What’s New & Updated August 11, 2024

August 11, 2024

This week I stumbled over two old email essays and found a physical copy of a 2022 interview.

• A Note from Dean: A Heartfelt Thank You
• A Note From Dean: Who is Ashley Bell
• “Inventory: Dean Koontz, Writer” to Appendix B

What’s New & Updated August 4, 2024

August 4, 2024

Just one item this week.

• Demon Seed (Film) mentioned in the Summer 2024 issue of Fangoria

What’s New & Updated July 28, 2024

July 28, 2024

Just a new essay from Dean this week.

• From the Desk of Dean: Writing an amusing monthly newsletter is like climbing Mount Everest

What’s New & Updated July 21, 2024

July 21, 2024

Just one update today, but from the perspective of my personal collection, it’s a big one.

• A Witch’s Mouth, updated cover image and details

What’s New & Updated July 15, 2024

July 14, 2024

June one “new” item this week. it’s not a new entry but it’s something I previously did not have an original copy of, and now I do.

• Update image for the “Guest Editorial” in the June 1990 issue of Afraid

What’s New & Updated July 8, 2024

July 7, 2024

I’m back from the American Library Association conference. Amazon Publishing did have a booth and was promoting The Forest of Lost Souls, but unfortunately they didn’t bring any ARCs of that particular title.

• From the Desk of Dean: AI explorations with a side of caramel-chocolate pudding
• Phantoms (Film) VCD and updated details for the 4K edition
• The Forest of Lost Souls promotional material from The American Library Association 2024 annual meeting & ARC letter

What’s New & Updated June 23, 2024

June 23, 2024

The last of the Make Bode material… for now. (And two other items.)

• Additional details regarding The Amorous Adventures of Puck
• “The Art of Vaughn Bode”
• The Bad Weather Friend Amazon banner
• “The Dean’s List” to Appendix B

P.S. I’ll be attending the American Library Association conference in San Diego next weekend so there definitely won’t be an update next Sunday.

What’s New & Updated June 16, 2024

June 16, 2024

Sorry, I took last weekend off. I do have one more item from Mark Bode but I’ll share that next week. In the meantime here’s some updates, an oldie but previously not in my personal collection, and a new edition of an old SF short story.

• Additional details regarding Koontz Lizard to Appendix G(1)
• A cover image and updated details for “The Key to Writing Suspense, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Fiction”
• There’s a gorgeous new hardcover edition of Again, Dangers Visions that has bee released containing both “A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village” and “Afterword to A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village”

What’s New & Updated June 2, 2024

June 2, 2024

Week two of content resulting from my conversations with Mark Bode. The extra-interesting part of this one is that it was sitting in my files the whole time. (See the reference to the Vaughn Bode Index which I’ve had for ages.)

• “Bean, Gerbel an Porn” to Appendix A

What’s New & Updated May 26, 2024

May 26, 2024

This has been one of those week’s that pops up out of nowhere and adds so much to the value of this site. I’ve recently bee in contact with Mark Bode, the son of artist, and friend of Dean’s, Vaughn Bode (pictured here.) Mark has sold me an original unpublished work of Dean’s along with answering a handful of question I had. This week I’ve added some of what mark has shared and will be adding more in the coming week. Enjoy!

• Updated color image and information about “Koontz Lizard” in Appendix G(1).
• A Brief Plot Synopsis for a Possible Cinematic DEADBONE EROTICA (Unpublished)

What’s New & Updated May 19, 2024

May 19, 2024

A foreign edition, a new old item, an new item, and something potentially silly. It’s been an interesting week.

• Czech edition of Stalkers to “Trapped”
• “Novelist Dean Koontz on Paul Simon’s The Boy in the Bubble”
• From the Desk of Dean: The Forest of Lost Souls, available this September
• The original title for The Bad Weather Friend along with a note regarding this entry.

What’s New & Updated May 12, 2024

May 12, 2024

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• The Forest of Lost Souls ARC/Proof
• Double Murder Ep 64: High Tension vs. Intensity to Intensity (TV)
• “From the Imagination of Dean Koontz The Story Behind His Frankenstein Series” to Frankenstein Book Five Dead Town

What’s New & Updated May 5, 2024

May 5, 2024

I’ve found a folder of Interviews and such that I’d forgotten about. Be prepared for a lot of updates to Appendix B in the coming weeks.

• Phantoms 4K Blu-ray Collector’s Edition
• Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher to Appendix B
• Hour 25: J. Michael Straczynski interviews Dean Koontz to Appendix B

What’s New & Updated April 28, 2024

April 28, 2024

Feels like I’m getting back into the swing of things. Oh, to get the backlog cleaned out…

• Release date for Going Home in the Dark
• “Dean’s List” to Appendix B
• Now Available video to The House at the End of the World
• Eros in the Mind’s Eye to Demon Seed (Film)
• From the Desk of Dean: Mountain lion sightings and hopes for my May newsletter

What’s New & Updated April 21, 2024

April 21, 2024

Just one small item this week.

• Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature, edited by Donald Palumbo to Demon Seed

What’s New & Updated April 14, 2024

April 14, 2024

I received my numbered copy of The Bad Weather Friend from Charnel House this week so if you ordered a copy, be on the lookout. I’ve also added the two letters that led up to the letter from Dean I posted a week or two ago. Lastly, I found an obit for Richard Laymon from Dean I was previously, and sadly, unaware of.

• Updated details and new photo for the limited editions of The Bad Weather Friend
• Obituary: Dick Laymon 1947-2001
• Related covers to the letter “I hope you will print this in the next AMAZING, for it is inspired by Sam Bellotto’s letter in your last issue”

What’s New & Updated April 7, 2024

April 7, 2024

Finding new letters in old pulp magazines is so much fun!

• A Checklist of Ultramarine Press to Lightning
• Letter: “I hope you will print this in the next AMAZING, for it is inspired by Sam Bellotto’s letter in your last issue”

What’s New & Updated March 31, 2024

March 31, 2024

Look, five whole updates this week. There will be at least two next week as I’ve got some new arrivals expected tomorrow.

• Image alignment cleanup on Appendix B
• International Thriller Writers Q& A with Dean Koontz to Appendix B
• From the Desk of Dean: A delightful and compelling story that nearly everyone loves
• “Master Storyteller Dean Koontz Leaves us Breathless” to Appendix B
• Updated the release date of The Forest of Lost Souls, twice.

What’s New & Updated March 24, 2024

March 24, 2024

Two “new” old items this week. Be sure to check them out. I’d love to know if Headline released other proofs like this.

• Cold Fire limited edition UK proof
• Mr. Murder limited edition UK proof

What’s New & Updated March 17, 2024

March 17, 2024

No commentary this week, just a few new items.

• Color Gothic Blimp Works ad to Appendix G(1).
  Sadly, I don’t know the source issue of the color version as the eBay seller wouldn’t/couldn’t say.
• ‘The Funhouse’ – Revisiting Tobe Hooper’s 1981 Slasher and Dean Koontz’s Novelization to The Funhouse (Film)
• Henry Golding To Star In Series Adaptation Of Dean Koontz’s ‘Nameless’ Books From SK Global to Nameless (TV, Unproduced)