This is a list of every work (novels, short stories, etc.) by American novelist

Dean Koontz Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author. His novels are billed as suspense thrillers, but frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Many of his books have appeared on ''The New Y ...

Series

Black Cat Mysteries / Mike Tucker Series

Moonlight Bay Series

Odd Thomas Series ''Odd Thomas'' is a thriller novel by American writer Dean Koontz, published in 2003. The novel derives its title from the protagonist, a twenty-year-old short-order cook named Odd Thomas. The book, which was well received and lauded by critics, ...

Odd Thomas Graphic Novel Prequels

Frankenstein Series

Makani Trilogy

Jane Hawk Series

Nameless

Season One

Season Two

Standalone novels

Essays and introductions

# "Of Childhood" (Reflector, 1966) # "Ibsen's Dream" (Reflector, 1966) # Introduction to ''Great Escapes: New Designs for Home Theaters'' by Theo Kalomirakis (October 15, 2003). . # Foreword to ''Love Heels: Tales from Canine Companions for Independence'' (October 1, 2003) # Foreword to ''A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement'' by

Wesley J. Smith Wesley J. Smith (born 1949) is an American lawyer and author, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism, a politically conservative non-profit think tank. He is also a consultant for the Patients Rights Council. S ...

(April, 2009) #Foreword to ''The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything'' by John D. MacDonald (2014, Trade Paperback Edition)

Short fiction

(The stories up to "Where No One Fell" first appeared in "The Reflector", a magazine issued by

Shippensburg University Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (Ship or SU) is a public university in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Founded in 1871, it later became the first teachers college in Pennsylvania. ...

, Pa., when Koontz was a student) # "This Fence" (1965) # "The Kittens" (1965) (later revised

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as "Kittens") in ''

Strange Highways ''Strange Highways'' is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Dio. It's also their first album since Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice's reunion tour with Black Sabbath. The European release was on Vertigo, in October 1993; t ...

'' # "Of Childhood" (1965) # "A Miracle is Anything" (1966) # "Cloistered Walls" (1966) # "Flesh" (1966) # "For a Breath I Tarry" (1966) # "Hey, Good Christian" (1966) # "Holes" (1966) # "It" (1966) # "I've Met One" (1966) # "Mold in the Jungle" (1966) # "Sam: the Adventurous Exciting Well-traveled Man" (1966) # "Some Disputed Barricade" (1966) # "Something About This City" (1966) # "The Rats Run" (1966) # "The Standard Unusual" (1966) # "Where No One Fell" (1967) # "Soft Come the Dragons" (1967) rp in '' Soft Come the Dragons'' # "To Behold the Sun" (1967) rp in '' Soft Come the Dragons'' # "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter One" (1967; in "SF Opinion #4" (Dean Koontz fanzine)) # "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Two" (1967; in "SF Opinion #5" (Dean Koontz fanzine)) # "Love 2005" (1968) # "A Darkness in My Soul" (1968) rp in '' Soft Come the Dragons''. Expanded into A Darkness in My Soul # "The Psychedelic Children" (1968) rp in '' Soft Come the Dragons'' # "The Twelfth Bed" (1968) rp in '' Soft Come the Dragons'' #
Dreambird
(1968) # "Glunk" (1969; in "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine, special Vaughn Bode issue)); based on Bode's comic strip "Junkwaffel" # "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Three" (1969; in "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine)) # "Whoop, the Dead Gerkle" (1969; in "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine) # "In the Shield" (1969) combined with "Where the Beast Runs" as '' Fear That Man'' # "Temple of Sorrow" (1969) # "Killerbot!" (1969) rp in '' Soft Come the Dragons'' as "A Season for Freedom". Revised and re-issued in 1977. # "The Face in His Belly" Part One (1969) # "Where the Beast Runs" (1969) combined with "In the Shield" as '' Fear That Man'' # "Dragon In the Land" (1969) in '' Soft Come the Dragons'' # "The Face in His Belly" Part Two (1969) # "Muse" (1969) "Leonard Chris" story# "A Third Hand" (1970) rp in '' Soft Come the Dragons''. Expanded as '' Starblood''. # "The Good Ship Lookoutworld" (1970) # "Unseen Warriors" (1970) # "The Mystery of His Flesh" (1970) expanded as '' Anti-Man'' # "Beastchild" (1970) expanded as '' Beastchild'' # "The Crimson Witch" (1970) slightly expanded as '' The Crimson Witch'' # "Shambolain" (1970) # "Nightmare Gang" (1970) # "Emanations" (1970) # "Bruno" (1971) Jake Ash storyrevised rp in ''

'' # "The Terrible Weapon" (1972) # "Cosmic Sin" (1972) Jake Ash story # "Altarboy" (1972) # "Ollie's Hands" (1972) rp in ''

'' # "A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village" (1972; in ''

Again, Dangerous Visions ''Again, Dangerous Visions'' (1972) is a science fiction short story anthology, edited by American author Harlan Ellison. It is the follow-up to '' Dangerous Visions'' (1967), also edited by Ellison. Cover art and interior illustrations are by E ...

''; in the original Afterword, Koontz mentions having written ''Hung'',"set in the hippie subculture of a small university", which tried to show that Marshall McLuhan's concept of the global village was "on the right track" and that "our world was already being compressed"; his novel, The Fall of the Dream Machine, and stories, 'A Dragon in the Land', and 'A Mouse..' were extrapolations of the concept. # "Grayworld" (1973) expanded as '' The Long Sleep'' as by John Hill # "The Sinless Child" (1973) # "Wake Up To Thunder" (1973) # "Terra Phobia" (1973) # "The Undercity" (1973) # "We Three" (1974) revised rp in ''

'' # "Night of the Storm" (1974) revised in ''

'' # "Down in the Darkness" (1986) rp in ''

'' # "Weird World" (1986) # "Snatcher" (1986) rp in ''

'' # "The Monitors of Providence " (1986) # "The Black Pumpkin" (1986) rp in ''

'' # "The Interrogation" (1987) # "Hardshell" (1987) revised rp in ''

'' # "Miss Attila the Hun" (1987) rp in ''

'' # "Twilight of the Dawn" (1987) rp in ''

'' # "Graveyard Highway" (1987) # "Trapped" (1989) rp in ''

'' # "Strange Highways" (1995) short story that appears in the collection ''

'' # "Santa's Twin" (1996) # "Pinkie" (1998) # "Black River" (2000) # "Darkness Under the Sun" (2010) # "The Moonlit Mind" (2011) # "Odd Interlude" (2012) # "Wilderness" (2013) # "The Neighbor" (2014) # "Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever" (2014) # "Last Light" (2015) # "Final Hour" (2015) # "Ricochet Joe" (2017) # "The Bone Farm" (2018) # "Troubled Times" (2018) # "In the Heart of the Fire" (2019) # "Photographing the Dead" (2019) # "The Praying Mantis Bride" (2019) # "Red Rain" (2019) # "The Mercy of Snakes" (2019) # "Memories of Tomorrow" (2019) # "The Lost Soul of the City" (2021) # "Gentle Is the Angel of Death" (2021) # "Kaleidoscope" (2021) # "Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not" (2021) # "Corkscrew" (2021) # "Zero In" (2021)

Non-fiction

# "How to Write Best Selling Fiction" (1981) # "Writing Popular Fiction" (1972) # "A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie" (2009)

References

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