Koontz News
More details on Frankenstein: Storm Surge
July 10, 2015
Dynamite Entertainment is proud to announce the October launch of Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge, an all-new six-issue miniseries. From the celebrated imagination of the bestselling novelist comes a powerful reworking of one the most classic stories of all time, co-written by veteran comic book author Chuck Dixon (Batman, The Punisher) and illustrated by Andres Ponce (Doctor Who, Transformers Prime).
Frankenstein: Storm Surge #1 continues the fan-favorite reimagining of “The Modern Prometheus” seen in Koontz’s previous Dynamite series, focusing on cast members Victor and Erika. While healing from a beating she suffered at the hands of Victor Helios – once Dr. Frankenstein – and her own maker, Erika Five decides to leave the comfort of her glassed-in porch and bottle of cognac to go exploring into Victor’s secret home lab, which she believes is an antechamber to something more sinister. With the help of the bodiless head Karloff and his disembodied hand, Erika finds a secret lab and within sees experiments revealing Victor’s attempts to do more than create a race of super-immortals… and a mirror-like portal to another universe, one of infinite realities Victor is trying to bridge for his own terrifying reasons!Regarding the new series, Dean Koontz says, “With Frankenstein: Storm Surge, Dynamite has wonderfully revitalized this series. Uber cool!”
Happy 70th Birthday Dean!
July 9, 2015
More (original) Frankenstein comics on the way!
July 8, 2015
Horror novelist Dean Koontz is coming back to Dynamite for a new six-issue miniseries Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge. Koontz has written five novels featuring his re-imagined version of the classic Mary Shelley tale and this will be his second time bringing the world to comics. The first series adapted the novel Prodigal Son, but Storm Surge is an original story in the Koontz created universe. The new series will be co-written by Chuck Dixon (The Punisher) and drawn by Andres Ponce (Doctor Who).
Read the full article @ story synopsis @ BleedingCool.com
New Odd MP3-CDs
July 3, 2015
Looks like Brilliance is starting to double up titles when it comes to MP3-CD audiobook releases. With official release dates of 1 July 2015 here’s Odd Hours/Odd Interlude and Odd Apocalypse/Deeply Odd.
Two Ashley Bell e-novellas are coming
June 29, 2015
Just found this via edelweiss, a multi-publisher promotional Website:
SUPPORTING NOVELLAS AND OTHER GROUNDBREAKING DIGITAL INITIATIVES: Dean will write two 20,000 word E-novellas in support of the novel, and we will be developing other fresh promotional initiatives as part of our major marketing campaign.
Not one, like recent books, but two this time. Details as I discover them.
Ashley Bell moved up to December 2015
June 29, 2015
Received this notice from Amazon.com early this morning.
Koontz, Dean “Ashley Bell: A Novel”
Previous estimated arrival date: January 12, 2016
New estimated arrival date: December 08, 2015
So it looks like the wait for Ashley Bell just got a month shorter.
Get Your Digital Editions of the Frankenstein Comics at StoryBundle
June 19, 2015
We’re super excited to team up again with Dynamite to bring you the Dynamite Comic-Con Omnibus Bundle! To celebrate Comic-Con, we have 15 omnibuses totaling more than 4,000 pages of comics, which is the perfect way to start or grow your digital comics collection. Each comic is available in multiple DRM-free formats (.PDF, .EPUB and .CBZ), so you’ll be able to read it on just about any device you own. And as always, you can support two worthy causes when you purchase the bundle: Girls Write Now and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
As always, StoryBundle lets you name your own price to get a set of tremendous titles. If you pay the base price of $5 or higher, you get these omnibuses:
- Jungle Girl Omnibus (Season 1 and Season 2) by Frank Cho, Doug Murray and Adriano Batista
- Miss Fury #1-11 by Rob Williams, Jack Herbert and Marcio Abreu
- Project Superpowers Chapter Two #0-12 by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, Edgar Salazar, Doug Klauba and more
- Red Sonja Omnibus Vol. 2 by Michael Avon Oeming and Brian Reed
- Twilight Zone #1-12 by J. Michael Straczynski and Guiu Vilanova
- Vampirella Vol 1. #1-12 by Eric Trautmann, Wagner Reis, Fabiano Neves and Johnny Desjardins
- Zorro Vol 1. #1-12 by Matt Wagner and Francesco Francavilla
Even better, if you pay $15 or higher, you unlock eight more omnibus volumes!
- Black Bat Omnibus by Brian Buccellato and Ronan Cliquet
- Blood Queen #1-6, Blood Queen Annual and Blood Queen vs. Dracula #1-4 by Troy Brownfield and Fritz Casas
- Damsels #1-13 by Leah Moore, John Reppion and Aneke
- Dark Shadows #1-9 by Stuart Manning, Aaron Campbell and Guiu Vilanova
- Dean Koontz: Frankenstein Prodigal Son Vol 1. #1-5 and Vol 2. #1-5 by Chuck Dixon, Brett Booth and Scott Cohn
- Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files: Welcome to the Jungle #1-4 and Full Moon Vol. 1 by Jim Butcher and Adrian Syaff
- Mercy Thompson: Alpha & Omega: Cry Wolf #1-8 and Homecoming #1-4 by Patricia Briggs and Mark Powers
- Sherlock Holmes: Trial of Sherlock Holmes #1-5 and Moriarty Lives #1-5 by Leah Moore and John Reppion
And when you purchase a bundle, you can donate to two worthy causes: Girls Write Now and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! Help keep our beloved medium going strong well into the future.
The bundle is available for a very limited time only, via http://www.storybundle.com. It allows easy reading on computers, smartphones, and tablets as well as Kindle and other ereaders via file transfer, email, and other methods. You get multiple DRM-free formats (.EPUB, .PDF and .CBZ) for all comics!
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June 17, 2015
SAINT ODD will be shipping late June. The books are in and waiting for their slipcases.
ASHLEY BELL. by Dean Koontz is also in production and scheduled for January. Be prepared to bounce around like a pinball as you try to figure this one out.
Source: CharnelHouse.com
Charnel House edition of Saint Odd update
May 7, 2015
According to the Charnel House Web site: “SAINT ODD is at the bindery and will ship in June. The numbered edition is sold out and there are only two copies of the lettered edition left for sale.”
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.)
ashley bell: a novel
April 3, 2015
You heard it here first folks! Dean first novel of 2016 will be “Ashley Bell” and it is currently scheduled to be released on 12 January 2016. Even better, the cover art has already been released! Click the cover image to pre-order it from Amazon.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes the must-read thriller of the year, perfect for readers of dark psychological suspense and modern classics of mystery and adventure. Brilliantly paced, with an exhilarating heroine and a twisting, ingenious storyline, Ashley Bell is a new milestone in literary suspense from the long-acclaimed master.
“These Immigrants Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Green Cards!”
March 26, 2015
Last week I mentioned the forthcoming reissue of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and hoped that Dean’s introduction wouldn’t be a reprint of “These Immigrants Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Green Cards!” Well, for those of you wondering where you can find that gem, here they are: the 1999’s They’re here…Invasion of the Body Snatchers: A Tribute and 2006’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers: A Tribute.
But before you go off and buy both of them, please know that these are the same book, just from different publishers.
Forthcoming introduction to Invasion of the Body Snatchers
March 20, 2015
Looks like there’s a new edition of Invasion of the Body Snatchers coming out featuring an introduction by Dean on 6 October 2015. Here’s hoping it’s new material and not a reprint of his essay “These Immigrants Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Green Cards!”
Mystic Hills details
March 15, 2015
[My guess is that this will be an eBook novella tied to Secret Forest.]
Release Date: 1 December 2015
He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from society, which will destroy him if he is ever seen. She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found. But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chanceand nothing less than destinyhas brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching. In Innocence, #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz blends mystery, suspense, and acute insight into the human soul in a masterfully told tale that will resonate with readers forever. ACCLAIM FOR DEAN KOONTZ A rarity among bestselling writers, Koontz continues to pursue new ways of telling stories, never content with repeating himself.Chicago Sun-Times Tumbling, hallucinogenic prose. Serious writers . . . might do well to examine his technique.The New York Times Book Review [Koontz] has always had near-Dickensian powers of description, and an ability to yank us from one page to the next that few novelists can match.Los Angeles Times Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition.USA Today Characters and the search for meaning, exquisitely crafted, are the soul of [Koontzs] work. . . . One of the master storytellers of this or any age.The Tampa Tribune A literary juggler.The Times (London)
Source: edelweiss
Secret Forest details
March 15, 2015
Release Date: 1 December 2015
Ivy Elgin was first introduced in Dean Koontz’s New York Times bestselling novel VELOCITY, but there’s a haunting quality about her that fans have not soon forgotten. She is beautiful and mysterious, and has an almost ethereal connection to the natural world that makes her even more of an enigma. Yet there’s also an air of innocence surrounding her that sets her as the object of many a man’s affections. Narrated by one such admirer, this spellbinding and deeply intricate novel launches a new trilogy that is sure to satisfy readers who have long been waiting to learn more about this inscrutable character. Infused with beauty, complexity, and many twists and turns, this new series showcases Koontz’s “near-Dickensian” skill (Los Angeles Times) that has earned him the distinction of “master of the psychological drama” (USA Today). Dean Koontz, the author of many #1 New York Times bestsellers, lives in Southern California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Anna, and the enduring spirit of their golden, Trixie.
Source: edelewiss
Reading Group Guide for The City
March 14, 2015
Did you catch the link to the reading group guide to The City in Dean’s most recent e-mail newsletter?
The basic plots of fiction
February 26, 2015
Just down the road from me… literally.
With some 130million books in existence, it’s hard to fathom how the literary sphere’s wealth of storylines could be boiled down into just six different categories.
But a professor is now claiming that there are only half a dozen possible plots which any novel can follow.
Matthew Jockers, from the University of Nebraska, has used a high-tech computer system to analyse more than 40,000 novels in a bid to find out the pattern behind storylines.
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Intensity by Dean Koontz and A Creed in Stone Creek, by Linda Lael Miller, were two examples of the ‘man on a hill’ format.
Read the full article @ The Daily Mail while I look for the full report which the article doesn’t link to.
What Koontz book is this?
February 19, 2015
Here’s a fun little exercise: what Koontz title is this? (Just translating the title into English won’t help.) Leave your answer in the comments.
Moonchasers and Other Stories
February 18, 2015
I’ve been setting up my home library recently which has allowed me to unbox a lot of books. In unboxing my Ed Gorman books I stumbled over this one which had not been stored with the rest of my Koontz books.
