Novels

The Bad Place (DRK)

Originally  One O'Clock Jump

Uncorrected Proof

Release Date: 1989
Copyright: Copyright © 1990 by Nkui, Inc.
Format: Trade paperback in plain blue wraps
Page Count: 382

Trade Hardcover

Release Date: January 16, 1990
Copyright: Copyright © 1990 by Nkui, Inc.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Page Count: 382
ISBN-10: 0-399-13498-0
Cover Price: $19.95
States: “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10"

Limited Edition Hardcover

Release Date: January 16, 1990
Copyright: Copyright © 1990 by Nkui, Inc.
Format: 250 signed and numbered copies. Slipcased, issued without dust jacket.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Page Count: 382
ISBN-10: 0-399-13510-3
States: “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10"

Book Club Edition

Release Date: January 1990
Copyright: Copyright © 1990 by Nkui, Inc.
Format: Reprint of the trade hardcover edition
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Page Count: 381
ISBN-10: 0-399-13498-0 (on copyright page)
Book Club ID: #15864

Mass Market Paperback

Release Date: December 1990
Copyright: Copyright © 1990 by Nkui, Inc.
Publisher: Berkley
Page Count: 417
ISBN-10: 0-425-12434-7
Cover Price: $5.95
States: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1”

Large Print

Release Date: March 1991
Copyright: Copyright © 1990 by Nkui, Inc.
Cover design copyright © 1990 by One Plus One Studio.
Cover illustration copyright © 1990 by Don Brautigam.
Publisher: Thorndike~Magna
Page Count: 216
Cover Price: None
States: No statement of printing

Hardcover

ISBN:1-56054-044-3

Trade paperback

ISBN:1-56054-999-8

Notes

Nova Express Summer 1990I titled this book ONE O’CLOCK JUMP after the song. My publisher insisted on BERSERK! We exchanged severed horse’s heads, then compromised. pic.twitter.com/39gZcj9KxI
— Dean Koontz (@deankoontz) May 15, 2020

The limited edition used the same pages as the trade edition. Therefore, both the trade and limited ISBNs are listed on the copyright page. This has caused some confusion among collectors. The limited edition contains a signature page, was issued without at just jacket, and a slipcase. The trade edition was issued with a dust jacket, no slipcase, and no signature page.

New York Times #1 bestseller for first two weeks of February 1989.

Pictured on cover of The #1 New York Times Best Seller.

Twelfth of the top 15 fiction bestsellers of 1990.

Review appears on p63 of Interzone #36 (June 1990) and p8 of Nova Express, Summer 1990

Related items:

The Bad Place inscription to Gary Elswick

Other editions:

UK Uncorrected Proof
UK Trade Hardcover
UK BCE
Spanish Trade Paperback

Last updated on September 3rd, 2018