-koontz-2022/ - Instagram: This or That
March 15, 2022
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CbIO4UijeRH/ - SciFi Now, “Dean Koontz on His Latest Novel, His Favorite Villians and What’s Coming Up Next”
January 18, 2023
https://www.scifinow.co.uk/books/dean-koontz-on-his-latest-novel-his-favourite-villains-and-whats-coming-up-next/
Notable Live Appearances
B. Dalton Bookseller, Chino Town Square, Chino, CA
February 27, 1988, 1-3pm
Images courtesy of Kerry Cisneroz- “Dean Koontz Speaks About Writing”
LA Times Festival of Books, April 21, 1996
Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival “The Ross Macdonald Award is given to a California writer whose work raises the standard of literary excellence. This year the Santa Barbara Book and Authors Festival is proud to give the award to Dean Koontz at one o’clock on Saturday September 20, 2003. All book lovers are invited to attend.”
Original URL: http://www.sbbooksfestival.org/koontz.html - Sandiego Comic Con 2008 August 6, 2008
Original URL: http://www.comic-con.org/wca/2013/special-guests/dean-koontz - “An Evening With Dean Koontz”
Laguna Beach Playhouse, April 2, 2012
Original URL: http://lagunaplayhouse.com/support/events/dean.php - “Spotlight on Dean Koontz”
Wondercon 2013 , March 30, 2013
Original URL: http://wonderconanaheim2013.sched.org/event/05ce52a9365d0d22a89d17bb8a19bf4c#.Udh1Nfmsj8U - “The Register Book Club Hosts Dean Koontz”
Orange County Register Book Club, January 14,
2016, 3:30pm & 7:00pm
Original URL:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-register-book-club-hosts-dean-koontz-tickets-19919487724
Recording: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/4HY5ndYNLtR - “Putting the Heart in the Work: Close-up on Dean Koontz”
Publishers Weekly, June 11, 2021
Original URL: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/86633-putting-the-heart-in-the-work-close-up-on-dean-koontz.html - “Bookish with Sandra Tsing Loh, Lisa See, Peggy Orenstein and Dean Koontz”
Southern California News Group, June 21, 2021
Original URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jpk3CB2FP8 - “Writing Advice: Where You Write Makes a Difference”
The Big Thrill, May 31, 2022
Notable Online Chats
- Prodigy Network March 13, 1996 12:23pm EST
- America Online February 27, 1997
- AOL/Barnes & Noble January 13, 1998 8:00pm EST
- Barnesandnoble.com January 8, 1999 7:00pm EST
- Barnesandnoble.com January 24, 2000 9:00pm EST
- Yahoo.com January 27, 2000
- MarthStewart.com October 24, 2000
- Barnesandnoble.com January 9, 2001 8:00pm EST
- Yahoo.com January 10, 2001 6:00pm EST
- ABCNews.com May 17, 2004
“Writer’s View: Best-Selling Novelist Dean Koontz Q+A”
In this instance, questions were submitted in advance and the answers were posted on this date.
