This is a list of every work (novels, short stories, etc.) by American novelist Dean Koontz.
Series
Black Cat Mysteries / Mike Tucker Series
| Title |
Year |
Type |
Pages |
Notes
|
| Blood Risk |
1973 |
novel |
160 |
As Brian Coffey
|
| Surrounded |
1974 |
novel |
220
|
| The Wall of Masks |
1975 |
novel |
167
|
Moonlight Bay Series
| Title |
Year |
Type |
Pages |
Notes
|
| Fear Nothing |
1998 |
novel |
400 |
|
| Seize the Night |
1999 |
novel |
416 |
|
| Ride the Storm |
N/A |
novel |
|
(not published yet)
|
| # |
Title |
Year |
Type |
Pages |
Notes
|
| 1 |
Odd Thomas |
2003 |
novel |
400 |
|
| 2 |
Forever Odd |
2005 |
novel |
400 |
|
| 3 |
Brother Odd |
2006 |
novel |
464 |
|
| 4 |
Odd Hours |
2008 |
novel |
432 |
|
| 4.1 |
Odd Interlude (novella) |
2012 |
novella |
253 |
A three-part ebook. Published as a paperback in 2013.
|
| 5 |
Odd Apocalypse |
2012 |
novel |
368 |
|
| 6 |
Deeply Odd |
2013 |
novel |
335 |
|
| 6.1 |
Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever |
2014 |
novella |
38 |
Ebook
|
| 7 |
Saint Odd |
2015 |
novel |
352 |
|
Odd Thomas Graphic Novel Prequels
| # |
Title |
Year |
Type |
Pages |
Notes
|
| 1 |
In Odd We Trust |
2008 |
graphic novel |
204 |
with Queenie Chan
|
| 2 |
Odd Is on Our Side |
2010 |
graphic novel |
186 |
with Queenie Chan
|
| 3 |
House of Odd |
2012 |
graphic novel |
216 |
with Queenie Chan
|
| Title |
Year |
Type |
Pages |
Notes
|
| Prodigal Son |
2005 |
novel |
512 |
|
| City of Night |
2005 |
novel |
496 |
|
| Dead and Alive |
2009 |
novel |
352 |
|
| Lost Souls |
2010 |
novel |
350 |
|
| The Dead Town |
2011 |
novel |
423 |
|
Makani Trilogy
| Title |
Year |
Type |
Pages |
Notes
|
| Last Light |
2015 |
novella |
84 |
Ebook.
|
| Final Hour |
2015 |
novella |
82 |
Ebook.
|
| Troubled Times |
2018 |
novella |
N/A |
Audio only, found in Darkest Desires
|
| Darkest Desires: The Makani Trilogy |
2018 |
omnibus |
N/A |
Audio only.
|
Jane Hawk Series
|
Title |
Year |
Type |
Pages |
Notes
|
| 1 |
The Silent Corner |
2017 |
novel |
464 |
|
| 2 |
The Whispering Room |
2017 |
novel |
528 |
|
| 0.5 |
The Bone Farm |
2018 |
novella |
N/A |
Audio only
|
| 3 |
The Crooked Staircase |
2018 |
novel |
512 |
|
| 4 |
The Forbidden Door |
2018 |
novel |
464 |
|
| 5 |
The Night Window |
2019 |
novel |
448 |
|
Nameless
Season One
|
Title |
Year |
Type |
Pages |
Notes
|
| 1 |
In the Heart of the Fire |
2019 |
novella |
62 |
Ebook.
|
| 2 |
Photographing the Dead |
2019 |
novella |
58 |
Ebook.
|
| 3 |
The Praying Mantis Bride |
2019 |
novella |
61 |
Ebook.
|
| 4 |
Red Rain |
2019 |
novella |
50 |
Ebook.
|
| 5 |
The Mercy of Snakes |
2019 |
novella |
61 |
Ebook.
|
| 6 |
Memories of Tomorrow |
2019 |
novella |
55 |
Ebook
|
Season Two
|
Title |
Year |
Type |
Pages |
Notes
|
| 1 |
The Lost Soul of the City |
2021 |
novella |
109 |
Ebook.
|
| 2 |
Gentle Is the Angel of Death |
2021 |
novella |
66 |
Ebook.
|
| 3 |
Kaleidoscope |
2021 |
novella |
71 |
Ebook.
|
| 4 |
Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not |
2021 |
novella |
66 |
Ebook.
