Dean Koontz Short Stories

Part 1: 1965-1969

Part 2: 1970-1974

Part 3: 1975-1991

Part 4: 1992-2000




Dean Koontz is certainly not as renowned for short stories as he is for novels, but, as you're about to find out, he produced a fair amount of short fiction in his life. In these four pages, which actually cost me a good deal of research, I have listed, hopefully without any painful mistake, all of the short stories written by Koontz since the explosion of his career. For each one of them, when available, you'll find the following information:

Two more things: the short stories are presented in chronological order, and of course you'll find them listed more than once if they were issued in different years or in different collections / magazines. Secondly, if you're wondering what "The Reflector" is, I'll tell you that it is a magazine issued by the Shippensburg University (PA - USA), for which Koontz wrote a good deal of short stories when he was a student.
Oh, I forgot, if you know something more, or if you have information about these items that might help this list...drop me a line.


1965
This Fence

The Reflector

Date: Winter 1965/1966

The Kittens

The Reflector

Date: Winter 1965/1966

Of Childhood

The Reflector

Date: Winter 1965/1966

1966
Kittens

Readers and Writers

Date: May/June 1966

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Also in: The Atlantic Monthly

Present in: Strange Highways (1995)

A Miracle is Anything

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

Cloistered Walls

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

Flesh

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

For a Breath I Tarry

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

Hey, Good Christian

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

Holes

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

It

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

I've Met One

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

Mold in the Jungle

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

Once

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

Sam: the Adventurous Exciting Well-traveled Man

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

Some Disputed Barricade

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

Something About This City

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

The Rats Run

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

The Standard Unusual

The Reflector

Date: Fall 1966

1967
Where No One Fell

The Reflector

Date: Spring 1967

Soft Come the Dragons

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Date: August 1967

Notes: Vol. 33 No 2 (Whole Number 195)

Auth/Ed: Edward L. Ferman

Cover: Ron Walotsky

Price: $0.50

Pages: 130 (52 - 62)

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See Also: 1974 - 1982

Present in: Soft Come the Dragons (1970)

To Behold the Sun

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Date: December 1967

Notes: Vol. 33 No 6 (Whole Number 199)

Auth/Ed: Edward L. Ferman

Cover: Jack Gaughan

Price: $0.50

Pages: 130 (69 - 80)

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See Also: 1974

Present in: Soft Come the Dragons (1970)

1968
A Darkness in My Soul

(novelette)

Fantastic

Date: January 1968

Notes: Vol. 17 # 3

Pub: Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.

Auth/Ed: Harry Harrison

Price: $0.50

Pages: (10 - 28)

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Present in: Soft Come the Dragons (1970)

Love 2005

Mr.

Date: Spring 1968

The Psychedelic Children

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Date: July 1968

Notes: Vol. 35 No 2 (Whole Number 207)

Auth/Ed: Edward L. Ferman

Cover: Jack Gaughan

Price: $0.50

Pages: 130 (64 - 75)

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Present in: Soft Come the Dragons (1970)

The Twelfth Bed

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Date: August 1968

Notes: Vol. 35 No 2 (Whole Number 207)

Auth/Ed: Edward L. Ferman

Cover: Gahan Wilson

Price: $0.50

Pages: 130 (51 - 60)

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See Also: 1974

Present in: Soft Come the Dragons (1970)

Dreambird

(novelette)

Worlds of If Science Fiction

Date: September 1968

Notes: Vol 18, No 9, Issue 130

Auth/Ed: Frederik Pohl

Cover: Martin McKenna

Price: $0.60

Pages: 162 (125 - 154)

1969
In the Shield

(novelette)

Worlds of If Science Fiction

Date: January 1969

Notes: Vol 19, No 1, Issue 134

Auth/Ed: Frederik Pohl

Cover: Douglas Chaffee

Price: $0.60

Pages: 162 (119 - 155)

Temple of Sorrow

Amazing Stories

Date: January 1969

Auth/Ed: Barry N. Malzberg

Price: $0.50

Pages: 146 (36 - 58)

Killerbot

Galaxy

Date: May 1969

Notes: reissued in 1977 as "A Season for Freedom"

Pages: (85 - 96)

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Present in: Soft Come the Dragons (1970)

The Face in His Belly

Perihelion

Date: Spring 1969 (part 1) / Summer 1969 (part 2)

Where the Beast Runs

(novelette)

Worlds of If Science Fiction

Date: July 1969

Notes: Vol 19, No 6, Issue 139

Auth/Ed: Frederik Pohl

Price: $0.60

Pages: 162 (138 - 161)

Dragon in the Land

Venture Science Fiction

Date: August 1969

Pages: (104 - 117)

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Present in: Soft Come the Dragons (1970)

Muse

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Date: September 1969

Notes: Vol. 37 No 3 (Whole Number 220)

Auth/Ed: Edward L. Ferman

Cover: Chesley Bonestell

Price: $0.60

Pages: 130 (56 - 65)

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See Also: 1972 - 1984


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