Send a question page: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Books/Koontz_QandA_mailform_040419.html
The answers page:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Books/Koontz_QandA_answers_040517-1.html - SecondLife appearance
- Audible Live (Facebook) December 17, 2009 6pm EST
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3202801 - Google Hangout (for Innocence) January 23, 2014 7pm EST
https://plus.google.com/events/ci9licka088km4usgr695j0d2qg - DeanKoontz.com (for Ashley Bell) December 17, 2015 2pm EST
http://www.deankoontz.com/bellchat/ - Poisoned Pen Bookstore (Facebook Live, for Devoted)
April 8, 2020, 4:48pm
Original URL: https://www.facebook.com/thepoisonedpenbookstore/videos/677662399652531/ - In conversation with Dean Koontz at Live Talks Los Angeles
April 16, 2020
Original URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A6ghUslqWE - Book Launch : Dean Koontz discusses Elsewhere (Poisoned Pen Bookstore, on Facebook Live, for Elsewhere)
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 7 PM CDT – 8 PM CDT
https://www.facebook.com/events/324518948789736/ - Southern California News Group Newsmaker Series: A Conversation with Dean Koontz
October 13, 2020 - Dean Koontz in Conversation with Jeffrey Deaver
Texas Book Festival
Fri, Nov 13, 2020 4:00 PM
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ylo5xdkb - In Conversation On Elsewhere with Dean Koontz & Benjamin Percy
Miami Book Fair
November 14, 2020, 5:00 PM ET
https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-on-elsewhere/ - A Conversation with Dean Koontz
Tuscon Festival of Books
March 6, 2021
https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?action=live_event&eid=7572 - An Evening with Dean Koontz
Harrogate Festivals
March 23, 2021, 7:00PM GMT
https://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/hif-player/an-evening-with-dean-koontz/?dm_i=43JO%2C11CNF%2C6PHTQ7%2C4P8BK%2C1#
https://vimeo.com/527063911 - Dean Koontz in conversation with Michael Koryta
The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Facebook
March 23, 2021
https://www.facebook.com/events/269433361242051/ - Author live Series with Dean Koontz
Amazon.com, March 24, 2021, 4:30pm ET
https://www.amazon.com/live/broadcast/2b3ca863-96e1-48a0-934b-770b5a6c73be - Bookish with Sandra Tsing Loh, Lisa See, Peggy Orenstein and Dean Koontz
Southern California News Group, June 21, 2021
Recording URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jpk3CB2FP8 - Dean Koontz in conversation with Tess Gerritsen
Live Talks Los Angeles, February 9, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEKnH67znWo
Notable Television Appearances
- The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder October 31, 1996
- Politically Incorrect Episode #029, February 10, 1997
Guests: LeVar Burton, Edie McLurg, Dean Koontz, Larry Miller - The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder February 12, 1997
- Politically Incorrect May 21 1997
- Politically Incorrect June 25, 1997
- The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder August 4, 1997
- Politically Incorrect August 7, 1997
Guests: Dean Koontz, Sandra Bernhard, Fred Williamson, Paul Harris - The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder January 19, 1998
- The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder January 11, 1999
- Pinnacle (CNN) January 17, 1999
- Between the Lines with Barry Kibrick March 19, 2011
- CBS Sunday Morning April 10, 2011
- CBS This Morning July 30, 2012
- CBS This Morning January 16, 2015
Notable Video Appearances
- Barnes & Noble: Merchandising Meeting Videos
October 8, 1997
Five minute “Thank you” to B&N employees and a brief discussion of his forthcoming novel, Fear Nothing. Appears at 45:55 of a 1:28:00 video. - Wrap Up a Great Idea! Books Equal Gifts
December 8, 2008
“America’s book publishers are proud to debut a holiday video featuring celebrities sharing their reasons why books make great gifts” Appears at 0:28.
Original URL: http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/8178/772787?title=homepage_channel - G4 Presents Comic-Con ’08 Live
24 July 2008
Notable Radio & Podcast Interviews (including promotional online videos)
- Hour 25, KPFK Los Angeles, Interviewed by J. Michael Straczynski
January 15, 1988 - Ron and Ron Show, Atlanta, GA
1995 - My Doggie Says…, KFNX 1100
August 26, 2009
Original URL: http://mydoggiesays.com/podcasts/dean-koontz-on-the-my-doggie-says-radio-show/ - Excerpts from this interview appear on the CD Dog Appreciation Lessons: Humor and Wisdom from People Who Love Dogs
- The Dennis Miller Show
July 31, 2012 - The Jim Engster Show, 89.3 WRKF, New Orleans
May 31, 2013
Original URL: http://wrkf.org/post/friday-novelist-dean-koontz-jim-donelon-lsu-legend-charles-alexander-sen-karen-peterson - Joshua Graham interviews Dean Koontz, ThrillerRadio with Joshua Graham
January 15, 2014
