Novels

Dark of the Woods

Mass Market Paperback

Release Date: 1970
Copyright: Copyright ©, 1970, by Dean R. Koontz
Publisher: Ace Books
Page Count: 108
SBN: #13793
Cover Price: 75¢
States: No statement of printing

Notes

Double book with Soft Come the Dragons by Dean R. Koontz

“Cover art by Jeff Jones”

The cover art is a piece titled “Light” and appears on card #64 of the Jeffrey Jones Fantasy Art Trading Cards set, © 1993 Jeffrey Jones.

The cover of Dark of the Woods is features on page 194 of Jeffrey Jones: A Life in Art (IDW, 2010)

Jeffrey Jones: The Definitive Reference, Hill, Kolean, Maris, & Spurlock, (Vanguard, 2013)
p41: Listed as card #64 of the trading card set
p97: “DARK OF THE WOODS/SOFT COME THE DRAGONS
Dean R. Koontz
(Ace Double 13793; 1970; $0.75)
Dark of the Woods cover by Jones
(Soft Come the Dragons cover by Jack Gaughan).
PTR: Light
LIA-C full page”
p98: Small cover reproduction

This cover is featured in the book The Great American Paperback by Richard A. Lupoff (2001) on page 212 with the following caption:
”Doubled with a Koontz PBO (Soft Come the Dragons, cover by Jack Gaughan) this is one of the books that the author doesn’t particularly care to see reprinted. Koontz was a competent but unremarkable science fiction writer in his early years, then found his métier in high tension suspense and borderline horror and leaped to the bestseller list.”

Last updated on April 2nd, 2018