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Pre-signed copies of Ashley Bell
September 26, 2015
It looks like Barnes & Noble is offering signed copies of the next book Ashley Bell as they’ve done with other recent titles. Currently they have it listed for $20.72 with an 9781101965818.
Last Light available today
September 8, 2015
Don’t forget, Last Light, the first of two eNovella prequels to Ashley Bell was released this morning and is available on all major platforms.
Ashely Bell ARC
September 2, 2015
Weighing in at 560 pages, there goes my weekend.
Horrorstruck: The World of Dark Fantasy
August 29, 2015
Last week I found a full nine-issue run of Horrorstruck magazine from back in the late 80s with which Dean had a connection. Through the magic of the Internet I contacted the magazine’s editor and was able to get the details filled in. Here’s the entry as it currently reads in the manuscript followed by the relevant cover images.
Horrorstruck: The World of Dark Fantasy
(magazine)
Paul F. Olson, Editor-in-Chief
Dean R. Koontz, contributing editor
Horrorstruck was a nine-issue magazine published bi-monthly by Paul F. Olson from 1987 through 1988. The first four issues list Dean as one of several “contributing editors” and a “Coming next issue” segment on page 44 of the first issue states that Dean will be publishing a column starting in issue #2. However no contribution ever appeared. I contacted Mr. Olson in August 2015 and here’s what he had to say:
“The story with Dean is quite simple: he committed to being a regular contributor to Horrorstruck and then got incredibly busy and was unable to follow through. He told me a few weeks before deadline that he would have to skip the first issue but would be in issue two for sure. Then the same thing happened again. After three or four issues, he finally fessed up that he would not be able to keep his promise, and I quietly removed him from the list of contributing editors.”
The four issues listing Dean as a contributing editor are dates as follows: May/June 1987, July/August 1987, September/October 1987, and November/December 1987.
Ashley Bell "Target Edition"
August 22, 2015
The “Target Edition” of the forthcoming Ashley Bell can across my feeds last night and all ISBN.nu has to say about it is that the ISBN is 9781101965825. My guess at this point is that, like other recent hardcover releases, Target will be offering an autographed edition under a different ISBN than the standard trade edition. As always, I’ll post more as I find it.
Ashley Bell prequel eNovellas now available for pre-order
August 21, 2015
The previously mentioned two eNovellas that preface Ashley Bell are now available for pre-order. Click either of the covers to link to their Amazon/Kindle pages or head on over to DeanKoontz.com for other platforms.
Last Light:
From bestselling author Dean Koontz comes an eBook original novella, the first of two tales that pave the way for Ashley Bell, his new novel of dark suspense! A woman with a good heart and a troubling gift. A man with a twisted soul and a terrifying talent. In this literal war of wills, only one can survive.
With just a touch, Makani Hisoka-O’Brien can see the deepest secrets that others conceal—and it frightens her. There’s danger in the terrible knowledge that floods her mind and haunts her conscience.
With just a touch, Rainer Sparks can learn the biggest problems that others bear—and it thrills him. There’s profit to be made making problems go away, by any means . . . including murder.
In a place as big as Southern California, these two might have never met and discovered one another’s chilling abilities. But good and evil have a way of colliding . . . with shattering consequences.
Final Hour:
Following Last Light comes Final Hour, the second of two standalone eBook original tales tying in toAshley Bell, the highly anticipated new novel of dark suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz!
The City UK ARC
August 20, 2015
Arrived in today’s mail.
Frankenstein: Storm Surge #2 preview
August 19, 2015
DEAN KOONTZ’S FRANKENSTEIN: STORM SURGE #2 (OF 6)
Cover: Andres Ponce
Writer: Dean Koontz, Chuck Dixon
Art: Andres Ponce
Dean Koontz continues this all-new modern reimagination of the classic horror tale Frankenstein, created exclusively for comics! As Hurricane Shelley sends refugees fleeing like rats, Victor Frankenstein discovers that his portal to an alternate dimension has been used… and decides that the captive, animated head of Karloff must suffer for keeping its secrets. Meanwhile, Erika Five explores a whole new world, one with its own Karloff to question, a doppelganger just as treacherous as his namesake. Will Victor’s true motives stand revealed?
Source: BleedingCool.com
Reading lists: Who decides what your child reads?
August 18, 2015
There’s nothing like a “mom complains about a book her child is reading” to bring together my library world and my Dean Koontz world…
More @ WTSP.com
Dave Mustaine mentions Dean on Twitter
August 17, 2015
@jpstorie78 @StephenKing Thanks! We had Dean Koontz write our album liner bio once, maybe we can get Stephen, if he does things like this.
— Dave Mustaine (@DaveMustaine) August 17, 2015
Dean featured today by The Pulp Librarian
August 16, 2015
Time for some #badscificovers…
Star Quest, by Dean R Koontz. Ace, 1968. pic.twitter.com/ibLXVd9WZl
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) August 16, 2015
"How to Write 10 Pages a Day" by Stephen King
August 15, 2015
It is totally minor, but King mentions Dean in his article “How to Write 10 Pages a Day” in the April 2001 issue of Writer’s Digest.
