Season 2, Episode 04 – First Broadcast at 9:00pm, Monday 6 October 2014, ITV (UK)
Bradley is joined by some of the stars of the biggest crime drama shows, as they offer a privileged look behind the scenes of upcoming new crime dramas. Bradley finds out more about Dean Koontz.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Oct. 3, 2014 — PRZen — The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy and home of the iconic Bram Stoker Awards®, today announced the launch of its new promotion campaign, Horror Selfies. Through the campaign, HWA will highlight the exceptional work, both literary and cinematic, produced by the horror genre.
Inspired by the popular “Say it with a Sign” meme—used by everyone from Ellen DeGeneres and Jon Bon Jovi, to David Beckham and Princes William and Harry—the HWA is utilizing the vast reach of social media to provide a platform through which people can tell the world why they love horror.
The HWA invites authors and readers, actors and directors, fans and followers, to submit a selfie to www.HorrorSelfies.com in which they hold a sign encouraging others to read horror/dark fantasy, to watch horror movies, or to write horror. Additionally, the HWA is encouraging people to promote literacy and reading among children and Young Adults, or to support a local library in their Horror Selfies.
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THE HORROR WRITERS ASSOCIATION is a nonprofit organization of writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it. The HWA formed in 1985 with the help of many of the field’s greats, including Dean Koontz, Robert McCammon, and Joe Lansdale. Today, with over 1250 members around the globe, it is the oldest and most respected professional organization for the much-loved writers who have brought you the most enjoyable sleepless nights of your life.
At Charnel House, the horrific and strange aren’t reserved for Halloween. Former rock drummer Joe Stefko founded Charnel House in 1989 to produce state of the art limited edition books of horror and weird fiction. Over the next decade, the market for collector’s edition books in the literary horror genre exploded. But most weren’t publishing fine editions. Charnel House has differentiated itself with editions that are nothing like the trade editions. Over half of the press’ titles are from author Dean Koontz, though in more recent years titles have increasingly focused on typography.
On the surface, it looks like girl meets boy, boy saves girl, but Innocence is much more than that.
Parts of it feel a little bit saggy, and the description of the snow, and the cold is a bit overdone, but Innocence still cracks along at a reasonable pace. The evildoers are unambiguously evil, and Addison and Gywneth are unambiguously good, and sometimes it’s refreshing to read a simple good vs evil morality tale.
As of yesterday I finally have a complete set of The Book of Counted Sorrows. They are (in the back, the left to right): The original Microsoft eBook version, Charnel House traycased lettered, Charnel House slipcased numbered, Dogged Press first printing, Dogged Press second printing
More than 300 people attended the Choose Nursing, Choose Hoag luncheon presented by the Hoag Hospital Foundation this month.
Novelist Dean Koontz was the keynote speaker, according to a news release.
The event, held Sept. 17 at the Balboa Bay Resort in Newport Beach, recognized more than $2 million raised during the past year, setting a record for 363 scholarships awarded to nurses at Hoag, the release said.
Choose Nursing, Choose Hoag has raised more than $24 million since the organization was formed 10 years ago. It has provided more than 600 scholarships for nurses’ “continued education, training and advanced degrees,” the release said.
Here’s the first review I’ve found of the forthcoming Ask Anna:
I would like to introduce my readers to Anna Koontz. The newest (four legged) talent from the Koontz family who has followed in her dog-daddy’s footsteps with her first advice book for canines with plans to become the advice columnist for the canine world. Dean Koontz writes, “we have complied for you this book of Anna’s golden advice to other canines, with the hope that it will help you understand your dogs better and will encourage you to stop being a ninny of an owner, if in fact you are one.”
“The dark makes the light stuff brighter.”
Not only is that a comment made by a character in Dean Koontz’s latest novel “The City,” it’s a truth that the author learned first-hand while growing up.
In “The City,” eight-year-old African-American musical prodigy Jonah Kirk is blessed with a mother and grandparents who selflessly love and support him. His father Tilton, however, epitomizes the adult who never grows up, who never accepts responsibility for anyone or anything other than the pursuit of his own pleasure. Jonah sees these traits in his father and, understandably, resents him.
Dean can relate to Jonah here. During an interview on “Christopher Closeup,” he recalled that his mother was a wonderful woman, but his father was a “violent alcoholic” who was also a “gambler and womanizer,” resulting in his family living in poverty. The worst part for Dean wasn’t his family’s unstable financial situation, though; it was the fact that he lived in a small town where everybody knew everybody else’s business, leaving him in an “almost constant [state of] humiliation or embarrassment” at his father’s actions.
