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Big-time evil
December 30, 2014
The Stunning Conclusion
December 23, 2014
Odd time
December 18, 2014
One Month Left…
December 13, 2014
“John D. MacDonald, My Absurd Voice, and a Wonderful Dog named Rhu” by Dean Koontz
December 12, 2014
Dean’s published a new essay on his site “on writing and narrating introductions for the new John D. MacDonald audiobook collection.”
A couple of weeks ago, I went to a recording studio to read short introductions that I had done for the Audible audiobook versions of eight John D. MacDonald novels. The late John D was arguably the greatest author of popular fiction in the 20th century; and his work is better than most of what passes for “literary” fiction. If I had to name two novelist heroes, Dickens and John D would make that short list. Therefore, being asked to write those introductions and read them in front of a microphone was not a chore; it was an honor.
Read the full essay @ DeanKoontz.com.
Great deal on Frankenstein digital comics and a whole bunch more
December 12, 2014
Humble Bundle is once again be teaming with Dynamite Entertainment. This go-round Dynamite will be offering such titles as Bob’s Burgers, The Twilight Zone, and the Django/Zorro crossover co-authored by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner. In addition, this bundle includes Mark Waid, Darick Robertson, Garth Ennis, Gail Simone, Kevin Smith, Alex Ross, J. Michael Straczynski, David Mack, Howard Chaykin, Bill Willingham, Sean Phillips, Tim Seeley,Chuck Dixon, Andy Diggle, Duane Swierczynski,Joshua Hale Fialkov and many more.
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Fans who beat the average price will also receive 105 comics total with a combined value of over $380 including Living Corpse Omnibus, Doodle Jump #2, Dean Koontz: Frankenstein – Prodigal Son, Curse of the Wendigo, Monster War #1-4, Devilers #3-4,Twilight Zone #1-4, Uncanny #1, Alice Cooper #2, Mark Waid’s Green Hornet #4-6, Red Sonja Vol. 2, Pathfinder Vol. 2: Tooth and Claw, Kirby Genesis #0-8, Shaft #1, and Jim Butcher: Dresden War Cry #1-3.
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The Humble Dynamite MEGA Holidays Bundle runs for two weeks and ends Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at 11 a.m. Pacific time.
Get all the details @ Bleeding Cool.
Dean Koontz News – December 9, 2014
December 11, 2014
New Odd Thomas e-novella out today
December 9, 2014
Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to be Together Forever is now available for download on most major eReader platforms.
No, there is not a film version of Santa's Twin
December 5, 2014
According to this article, ‘“Santa’s Twin,” based on the children’s book by Dean Koontz, will be the featured film’ at an event tomorrow morning at the Sternberg Museum in Hays, KS tomorrow.
The existance of such a film was news to me so I contacted the group hosting the presentation and it was news to them too. They’re doing a Santa’s Twin story-time, not showing a film version.
Curl up with Odd & Stormy next Thursday
December 5, 2014
You won’t find it on a map: 11 fictional places that have appeared in multiple works
December 4, 2014
4. Santa Mira, California
Alien imposters. Invisible men. Malevolent mask-makers. The sleepy California community of Santa Mira has played host to all these horrors, and several others, since director Don Siegal and screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring first introduced it in 1956’s sci-fi classic Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. Modeled after the very real Mill Valley, California—where Jack Finney actually set his 1955 book The Body Snatchers, the film’s source material—Santa Mira is the platonic ideal of safe, clean, small-town America. That makes it, in turn, the perfect ground zero for a supernatural conspiracy, as the friendly facade provides an ideal smokescreen for insidious activities. No wonder other writers and filmmakers have appropriated the fictional locale; it’s appeared, or at least been mentioned, in no less than nine other sci-fi properties, many featuring “replaced” humans—the phantoms of Dean Koontz’s Phantoms, the robot henchmen of Halloween III: Season Of The Witch, the DNAliens of Ben 10: Alien Force. It’s a town fit only for pod people, or maybe for those willing to risk life, limb, and identity for a little breezy West Coast weather.
Read the full article @ A.V. Club.
Autographed copies of The City still available
December 4, 2014
It looks like Books-A-Million still has autographed copies of The City still available on their site for just $23.19. Grab one while you can. This edition has the same ISBN as the one that was offered by Barnes & Noble.
Have you seen the Innocence paperback commercial?
