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 NotesBlood 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)
Odd Thomas Series # 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
Frankenstein Series 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" 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" "extensively revised" into Strange Highways Children of the Storm 1972 novel as "Deanna Dwyer" Dance with the Devil 1972 novel as "Deanna Dwyer" The Dark of Summer 1972 novel as "Deanna Dwyer" The Haunted Earth 1973 novel Demon Seed 1973 novel 320 adapted into a film in 1977, novel rewritten in 1997 A Werewolf Among Us 1973 novel as "Leigh Nichols" Shattered 1973 novel 304 as "K. R. Dwyer" Hanging On 1973 novel Strike Deep 1974 novel as "Anthony North" After The Last Race 1974 novel Nightmare Journey 1975 novel The Long Sleep 1975 novel as "John Hill" Dragonfly 1975 novel 244 as "K. R. Dwyer" Invasion 1975 novel 190 as "Aaron Wolfe", revised and rereleased as Winter Moon in 1994 Prison of Ice 1976 novel 408 as "David Axton" Night Chills 1976 novel 384 The Face of Fear 1977 novel 320 as "Brian Coffey" and as "K. R. Dwyer" The Vision 1977 novel 368 The Key to Midnight 1979 novel 419 as "Leigh Nichols", revised and rereleased in 1995 The Funhouse 1980 novel 336 as "Owen West", novelization based on a screenplay by Larry Block Whispers 1980 novel 502 The Voice of the Night 1980 novel 352 as "Brian Coffey" The Eyes of Darkness 1981 novel 352 as "Leigh Nichols" The Mask 1981 novel 336 as "Owen West" The House of Thunder 1982 novel 432 as "Leigh Nichols" Phantoms 1983 novel 448 Darkfall 1984 novel 384 originally as Darkness Comes Twilight 1984 novel 592 as "Leigh Nichols" 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" also as "Leigh Nichols" Strangers 1986 novel 526 Watchers 1987 novel 406 Shadow Fires 1987 novel 528 as "Leigh Nichols" 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 396 Going Home in the Dark 2025, May 20 novel 395 The Friend of the Family 2026, January 20 novel 370
Collections TitleYearPagesNotesSoft Come the Dragons1970143Strange Highways 1995576The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse2001 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" 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" 1969In "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine) "Whoop, the Dead Gerkle" 1969In "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!" 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" 1969A 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" 1972A Jake Ash story"Altarboy" 1972 "Ollie's Hands" 1972Revised 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", https://web.archive.org/web/20160317224034/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/isfac/t82.htm#A1426 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" 1973Expanded 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" 1989Re-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" 201060 pages"The Moonlit Mind" 2011 l 102 pages"Wilderness" 2013 30 pages"The Neighbor" 2014 32 pages"Ricochet Joe" 2017A 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). . 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)
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