"For me, that is the secret to a
successful, prolific career as a writer: Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make
yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with
your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but
even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life. I don't measure success
by the number of copies sold but by the delight that I get from the process and the
finished work." - Dean Koontz
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After The Last Race
New York: Atheneum, 1974.
Anti-Man
New York: Paperback Library, 1970.
The Bad Place
New York: Putnam, 1990.
Beastchild
New York: Lancer, 1970.
Blood Risk
[as "Brian Coffey"]
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.
Chase
[as "K. R. Dwyer]
New York: Random House, 1972.
Children Of The Storm
[as "Deanna Dwyer"]
New York: Lancer, 1972
Cold Fire
New York: Putnam, 1991
The Crimson Witch
New York: Curtis Books, 1971
Dance With The Devil
[as "Deanna Dwyer"]
New York: Lancer, 1972
Dark Rivers of the Heart
New York: Alfred A. Knoph, 1994
The Dark of the Woods
New York: Ace, 1970
The Dark Symphony
New York: Lancer, 1970
Darkfall
New York: Berkley, 1984
Darkness in My Soul
New York: DAW Books, 1972
Demon Child
[as "Deanna Dwyer"]
New York: Lancer, 1971
Demon Seed
New York: Bantam, 1973
The Door to December
[as "Richard Paige"]
New York: New American Linrary, 1985
Dragon Tears
New York: Putnam, 1993
Dragonfly
[as "K.R. Dwyer"]
New York: Random House, 1975
The Eyes of Darkness
[as "Leigh Nichols"]
New York: Pocket Books, 1981
The Face of Fear
[as "Brian Coffee"]
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977
The Fall of the Dream Machine
New York: Ace Books, 1969
Fear Nothing
Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1998
(Latest Release at time of writing)
Fear That Man
New York: Ace Books, 1969
The Flesh in the Furnace
New York: Bantam, 1972
The Funhouse
[as "Owen West"]
New York:Jove Books, 1980
Hanging On
New York: M. Evans, 1973
The Haunted Earth
New York: Lancer Books, 1970
Hell's gate
New York: Lancer Books, 1970
Hideaway
New York: Putnam, 1992
The House of Thunder
[as "Leigh Nichols"]
New York: Pocket Books, 1982
Intensity
New York: Ballantine, 1996
Invasion
[as "Aron Wolfe"]
Ontario: Laser Books, 1975
The Key To Midnight
[as "Leigh Nichols"]
New York: Pocket Books, 1979
Legacy of Terror
[as "Deanna Dwyer"]
New York: Lancer, 1977
Lightning
New York: Putnam, 1988
The Long Sleep
[as "John Hill"]
New York: Popular Library, 1975
The Mask
[as "Owen West"]
New York: Jove Books, 1981
Midnight
New York: Putnam
Mr. Murder
New York: Putnam, 1993
Night Chills
New York:Atheneum, 1976
Oddkins
New York: Warner Books, 1988
Phantoms
New York: Putnam, 1983
Prison of Ice
[as "David Axton"]
New York: Lippincott, 1976
The Servants of Twilight
New York: Pocket Books, 1984
Shadowfires
[as "Leigh Nichols"]
New York: Avon, 1987
Shattered
[as "K.R. Dwyer"]
New York: Random House, 1973
Soft Come the Dragons
New York: Ace Books, 1970
Sole Survivor
New York: Random House
1997
Star Quest
New York: Ace Books, 1970
Strangers
New York: Putnam, 1986
Strike Deep
[as "Anthony North"]
New York: Dial Press, 1974
Surrounded
[as "Brian Coffee"]
New York:Bobbs-Merrill, 1974
Time Thieves
New York: Ace Books, 1972
Twilight
[as "Leigh Nichols"]
New York: Pocket Books, 1984
Twilight Eyes
Plymouth: The Land of Enchantment
(expanded version: New York: Berkley Books, 1987)
The Vision
New York: Putnam, 1977
The Voice of the Night
[as "Brian Coffee"]
New York: Doubleday, 1988
The Wall of Masks
[as "Brian Coffee"]
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975
Warlock
New York: Lancer, 1972
Watchers
New York: Putnam, 1987
A Warewolf Among Us
New York: Ballantine, 1973
Whispers
New York: Putnam, 1980
Winter Moon
New York: Ballantine, 1994
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"Eventually, as my books became
best-sellers, the nickels piled up and one day I was offered a substantial four-book deal
