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Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author best known for his novels, which can broadly be described as suspense thrillers, but also frequently incorporate elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Several of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks reached the number one position. Koontz wrote under a number of pen names earlier in his career, including "David Axton", "Leigh Nichols" and "Brian Coffey".
Koontz was born on July 9, 1945, in Everett, Pennsylvania. He was regularly beaten and abused by his alcoholic father, which influenced his later writing, as also did the courage of his physically diminutive mother in standing up to her husband. "In his senior year at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, he won a fiction competition sponsored by Atlantic Monthly magazine. After graduation in 1967, he went to work as an English teacher at Mechanicsburg High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. In the 1960s, Koontz worked for the Appalachian Poverty Program, a federally funded initiative designed to help poor children.
In his spare time, he wrote his first novel, Star Quest, which was published in 1968. Koontz went on to write over a dozen science fiction novels. Seeing the Catholic faith as a contrast to the chaos in his family, Koontz converted in college because it gave him answers for his life, admiring its "intellectual rigor" and saying it permits a view of life that sees mystery and wonder in all things. He says he sees the Church as English writer and Roman Catholic convert G.K. Chesterton did. Koontz notes that spirituality has always been part of his books, as are grace and our struggle as fallen souls, but he "never get on a soapbox".
In the 1970s, Koontz began writing suspense and horror fiction, both under his own name and several pseudonyms, sometimes publishing up to eight books a year. Koontz has stated that he began using pen names after several editors convinced him that authors who switched back and forth between different genres invariably fell victim to "negative crossover" (alienating established fans and simultaneously failing to pick up any new ones). Known pseudonyms used by Koontz during his career include Deanna Dwyer, K. R. Dwyer, Aaron Wolfe, David Axton, Brian Coffey, John Hill, Leigh Nichols, Owen West, Richard Paige and Anthony North. As Brian Coffey he wrote the "Mike Tucker" trilogy [Blood Risk, Surrounded, Wall of Masks] in acknowledged tribute to the Parker novels of Richard Stark (Donald E. Westlake). Many of Koontz's pseudonymous novels are now available under his real name. Many others remain suppressed by Koontz, who bought back the rights to ensure they could not be republished; he has, on occasion, said that he might revise some for re-publication, but only 3 have appeared - Demon Seed and Invasion were both heavily rewritten before they were republished, and Prison of Ice had certain sections bowdlerised.
After writing full time for more than ten years, Koontz's acknowledged breakthrough novel was Whispers, published in 1980. The two books before that, The Key to Midnight and The Funhouse, also sold over a million copies, but were written under pen names. Thus although Whispers is Koontz's third paperback bestseller, it was the second credited to Koontz. His very first bestseller was Demon Seed, the sales of which picked up after the release of the film of the same name in 1977, and sold over two million copies in one year. Demon Seed's success may have been a fluke, but from 1979 on, Koontz's books regularly became paperback bestsellers. His first hardcover bestseller, which finally promised some financial stability and lifted him out of the midlist hit-and-miss range was his book Strangers. Since then, 12 hardcovers and 13 paperbacks written by Koontz have reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List.
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Odd Thomas Series
Dean Koontz - You Are Destined To Be Together Forever (read by David Aaron Baker)
Dean Koontz - Odd Thomas (read by David Aaron Baker)
Dean Koontz - Forever Odd (read by David Aaron Baker)
Dean Koontz - Brother Odd (read by David Aaron Baker)
Dean Koontz - Odd Hours (read by David Aaron Baker)
Dean Koontz - Odd Interlude (read by David Aaron Baker)
Dean Koontz - Odd Apocalypse (read by David Aaron Baker)
Dean Koontz - Deeply Odd (read by David Aaron Baker)
Dean Koontz - Saint Odd (read by David Aaron Baker)
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Series
Dean Koontz - Prodigal Son (read by Christopher Lane)
Dean Koontz - City Of Night (read by Christopher Lane)
Dean Koontz - Dead And Alive (read by Christopher Lane)
Dean Koontz - Lost Souls (read by Christopher Lane)
Dean Koontz - The Dead Town (read by Christopher Lane)
Moonlight Bay Series
Dean Koontz - Fear Nothing (read by John Glouchevitch)
