Essays

These Immigrants Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Green Cards!

as the introduction to “They’re Here…”: Invasion of the Body Snatchers: A Tribute edited by Kevin McCarthy and Ed Gorman (Trade Paperback)

Release Date: January 1999
Copyright: Copyright © 1999 by Dean Koontz
Publisher: Berkley Boulevard Books
Page Count: 273
Appears on page(s): vii-xi
ISBN-10: 0-425-16527-2
Cover Price: $13.00
States: “Berkley Boulevard trade paperback edition / January 1999” and “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1”

Useless News

Release Date: Holidays 2009
Appears on page(s): 3-4

as the introduction to Invasion of the Body Snatchers: A Tribute edited by Kevin McCarthy and Ed Gorman (Trade Paperback)

Release Date: July 14, 2006
Copyright: Copyright © 1999 by Dean Koontz
Publisher: Stark House Press
Page Count: 242
Appears on page(s): 7-12
ISBN-10: 1-933586-07-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-933586-07-6
Cover Price: $19.95
States: “First Stark House Press Edition: June 2006”
Re-titled reprint of “They’re Here…”: Invasion of the Body Snatchers: A Tribute.

as the foreword to Invasion of the Body Snatchers: 60th Anniversary Edition by Jack Finney (Trade Paperback)

Release Date: October 6, 2015
Copyright: Foreword copyright © 2015 by Dean Koontz
Publisher: Touchstone
Page Count: 206
Appears on page(s): vii-xi
ISBN-13: 978-1-5011-1782-4
Cover Price: $15.99
States: “First Touchstone trade paperback edition October 2015” and “1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2”

Notes

From The Crooked Staircase (ARC p161):
‘From across the table, Jergen regards the twins and says, “Uncle
Ira is not Uncle Ira.”
‘He doesn’t know who chose these new key words. The sentence is from Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, a 1955 novel, twice filmed well, about an alien life form that perfectly mimics specific people, takes their place, and disposes of them. The analogy is not as apt as is the reference to the Condon novel, but not every Arcadian is as keen of wit as the late Dr. Shenneck.’

Last updated on April 6th, 2018