And yet, Dean wouldn’t change his childhood even if he could. He said, “There’s a temptation to think how much better my life would have been, or how much more I would have achieved if I’d had a rosier childhood. But then I think, ‘No, if I hadn’t had my dad’s example, I might have gone that way.’…That is where I was able to clearly see that there is good and evil in the world; there are not just shades of gray. As a consequence, I think it helped me a great deal as a writer to have grown up in that environment.”
Read the full article and listen to the full interview @ Patheos.com.
96. Strangers by Dean Koontz The characters in this 2002 horror novel are all brought to the Tranquility Motel in the Nevada desert outside of Elko to figure out what was done to them and why.
The product page on the Cemetery Dance Web site now lists the full table of contents for this volume. (Not that Dean’s contribution is a surprise.) Right now it looks like copies of all three editions are still available for pre-order.
“Mr. Dark’s Carnival” by Glen Hirshberg
“Universal Horrors” by Stephen Graham Jones
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “Perspective” by Michael McBride
“The Scariest Thing I Know” by Dean Koontz
“Guising” by Gemma Files
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “Gort Klaatu Barada Trick or Treat” by Nancy Holder
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “Under the Autumn Stars” by Tim Waggoner
“Monsters” by Stewart O’Nan
“Death and Disbursement” by S.P. Miskowski
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “All the News” by Karen Heuler
“Dear Dead Jenny” by Ian McDowell
“What Blooms in Shadow Withers in Light” by Richard Gavin
My Favorite Halloween Memory by M. Rickert
“The ’Corn Factory” by Benjamin Kane Ethridge
“In a Dark October” by Joe R. Lansdale
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “The Real Darkborn” by Matthew Costello
“The October Game” by Ray Bradbury
“Fear of Fallen Leaves” by James Newman
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “Costume” by Melanie Tem
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “Dancing With Mr. Death” by Kealan Patrick Burke
“Scarecrow” by Roberta Lannes
“Strange Candy” by Robert McCammon
My Favorite Halloween Memory by Harry Shannon
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “That Which Doesn’t Kill You Earns You Candy” by Nate Southard
“The Pumpkin” by Robert Bloch
“Mr. and Mrs. Werewolf ” by Whitley Strieber
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “Rescuer?” by Nicole Cushing
My Favorite Halloween Memory by Ray Garton
“Great Pumpkins and Ghost Hunters: Halloween on TV” by Lisa Morton
“The Pumpkin Smasher” by Al Sarrantonio
“The House on Cottage Lane” by Ronald Malfi
My Favorite Halloween Memory by Tim Curran
“The Dry Season” by James A. Moore
“The Spirit of Things” by John Skipp
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “Haunting Season” by Orrin Grey
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “The Witch of Walnut” by Elizabeth Massie
“The Little Werewolf Who Cried” by Al Magliochetti
“The Boy in the White Sheet” by Bev Vincent
My Favorite Halloween Memory by Richard Gavin
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “The Last Halloween” by Ronald Kelly
“Sexy Pirate Girl” by Lisa Morton
“Monster Night” by Brian James Freeman
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “Screams in the Asylum” by James Newman
“Underfolk” by Tina Callaghan
My Favorite Halloween Memory: “Pumpkin Parade” by Sephera Giron
The plot is typical Koontz. Jonah is somewhat similar to, say, Odd Thomas. Both are supernaturally gifted through unusual circumstances. But nothing dramatic. Both pay the price for their gifts and go through a solitary journey where only a few people are privy to their abilities. And both go through a life-changing loss. But at the end of the day, they are your average Joes…
But the genius here is Koontz’s understanding of ethnicity and the supernatural. Instead of taking the easy route of writing about a white American family, Koontz focuses on minorities. Jonah and his family are black, middle-class and educated. Then somewhere along the line, there is Mr Yoshioka, a Japanese American who is former Manzanar internee.
From “Book Collector: Furry Scribes”
Celebrity canine Trixie Koontz comes from a very distinguished line of scribes, starting with her best friend, the legendary suspense author Dean Koontz. Even though she is now deceased, the spirit of Trixie is keeping pace with the elder Koontz, having just released her third book, Bliss to You. Her two previous books were Life is Good! andChristmas is Good! In addition to currently having her own newsletter, Trixie News, a memoir and series of children’s books by Trixie are also in the works.
