Michael Sauers
Throwback Thursday: Frankenstein Prodigal Son proof
January 5, 2023
Koontz, family of 5…
December 13, 2022
Time for a short break
December 4, 2022
Turns out that last week’s “flu” was actually COVID. I’m feeling much better but still feeling a bit fatigued much earlier in the day than usual. On top of that, my day job’s schedule, which has been Tuesday-Saturday for the past seven years, has been super-irregular for the past month and will continue to be for the rest of December. Come January I’m hoping I’ll be moved to a regular Monday-Friday schedule but that hasn’t been finalized yet.
As a result of all of this, I’m going to take a bit of a hiatus from the site. That doesn’t mean I won’t be working on the project overall, just that I won’t be posting any update posts until January. If something big happens I’ll let everyone know, but the day-to-day of the site needs a vacation.
See you all in 2024!
Throwback Thursday: Firsts
December 1, 2022
What’s New & Updated November 27, 2022
November 27, 2022
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate. I had planned on having a lot more this week, but I’ve been laid up with a nasty cold since Thursday.
- The House of Thunder POD HC entry (details to follow)
Throwback Thursday: Mr. Annual
November 24, 2022
What’s New & Updated November 20, 2022
November 20, 2022
Not that it allows me to update anything on the site, but I’m not the proud owner of copies 137 & 133 (respectively) of the Charnel House editions of The Silent Corner and The Night Window. I wasn’t financially able to purchase these when they came out, so they’re nice additions to my collection. (And I paid significantly less than the list price!) As for actual site updates…
- “Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ayn Rand… and Dean Koontz?: A look back at Koontz’s ‘Dark Rivers of the Heart‘”
- From the Desk of Dean: The Other Emily: Prime members read for free, for a limited time
- The Moonlit Mind LP
Throwback Thursday: Mr. Magazine
November 17, 2022
What’s New & Updated November 14, 2022
November 14, 2022
Thanks to John Davis for noticing that the Useless News page was missing the August 2018 issue. Luckily, I wasn’t missing the issue, I’d just somehow skipped entering it. That error has been corrected. Oh, and I just got my hands on an ARC of The House at the End of the World.
- The House at the End of the World updated ARC cover image
- Humanize Podcast s02e01 to Appendix B
- Useless News August 2018 issue
Throwback Thursday: The Writer’s Digest Handbook of Novel Writing
November 10, 2022
Throwback Thursday: Green Moon Lanes Bowling Shirt
November 3, 2022
What’s New & Updated October 31, 2022
October 31, 2022
Happy Halloween! Unfortunately, my day job’s schedule has continued to be abnormal and non-standard through this past week (this week, too) so I’ve got nothing new for you. In the meantime enjoy watching The Face of Fear TV movie from 1990.
Throwback Thursday: Watchers Japanese Laserdisc
October 27, 2022
What’s New & Updated October 23, 2022
October 23, 2022
My work week is a bit different coming up so this one’s a day early. As to the new edition of Strange Highways on audio, the basic entries have been created but they are lacking detail right now. Once those are complete, I’ll need to create and cross-reference all the entries for the included stories.
- From the Desk of Dean: Eight Chilling Classic Revamped
- Strange Highways and Other Stories
- If She Wakes by Michael Koryta to Appendix D
Throwback Thursday: Breathless MP3-CD
October 20, 2022
What’s New & Updated October 17, 2022
October 17, 2022
I’ve got lots of little errands to run today so I’m going to leave you with just one new item this week.
- The Funhouse 4K UHD/Blu-ray
Throwback Thursday: Demon Seed Promo Packet
October 13, 2022
What’s New & Updated October 10, 2022
October 10, 2022
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, it’s quite fun when you find stuff from decades ago that you somehow missed. Alos, a special thanks to Bill Popper this week for providing a photo and details for the latest ARC.
- After Death
- The House at the End of the World ARC photo & details
- Horror Issue #2 to Mr. Murder & Appendix B
- Writer’s Block Magazine, Spring/Summer ’99, Volume VI No. 1 to Appendix B
- Appendix H updated
After Death comes in 2023
October 8, 2022
You heard it here first folks! After Death is slated for a July 18th release date, according to Amazon.
A modern-day Lazarus is humanity’s last hope in a breathtaking novel about the absolute powers of good and evil by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.
Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished―including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry.
Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he―or anyone else―has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John, whom Shelby greatly admired. Although what Michael does for Nina is life changing, his actions also evoke the wrath of John’s father, a member of one of the most vicious street gangs in Los Angeles.
But an even greater threat is descending: the Internal Security Agency’s most vicious assassin, Durand Calaphas. Calaphas will stop at nothing to get his man. If Michael dies twice, he will not live a third time.
From the tarnished glamour of Beverly Hills to the streets of South Central to a walled estate in Rancho Santa Fe, only Michael can protect Nina and John―and ensure that light survives in a rapidly darkening world.
Throwback Thursday: Locus Magazine #406
October 6, 2022
