Site News
What’s New & Updated July 9, 2023
July 9, 2023
Got my hands on an ARC of After Death This week. Not sure what this says about the current state of the Dean collecting market, but it was the lowest amount I’ve ever paid for an ARC of a forthcoming novel and the closest to release they’ve ever (seem to have) come available online.
- After Death ARC
- The Early Thrillers of Dean Koontz (additional details) in Appendix A
(Appendix A has also been resorted into the proper order.) - “NOTE”
What’s New & Updated July 2, 2023
July 2, 2023
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel with the day job, so here are a few tiny updates to get me back into the wing of things. (Yes, I’m an HWA member, for those wondering.)
- “THIS JUSTIN: The Horror And The Humanity of Dean Koontz” to Appendix B
- “HWA the Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award” to Appendix G(2)
What’s New & Updated June 11, 2023
June 11, 2023
This coming week will be the day job’s busiest of the month as we’re physically moving locations. I’ll continue to squeak out what I can here. Thanks for your continued support.
- After Death banner ad
- From the Desk of Dean: The most disturbing villain I’ve written in a while
- Meaning – origin and history of the name Dean to Appendix G(2)
What’s New & Updated May 28, 2023
May 28, 2023
A new newsletter and a new book about Dean. Don’t have the book in my collection yet, so details are minimal right now.
- From the Desk of Dean: Koontz readers are better looking and better smelling
- The Early Thrillers of Dean Koontz: Essays on the Evolution of a Writer, 1966-1997 to Appendix A
What’s New & Updated May 14, 2023
May 14, 2023
Just one small item this week but I do have a few interesting items in the queue for next week.
- A Twitter video from Dean about The House at the End of the World
What’s New & Updated May 7, 2023
May 7, 2023
Not sure if I mentioned this previously, but about a month ago, I spoke with Karen Heller from the Washington Post on background for her then-forthcoming article about Dean. The article is now out and linked below. (I am not mentioned.)
- By the Light of the Moon MP3-CD
- The Big Dark Sky Twitter banner
- “What scares master of suspense Dean Koontz? Plenty.” by Karen Heller to Appendix B
What’s New & Updated April 30, 2023
April 30, 2023
I’m back from a long-planned vacation in Italy, and several days later, I’m almost recovered from jet lag. While I was gone, Amazon released the title of the next novel, The Bad Weather Friend, and Dean released a new column. Enjoy those, along with some other interesting finds.
- The Bad Weather Friend
- Italian trade paperback edition of Elsewhere
- The new Brilliance Audio edition of From the Corner of His Eye
- From the Desk of Dean: A letter to, and inspired by you, my dear readers
- A scene from the documentary Cum on Feel the Noise (2017) regarding the film version of The Funhouse.
- Photos of the UK cassette version of Space Museum
- Some interesting text from Swapper’s Convention
- “Taking Another Look at The Watcher” to Appendix G(2)
What’s New & Updated April 2, 2023
April 2, 2023
The list is short this week, but the content is huge. Previously to this week, collectors, including myself, were aware of this one issue of Central Pennsylvania Trend magazine containing “The Terrible Weapon” by Dean. However, all I’d ever seen was a photocopy of the cover and the story. Amazingly, there’s a mint copy on eBay right now. (You can look, but as of this writing, it’s going for more than $1500. I’m no longer bidding.)
However, what we’ve learned from this sale is that not only was Dean listed as an “Associate Editor” for this issue, but also there’s an article titled “R and X Ratings” by our old friend K.R. Dwyer!
Check out the entries and some additional related photos via the links below.
- Darkfall review in Science Fiction Chronicle #67
- Updated cover image for “The Terrible Weapon”
- “R and X Ratings” by K.R. Dwyer
- Dean as Associate Editor for Central Pennsylvania Trend, Jan/Feb 1972
What’s New & Updated March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023
Sorry, nothing new this week as I’m feeling a bit under the weather and my day job is kicking my butt. In the meantime enjoy this recent short video from Dean.
What’s New & Updated March 19, 2023
March 19, 2023
Things got the better of me this week, so there’s just one new essay this time.
- From the Desk of Dean: Grandma Pearl at the Bureau of Excuse Making
What’s New & Updated March 12, 2023
March 12, 2023
This week: New cover art, new (to me) blurb, new edition, and more.
- After Death cover art
- Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor to Appendix D
- The House at the End of the World Large Print Hardcover
- Some details on the demise of Eclipse Comics to the Trapped graphic novel page.
- “Why You Should Binge Read Dean Koontz” to Appendix B
What’s New & Updated March 5, 2023
March 5, 2023
I did do a bunch of updates this week, but since these beautiful limited editions of Watchers arrived, I decide to just focus on those this week. Everything else I’ll put off announcing them until next week. Enjoy!