The Nightrunners by Joe R. Lansdale
August 15, 2015
Dean wrote the Introduction to this classic horror novel…
Everybody remembers their first Joe R. Lansdale story.
Mine was “Night They Missed the Horror Show,” which I read in the anthology Splatterpunks in 1991. To say I was unprepared for this black-hearted tale of racist hillbilly snuff-film purveyors and the high-school hellraisers who inadvertently stumble upon their doings is an understatement. Like a sucker punch to a soft belly or a club to the base of the skull, “Horror Show” leaves you stunned, out of breath, a hurt growing inside you that you know won’t be leaving any time soon. Hasn’t left me this quarter-century later. I know Lansdale would have it no other way.
Funny thing was, I craved that feeling. Sought it out. So within a couple months I’d finally tracked down Lansdale’s 1987 novel The Nightrunners (published in paperback by Tor, March 1989). I recall coming home one afternoon from the bookstore I worked at with my brand-new copy, going into my room, locking the door and then reading it in one white-hot unputdownable session. That had never happened to me before; I usually savored my horror fiction over several late nights. ButThe Nightrunners wouldn’t let go. Lansdale’s skill in doling out suspense and the threat/promise of the horrible things to come is unbeatable. He even tells you flat-out, after quoting a newspaper article about victims of a “Rapist Ripper,” that “no one knew there was a connection between the two savaged bodies and what was going to happen to Montgomery and Becky Jones.” You know you got to keep reading after that!
Read more @ Tor.com.
1977 Review of the Demon Seed film
August 9, 2015
Say hello to the May 1977 issue of Texas Monthly. Click the cover for a link to the Google Books version of the article titled “Bombs Bursting in Air” featuring reviews of Black Sunday and Demon Seed.
Forbidden Panel Episode #137: Odd Thomas (and other topics)
August 1, 2015
Source: http://forbiddenpanel.com/PanelCast/episode-137/
Details about the next Frankenstein comic from Previews
July 30, 2015
The top 10 audiobooks on Audible.com
July 25, 2015
July 21, 2015 – Ficiton
1. Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee, narrated by Reese Witherspoon (Harper Audio)
2. Armada by Ernest Cline, narrated by Wil Wheaton (Random House Audio)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, narrated by Sissy Spacek (Harper Audio)
4. The Martian by Andy Weir, narrated by B.C. Bray (Podium Publishing)
5. Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as told by Christian by E.L. James, narrated by Zachary Webber (Random House Audio)
6. Die Again: Rizzoli & Isles by Tess Gerritsen, narrated by Tanya Eby (Brilliance Audio)
7. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, narrated by Clare Corbett, Louis Brealey and India Fisher (Penguin Audio)
8. Dust to Dust by Tami Hoag, narrated by David Colacci (Brilliance Audio)
9. You by Caroline Kepnes, narrated by Santino Fontana (Simon & Schuster Audio)
10.The Funhouse by Dean Koontz, narrated by Karen Peakes (Brilliance Audio)
Source: The Houston Chronicle.
DC Comics artist discusses career, life and industry future
July 25, 2015
Fans of DC Comics are no doubt familiar with the drawings of Brett Booth. And today they will get another dose of his creative ways when DC Comics releases “The Flash No. 42.”
Booth, who lives near Fort Hancock (about 50 miles east of El Paso) has worked on The X-Men, Fantastic Four and Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein.
He has also worked on some big names in the DC Universe, doing art for Teen Titans, Justice League of America, Nightwing and Batman/Superman, as well as The Flash, a mainstay in the DC Comics stable.
Red the full article @ The ElPaso Times.
More details on Frankenstein: Storm Surge
July 10, 2015
Dynamite Entertainment is proud to announce the October launch of Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge, an all-new six-issue miniseries. From the celebrated imagination of the bestselling novelist comes a powerful reworking of one the most classic stories of all time, co-written by veteran comic book author Chuck Dixon (Batman, The Punisher) and illustrated by Andres Ponce (Doctor Who, Transformers Prime).
Frankenstein: Storm Surge #1 continues the fan-favorite reimagining of “The Modern Prometheus” seen in Koontz’s previous Dynamite series, focusing on cast members Victor and Erika. While healing from a beating she suffered at the hands of Victor Helios – once Dr. Frankenstein – and her own maker, Erika Five decides to leave the comfort of her glassed-in porch and bottle of cognac to go exploring into Victor’s secret home lab, which she believes is an antechamber to something more sinister. With the help of the bodiless head Karloff and his disembodied hand, Erika finds a secret lab and within sees experiments revealing Victor’s attempts to do more than create a race of super-immortals… and a mirror-like portal to another universe, one of infinite realities Victor is trying to bridge for his own terrifying reasons!Regarding the new series, Dean Koontz says, “With Frankenstein: Storm Surge, Dynamite has wonderfully revitalized this series. Uber cool!”
Happy 70th Birthday Dean!
July 9, 2015
