Essays

Afterword to Midnight

Useless News

Release Date: Holidays 2003
Appears on page(s): 2,10

Mass Market Paperback

Release Date: February 3, 2004
Copyright: “Afterword” copyright © 2004 by Dean Koontz
Publisher: Berkley Books
Appears on page(s): 473-477
First appears in the 28th printing.

Premium Paperback

Release Date: November 1, 2011
Copyright: “Afterword” copyright © 2004 by Dean Koontz
Publisher: Berkley Books
Appears on page(s): 417-420

Special Value Edition Trade Paperback

Release Date: December 6, 2022
Copyright: Copyright © 1989 by Nkui, Inc.
"Afterword" copyright © 2004 by Dean Koontz
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Brekley
Page Count: 420
Appears on page(s): 417-420
ISBN-13: 9780593441367
Cover Price: $12.00
States: "Second Berkley trade paperback edition / December 2022" and "1st Printing" and "SPECIAL VALUE PRICE" on cover

Notes

In this essay Dean states: “Vampires do not appear in any of my novels. I have never written about a vampire in either modern or antique dress, not in pajamas, for that matter.”

However, many collectors have pointed out that the book The Haunted Earth (Lancer, 1973) does contain a vampire as a character. Also in the article “Situation Critical” (Writer’s Yearbook 85) he states “Now, Mr. King published Carrie in 1974, by which time I had at least 25 novels already in print, several of which dealt with vampires, werewolves, and things that go bump in the night.”

According to Dean:
“I had forgotten The Haunted Earth opens with a vampire, but it is not a vampire novel. Frankly, my work of that period was so mediocre that I can’t bear to reread it! I did write a novel titled A Werewolf Among Us, but the werewolf was in fact a robot. However, I did write science fiction that was on the spooky side of the genre rather than on the sparkly-gadget side.” [Source: Letter to the author]

Last updated on December 12th, 2022