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The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz is now online!
May 7, 2018
Welcome to the brand new online version of The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz!
What makes this version different than the previous two?
- This isn’t just a blog. The blog continues as part of this site, but there is SO MUCH MORE.
- This site contains the content of what was going to be in the many-years-late print book from Cemetery Dance Publications. There still may be a book someday, not for now, it’s all available to you, for free, here on this site.
Though today is the official launch date, there’s still a lot of content that’s not on the site yet. As of today, I’ve entered everything from G-Z with some exceptions.
For those of you that like stats, at the time of this post there are 445 guide entries containing 1,044 individual editions and the site as a whole has 1,270 images. By my estimates, only about 50% of the content is in the site right now.
Feel free to comment, submit new content, I just ask that you first read Noah Mitchell’s Foreword, my Introduction, the About the Guide page, and the FAQ, before asking too many questions. There are a lot of answers already on those pages.
In the weeks and months to come I’ll continue to enter more content slowly but surely. Be sure to keep an eye here, or on Facebook or Twitter for continuing news and new content announcements.
What’s New & Updated September 1, 2025
August 31, 2025
Despite this week’s concert I was able to add a handful of items.
- From the Desk of Dean: Quite the birthday gift & “bulldozing the fourth wall”
- Rapport, June-July 1993 to Appendix B
- Trapped magazine ad
- Good Guy & Odd Thomas magazine ad
- Life Expectancy & Odd Thomas magazine ad
Throwback Thursday: The Great American Paperback
August 28, 2025
What’s New & Updated August 24, 2025
August 24, 2025
Attended a Counting Crows show a few days ago which threw off my whole week sleep-wise. There’s another show coming up this week so no promises.
- The Crooked Staircase audiobook ad in Library Journal
Throwback Thursday: Ghost Movies II
August 21, 2025
What’s New & Updated August 17, 2025
August 17, 2025
Turs out that the entry for Phantoms’ “A Note to the Reader” needs a lot of work and some of those editions are still in boxes. Here’s hoping I can locate them soon.
- Phantoms POD TPBK
- A Note to the Reader Phantoms POD TPBK
- Afterword to Phantoms POD TPBK
Throwback Thursday: Fear Nothing Limited Hard Cover
August 14, 2025
What’s New & Updated August 10, 2025
August 10, 2025
Here I am, trying to get back into the swing of things. New editions like these print-on-demand trade paperbacks and the fact that I’ve missed a bunch of recent large print releases (forthcoming) are helping the situation.
- Darkfall POD TPBK
- The Door to December – Revised Edition POD TPBK
- Afterword to The Door to December – Revised Edition POD TPBK
- Cross references for From the Desk of Dean Koontz: Following other catastrophes, the entrepreneurial saga continues and Red Dog Bait and Me.
- Dean Koontz: 120 Novels Published. 500M Copies Sold by Appendix B
Throwback Thursday: Bad Place Dump Topper
August 7, 2025
Dean Koontz: 120 Novels Published. 500M Copies Sold.
August 6, 2025
It seems I missed this extensive interview from How I Write back in May.
What’s New & Updated August 3, 2025
August 3, 2025
A new newsletter (with a forthcoming cross-reference) and a new appearance of Koontz Lizard. I’ve saved several new items on deck for next week in the hopes that I can get back to an item a day instead of scrambling on the weekends.
- From the Desk of Dean Koontz: Following other catastrophes, the entrepreneurial saga continues
- Vaughn Bodé’s Complete Deadbone Erotica to Appendix G(1)
Throwback Thursday: These Immigrants Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Green Cards!
July 31, 2025
What’s New & Updated July 27, 2025
July 27, 2025
Family visiting this week but I was able to squeeze in what I promised last week.
- The Forest of Lost Souls Large Print Hardcover
Throwback Thursday: A Darkness in My Soul
July 24, 2025
What’s New & Updated July 20, 2025
July 20, 2025
Just one new item today as the large print edition of Going Home in the Dark finally came out. (Which made me remember to look for the LP of Forest. Look for that next week.)
- Going Home in the Dark Large Print Hardcover
Throwback Thursday: Science Fiction Quotations
July 17, 2025
What’s New & Updated July 13, 2025
July 13, 2025
A special thanks to two readers who posted comments pointing out some needed corrections to the site this past few weeks. I’m sure there are some others. Happy error hunting!
- Typo fixed on the Odd Hours BCE entry
- Source material note added to, and cross references updated for Fear That Man
- “With Murderous ‘Intensity'” by Cathy Lubenski to Intensity (TV)
Throwback Thursday: The Shaman by Frank Coffey
July 10, 2025
Happy Birthday Dean!
July 9, 2025
What’s New & Updated July 6, 2025
July 6, 2025
I’m back from the American Library Association conference and cone again, Amazon’s book was a letdown on the Koontz front beyond a single image on a flyer and copies of The Forest of Lost Souls on display. But hey, the mail contained a gem waiting for me, and Dean wrote a new essay.
- From the Desk of Dean: The story of my first job. The important thing is… I lived.
- Amazon Publishing flyer to Going Home in the Dark
- September 2002 Mystery Scene appearance of “Oh, to Be in Cedar Rapids When the Hog Blood Flows”
Throwback Thursday: Mefisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison
July 3, 2025