Archival URL: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/thrillerradio/2014/01/15/joshua-graham-interviews-dean-koontz - Reading & Writing podcast episode 214: Dean Koontz interview
June 20, 2017
Original URL: http://readingandwritingpodcast.com/dean-koontz-interview-silent-corner/ - Beyond the Cover with Special Guest #1 NYT Bestselling Author Dean Koontz (Suspense Magazine Podcast)
January 20, 2020
Original URL: https://www.launchpaddm.com/episode/Beyond-The-Cover-with-special-guest-1-NYT-Bestselling-author-Dean-Koontz - Just One More Chapter Podacst #29: Dean Koontz
March 30, 2020
Original URL: https://www.justonemorechapterpodcast.com/#postcast29 - Authorlink, Writers & Readers Magazine: Dean Koontz Inspires Hope in Latest Novel, Devoted
April 1, 2020
Orignal URL: https://authorlink.com/interview/interview-dean-koontz-inspires-hope-in-latest-novel-devoted-2020/ - Dog Save the People podcast: Wondrous Again w/ Dean Koontz
April 14, 2020
Original URL: https://www.dogsavethepeople.com/episodes/dean-koontz - How do you tailor your writing…
September 1, 2021
Original URL: https://twitter.com/deankoontz/status/1433112802944761862 - Writer’s Bone Episode 449: Dean Koontz, Author of Elsewhere
October 6, 2020
Original URL: https://writersbone.libsyn.com/episode-449-dean-koontz-author-of-elsewhere - Otherppl with Brad Listi Episode 675 — Dean Koontz
October 7, 2020
Original URL: https://otherppl.com/dean-koontz-interview/ - The Kindle Chronicles #636: Dean Koontz
October 10, 2020
Original URL: http://thekindlechronicles.com/tkc-636-dean-koontz - The Long Leash #20 Dean Koontz: Best-Selling Author and Massive Dog Lover
June 16, 2021
Original URL: https://shows.dogpodcastnetwork.com/show/the-long-leash-with-james-jacobson/dean-koontz-best-selling-author-and-massive-dog-lover-the-long-leash-20/ - Talking Audible with Dean Koontz
November 3, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5DiGNQl-zk - Thriller Talk Episode 1: Dean Koontz
November 12, 2020
Original URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbSCA6qA08U - Author Stories Podcast BEST OF Episode 1150
August 23, 2021
Original URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GztPTNyxsk - Writers, Ink Podcast: Episode 120 – The Secrets to Success with #1 NYT Bestseller Dean Koontz
January 31, 2022
Original URL: https://writersinkpodcast.com/the-secrets-to-success-with-dean-koontz/ - Page One Podcast #11: Dean Koontz
February 18, 2022
Original URL: https://www.booxby.com/page-one-podcast - First Fifty Pages podcast: No Kittens Harmed: A Conversation with Dean Koontz
February 14, 2022
Original URL: https://www.kwit.org/podcast/first-fifty/2022-02-14/no-kittens-harmed-a-conversation-with-dean-koontz Authors in Focus episode 171 with Dean Koontz
April 14, 2022
Original URL: https://fantasy-focus.com/2022/04/authors-in-focus-episode-171-with-dean-koontz/- Humanize Podcast s02e01 Dean Koontz on His Vocation as an Author, Art and Meaning in Life, and Human Exceptionalism
September 12, 2022
Original URL: https://humanize.today/podcast/dean-koontz-on-his-vocation-as-an-author-art-and-meaning-in-life-and-human-exceptionalism/
Parody TV Appearances
Family Guy episode #2.4: Brian in Love
Original Air Date: March 7, 2000
Available on disc 2 of the Family Guy Volume One DVD set- The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XII: House of Whacks
Original Air Date: November 6, 2001
- A parody of Demon Seed
Available in the DVD set The Simpsons: The Thirteenth Season - Robot Chicken episode #4.9: But Not in That Way
Skit title: “An Evening Devoid of Nightmares and Dreamscapes”
Original Air Date: February 1, 2009
Available on disc 1 of the Robot Chicken Season 4 DVD set - Squidbillies episode #42: The Liar, the Bitch and the Bored Rube
Original Air Date: May 24, 2009
Available on the DVD Squidbillies Volume 3 - Children’s Hospital episode 6.8: Koontz is Coming
Original Air Date: May 8, 2105
Available on disc 1 of the DVD set Children’s Hospital: The Complete Sixth & Seventh Seasons
According to Dean:
“A couple years ago, the folks doing the show CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL sent me a very funny script in which I appeared, and they asked me to play myself. I explained that, given my acting ability, if I were to do this, it would be the 7th sign of the 7 signs of the apocalypse. I had to decline because I didn’t want to be responsible for the end of the world. So they hired an actor to play me. A lot of friends have told me that the actor is a more realistic Dean Koontz than I am.” Source: Facebook
TV References
- Smallville episode #4.14: Krypton
Original Air Date: February 16, 2005
Available on disc 4 of the DVD set Smallville: The Complete Fourth Season
Via IMDB.com: “As if Lois Lane didn’t make enough of a nuisance of herself now living at the Kent farm, she brings in Einstein, a golden retriever, who is the latest victim to be hit by her car …” - Fresh Off the Boat s03e06: WWJD: What Would Jessica Do?