What’s New & Updated February 26, 2023
February 26, 2023
Yep, I’m still backlogged when it comes to adding interviews. Here’s a bunch more.
- Updated gutter code details for the BCE of Darkfall
- Devoted review in the Spring 2020 issue of Suspense Magazine
- Letter to Margaret Duarte
- “Tomes & Tones: Squarepusher Paired with Dean Koontz” to Odd Thomas
- “No, Not That Critic” by Tracy Devine and related info to Relentless
- Added to Appendix B
- The Red Hot Chilli Writers Episode 44 – Dean Koontz, The Other Emily, the biggest selling authors of all time, and a brief history of the Bible
- Suspense Radio: Interview with Dean Koontz
- Meet the Thriller Author #93: Dean Koontz
- Meet the Thriller Author #139: Dean Koontz
- Meet the Thriller Author #187: Dean Koontz
- National Review: The Bookmonger Podcast: “Dean Koontz on The Darkest Evening of the Year” & “Dean Koontz on What the Night Knows”
- Added to Appendix G2
- Breakfast in the Ruins by Barry N. Malzberg
- The Decline of the Novel by Joseph Bottum
What’s New & Updated February 19, 2023
February 19, 2023
More interviews this week as I’m still digging out of my core list of “hey, get back to this” items. I fished watching all three In Search of Horror films, and I highly recommend them if you love 80s horror movies.
- Fangoria #11 to The Funhouse (film) & The Funhouse by Owen West
- Added to Appendix B
- Dog Edition #22: Dean Koontz: How Dogs Changed My Life
- “Our fam gets together with Dean Koontz,” Scott Simon of NPR
- BingeBooks Book Club with Dean Koontz: The Big Dark Sky
- Dean Koontz, Bloody Scotland 2022
- SciFiNow, “Dean Koontz on The Big Dark Sky, Incredible Coincidences and Buying Tows for His Dogs”
- Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books: Dean Koontz, Quicksilver and The Big Dark Sky
- Added to Appendix G(2)
- Acne: A Memoir by Laura Chinn
- “The way we read now” by Joseph Bottum
- In Search of Darkness & In Search of Darkness II reference to Watchers (Film)
- In Search of Darkness, In Search of Darkness II, and In Search of Darkness III references to The Funhouse (Film)
- In Search of Darkness III reference to Demon Seed (Film)
- The Horror of Babylon Bonus Episode: It Vs Phantoms to Phantoms
- “The old pornographers” by Alez Nevala-Lee to Writing Popular Fiction
- Alec Nevala-Lee interviews science fiction author Barry N. Malzberg to The Flesh in the Furnace, Writing Popular Fiction, and How to Write Best Selling Ficiton
What’s New & Updated February 12, 2023
February 12, 2023
Dean’s been on quite the virtual promotional tour for The House at the End of the World, and I’ve been sitting on a bunch of bookmarked things for a while. Strap in; there is hours worth of content here.
- The Big Dark Sky large print hardcover
- Appendix B additions
- 7 Common Story Structures You Can Use in Your Novel by Jerry Jenkins
- The Action Catalyst Episode 413: Hilarious Catastrophe, with Dean Koontz (Author, Publishing, Writing, Business)
- Advocates for Self Governance: Dean Koontz
- The Companion Chronicles’, Dean Koontz Interview
- Collecting Dean Koontz by Adrienne Rivera
- Dean Koontz: ‘I threatened to leave publishers if they wouldn’t stop putting the word horror on my books’
- Dean Koontz on How to Sell 500 Million Books and Why ChatGPT Will Never Replicate the “Soul” of the Human Author
- This Is Horror Podcast 481: Dean Koontz on The House at the End of the World and Odd Thomas
- From the Desk of Dean Koontz: Now Available – The House at the End of the World
- Additional online ads for The House at the End of the World
- Horror Drive-In: “The Big Dark Sky, by Dean Koontz,” Horror Drive-In to The Big Dark Sky
- Raised to Walk: “Devoted by Dean Koontz: Transhumanism, Ethics, & Happiness” to Devoted
- Appendix H updated
Important Announcement re: Facebook
February 12, 2023
I have been completely locked out of my Facebook account due to the inability to transfer 2FA tokens from an old phone that died to a new one. Sadly, I’m not alone and Facebook does not offer any solution to this problem. (Other than lots of sketchy “hackers” offering to help as long as I had over all my account information. That’s not gonna happen.)
Personally, I’d love to never use Facebook again, but losing access to the Facebook Page for this site is quite a loss. I’m still investigating and am holding out a tiny bit of hope, but who knows if/when I’ll get back in.
In the meantime, I’m still on the dumpster fire that is Twitter (@collectkoontz) so feel free to follow me over there.
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