When I wrote to Dean Koontz to see if he could pull any strings in snagging me an autograph from Trixie, he came through with an inscribed bookplate boasting both his autograph as well as his authorized rendering of Trixie’s name and paw print. (www.deankoontz.com)
I think I’ve finally be able to get all of the details from both the CD and MP3-CD editions of Wilderness and Other Stories. So, at the moment, here’s the entry for this title. I sill have to go through and enter these appearances on the pages for the individual stories. (Also, the images used here are from Amazon & Brilliance and don’t represent the dimensions of the released editions.)
Wilderness and Other Stories
(collection)
by Dean Koontz
Audio
September 9, 2104 Brilliance Audio
℗2014 Brilliance Audio
Performed by Dick Hill, MacLeod Andrews, Will Damron, & Tonya Eby
Wilderness (59:01)
Kittens (12:17)
The Black Pumpkin (50:14)
Down in the Darkness (1:14:47)
The Scariest Thing I Know (18:04)
We Three, Revised Edition (14:54)
Ollie’s Hands (45:13)
Bruno (1:11:41)
The Night of the Storm, Revised Edition (56:20)
Miss Attila the Hun (1:01:18)
Hostage Situation (16:18)
Hardshell (1:48:30)
Trapped (1:52:29)
Snatcher (48:31)
Twilight of the Dawn (36:19)
(Lengths are approximate and may vary between the CD and MP3-CD format due to title and disc introductory material.) CD
12 Compact Sicac / 13 Hours : 41 Minutes
ISBN: 978-1-4805-7437-3
Cover Price: $14.99
Wilderness (Disc 1, Tracks 1-11)
Kittens (Disc 1, Tracks 12-14)
The Black Pumpkin (Disc 1, Track 15 & Disc 2, Tracks 1-10)
Down in the Darkness (Disc 2, Tracks 11-15 & Disc 3, Tracks 1-9)
The Scaries Thing I Know (Disc 3, Tracks 10-12)
We Three (Disc 3, Tracks 13-14 & Disc 4, Tracks 1-7)
Ollie’s Hands (Disc 4, Tracks 8-15)
Bruno (Disc 4, Tracks 16-19 & Disc 5, Tracks 1-10)
The Night of the Storm (Disc 5, Tracks 11-15 & Disc 6, Tracks 1-8)
Miss Attila the Hun (Disc 6, Tracks 9-18 & Disc 7, Tracks 1-8)
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Oct. 3, 2014 — PRZen — The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the premier organization of writers and publishers of horror and dark fantasy and home of the iconic Bram Stoker Awards®, today announced the launch of its new promotion campaign, Horror Selfies. Through the campaign, HWA will highlight the exceptional work, both literary and cinematic, produced by the horror genre.
At Charnel House, the horrific and strange aren’t reserved for Halloween. Former rock drummer Joe Stefko founded Charnel House in 1989 to produce state of the art limited edition books of horror and weird fiction. Over the next decade, the market for collector’s edition books in the literary horror genre exploded. But most weren’t publishing fine editions. Charnel House has differentiated itself with editions that are nothing like the trade editions. Over half of the press’ titles are from author Dean Koontz, though in more recent years titles have increasingly focused on typography.
On the surface, it looks like girl meets boy, boy saves girl, but Innocence is much more than that.
More than 300 people attended the Choose Nursing, Choose Hoag luncheon presented by the Hoag Hospital Foundation this month.
Here’s the first review I’ve found of the forthcoming Ask Anna:
96. Strangers by Dean Koontz The characters in this 2002 horror novel are all brought to the Tranquility Motel in the Nevada desert outside of Elko to figure out what was done to them and why.
According to Amazon.com, there will be a trade paperback large print edition of The City released by “Large Print Press” on 3 March 2015. No cover image is yet available.
The product page on the Cemetery Dance Web site now lists the full table of contents for this volume. (Not that Dean’s contribution is a surprise.) Right now it looks like copies of all three editions are still available for pre-order.The plot is typical Koontz. Jonah is somewhat similar to, say, Odd Thomas. Both are supernaturally gifted through unusual circumstances. But nothing dramatic. Both pay the price for their gifts and go through a solitary journey where only a few people are privy to their abilities. And both go through a life-changing loss. But at the end of the day, they are your average Joes…
CD
MP3-CD