|
| 5 |
Corkscrew |
2021 |
novella |
54 |
Ebook.
|
| 6 |
Zero In |
2021 |
novella |
60 |
Ebook
|
Standalone novels
| Title |
Year |
Type |
Pages |
Notes
|
| Star Quest |
1968 |
novel |
127 |
An Ace Double, H-70, b/w Emil Petaja, "Doom of the Green Planet"
|
| Fear That Man |
1969 |
novel |
129 |
from 'In the Shield' (1969) and 'Where the Beast Runs' (1969)
|
| The Fall of the Dream Machine |
1969 |
novel |
131 |
|
| The Dark Symphony |
1969 |
novel |
205 |
|
| Hell's Gate |
1970 |
novel |
190 |
|
| Dark of the Woods |
1970 |
novel |
108 |
|
| Beastchild |
1970 |
novel |
189 |
expanded from short story (1970)
|
| Anti-Man |
1970 |
novel |
142 |
expanded from 'The Mystery of His Flesh' (1970)
|
| Demon Child |
1971 |
novel |
224 |
as "Deanna Dwyer"
|
| The Crimson Witch |
1971 |
novel |
|
expanded from short story (1970)
|
| Legacy of Terror |
1971 |
novel |
|
as "Deanna Dwyer"[1]
|
| Warlock |
1972 |
novel |
|
|
| Time Thieves |
1972 |
novel |
109 |
|
| Starblood |
1972 |
novel |
|
expanded from 'A Third Hand' (1970)
|
| The Flesh in the Furnace |
1972 |
novel |
|
|
| A Darkness in My Soul |
1972 |
novel |
|
expanded from 1968 short story
|
| Chase |
1972 |
novel |
212 |
as "K. R. Dwyer"[2] "extensively revised" into Strange Highways"[2]
|
| Children of the Storm |
1972 |
novel |
|
as "Deanna Dwyer"[1]
|
| Dance with the Devil |
1972 |
novel |
|
as "Deanna Dwyer"[1]
|
| The Dark of Summer |
1972 |
novel |
|
as "Deanna Dwyer"[1]
|
| The Haunted Earth |
1973 |
novel |
|
|
| Demon Seed |
1973 |
novel |
320 |
rewritten 1997
|
| A Werewolf Among Us |
1973 |
novel |
|
as "Leigh Nichols"
|
| Shattered |
1973 |
novel |
304 |
as "K. R. Dwyer"[2]
|
| Hanging On |
1973 |
novel |
|
|
| Strike Deep |
1974 |
novel |
|
as "Anthony North"[1]
|
| After The Last Race |
1974 |
novel |
|
|
| Nightmare Journey |
1975 |
novel |
|
|
| The Long Sleep |
1975 |
novel |
|
as "John Hill"[2]
|
| Dragonfly |
1975 |
novel |
244 |
as "K. R. Dwyer"[1]
|
| Invasion |
1975 |
novel |
190 |
as "Aaron Wolfe",[1] revised and rereleased as Winter Moon in 1994
|
| Prison of Ice |
1976 |
novel |
408 |
as "David Axton"[2]
|
| Night Chills |
1976 |
novel |
384 |
|
| The Face of Fear |
1977 |
novel |
320 |
as "Brian Coffey"[2] and as "K. R. Dwyer"[1]
|
| The Vision |
1977 |
novel |
368 |
|
| The Key to Midnight |
1979 |
novel |
419 |
as "Leigh Nichols",[2] revised and rereleased in 1995
|
| The Funhouse |
1980 |
novel |
336 |
as "Owen West",[2] novelization based on a screenplay by Larry Block
|
| Whispers |
1980 |
novel |
502 |
|
| The Voice of the Night |
1980 |
novel |
352 |
as "Brian Coffey"[2]
|
| The Eyes of Darkness |
1981 |
novel |
352 |
as "Leigh Nichols"[1]
|
| The Mask |
1981 |
novel |
336 |
as "Owen West"[1]
|
| The House of Thunder |
1982 |
novel |
432 |
as "Leigh Nichols"[1]
|
| Phantoms |
1983 |
novel |
448 |
|
| Darkfall |
1984 |
novel |
384 |
originally as Darkness Comes
|
| Twilight |
1984 |
novel |
592 |
as "Leigh Nichols"[1] also as The Servants of Twilight
|
| Twilight Eyes |
1985 |
novel |
416 |
much expanded 1987 as Twilight Eyes, this first version becomes the first half of the 1987 revision
|
| The Door to December |
1985 |
novel |
416 |
as "Richard Paige"[2] also as by "Leigh Nichols"[2]
|
| Strangers |
1986 |
novel |
526 |
|
| Watchers |
1987 |
novel |
406 |
|
| Shadow Fires |
1987 |
novel |
528 |
as "Leigh Nichols"[1]
|
| Lightning |
1988 |
novel |
351 |
reprinted in 2003 with an author's afterword
|
| Oddkins: A Fable for All Ages |
1988 |
novel |
180 |
|
| Midnight |
1989 |
novel |
480 |
|
| The Bad Place |
1991 |
novel |
417 |
|
| Cold Fire |
1992 |
novel |
448 |
|
| Hideaway |
1992 |
novel |
416 |
|
| Dragon Tears |
1993 |
novel |
432 |
|
| Mr. Murder |
1993 |
novel |
496 |
|
| Winter Moon |
1994 |
novel |
480 |
rewritten from Invasion
|
| Dark Rivers of the Heart |
1994 |
novel |
487 |
|
| Icebound |
1995 |
novel |
408 |
revised from Prison of Ice.
