Michael Sauers
Found: Gauntlet's Hell House original list price
March 11, 2012
Hell House
Hardcover (Limited)
25th Anniversary Edition
Gauntlet Publications
1996
ISBN: 1-887368-07-8
335p
Cover price: not stated
Original list price: unknown
Limited to 600 numbered copies
Signed by Richard Matheson, Dean Koontz & Richard Christian Matheson
Issued in slipcase
Update 12/27/12:
I have confirmed an original list price of $69.
Needed: The Richard Matheson Companion lettered edition ISBN
March 11, 2012
The Richard Matheson Companion
April 21, 2008
Gauntlet Press
Edited by Matthew R. Bradley and Stanley Wiater
576p
Numbered
ISBN-10: 1887368965
ISBN-13: 978-1887368964
Original list price: $50.00 (unsigned)
Original list price: $65.00 (signed by Richard Matheson, Matthew R. Bradley and Stanley Wiater)
Slipcase sold separately for $25.00
Lettered
ISBN:
Original list price: $200
Signed by Harlan Ellison, Dennis Etchison, Ed Gorman, George Clayton Johnson, Jack Ketchum, Dean Koontz, Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Lumley, Richard Christian Matheson, David Morrell, William F. Nolan, F. Paul Wilson, Gahan Wilson, Richard Matheson, Matthew R. Bradley and Stanley Wiater.
Found: Lightning second large print edition original list price
March 11, 2012
Second Large Print (with Afterword)
December 12, 2007
Thorndike Press Large Print Famous Authors Series
Copyright © 1988 by Nkui, Inc.
Afterword copyright © 2003 by Dean Koontz.
Hardcover
691p
ISBN-13: 978-0-7862-9873-0
ISBN-10: 0-7862-9873-1
Original List Price: $30.95
States: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1”
I finally just buckled down on this one and did a bunch more searching online. I found several catalog and bookseller sites that each independently listed $30.95 as the original list price. In my experience that sounds pretty accurate for large print hardcovers those days, so I’m going to go with that.
Needed: Velocity note pagination from large print edition
March 11, 2012
Velocity contains a short “note” by Dean. What page(s) is it on in the large print edition?
Needed: Velocity trade large print page count & printing statement
March 11, 2012
Hardcover Large Print
May 24, 2005
Copyright © 2005 by Dean Koontz
Random House Large Print
Trade
XXXp
Cover Price: $29.00
ISBN: 0-375-43531-X
States:
Needed: Mask & Prison of Ice UK first edition cover prices
March 11, 2012
The Mask – 1st UK PBO – Coronet – 1982 – Cover Price
Prison of Ice – 1st UK HC – W.H. Allen – 1977 – Cover Price
Found: Relentless Charnel House publication date
March 11, 2012
The Charnel House editions of Relentless were released in 2009. Can anyone supply a more specific date(s)?
Update 12/27/12:
According to Joe @ Charnel House the release date for this title was the Summer of 2010. He was unable to be more specific but considering he was the publisher I’m going to mark this as a “found”.
The Vision premium paperback
March 10, 2012
The premium paperback edition of The Vision will be released by Berkley on 7 August 2012 according to Amazon.
Bloody Disgusting doesn’t like 77 Shadow Street
March 7, 2012
Well, here’s their punch line:
Along with his weird, over-explanatory gun fetishism (“The Baretta 9mm featured a twenty-round magazine, a six-inch Mag-na-ported Jarvis barrel, and Trijicon night sights“), Koontz rolls out all of his traditional tropes for his drooling fan-base, but the resulting novel is a boring, under-plotted mess for anyone but Koontz loyalists.
Read the whole thing at Bloody-Disgusting .com. Agree? Disagree? Leave a comment and let me know.
Politics
March 3, 2012
I’ve been a bit hesitant to post this as I don’t want to really get into political issues but this keeps coming across my feeds lately so I’m just going to share it without comment.
From OCWeekly:
Dean Koontz, the Stephen King of Newport Beach, Gives to Texas GOP Senate Candidate
Newport Beach author Dean Koontz has contributed $2,500 to former Solicitor General Ted Cruz, one of three Republicans hoping to replace Kay Bailey Hutchinson as U.S. Senator in Texas.
The Mask cover art
March 3, 2012
Here’s the cover art for the Bantam premium paperback edition of The Mask that’s being released this coming Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
Ticktock premium paperback on the way
March 3, 2012
According to Amazon Bantam will be releasing a premium paperback edition of Ticktock on 31 July 2012. No cover image is yet available.
Beauty & The Beard by Dean Koontz
February 26, 2012
How’s this for an ultra-obscure Dean Koontz reference? Check out the following screenshot from the video What if “Star Wars: Episode I” was Good by Belated Media.
Watch the whole video for yourself to get the context.
Intensity Premium Paperback
February 26, 2012
The premium paperback edition of Intensity was released back on January 31st and I’d somehow missed it until earlier this week.
Dean Koontz to Speak at Laguna Playhouse
February 17, 2012
via broadwayworld.com:
New York Times best seller and internationally acclaimed author Dean Koontz will provide an insiders view of the literary world and speak about his experience, recent works, and upcoming projects during a “A Special Evening with Dean Koontz” at The Laguna Playhouse on April 2, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Barbara Barrett Demarco, host of KUCI’s Writers on Writing and Book Salon will introduce and moderate the evening.
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Tickets to the event are $50.00 per person and may be purchased by calling The Laguna Playhouse Box Office at (949) 497-2787 Ext. 1 and online.
House of Thunder trade re-release
February 17, 2012
Looks like The House of Thunder will be getting the trade-paperback treatment with a release date of 4 September 2012. (No cover art yet of course.)
I wonder if Engadget even knows this is a Dean Koontz reference…
January 26, 2012
Cortexa’s ZE Home Controller: recreate Demon Seed for a fraction of the cost
The Bad Place trade paperback
January 26, 2012
Somehow I’d missed that back on January 3rd, Berkley released it’s latest trade paperback reprint, this time of The Bad Place which includes the 2004 Afterword by Dean.
Edward Lee writes like Dean Koontz?
January 16, 2012
Here’s another one for the ephemera appendix…
I’m a Dean Koontz fan obviously. I’m also a big fan of Edward Lee. Would I say these two authors are anything like each other? Most definitely not. Dean leans toward the subtle, while Ed is anything but subtle. So, much to my surprise I find the following statement on the back of the Necro Publications release of Edward Lee’s Ghouls:
“A novel of unrelenting horror in the tradition of Dean Koontz.”
Granted this book was originally published by Pinnacle in 1988 so maybe this text is being reprinted from a much less extreme time in Ed Lee’s life but I must admit this comparison, in my experience, is a bit of a stretch. When I get to reading it, I’ll see if I can post something that might explain it all.
77 Shadow Street is No. 1
January 14, 2012
According to The New York Times, 77 Shadow Street made the #1 spot on the bestseller list this week and is the 14th Koontz title to do so. If you’re interested here’s the chart they present showing the details.
