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Needed: Dark Rivers of the Heart audio details
March 11, 2012
I seem to be lacking all details regarding an audio edition of this title with the exception of “RandomHouse Audiobook”.
Needed: The Darkest Evening of the Year large print statement
March 11, 2012
Large Print
November 27, 2007
Random House Large Print
496p
ISBN-10: 0-739-32742-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-739-32742-5
Cover Price: $27.00
States: “”
Limited
Charnel House
March 2008
printed in Mona Lisa and Verdigris Fonts on 80lb. Dove Gray Mohawk Superfine paper
Numbered
350 signed and numbered copies
Bound in Lavender Japanese Gokujyo–Saifu Silk, Black foil images on both front and back boards, Slipcased in Deep Blue Silver–Wave Silk
Original List Price:
ISBN: 0-927389-40-2
States: No statement of printing
Update 12/27/12:
Charnel House has provided me with the information regarding their editions. I am still looking for the large print information.
Needed: Frankenstein: City of Night audio cassette details
March 11, 2012
Audio
July 26, 2005
Random House Audio
Read by John Bedford Lloyd
Cassette
XXX cassettes, XXX hours, unabridged
ISBN: 0-7393-
Cover Price: $
Needed: Frankenstein: Dead and Alive audio CD count
March 11, 2012
Audio
CD
July 28, 2009
Random House Audio
X CDs, Approximately 8.25 hours, unabridged
ISBN: 0-7393-1717-2
Cover Price: $30.00
Needed: The Face large print cover price & printing statement
March 11, 2012
Large Print
May 27, 2003
Doubleday Home Library Large Print Edition
784p
ISBN: 0-7394-3462-4
Cover Price:
States:
Needed: Forever Odd audio details
March 11, 2012
Audio
November 29, 2005
Random House Audio
Cassette
Unabridged
XX hours on XX cassettes
Cover Price: $39.95
ISBN: 0-7393-1558-7
CD
Unabridged
XX hours on XX CDs
Cover Price: $44.95
ISBN: 0-7393-1559-5
Needed: From the Corner of His Eye bookseller edition details
March 11, 2012
I’m looking for the number of “bookseller” editions printed? (The leatherette edition.)
Also, there was a version given away in a content on the deankoontz.com web site. Was it the same one as the bookseller edition?
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
Dean re-returns to science ficiton
January 29, 2011
I recently discovered that in March of this year, the Nevermore comic series “Created by Dean Koontz” will be released by Dynamite, the current publishers of Dean’s Frankenstein comics. The interesting bit, is that none of the articles I’ve found online (1,2,3,4,5,6) mention that Nevermore #1 and #2 were previously released in March and June of 2009 respectively, by Dabel Brothers. (As I understand it, Dabel brothers went out of business shortly thereafter.) So the question is, will the first two issues of this “new” series be reprints of the original first two issues or not? Keep an eye out for further details as I find them. (Oh, and don’t miss the fact that there will be four different covers released for issue #1.)
Here are the images that I’ve been able to find online:
One more thing, an online article by Zac Turgeon is based on a “10 page preview” of issue #1. Does anyone know how I can get my hands on a copy of that?
Needed: Original publication of an interview by John Gilbert
January 17, 2011
The Summer 2006 issue of Useless News contains an interview titled “From the Graveyard of Forgotten Interviews” described as A few questions from a 1995 interview with John Gilbert.” I’m looking for any information on the original publication of this interview.
Needed: Reader's Digest of Great Britain
January 17, 2011
According to the Spring 2007 issue of Useless News “…as The Husband was pending publication, Dean did the following interview with Reader’s Digest of Great Britain.” Any additional information would be greatly appreciated.
Double the Odd
January 15, 2011
It looks like the major book clubs (New Literary Guild, SFCB, &tc.) are releasing an exclusive Dean Koontz title Double the Odd. The amusing part is that none of the sites selling it seem to have a description or a cover image available, just a release date of February 28, 2010. My guess is that it’s a two-in-on edition of In Odd We Trust and Odd Is On Our Side. My copy is on order and I’ll report as soon as I know anything else. If anyone has additional information please leave it in the comments.
Scanning problems
September 7, 2010
Well, it turns out that all the scans I’ve been doing over the past ten years (almost 900 of them) are all at a dpi (dots per inch, i.e. resolution) that’s too low for printing them in a book these days. So, at some point I’ll need to rescan everything at 300+ dpi. I’m thinking I might need to take a full week’s vacation from my day job just to focus on that.
In the mean time I created some new sample scans to send to CD just to make sure everything was ok. Well, yes and no. It seems that the 320dpi TIFF files I’m creating look just fine on both my Linux boxes (on which I’m doing the scanning) and several Windows Vista and 7 boxes. Once CD gets them however and opens them up on their Mac, they get a crappy image.
Here’s the original TIFF. The first screenshot below is what I see when I open it windows, the second is what CD’s seeing on a Mac. If I convert the TIFF to a JPG CD’s got no problem with it. However, I’d rather we all used the better TIFF image rather than downgrade them all to JPGs. If you’ve got any suggestions or tests we could run, please leave a comment.