|
| Intensity |
1995 |
novel |
448 |
|
| Ticktock |
1996 |
novel |
335 |
|
| Sole Survivor |
1997 |
novel |
436 |
|
| False Memory |
1999 |
novel |
784 |
|
| From the Corner of His Eye |
2000 |
novel |
768 |
|
| One Door Away from Heaven |
2001 |
novel |
720 |
|
| By the Light of the Moon |
2002 |
novel |
496 |
|
| The Face |
2003 |
novel |
608 |
|
| The Taking |
2004 |
novel |
448 |
|
| Life Expectancy |
2004 |
novel |
496 |
|
| Velocity |
2005 |
novel |
496 |
|
| The Husband |
2006 |
novel |
416 |
|
| The Good Guy |
2007 |
novel |
400 |
|
| The Darkest Evening of the Year |
2007 |
novel |
368 |
|
| Your Heart Belongs to Me |
2008 |
novel |
352 |
|
| Relentless |
2009 |
novel |
368 |
|
| Breathless |
2009 |
novel |
352 |
|
| What the Night Knows |
2010 |
novel |
464 |
|
| 77 Shadow Street |
2011 |
novel |
451 |
|
| Innocence |
2013 |
novel |
352 |
|
| The City |
2014 |
novel |
416 |
|
| Ashley Bell |
2015 |
novel |
560 |
|
| Devoted |
2020 |
novel |
369 |
|
| Elsewhere |
2020 |
novel |
364 |
|
| The Other Emily |
2021 |
novel |
362 |
|
| Quicksilver |
2022 |
novel |
366 |
|
| The Big Dark Sky |
2022 |
novel |
390 |
|
| The House at the End of the World |
2023 |
novel |
416 |
|
| After Death |
2023 |
novel |
382 |
|
| The Bad Weather Friend |
2024 |
novel |
380 |
|
| The Forest of Lost Souls |
2024, November 19 |
novel |
|
|
| Going Home in the Dark |
2025, May 20 |
novel |
|
|
Collections
| Title |
Year |
Pages |
Notes
|
| Soft Come the Dragons |
1970 |
143 |
|
| Strange Highways |
1995 |
576 |
[2]
|
| The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse |
2001 |
159 |
|
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)
This list does not include short fiction from the Makani Trilogy, Jane Hawk series, Nameless or the Odd Thomas series.
| Title |
Year |
Notes
|
| "This Fence" |
1965 |
|
| "The Kittens" |
1965 |
Later revised in 1966 as "Kittens" Strange Highways
|
| "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 |
|
| "Soft Come the Dragons" |
1967 |
rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons
|
| "To Behold the Sun" |
1967 |
rp in collection 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 collection Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded into A Darkness in My Soul.
