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Once you’ve had a wonderful dog…

April 7, 2019

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What’s New & Updated April 1, 2019

April 1, 2019

As mentioned last week, this week was focusing on non-Koontz issues. So, there are no updates this week. You can however, look forward to The Forbidden Door Premium Paperback being released tomorrow.

Also, for those interested, here’s some updates site statistics:

  • Guide entries: 636
  • Edition entries: 1,674
  • Images: 2,096

What’s New & Updated March 24, 2019

March 24, 2019

The main Odd Thomas stories are done along with the film. The supplemental stories are on deck. However, I’m going to be incommunicado most of this coming week so please don’t expect much, if anything at all, as updates next week.

2019 Best Male Narrator

March 22, 2019

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What’s New & Updated March 18, 2019

March 18, 2019

Working my way through the Odd Thomas series. Sadly, some of my source material was seriously miss-organized so I had to fix that first. This prevented me from getting further than I’d hoped this week.

Buster’s Book Reviews volume 33: Dark Rivers of the Heart

March 16, 2019

Nevermore promo sketch

March 16, 2019

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A vampire named Dean

March 12, 2019

“The vampires were slithering in for the final kill.

“He shot two of them, but since his bullets weren’t silver, the wolves picked themselves up from the crushed snow and kept coming. The man reloaded. They were circling him now, drawing the noose tighter, lower jaws down and open as their long canine tongues flicked over fangs, lips drawn back in fierce grinning snarls, their eyes filled with blood lust and greed. Emma recognized them. Stephen… Ann… Chelsea… Peter… Dean, and perhaps Graham. Where were the rest of them?”

The Last Vampire by Kathryn Meyer Griffith, Zebra Books, 1992, p274-5

What’s New & Updated March 11, 2019

March 11, 2019

Just one new entry this week but it signals the push to get all of the Odd Thomas novels into the site finally. Also, I spent way too much time digging for the release date of a certain trade paperback edition which sadly revealed no results. Check out the entry for details.

What’s New & Updated March 4, 2019

March 4, 2019

Obscure references is the topic of the week. That and there’s now a copy of the Hideaway script in my collection.

Kids present school reports on Dean

March 3, 2019

Their posters look great. I hope they both got As.


Meet Writer

March 3, 2019

What’s New & Updated February 26, 2019

February 26, 2019

Autographs from Trixie and Dean

I’m a day late and nothing to show for it beyond the few blog posts of this past week. I’m going to blame it on illness, other life events, and losing some steam after my vacation. Here’s looking forward to this week and getting back on track with new entries and updates.

Dean Koontz is Tiger Wood’s favorite author

February 25, 2019

French book trailer for The Whispering Room

February 20, 2019

The Night Window: Chapters 1-4

February 20, 2019

Chapter 1

The triple-pane floor-to-ceiling windows of Hollister’s study frame the rising plain to the west, the foothills, and the distant Rocky Mountains that were long-ago born from the earth in cataclysm, now dark and majestic against a sullen sky. It is a view to match the man who stands at this wall of glass. The word cataclysm is a synonym for disaster or upheaval but also for revolution, and he is the leader of the greatest revolution in history. The greatest and the last. The end of history is near, after which his vision of a pacified world will endure forever.

Meanwhile, there are mundane tasks to perform, obligations to address. For one thing, there is someone who needs to be killed.

In a few hours, when a late-season storm descends on these high plains east of Denver, the hunt will begin, and one of two men will die at the hand of the other, a fact Wainwright Warwick Hollister finds neither exhilarating nor frightening. Of profound importance to Hollister is that he avoid the character weaknesses of his father, Orenthal Hollister, and at all times comport himself in a more formidable and responsible manner than had his old man. Among other things, this means that when someone needs to be eliminated, the killing can’t always be done by a hireling. If a man is too finicky to get blood on his hands once in a while, or if he lacks the courage to put himself at physical risk, then he can’t claim to be a leader in this world of wolves, nor even a member of the pack, but is instead only a sheep in wolf’s clothing.

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What’s New & Updated February 18, 2019

February 18, 2019

Sharing by Richard Young (Barbizon)

Simply put, nothing. Why? Well, last week I was on vacation, some of which I was home and sick. The rest I was relatively healthy and spending three bucket list-worthy days in The Big Apple. (Tolkien, Birdland, Louis Armstrong, Jim Henson, Jazz at Lincoln Center.) So, today is all about recovery and digging out from the six inches of snow that came down while I was gone and the larger virtual pile of emails.

See you next Monday.

