Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author best known for his novels which could be described broadly as suspense thrillers. He also frequently incorporates elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. A number of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with ten hardcovers and fourteen paperbacks reaching the number one slot. Early in his career, Koontz wrote under an array of pen names.
- Odd Thomas* series:
- Frankenstein series:
- With Trixie Koontz**
- Christmas is Good
- Life is Good
- A Big Little Life
- I Trixie, Who Is Dog
- Bliss to You
- Graphic Novels:
- In Odd we trust
- Odd is On Our Side
- Frankenstein: Prodigal Son
- Nevermore .CBR
- Others:
- Relentless .mp3 .PRC - G'pS: 7
- Breathless .PDF .mp3 .PRC - G'pS: 7
- Your heart belongs to me .LIT .PDF .ePUB - G'pS: 5
- The darkest evening of the year .HTML - G'pS: 3
- The Good Guy .TXT - G'pS: 9
- The Husband .TXT - G'pS: 9
- Velocity .TXT - G'pS: 9
- Life Expectancy .TXT - G'pS: 9.5
- Robot Santa
- The Taking .HTM - G'pS: 4
- Every Day's a Holiday
- The Face .HTM - G'pS: 10
- The Book of Counted Sorrows .LIT
- By the Light of the Moon .HTM - G'pS: 9
- One Door Away from Heaven .LIT - G'pS: 6
- The Paper Doorway
- From the Corner of His Eye .TXT - G'pS: 10
- False Memory .LIT - G'pS: 9
- Seize the Night .TXT .LIT .HTM .LIT - G'pS: 6
- Fear Nothing .HTM - G'pS: 8
- Sole Survivor .LIT
- Demon Seed .LIT
- Ticktock .LIT .TXT - G'pS: 10
- Santa's Twin .LIT
- Intensity .LIT - G'pS: 9
- Strange Highways .LIT
- Chase .TXT - G'pS: 9.5
- Icebound .HTM
- Dark Rivers of the Heart
- Winter Moon .TXT - G'pS: 8
- Mr. Murder .HTM - G'pS: 8
- Dragon Tears .TXT - G'pS: 8
- Hideaway .HTM
- Cold Fire .LIT .TXT - G'pS: 6.5
- The Bad Place .HTM
- Trapped
- Midnight .LIT
- Lightning .LIT
- Oddkins
- Watchers .LIT
- Twilight Eyes .HTM
- Strangers .HTM - G'pS: 5
- The Servents of Twilight
- Darkfall .HTM
- Twilight
- Phantoms .HTM
- Whispers .HTM .TXT - G'pS: 9.5
- The Vision - G'pS: 8
- Night Chills .LIT
- The Long Sleep .DOC
- Nightmare Journey .TXT
- The Wall of Masks
- After the Last Race .TXT
- Strike Deep
- Surrounded .TXT
- Hanging On
- A Werewolf Among Us
- Blood Risk
- Demon Seed .LIT
- The Haunted Earth .HTM
- The Dark of Summer
- Dance with the Devil .TXT
- Children of the Storm
- A Darkness in My Soul .LIT
- The Flesh in the Furnace .HTM
- Starblood
- Time Thieves
- Warlock .TXT
- The Crimson Witch
- Anti-Man
- Beastchild
- Dark of the Woods .TXT
- Soft Come the Dragons
- Hell's Gate
- The Dark Symphony
- The Fall of the Dream Machine
- Fear that Man
- Star Quest .TXT
- Pseudonyms
- Aaron Wolfe
- Brian Coffey
- The Voice of the Night
- The Face of Fear .HTM
- Deana Dwyer
- Legacy of Terror
- Demon Child
- K. R. Dwyer
- Leigh Nichols
- The Servants of Twilight .TXT
- Shadow Fires .LIT
- The House of Thunder
- The Eyes of Darkness
- The Key to Midnight .TXT - G'pS: 8
- Owen West
- The Mask .LIT - G'pS: 6
- The Funhouse .HTM
- Richard Paige
(*)
Odd Thomas is a fictional character who first appeared in Dean Koontz's 2003 novel of the same name, Odd Thomas. He is a twenty-year-old man who lives in the fictional desert town of Pico Mundo, California, and is able to see the spirits of the dead. He is able to make himself heard to them but they cannot speak to him, although they may make signs or mouth words. This fact complicates much of the books.
The ghost of Elvis Presley was once a constant companion to him, until the end of Brother Odd, at which time Elvis moved on and the ghost of Frank Sinatra became Odd's new companion. Sinatra similarly left at the end of Odd Hours, shortly after an impressive display of poltergeist activity.
(**)One of Dean Koontz's pen names was inspired by his dog,
Trixie Koontz, a golden retriever, shown in many of his book-jacket photos. Originally a service dog with Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), a charitable organization that provides service dogs for people with disabilities. Trixie was a gift from CCI in gratitude of the Koontz's substantial donations, totalling $2,500,000 between 1991 and 2004. Koontz was taken with the charity while he was researching his novel Midnight, a book which included a CCI-trained dog, a black Labrador retriever named Moose. In 2004 when Koontz wrote and edited Life Is Good: Lessons in Joyful Living in her name and in 2005, Koontz wrote a second book credited to Trixie, Christmas Is Good. Both books are written from a supposed canine perspective on the joys of life.
I am a Koontz fan. I buy and read his books as soon as they get translated in Dutch.
(Take a look at my collection). I love his humour, his creative mind and the paranormal 'touch' Koontz add to his books. He's the kind of writer that makes you doubt if there's indeed something 'more' between earth and the sky that we simply don't have the instruments for to measure if there exist... After I read a book I give it a personal score. The more the book 'catches' me, or leaves me thinking for a while after it is finished, the higher the score. Lower scores I give to books from which the ending is a downside, when the story ends in a way that I think '
I could have thought about that myself'... or I have the impression the 'deadline' for finishing the manuscript is near and the book had to be finished quickly. Or maybe Mr. Koontz is already thinking of the next story while the one he is writing isn't finished yet. (I know that feeling... haha!) My scores go from 1 to 10 and are indicated with
G'pS, meaning: Guy's personal Score. - Guy1731
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