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What’s New & Updated February 5, 2023
February 5, 2023

Dean’s on his virtual promotional tour for The House at the End of the World, and the interviews are coming in daily, so I’m going to hold off a week and see if I can get all of them into one update. In the meantime, I was finally able to get all the stories in Strange Highways and Other Stories into the site.
- Details and table of contents for Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “The Black Pumpkin” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Bruno” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Chase” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Down in the Darkness” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Hardshell” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Kittens” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Miss Attila the Hun” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “The Night of the Storm” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Ollie’s Hands” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Snatcher” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Strange Highways” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Trapped” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “Twilight of the Dawn” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
- “We Three” appearance in Strange Highways and Other Stories
What’s New & Updated January 29, 2023
January 29, 2023

It’s new release week again, so obviously that was my main focus. There are a bunch of related interviews and reviews in the queue too, so watch for those in the coming weeks.
- The House at the End of the World Trade Hardcover & audiobook details and the official trailer
- The Big Dark Sky trade paperback cover & details
- Christmas Is Good!: Trixie’s Guide to a Happy Holiday updated cover image
What’s New & Updated January 22, 2023
January 22, 2023

Two interviews & a foreign VCD this week. Upcoming: The House at the End of the World.
- “Dean Koontz on His Latest Novel, His Favorite Villians and What’s Coming Up Next” to Appendix B
- Turkish VCD of Whispers
- “Writing Advice: Where You Write Makes a Difference” to Appendix B
What’s New & Updated January 15, 2023
January 15, 2023

Well, I feel like I’ve started making progress again this week between these updates and other blog posts. Let’s see if I can keep this going week to week.
- “Blowout in Little Man Flats” by Stuart M. Kaminsky to Appendix G1
- The House at the End of the World Amazon Publishing Facebook ad
- Sole Survivor, corrected editions order and added UK/AU Large Print hardcover
What’s New & Updated January 8, 2023
January 8, 2023

Welcome back! I can’t say I’m fully back up to speed when it comes to getting things done on the site, but as you can see, it wasn’t a total shutdown the past few weeks. The day job continues to be chaotic but hopefully, things will if not settle down, at least become more regular, allowing me to plan non-day-job tings accordingly.
- 77 Shadow Street promotional keychain
- From the Desk of Dean Koontz: The best way to express love and good cheer
- From the Desk of Dean Koontz: New year, new book. Pre-order today!
- The House at the End of the World banner ad
- The House of Thunder POD HCcover & additional details
- Midnight Special Value Price Trade Paperback
- “Afterword” to Midnight Special Value Price Trade Paperback
- Shadowfires US/UK Large Print Hardcover
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!
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)
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
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
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.
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
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
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
What’s New & Updated October 3, 2022
October 3, 2022

This week is mostly interviews & articles I’ve had bookmarked for a while and haven’t had the time to enter the site. Enjoy.
- Big Dark Sky review: “Synchronicities, Cults, and Coincidences”
- Quicksilver review: “Single Image Sparked Idea for Latest Thriller”
- The Other Emily review: “Lightning Strikes Twice”
- “Did Dean Koontz Predict a Global Pandemic” to Devoted and The Eyes of Darkness
- “Writing Advice Where You Write Makes a Difference” to Appendix B
- October Dreams II Lettered edition photo and details
- Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 by Michael J. Blouin to Appendix A
What’s New & Updated, September 26, 2022
September 26, 2022

It’s Watchers week here at CollectingKoontz.com. Not only had I somehow missed the Blu-ray release of Watchers II back in April, but today Charnel House started taking orders for their lettered and numbered editions of Watchers. Hope you’ve got room on your credit card.
- Details on the Charnel House editions of Watchers
- Watchers II Blu-ray
What’s New & Updated, September 19, 2022
September 19, 2022
I’m taking a bye week. Enjoy this interview in the meantime.
What’s New & Updated September 5, 2022
September 5, 2022

Happy Labor Day.
- Additional social media ad for The Big Dark Sky
- Agenda #18 to Odd Thomas and Odd Thomas (film)
What’s New & Updated August 29, 2022
August 29, 2022

This week: a mention, a new newsletter, and a release date.
- Advertisement for Observer by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress to Appendix G
- From the Desk of Dean: My new novel and why August is always eventful
- The House at the End of the World paperback release date
What’s New & Updated August 22, 2022
August 22, 2022

Keeping it simple this week with just one more book from the Night Chills bibliography. Sadly, sans dust jacket.
- Subliminal Perception: The Nature of a Controversy by N.F. Dixon to Night Chills
What’s New & Updated August 15, 2022
August 15, 2022

This week I didn’t win an eBay auction (the first time in a while) but snagged the photo from the listing for the site. Otherwise, on the eBay front, an interview from 1989 that I was previously unaware of, along with one more from the Night Chills Bibliography. Enjoy!
- “Dean R. Koontz in the Fictional Melting Pot” by Stanley Waiter to Appendix B
- Odd Is On Our Side proof minimal entry with cover image
- Psychology: An Introduction cover to Night Chills
- Re-sorted the entries for “The Undercity”