Dean Koontz bibliography

This is a list of every work written by Dean Koontz.

Novels

Essays and introductions

1. "Of Childhood" (Reflector, 1966)
2. "Ibsen's Dream" (Reflector, 1966)
3. Introduction to Great Escapes: New Designs for Home Theaters by Theo Kalomirakis (October 15, 2003)
4. Foreword to Love Heels: Tales from Canine Companions for Independence (October 1, 2003)
5. 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 (April, 2009)

Short fiction

(The stories up to "Where No One Fell" first appeared in "The Reflector", a magazine issued by Shippensburg University, Pa., when Koontz was a student)

1. "This Fence" (1965)
2. "The Kittens" (1965) (later revised [1966] as "Kittens") in Strange Highways
3. "Of Childhood" (1965)
4. "A Miracle is Anything" (1966)
5. "Cloistered Walls" (1966)
6. "Flesh" (1966)
7. "For a Breath I Tarry" (1966)
8. "Hey, Good Christian" (1966)
9. "Holes" (1966)
10. "It" (1966)
11. "I've Met One" (1966)
12. "Mold in the Jungle" (1966)
13. "Sam: the Adventurous Exciting Well-traveled Man" (1966)
14. "Some Disputed Barricade" (1966)
15. "Something About This City" (1966)
16. "The Rats Run" (1966)
17. "The Standard Unusual" (1966)
18. "Where No One Fell" (1967)
19. "Soft Come the Dragons" (1967) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
20. "To Behold the Sun" (1967) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
21. "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter One" (1967; in "SF Opinion #4" (Dean Koontz fanzine))
22. "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Two" (1967; in "SF Opinion #5" (Dean Koontz fanzine))
23. "Love 2005" (1968)
24. "A Darkness in My Soul" (1968) rp in Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded into A Darkness in My Soul
25. "The Psychedelic Children" (1968) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
26. "The Twelfth Bed" (1968) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
27. "Dreambird" (1968)
28. "Glunk" (1969; in "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine, special Vaughn Bode issue)); based on Bode's comic strip "Junkwaffel"
29. "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Three" (1969; in "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine))
30. "Whoop, the Dead Gerkle" (1969; in "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine)
31. "In the Shield" (1969) combined with "Where the Beast Runs" as Fear That Man
32. "Temple of Sorrow" (1969)
33. "Killerbot!" (1969)^[3] rp in Soft Come the Dragons as "A Season for Freedom". Revised and re-issued in 1977.
34. "The Face in His Belly" Part One (1969)
35. "Where the Beast Runs" (1969) combined with "In the Shield" as Fear That Man
36. "Dragon In the Land" (1969) in Soft Come the Dragons
37. "The Face in His Belly" Part Two (1969)
38. "Muse" (1969) [a "Leonard Chris" story]
39. "A Third Hand" (1970) rp in Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded as Starblood.
40. "The Good Ship Lookoutworld" (1970)
41. "Unseen Warriors" (1970)
42. "The Mystery of His Flesh" (1970) expanded as Anti-Man
43. "Beastchild" (1970) expanded as Beastchild
44. "The Crimson Witch" (1970) slightly expanded as The Crimson Witch
45. "Shambolain" (1970)
46. "Nightmare Gang" (1970)
47. "Emanations" (1970)
48. "Bruno" (1971) [a Jake Ash story] revised rp in Strange Highways
49. "The Terrible Weapon" (1972)
50. "Cosmic Sin" (1972) [a Jake Ash story]
51. "Altarboy" (1972)
52. "Ollie's Hands" (1972) {revised and re-issued in 1987} rp in Strange Highways
53. "A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village" (1972; in Again, Dangerous Visions; in the original Afterword, Koontz mentions having written Hung,"set in the hippie subculture of a small university",^[4] 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.
54. "Grayworld" (1973) expanded as The Long Sleep as by John Hill
55. "The Sinless Child" (1973)
56. "Wake Up To Thunder" (1973)
57. "Terra Phobia" (1973)
58. "The Undercity" (1973)
59. "We Three" (1974) revised rp in Strange Highways
60. "Night of the Storm" (1974) {re-issued as a graphic novel in 1976} revised in Strange Highways
61. "Down in the Darkness" (1986) rp in Strange Highways
62. "Weird World" (1986)
63. "Snatcher" (1986) rp in Strange Highways
64. "The Monitors of Providence {collaboration}" (1986)
65. "The Black Pumpkin" (1986) rp in Strange Highways
66. "The Interrogation" (1987)
67. "Hardshell" (1987) revised rp in Strange Highways
68. "Miss Attila the Hun" (1987) rp in Strange Highways
69. "Twilight of the Dawn" (1987) rp in Strange Highways
70. "Graveyard Highway" (1987)
71. "Trapped" (1989) {re-issued as a graphic novel in 1992} rp in Strange Highways
72. "Strange Highways" (1995) short story that appears in the collection Strange Highways
73. "Santa's Twin" (1996)
74. "Pinkie" (1998)
75. "Black River" (2000)
76. "Darkness Under the Sun" (2010)
77. "The Moonlit Mind" (2011)^[5]
78. "Odd Interlude" (2012)
79. "Wilderness" (2013)
80. "The Neighbor" (2014)
81. "Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever" (2014)
82. "Last Light" (2015)
83. "Final Hour" (2015)
84. "Ricochet Joe" (2017)
85. "The Bone Farm" (2018)
86. "Troubled Times" (2018)

Non-fiction

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

References