Found
Junkwaffel #3
February 15, 2017
My latest Vaughn Bodē / Dean Koontz find…
The Vaughn Bodē Index
February 12, 2017
Here’s another one that’s been on my want list for a while. Not that I couldn’t find a copy, just that most were selling for way more than I was willing to pay. Well, I’ve been going through it and let’s just say that I wish I’d not waited so long and that there are one or two previously unknown to me items now on the way to my collection. More details to follow.
World Horror Convention 2013 Souvenir Book
February 12, 2017
Finally pick up one of the 600 copies of this for a reasonable price.:
Here’s why.
Myopia Special #1
February 8, 2017
Relevant Links:
- Dynamite Entertainment
- Richard Dent’s Myopia Comes To Dynamite (Bleeding Cool)
- Kickstarter
- Facebook Page
Recent additions to the collection
February 5, 2017
(both containing Koontz blurbs on the back cover)
(BC mentions several Koontz titles & Elijah mentions Dean in the Acknowledgements)
Also, Saint Odd was dedicated to Frank Redman
Hideaway Laserdisc
September 2, 2016
Maybe most surprising is that they were still issuing films on Laserdisc in 1995…
WolrdCon finds
August 30, 2016
Dean Koontz items aren’t exactly the thing you go looking for at the World Science Fiction convention but that’s just what I did in the dealer’s room. Ok, there were a smattering of his old SF paperbacks but I don’t exactly need more copies of those. Here’s what I did find however. (The rest of my WorldCon photos can be found on Flickr.)
Sole Survivor publisher promo material
May 12, 2016
Today’s arrival…
Japanese Laserdiscs
May 5, 2016
Today’s arrivals:
Twilight Eyes promotional booklet
May 1, 2016
Could technically be called an “advance” edition as it contains the first 19 pages of the book and the first of the two full-color fold-outs. (8.5″x11″, 28p)
What do editors mean when they say… "Sorry, but, the motivation is missing?"
November 5, 2015
The days of finding one of those more obscure, yet known items that I don’t already have are getting further and further apart. However I get to reset that particular clock with the arrival of this little gem form 1969 containing the essay mentioned in the title of this post.
The City UK ARC
August 20, 2015
Arrived in today’s mail.
In today's mail…
April 13, 2015
Femme Fatales, December 1997, Rose McGowan article mentioning Phantoms
The Godzilla Box
April 9, 2015
It’s not in the greatest shape but I finally got my hands on one of the most obscure Koontz items I’ve been missing since it was released back in 1994: Megadeth’s Godzilla Box. This promotional release of Megadeth’s Youthanasia album, rumored to be limited to just 100 copies, and so named for the essay “Godzilla versus Megadeth” by none other than Mr. Dean Koontz. At the time it was also published on the Megadeth Web site, and also printed in a press folder for the release, this is technically the “official” print version of this work. Oh, and look, though not in the greatest shape this copy is signed by two members of the band…
(If you do know any more about home many copies were officially released I’d love to talk to you about it. Just leave a comment.)
Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School, 1968
March 17, 2015
Guess who was teaching English there in 1968…
Now my Book of Counted Sorrows set is complete! Or is it?
March 15, 2015
Back in September I posted a photo of my “complete set” of The Book of Counted Sorrows editions. I need to stop saying that any part if my collection is “complete.” (Just as much as people need to stop claiming “I’ve read everything Dean’s ever written/published.”) Because, recently I found, and was able to obtain this:
This is a printed trade paperback advance reader’s copy / uncorrected proof of the Barnes & Noble ebook edition from 2001. Yes folks, this is a printed ARC for an ebook from 2001!
Just to let you know, in my day job I’m heavily into ebooks and ereaders, the issues involved with them, and training people how to use them. Forget back in 2001 when ebooks were just a twinkle in the reader’s eye, even today, a print ARC of an ebook is practically unheard of.
This has got to be one of the most obscure items I have in my collection.
Odd Apocalypse promotional item
March 21, 2014
Look what showed up in the mail today. Probably one of the most obscure items now in my collection. A poster tube from the 2012 San Diego Comic Con promoting Odd Apocalypse.
Dean on beta
March 16, 2014
Just picked myself up a copy of Demon Seed on beta. Looks like Watchers was the only other film released on beta and I have a line on a copy or two. On the laserdisc front, I just discovered that Phantoms was released in that format so I’m on the look out for one of those too.
Two recent additions to my collection
March 6, 2014
Twilight Eyes Uncorrected Proof found
December 11, 2013
It isn’t often that I found an old Koontz item that I was previously unaware of. Recently, that has actually happened. I now have in my possession of a 1987 uncorrected proof of Twilight Eyes. Here’s why I’m considering this a significant find and how I’ve missed it previously:
First, publishers generally don’t print ARCs or proofs for mass market paperbacks. With the exception of the previously limited hard cover of the first half of the novel by Land of Enchantment and a hardcover of the full novel in the UK, this was a “original” mass market paperback in the US. The only other Koontz mass market ARC I can recall off the top of my head was The Funhouse by Owen West. This just wasn’t, and still isn’t, done very much.
Second, unlike the ARC of West’s The Funhouse, this proof isn’t printed in the mass market size. This one’s printed in the smaller (8.25″x5.25″) trade paperback size yet with the same pagination (or at least page numbers: 451) as the first mass market printing. Honestly, I’ve never seen this before. (I’m not saying it’s never happened before but in all my time book selling and collecting, I’ve never seen a size miss-match like this.)
Third, and lastly, I’ve never seen one of these for sale before this one. I’ve been haunting the Dean Koontz marker for more than 25 years, and this is the first one I’ve ever seen for sale. It’s not like I’ve been out-bid previously, or knew of one that was outside of my budget. This is the only copy that I’ve ever know of.
So, welcome to my life. Just when I think I’ve seen them all, something magically appears. Ah, the joy of collecting Dean Koontz!