|
| "The Psychedelic Children" |
1968 |
rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons
|
| "The Twelfth Bed" |
1968 |
rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons
|
| "Dreambird"[3] |
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!"[4] |
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 |
A 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 |
A Jake Ash story; revised rp in Strange Highways
|
| "The Terrible Weapon" |
1972 |
|
| "Cosmic Sin" |
1972 |
A Jake Ash story
|
| "Altarboy" |
1972 |
|
| "Ollie's Hands" |
1972 |
Revised and re-issued in 1987, rp in Strange Highways
|
| "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",[5] 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 Strange Highways
|
| "The Night of the Storm" |
1974 |
Re-issued as a graphic novel in 1976; revised in Strange Highways
|
| "Down in the Darkness" |
1986 |
rp in Strange Highways
|
| "Weird World" |
1986 |
|
| "Snatcher" |
1986 |
rp in Strange Highways
|
| "The Monitors of Providence" |
1986 |
collaboration
|
| "The Black Pumpkin" |
1986 |
rp in Strange Highways
|
| "The Interrogation" |
1987 |
|
| "Hardshell" |
1987 |
revised rp in Strange Highways
|
| "Miss Attila the Hun" |
1987 |
revised rp in Strange Highways
|
| "Twilight of the Dawn" |
1987 |
revised rp in Strange Highways
|
| "Graveyard Highway" |
1987 |
|
| "Trapped" |
1989 |
Re-issued as a graphic novel in 1992; rp in Strange Highways
|
| "Strange Highways" |
1995 |
short story that appears in the collection Strange Highways
|
| "Santa's Twin" |
1996 |
|
| "Pinkie" |
1998 |
|
| "Black River" |
2000 |
|
| "Robot Santa" |
2004 |
|
| "Darkness Under the Sun" |
2010 |
60 pages
|
| "The Moonlit Mind" |
2011 |
[6]l 102 pages
|
| "Wilderness" |
2013 |
30 pages
|
| "The Neighbor" |
2014 |
32 pages
|
| "Ricochet Joe" |
2017 |
A Kindle motion book which contains moving pictures and interactive parts; 95 pages
|
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)
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). ISBN 9607037456.
- 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 (April, 2009)
- Foreword to The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything by John D. MacDonald (2014, Trade Paperback Edition)
References
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| Novels |
- Star Quest (1968)
- The Flesh in the Furnace (1972)
- Chase (1972)
- Demon Seed (1973)
- Shattered (1973)
- Dragonfly (1975)
- Invasion (1975)
- Night Chills (1976)
- The Face of Fear (1977)
- The Vision (1977)
- The Key to Midnight (1979)
- The Voice of the Night (1980)
- The Funhouse (1980)
- Whispers (1980)
- The Mask (1981)
- The Eyes of Darkness (1981)
- The House of Thunder (1981)
- Phantoms (1983)
- Darkfall (1984)
- The Servants of Twilight (1984)
- Twilight Eyes (1985)
- The Door to December (1985)
- Strangers (1986)
- Watchers (1987)
- Shadow Fires (1987)
- Lightning (1988)
- Midnight (1989)
- The Bad Place (1990)
- Cold Fire (1991)
- Hideaway (1992)
- Mr. Murder (1993)
- Dragon Tears (1993)
- Winter Moon (1994)
- Dark Rivers of the Heart (1994)
- Icebound (1995)
- Strange Highways (1995)
- Intensity (1996)
- Ticktock (1996)
- Sole Survivor (1997)
- Fear Nothing (1998)
- Seize the Night (1998)
- False Memory (1999)
- From the Corner of His Eye (2000)
- One Door Away from Heaven (2001)
- By the Light of the Moon (2002)
- The Face (2003)
- Odd Thomas (2003)
- The Taking (2004)
- Life Expectancy (2004)
- Prodigal Son (2005)
- Velocity (2005)
- City of Night (2005)
- Forever Odd (2005)
- The Husband (2006)
- Brother Odd (2006)
- The Good Guy (2007)
- The Darkest Evening of the Year (2007)
- Odd Hours (2008)
- Your Heart Belongs to Me (2008)
- Dead and Alive (2009)
- Breathless (2009)
- Lost Souls (2010)
- What the Night Knows (2010)
- The Dead Town (2011)
- 77 Shadow Street (2011)
- Odd Apocalypse (2012)
- Deeply Odd (2013)
- Innocence (2013)
- The City (2014)
- Saint Odd (2015)
|
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| Film adaptations |
- Demon Seed (1977)
- The Passengers (1977)
- Watchers (1988)
- Whispers (1990)
- Watchers II (1990)
- The Face of Fear (1990)
- Servants of Twilight (1991)
- Watchers 3 (1994)
- Hideaway (1995)
- Intensity (1997)
- Mr. Murder (1998)
- Phantoms (1998)
- Watchers Reborn (1998)
- Sole Survivor (2000)
- Black River (2001)
- Frankenstein (2004)
- Odd Thomas (2013)
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| Children's books | |
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| Other |
- The Book of Counted Sorrows
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