December 4, 2014
We hold each other hostage…
December 4, 2014
Publisher Interview: Richard Chizmar
November 29, 2014
The Black Cat Horror Blog sits down with the owner/founder of Cemetery Dance Publications, Richard Chizmar. Cemetery Dance Publications is a two-time World Fantasy Award winner, a four-time International Horror Critics Guild Award winner, and has been awarded/nominated for just about every other thing in existence when it comes to publishing. Do yourself a favor and, after the interview, sign-up for their magazine subscription–you won’t regret it!
TBC: It’s December 1988, and Cemetery Dance issue # 1 just hit the stands. Did you ever think Cemetery Dance would become what is it today? Or that you’d get to work with the top talent in horror–King, Koontz, Little, Ketchum, Matheson, etc.
Richard: Well, I knew I wanted to, and I knew I was willing to do whatever work was necessary to make it happen…but did I absolutely know it? Nope. But I definitely dreamed it and chased it with everything I had.
TBC: Which authors/books inspired your love for the horror genre?
Richard: Stephen King’s novella “The Monkey” is what made me want to be a writer. That led to all his novels. Also, the early Koontz paperbacks from Berkley. Before that, I read the usual horror comics. Loved THE TWILIGHT ZONE and any scary movie I could find on television. But Stephen King was definitely to blame for all this.
Read the full interview @ The Black Cat Horror Blog.
Dean Koontz: Semi-libertarian
November 29, 2014
Mega-bestselling author Dean Koontz declines to call himself a libertarian. But Publishers Weekly chastised him for allowing his “libertarian views” to seep into his novels; Koontz complains that all politicians “get corrupted by power;” and he admits to being at least “semi-libertarian” on most issues.
But let’s take Koontz at his word; he’s just a semi-libertarian — albeit one who trumpets his distrust of government, power and politicians at almost every opportunity. Some examples:
• In an online chat on CNN.com (September 10, 2001), Koontz said, “Any time I’m looking for a good psychopath [as a character for a novel], I first check out the current crop of Congressmen and see what they are up to.”
• In The Dean Koontz Companion (Headline Book Publishing, 1994), Koontz said, “It had become apparent to me that the worst enemy of the working man and woman is the state, and that the average person is safest in a country that struggles to limit the size of the state.”
Read the full article @ TheAdvocates.org.
Dean Koontz's 'Innocence" and Pheromones of Love and War
November 29, 2014
Pity Addison, the protagonist of Dean Koontz’s novel Innocence: Anyone who catches a glimpse of his face attacks him. He doesn’t understand why: There’s nothing unusual about his features, and he isn’t looking for a fight. By all accounts, he’s an everyday person who through no fault of his own, has become an enemy of humankind. The danger forces him to seek shelter beneath the city streets. There, in the darkness of the sewers, he meets a man who may be able to help him.
Addison’s condition is eventually explained, and chances are that very few readers will have guessed what it is before the big reveal. The answer changes the way Addison sees the world forever. Some of Koontz’s fans may experience revelations of their own.
The animal kingdom provides plenty of examples of seemingly inexplicable and unprovoked behavior caused by factors invisible to the human eye. None of this has anything to do with what’s causing people to attack Addison, by the way, so don’t worry about spoilers!
Read the full article @ Suvudu.
Signed Saint Odd
November 28, 2014
Both Barnes & Noble and Target have signed copies of Saint Odd available for pre-order for $20.72 & $20.75 respectively. According to the order pages, these each have a different ISBN from the unsigned trade release like was done with The City.
Epic as always
November 28, 2014
A review of Apokalipsa Odda
November 27, 2014
Życie nie jest łatwe, jeśli w pracy jest się kucharzem, a w nocy nawiedzają człowieka duchy, które mają na ziemi niezałatwione sprawy i szukają jedynego człowieka, który jest im w stanie pomóc. W sumie po pewnym czasie staje się to pewnego rodzaju standardem. Trudność polega na początku na komunikacji, jak zrozumieć kogoś kto już nic nie może powiedzieć. Przyzwyczaić należy się również do tego, że jeden z dwóch posiadanych psów również jest duchem…
Dean Koontz to znany pisarz amerykański, specjalizujący się w thrillerach oraz horrorach. W jego dorobku jest kilkadziesiąt pozycji, z których większość ukazało się w języku polskim. Obecnie ukazuje się kolejna książka, wchodząca w skład cyklu o dość nietypowym kucharzu Oddzie Thomasie.
Read the full review @ inertia360. (Or an English version via Google Translate.)