Dean Koontz - Seize The Night (read by John Glouchevitch)
Jane Hawk Series
Dean Koontz - The Bone Farm (read by Elisabeth Rodgers, James Anderson Foster)
Dean Koontz - The Silent Corner (read by Elisabeth Rodgers)
Dean Koontz - The Whispering Room (read by Elisabeth Rodgers)
Dean Koontz - The Crooked Staircase (read by Elisabeth Rodgers)
Dean Koontz - The Forbidden Door (read by Elisabeth Rodgers)
Dean Koontz - The Night Window (read by Elisabeth Rodgers)
Innocence Series
Dean Koontz - Wilderness And Other Stories (read by D*ick Hill, MacLeod Andrews, Will Damron, Tanya Eby)
Dean Koontz - Innocence (read by MacLeod Andrews)
What the Night Knows Series
Dean Koontz - Darkness Under The Sun (read by Steven Weber)
Dean Koontz - What The Night Knows (read by Steven Weber)
Pendleton Series
Dean Koontz - 77 Shadow Street (read by Peter Berkrot)
Dean Koontz - The Moonlit Mind (read by Peter Berkrot)
The City Series
Dean Koontz - The City (read by Korey Jackson)
Dean Koontz - The Neighbor (read by Malcolm Hillgartner)
Ashley Bell Series
Dean Koontz - Darkest Desires (read by Amy Landon)
Dean Koontz - Ashley Bell (read by Suzy Jackson)
Nameless Series
Dean Koontz - Nameless: Season One (read by Edoardo Ballerini)
Dean Koontz - Nameless: Season Two (read by Edoardo Ballerini)
Non-Series
Dean Koontz - The Bad Weather Friend (read by Ray Chase)
Dean Koontz - After Death (read by Edoardo Ballerini)
Dean Koontz - Shadowfires (read by Jane Oppenheimer)
Dean Koontz - The Big Dark Sky (read by Fajer Al-Kaisi)
Dean Koontz - The House At The End Of The World (read by Natalie Naudus)
Dean Koontz - The Other Emily (read by MacLeod Andrews)
Dean Koontz - Devoted (read by Edoardo Ballerini)
Dean Koontz - Elsewhere (read by Edoardo Ballerini, Alexander Cendese, Kevin T. Collins, Soneela Nankani, Amanda Leigh Cobb, Imani Parks, Josh Bloomberg, Brian Holden)
Dean Koontz - Oddkins (read by Luke Daniels)
Dean Koontz - Ricochet Joe (read by James Patrick Cronin)
Dean Koontz - The Face Of Fear (read by Patrick Lawlor)
Dean Koontz - Watchers (read by Edoardo Ballerini)
Dean Koontz - Intensity (read by Frankie Corzo)
Dean Koontz - Phantoms (read by Buck Schirner)
Dean Koontz - Velocity (read by Michael Hayden)
Dean Koontz - Lightning (read by Christopher Lane)
Dean Koontz - False Memory (read by Stephen Lang)
Dean Koontz - The Husband (read by Holter Graham)
Dean Koontz - Strangers (read by D*ick Hill)
Dean Koontz - The Taking (read by Ari Meyers)
Dean Koontz - The Good Guy (read by Richard Ferrone)
Dean Koontz - Hideaway (read by Carol Cowan, Michael Hanson)
Dean Koontz - Whispers (read by William Dufris)
Dean Koontz - Life Expectancy (read by John Bedford Lloyd)
Dean Koontz - The Bad Place (read by Carol Cowan, Michael Hanson)
Dean Koontz - Ticktock (read by Paul Michael)
Dean Koontz - From The Corner Of His Eye (read by Christopher Lane)
Dean Koontz - Sole Survivor (read by Ryan Burke)
Dean Koontz - The Darkest Evening Of The Year (read by Kirsten Kairos)
Dean Koontz - Twilight Eyes (read by Malcolm Hillgartner)
Dean Koontz - Night Chills (read by ???)
Dean Koontz - By The Light Of The Moon (read by Kate Rudd, Seth Podowitz)
Dean Koontz - Midnight (read by J. Charles)
Dean Koontz - Mr. Murder (read by Jay O. Sanders)
Dean Koontz - Cold Fire (read by Carol Cowan, Michael Hanson)
Dean Koontz - Dragon Tears (read by Jay O. Sanders)
Dean Koontz - The Face (read by Dylan Baker)
Dean Koontz - One Door Away From Heaven (read by Anne Twomey)
Dean Koontz - Darkfall (read by Christopher Lane)
Dean Koontz - Strange Highways (read by Jeffrey Cummings)
Dean Koontz - Dark Rivers Of The Heart (read by Scott Merriman)
Dean Koontz - Shattered (read by Nick Sullivan)
Dean Koontz - Relentless (read by Dan John Miller)
Dean Koontz - Your Heart Belongs To Me (read by Malcolm Hillgartner)
Dean Koontz - Winter Moon (read by Christopher Lane)
Dean Koontz - Breathless (read by Jeffrey Cummings)
Dean Koontz - Demon Seed (read by Christopher Lane)
Dean Koontz - The Vision (read by Dan John Miller)
Dean Koontz - A Big Little Life (read by Dean Koontz)
Dean Koontz - Santa's Twin (read by Jay O. Sanders)
Dean Koontz - Black River (read by Scott Brick)
Dean Koontz - The Eyes Of Darkness (read by Tanya Eby)
Dean Koontz - Shadow Fires (read by Jonathan Marosz)
Dean Koontz - After The Last Race (read by William Wright)
Dean Koontz - The Mask (read by Natalie Ross)
Dean Koontz - The House Of Thunder (read by Laural Merlington, Mel Foster)
Dean Koontz - The Key To Midnight (read by Tanya Eby)
Dean Koontz - The Servants Of Twilight (read by Angela Dawe)
Dean Koontz - The Funhouse (read by Karen Peakes)
Dean Koontz - Icebound (read by Jim Frangione)
Dean Koontz - Chase (read by Nick Podehl)
Dean Koontz - The Voice Of The Night (read by Patrick Lawlor)
Dean Koontz - The Door To December (read by George Guidall)
Dean Koontz - Nightmare Journey (read by ???)
Dean Koontz - Trapped (read by ???)
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