Original Air Date: November 29, 2016
06:30: “Evan, come on, I want to get there early for the gas station fistfights! You know I love that. Why are you so dressed up? Is a guest author coming today? Is Dean Koontz coming back?” - Fresh Off the Boat s04e13: The Car Wash
Original Air Date: January 16, 2018
05:13: “Yeah, that is annoying, but Terry was telling me he’s edited a lot of successful authors. You know who else hates Terry’s notes, but takes them?
“Koontz I thought you were gonna say more people.
“Well, who else do I need to say? It’s Koontz.” - Fresh Off the Boat s04e19: King in the North
Original Air Date: March 20, 2018
0:50: “But first, I need to solicit praise quotes for the book cover. The publishers have already reached out to Dean Koontz and Kenny Rogers, but I have my sights set on the king Stephen King.”
1:38: “All right, Koontz, lay it on me.
“‘Jessica Huang’s debut book shows a lot of promise in this cover-to-cover mystery.’ “Meh.” - A.P. Bio s02e13: Kinda Sorta
Original Air Date: June 13, 2019
1:55-3:07: “If you can get Sarika into Harvard she will give your shiny new manuscript to her Aunt, who just so happens to be one of Dean Koontz’s publishers. Yes, you heard me right. Dean mother [bleep]ing Koontz.”
5:37-5:47: “All right guys, let’s focus on getting Sarika into Harvard, and getting me the hell out of Toledo holding two sacks of that sweet sweet Koontz cash.”
8:57-9:07: “You crush some small talk, your app goes in the priority folder, and my manuscript gasses it straight to Koontzville.” Penn & Teller Fool Us
Original Air Date: August 19, 2019
9:40-20:11: Magician Tom Stone uses a PPBK copy of The Silent Corner as a prop in his act.- Saved By the Bell 2020 s01e07: House Party
Original streaming Date: November 25, 2020
14:43-14:45: “And I’ll get ready to see Dane Koontz at Costco.”
(Yes he says Dane, not Dean, but that’s part of the running joke of the episode.)
Concerning the pseudonymous authorship of Invasion
When Stephen King first acknowledged that he used the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King fans went looking for additional pseudonyms that he may have used. One of the books that was thought to have been written by King was Invasion by Aaron Wolfe. It has since been clearly revealed that this was indeed written by Dean. The following articles and book chapters are relevant to this story:
Previous to Dean acknowledging he was Aaron Wolfe:
- “Speculations” a chapter in Stephen King as Richard Bachman by Michael R. Collings
Starmont House, Inc. / Borgo Press, 1985, p138-153
After Dean acknowledging he was Aaron Wolfe:
“King Versus Koontz: Style and Invasion” by Michael R. Collings
Bill Munster’s Footsteps #7, November 1986, p32-45- “Pipe-Dreams and Possibilities” a chapter in Stephen King is Richard Bachman by Michael R. Collings
Overlook Connection Press, July 3, 2007, p183-198
This is a reprint of “Speculations” from Stephen King is… with an additional two-paragraph introduction acknowledging Dean as Aaron Wolfe and the subsequent revision of Invasion as Winter Moon. Additionally Dean is also mentioned in endnotes 1 and 7.
Misc
- Strange Horizons (http://www.strangehorizons.com)
“Tribute to Dean Koontz: Forty Years as a Published Novelist” by Michael McCarty
April 28, 2008 – Original URL: http://www.strangehorizons.com/2008/20080428/0mccarty-a.shtml
Contains a brief introduction by the author and then short contributions from Ed Gorman, J. N. Williamson, Bentley Little, David Silva, Douglas Clegg, Richard Laymon, Charles de Lint, Jay Bonansinga, Teri Jacobs, Cristopher DeRose, The Amazing Kreskin, Sandy DeLuca, William F. Nolan, and Roman A. Ranieri.