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

More (original) Frankenstein comics on the way!

July 8, 2015

Horror novelist Dean Koontz is coming back to Dynamite for a new six-issue miniseries Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge. Koontz has written five novels featuring his re-imagined version of the classic Mary Shelley tale and this will be his second time bringing the world to comics. The first series adapted the novel Prodigal Son, but Storm Surge is an original story in the Koontz created universe. The new series will be co-written by Chuck Dixon (The Punisher) and drawn by Andres Ponce (Doctor Who).

Read the full article @ story synopsis @ BleedingCool.com

New Odd MP3-CDs

July 3, 2015

Looks like Brilliance is starting to double up titles when it comes to MP3-CD audiobook releases. With official release dates of 1 July 2015 here’s Odd Hours/Odd Interlude and Odd Apocalypse/Deeply Odd.
   

Another Foreign Edition Quiz

July 1, 2015

Here’s another foreign language edition of a Koontz title. Leave your guess in the comments.

Two Ashley Bell e-novellas are coming

June 29, 2015

Just found this via edelweiss, a multi-publisher promotional Website:

SUPPORTING NOVELLAS AND OTHER GROUNDBREAKING DIGITAL INITIATIVES: Dean will write two 20,000 word E-novellas in support of the novel, and we will be developing other fresh promotional initiatives as part of our major marketing campaign.

Not one, like recent books, but two this time. Details as I discover them.

Ashley Bell moved up to December 2015

June 29, 2015

Received this notice from Amazon.com early this morning.

Koontz, Dean “Ashley Bell: A Novel”
Previous estimated arrival date: January 12, 2016
New estimated arrival date: December 08, 2015

So it looks like the wait for Ashley Bell just got a month shorter.

Childrens Hospital: “Koontz Is Coming”

June 27, 2015

 

But when Childrens Hospital gets it right, it really gets it right. That’s the case again for this week’s latest episode, “Koontz Is Coming.” The episode is an homage to British sitcom Fawlty Towersand also a tip of the hat to the work of “the one and only suspense thriller novelist, Dean Koontz.” It’s also another fantastic showing for Childrens Hospital.

Read the whole review @ A.V. Club.
I was previously unaware of this show and just watched this episode. Not sure I’ll watch any more, but it was fun

Artfully Odd: How a book designer captured the essence of Dean Koontz’s bestselling Odd Thomas series

June 25, 2015

Virginia Norey, associate design director for the Random House group, has worked on the entire Odd Thomas series, in which each book features unique original art on the title page and elsewhere. As the series comes to a close with Saint Odd, she reflects on the choices behind each image. She says, “The art within the Odd Thomas series sets the reader on a journey; it illustrates nuances of mood in each book, and depicts the movement of his story.”

 
Read the full article @ Random House Books

DDSCast Book 5: Odd Thomas

June 25, 2015

Starring James Bricknell and Walter Pavlik with Guest Becca Howes
(Duration: 47 minutes 16.3 MB)
Welcome to the Dewey Decibel System, “A social bookclub for the internet age.”
Join Walter, Becca, and James for our review of Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
This episode is the only one for Odd Thomas as the team wanted to talk about the passing of Sir Terry Pratchett and any way, we didn’t get any emails!

Horror in Vancouver: talking spider-munchin' on the set of FOX-TV's Intensity

June 25, 2015

Back in ’97 I got assigned by Fangoria magazine to cover the filming of a FOX-TV miniseries called Intensity. Normally I wouldn’t give a rat’s ass about a FOX-TV miniseries, but this one was based on a novel I really loved by Dean Koontz, so I was in.
Here’s a shortened version of the story that ran in the September 1997 issue of Fango, the one with Spawn on the cover.
Like a master carver, Dean Koontz meticulously sliced away everything that wasn’t essential on his 1995 novel Intensity, ending up with a tidy, 300-page knockout of a horrific suspense yarn. With just two main characters, one storyline, and everything squeezed into a 24-hour time frame, his lean tale of philosophical serial killer Edgler Vess and Chyna Shepherd—the young woman who courageously steps into his blood-spattered path to save a teenage girl—was a short, sharp little switchblade of a story.
Even literary types were impressed.

Read the full article @ The Georgia Straight