What’s New & Updated February 10, 2019

February 10, 2019

Updates? You want updates? Boy have I got updates for you this week. (Especially if you like pictures!)

The Demon Seed (film) page received several additions…

  • Donald Cammell: A Life on the Wild Side
  • Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance IMDB link and embedded video from YouTube
  • Julie Christie by Anthony Hayward
  • Pure Images: The Magazine of Film and Television, Spring 1977

Then there’s a whole bunch of
Ephemera updates & Editions…

  • 7 Ghastly Side Effects of Stephen King’s E-Books (image)
  • About the Author by Alfred and Emily Glossbrenner (image)
  • The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel (image)
  • Betrayal by Sonja Massie (image)
  • Book Business by Jason Epstein (image)
  • Book Wars a Flick by Rosette (image)
  • Bullies, Bastards & Bitches: How to Write the Bad Guys of Fiction by Jessica Page Morrell (image)
  • Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (image)
  • Christian Horror: On the Compatibility of a Biblical Worldview and the Horror Genre by Mike Duran (image)
  • Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic: The Authorized Biography by Douglas E. Winter (image)
  • Dark Harvest catalog/preview (image)
  • The Devil’s Numbers by G.M. Hague (image)
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin (image)
  • Elijah by Frank Redman (image)
  • Fab 40 by The Tribune-Democrat and Johnstown Magazine (image)
  • Fangoria #343 (image)
  • Frankenstorm by Ray Garton (image)
  • Ghost: Investigating the Other Side by Katherine Ramsland (images)
  • The Girl on the Glider by Brian Keene (image)
  • The Great American Paperback by Richard A. Lupoff (image)
  • The Green Devotional: Active Prayers for a Healthy Planet by Karen Speerstra (image)
  • In Laymon’s Terms edited by Kelly Laymon, Steve Gerlach & Richard Chizmar (images)
  • In Lumine Tuo (In Thy Light): Why Believe in God by Abalo Kossi (image)
  • Interzone #36
  • Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (image)
  • John Saul: A Critical Companion by Paul Bail (image)
  • Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller 1900-1999 by Michael Korda (image)
  • Mefisto in Onyx by Harlan Ellison (images)
  • Moon on the Water by Mort Castle (image)
  • My Soul to Take by Steven Spruill (image)
  • The Mystery Fancier (image)
  • The Narrows by Michael Connelly (image)
  • Night Cry magazine, Fall 1987 (image)
  • Night Visions 7 edited by Stanley Waiter (image)
  • The Other Extreme by T.J. MacGregor (image)
  • Paperbacks From Hell by Grady Hendrix (image)
  • Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today by Katherine Ramsland (image)
  • Publicity on the Internet by Steve O’Keefe (image)
  • Raga Six by Frank Lauria (image)
  • Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon: Joe Queenan’s America by Joe Queenan (image)
  • The Revelation by Bentley Little (image)
  • Sacred Prey by Vivian Schilling (image)
  • Sandworm #19
  • Shackled by Ray Garton (image)
  • Texas Sunrise by Fern Michaels (image)
  • Time Bomb by Jonathan Kellerman (image)
  • Trade Secrets by Ray Garton (image)
  • Vanished by T. J. MacGregor (image)
  • The War on Humans by Wesley J. Smith (image)
  • “What Stephen King Does For Love” (images)
  • The Woods Are Dark (The Restored & Uncut Edition) by Richard Laymon (image)
  • Write Away: One Novelist’s Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life by Elizabeth George (image)

I must admit that the addition of all those images to the Ephemera page has mucked with the layout. Eventually I do intend to reformat the whole thing so that this appendix looks more like the Books About Dean page, but that’s on my list of “long term issues” to deal with later. (Same with the Errors appendix.)

And last but not least, I’ve added images for these entries on the Collecting Errors appendix…

  • Magazine advertisement for Saturn Car Manufacturers
  • After the Race by Dean Koontz
  • All the Lonely People by David B. Silva
  • Dead. Dead again. One More Time by Dean Koontz
  • Heartbeeps by John Hill
  • From A Checklist of Dean R. Koontz compiled by Christopher R. Stephens
  • Sharkman Six by Owen West
  • Wings of Fireby Jonathan Strahan and Marianne S. Jablon

What’s New & Updated February 4, 2019

February 4, 2019

A bunch of related items this week.

Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings

February 2, 2019

This book by Bernard Berelson & Gary A. Steiner also has an obscure connection to Dean’s writings. Hint: It’s the same connection as the issue of Science Digest I posted about a few days ago. The answer will be included in this Monday’s site update but guesses are welcome.