that was lucrative as any airliner hijacking in history. Though writing those four books
was hard work, at least I didn't have to wear Kevlar body armor, carry heavy bandoliers of
spare ammunition, or work with associates named Mad Dog.." - Dean Koontz
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Kittens
Readers & Writers - 1966
Soft Come the Dragons
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - August 1967
To Behold the Sun
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - December 1967
A Darkness in My Soul
Fantastic Stories - January 1968
The Twelfth Bed
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - August 1968
Dreambird
If - September 1968
The Psychedelic Children
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - July 1968
A Dragon in the Land
Venture Science Fiction - August 1969
Where the Beast Runs
If - July 1969
In the Shield
If - January 1969
Killerbot
Galaxy - May 1969
Temple of Sorrow
Amazing Stories - January 1969
Muse
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - September 1969
The Mystery of His Flesh
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - July 1970
Shambolain
If November-December 1970
Beastchild
Venture Science Fiction - August 1970
The Good Ship Lookoutworld
Fantastic Stories - February 1970
A Third Hand
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - January 1970
Unseen Warriors
Worlds of Tomorrow - Winter 1970
The Crimson Witch
Fantastic Stories - October 1970
Nightmare Gang
Infinity One - edited by Robert Hoskins New York: Lancer -
1970
Bruno
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - April 1971
Cosmic Sin
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - February 1972
Altarboy
Infinity Three - edited by Robert Hoskins New York: Lancer -
1972
Ollie's Hands
Infinity Four - edited by Robert Hoskins New York: Lancer 1972
A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village
Again Dangerous Visions - edited by Harlan Ellison New York:
Doubleday - 1972
The Undercity
Future City - edited by Roger Elwood New York: Trident Press -
1973
Wake Up to Thunder
Children of Infinity - edited by Roger Elwood New York:
Franklin Watts - 1973
Grayworld
Infinity Five - edited by Robert Hoskins New York: Lancer -
1973
Terra Phobia
Androids - Time Machines and Blue Giraffes - edited by Roger
Elwood and Vic Ghidalia Follett - 1973
We Three
Final Stage - edited by Roger Elwood and Barry N Malzberg New
York: Charterhouse - 1974
Night of the Storm
Continuum 1 - edited by Roger Elwood New York: Putnam - 1974
Down in the Darkness
The Horror Show - Summer 1986
The Black Pumpkin
Twilight Zone - December 1986
Weird World
The Horror Show - Summer 1986
The Sinless Child
Flame Tree Planet - edited by Roger Elwood - 1986
Snatcher
Night Cry - Fall 1986
Miss Attila the Hun
Night Visions 4 - Arlington Heights - IL: Dark Harvest - 1987
Show
Summer 1987
Hardshell
Night Visions 4 - Arlington Heights - IL: Dark Harvest - 1987
The Interrogation
The Horror Show - Summer 1987
Twilight of the Dawn
Night Visions 4 - Arlington Heights - IL: Dark Harvest - 1987
Graveyard Highway
Tropical Chips - edited by Tim Sullivan New York: Avon - 1988
Trapped
Stalkers - edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H Greenberg
Arlington Heights - IL: Dark Harvest Press - 1989
"Writing
a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth
pulled. Pleasure and pain.
Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled." -
Dean Koontz
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How to Write Best-Selling
Fiction
Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1981
The Pig Society and the Underground Lifestyles Handbook
Los Angeles: Aware Press, 1970
Writing Popular Fiction
Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1972
(Written when author was in his twenties. When he felt that it
had become outdated, he took it off the market and replaced it with "How to Write
Best-Selling Fiction".
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