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What’s New & Updated September 10, 2023

September 10, 2023

Just a new audio interview this week. Sadly, the package I mentioned last week has yet to ship.

The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan: Dean Koontz on His Life and His Work to Appendix B

Throwback Thursday: Erthmun by T.M. Wirght

September 7, 2023

What’s New & Updated September 3, 2023

September 3, 2023

Just a single tiny update this week. But, assuming things ship and arrive as expected, a coll new item next week.

Minor updates to Appendix H

Someone needs a better cover designer…

September 1, 2023

Throwback Thursday: The Technicolor Time Machine by Harry Harrison

August 31, 2023

January 1969

What’s New & Updated August 27, 2023

August 27, 2023

Science Fiction Cinema Between Fantasy and Reality by Christine Cornea

A new edition and some film criticism this week.

After Death Large Print Hardcover
Excerpts from Science Fiction Cinema Between Fantasy and Reality by Christine Cornea to Demon Seed (Film)

Throwback Thursday: Songs of the Dying Earth CD

August 24, 2023

2009

What’s New & Updated August 20, 2023

August 20, 2023

Just one new newsletter essay this week.

From the Desk of Dean: My new novel, After Death, is here!

Throwback Thursday: Bliss to You Playaway

August 17, 2023

2008

What’s New & Updated August 13, 2023

August 13, 2023

AI generated image for "The Forest of Lost Souls"

New title announcement this week!

The Forest of Lost Souls
The Roundtable: “After Death” by Dean Koontz to Appendix B

(The image for this post was generated using Foror.com via the prompt “The Forest of Lost Souls”.)

Throwback Thursday: Generation Proteus poster

August 10, 2023

c.1985

What’s New & Updated August 6, 2023

August 6, 2023

An estimated release date and two interviews this week. Those should keep you busy for a few hours.

Going Home in the Dark approximate release date
The Cale Clark Show: Dean Koontz to Appendix B
Horror Legend Dean Koontz Full Episode Preview from Upcoming Season 3 of About the Authors TV to Appendix B

Throwback Thursday: Phantoms Laserdisc

August 3, 2023

1988

What’s New & Updated July 30, 2023

July 30, 2023

This week: a new title, two interviews, and a classic fanzine review.

Going Home in the Dark
This is Horror #514 to Appendix B
Nova Express, Summer 1990 added to The Bad Place
“Good and Evil, Golden Restievers, and a Matter of Perspective: A Conversation with Thriller Legend Dean Koontz” to Appendix B

Throwback Thursday: Cavalier magazine

July 27, 2023

June 1972

New Novel Announced

July 26, 2023

Dean announced the title of the next book after The Bad Weather Friend on the This is Horror podcast last night. It is Going Home in the Dark. Continue listening through about the 10 minute mark for a synopsis. I’ve got to admit, it sounds a bit too much like Stephen King’s IT.

Invaders of the Body Snatchers?

July 25, 2023

From the print version of After Death, pages 338-9:
“Throughout their childhood and adolescence, TV series such as The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, as well as scores of movies like Invaders from Mars and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, pretty much programmed them to believe wholeheartedly in extraterrestrials.”

Here’s that sentence in the audiobook version: