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Il Codice
April 27, 2023
I just returned from a vacation in Tuscany, Italy, and picked up an Italian copy of Elsewhere. Sadly, this was the only Koontz book I could find in the several bookstores I stepped into.
Throwback Thursday: Vaughn Bode’s Erotica
April 27, 2023
Throwback Thursday: Science Fiction, Patterns in Literary Art
April 20, 2023
Throwback Thursday: Demon Seed on Beta
April 13, 2023
What’s New & Updated April 9, 2023
April 9, 2023
Just one update this week, but it’s a minor detail that’s been eluding me for years. In other news, updates may be non-existent for the next few weeks as I’ll be on a much-needed vacation. (On which I hope to come back with a few new additions to my Koontz collection.)
- New details regarding the unproduced 1989 film version of Phantoms
Throwback Thursday: Strangers proof
April 6, 2023
What’s New & Updated April 2, 2023
April 2, 2023
The list is short this week, but the content is huge. Previously to this week, collectors, including myself, were aware of this one issue of Central Pennsylvania Trend magazine containing “The Terrible Weapon” by Dean. However, all I’d ever seen was a photocopy of the cover and the story. Amazingly, there’s a mint copy on eBay right now. (You can look, but as of this writing, it’s going for more than $1500. I’m no longer bidding.)
However, what we’ve learned from this sale is that not only was Dean listed as an “Associate Editor” for this issue, but also there’s an article titled “R and X Ratings” by our old friend K.R. Dwyer!
Check out the entries and some additional related photos via the links below.
- Darkfall review in Science Fiction Chronicle #67
- Updated cover image for “The Terrible Weapon”
- “R and X Ratings” by K.R. Dwyer
- Dean as Associate Editor for Central Pennsylvania Trend, Jan/Feb 1972
Throwback Thursday: Dean Koontz in Second Life
March 30, 2023
What’s New & Updated March 26, 2023
March 26, 2023
Sorry, nothing new this week as I’m feeling a bit under the weather and my day job is kicking my butt. In the meantime enjoy this recent short video from Dean.
Throwback Thursday: Great Escapes New Designs for Home Theatres by Theo Kalomirakis
March 23, 2023
What’s New & Updated March 19, 2023
March 19, 2023
Things got the better of me this week, so there’s just one new essay this time.
- From the Desk of Dean: Grandma Pearl at the Bureau of Excuse Making
Throwback Thursday: The Good Guy ARC
March 16, 2023
What’s New & Updated March 12, 2023
March 12, 2023
This week: New cover art, new (to me) blurb, new edition, and more.
- After Death cover art
- Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor to Appendix D
- The House at the End of the World Large Print Hardcover
- Some details on the demise of Eclipse Comics to the Trapped graphic novel page.
- “Why You Should Binge Read Dean Koontz” to Appendix B
After Death cover art revealed
March 10, 2023
Throwback Thursday: Criminal Justice Through Science Ficiton
March 9, 2023
What’s New & Updated March 5, 2023
March 5, 2023
I did do a bunch of updates this week, but since these beautiful limited editions of Watchers arrived, I decide to just focus on those this week. Everything else I’ll put off announcing them until next week. Enjoy!
Throwback Thursday: Share the Warm Flesh
March 2, 2023
What’s New & Updated February 26, 2023
February 26, 2023
Yep, I’m still backlogged when it comes to adding interviews. Here’s a bunch more.
- Updated gutter code details for the BCE of Darkfall
- Devoted review in the Spring 2020 issue of Suspense Magazine
- Letter to Margaret Duarte
- “Tomes & Tones: Squarepusher Paired with Dean Koontz” to Odd Thomas
- “No, Not That Critic” by Tracy Devine and related info to Relentless
- Added to Appendix B
- The Red Hot Chilli Writers Episode 44 – Dean Koontz, The Other Emily, the biggest selling authors of all time, and a brief history of the Bible
- Suspense Radio: Interview with Dean Koontz
- Meet the Thriller Author #93: Dean Koontz
- Meet the Thriller Author #139: Dean Koontz
- Meet the Thriller Author #187: Dean Koontz
- National Review: The Bookmonger Podcast: “Dean Koontz on The Darkest Evening of the Year” & “Dean Koontz on What the Night Knows”
- Added to Appendix G2
- Breakfast in the Ruins by Barry N. Malzberg
- The Decline of the Novel by Joseph Bottum
Throwback Thursday: The Crimson Witch
February 23, 2023
What’s New & Updated February 19, 2023
February 19, 2023
More interviews this week as I’m still digging out of my core list of “hey, get back to this” items. I fished watching all three In Search of Horror films, and I highly recommend them if you love 80s horror movies.
- Fangoria #11 to The Funhouse (film) & The Funhouse by Owen West
- Added to Appendix B
- Dog Edition #22: Dean Koontz: How Dogs Changed My Life
- “Our fam gets together with Dean Koontz,” Scott Simon of NPR
- BingeBooks Book Club with Dean Koontz: The Big Dark Sky
- Dean Koontz, Bloody Scotland 2022
- SciFiNow, “Dean Koontz on The Big Dark Sky, Incredible Coincidences and Buying Tows for His Dogs”
- Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books: Dean Koontz, Quicksilver and The Big Dark Sky
- Added to Appendix G(2)
- Acne: A Memoir by Laura Chinn
- “The way we read now” by Joseph Bottum
- In Search of Darkness & In Search of Darkness II reference to Watchers (Film)
- In Search of Darkness, In Search of Darkness II, and In Search of Darkness III references to The Funhouse (Film)
- In Search of Darkness III reference to Demon Seed (Film)
- The Horror of Babylon Bonus Episode: It Vs Phantoms to Phantoms
- “The old pornographers” by Alez Nevala-Lee to Writing Popular Fiction
- Alec Nevala-Lee interviews science fiction author Barry N. Malzberg to The Flesh in the Furnace, Writing Popular Fiction, and How to Write Best Selling Ficiton