Dean Koontz - Related Works


Sudden Fear: The Horror and Dark Suspense Fiction of Dean R. Koontz Pub: Starmont House, Inc.
Date: 1988
Notes: this book is #24 in a series called "Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism"
Auth/Ed: Bill Munster
Foreword: Bill Munster
Afterword: Joe R. Lansdale
Price: $10.95
Pages: 182
Type: hc, type written
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Notes: includes a Chronology and editor's interview with Dean R. Koontz. Contributors include David B. Silva, Michael R. Collings, Richard Laymon, Stan Brooks, D.W. Taylor, Michael A. Morrison and Elizabeth Massie. Lately revised in 1998 in Discovering Dean Koontz.
The Dean Koontz Companion Pub: Headline
Date: 1994
Auth/Ed: Ed Gorman - Martin H. Greenberg - Bill Munster
Cover: Lee Gibbons
Price: £18.99
Pages: 314
Type: hc

"Dean Koontz's brilliant imagination and startling novels have captured the attention of the American public and won the praise of critics natonwide. Here we can take a look at the author and his career. The book includes an exclusive interview, his first published short story, a complete annotated guide to his work, and more."

Dean Koontz: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers) Pub: Greenwood Press
Date: 1996
Auth/Ed: Joan G. Kotker
Price: $29.95
Pages: 200

"This critical companion examines Dean Koontz's mature fiction, including some of his most famous works, like Watchers, Lightning, Dark Rivers of the Heart, and Intensity. Its intention is to provide both conventional and alternative readings so that students and readers who love Koontz's fiction can develop their critical skills. Other novels examined in depth are Phantoms, Strangers, Midnight, The Bad Place, and Mr. Murder. Seven other Dean Koontz novels are examined in comparison to these as well.
A biographical chapter sketches Dean Koontz's background and suggests ways in which growing up as the child of an abusive alcoholic has affected his work. A chapter on genre shows that Koontz combines elements from a number of genres in his writing and that his novels are moving in the direction of mainstream fiction. Kotker's discussion of Koontz's increasingly somber world view shows him to be a writer deeply concerned with issues of individual freedom. Each chapter deals with one novel in depth while making comparisons to other novels in his canon. Plot, character development, setting, point of view, and thematic issues are discussed for each novel. Kotker also examines each novel from an alternative critical approach, providing the reader with an additional perspective."

Dean Koontz : A Writer's Biography Pub: HarperPrism
Date: 1997
Auth/Ed: Katherine M. Ramsland
Price: $24
Pages: 384

"From his troubled childhood to his beginnings as a struggling writer who would write anything for money to his dazzling success as a worldwide bestselling author, Dean Koontz has led a life as full of surprises as his fiction. Based on extensive interviews with Koontz and his family, friends and colleagues, this biography reveals the whole truth to his millions of readers. 16-page photo insert."

Discovering Dean Koontz: Essays on America's Bestselling Writer of Suspense and Horror Fiction Pub: San Bernardino - Borgo Press
Date: 1998
Notes: this book is among the last to be published by Borgo Press, and it belongs into a series called "I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy and Criticism of Literature"
Auth/Ed: Bill Munster
Price: $21.00
Pages: 184
Type: tp

Non-fiction gathering of 10 critical essays, plus an interview with Koontz. Authors include Michael R. Collings, Richard Laymon, and Elizabeth Massie. Introduction by Tim Powers and afterword by Joe R. Lansdale. There is a chronology, index, and bibliography. This is revised from Sudden Fear (Starmont 1988).

Dean Koontz: A Reader's Checklist and Reference Guide Pub: CheckerBee
Date: 1999
Price: $4.95

"Dean Koontz is an author whose works have topped the best-seller list over 30 times in the last twenty years. His books are now published throughout the world in many different languages. Track your own reading record of Dean Koontz's work with CheckerBee's Checklist to Dean Koontz. Complete with a short biography on the author as well as all the latest reviews on his books, this all-inclusive guide gives you information on bookshelf availability, a synopsis of each book, current ratings and recent movies. Find space for your own comments and reviews on each book included as well."

A Collector's Guide To Dean Koontz Pub: Cemetery Dance
Date: to be published in 2001
Auth/Ed: Michael Sauers

"A "must have" for all Dean Koontz fans, this comprehensive "reader's guide" will cover every single aspect of Koontz's work, including unpublished works, rare foreign and limited editions, articles about/ interviews with/ appearances, novels, short stories, essays, introductions, book blurbs, reviews, his biography, ephemera, and much, much more! Also featuring a brand new Afterword written by Dean Koontz, especially for this book! An amazing volume for readers and collectors alike!"

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