# Dean Koontz bibliography

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 | As Brian Coffey |
| The Wall of Masks | 1975 | novel | 167 | As Brian Coffey |

### 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 |
| 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 | |
| Soft Come the Dragons | 1970 | collection | 143 | |
| 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 | rewritten 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 by "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. |
| Strange Highways | 1995 | short stories | 576 | revised 1995; includes "extensively revised" version of Chase" |
| 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 | |
| Darkness Under the Sun | 2010 | novella | 60 | |
| What the Night Knows | 2010 | novel | 464 | |
| The Moonlit Mind | 2011 | novella | 102 | |
| 77 Shadow Street | 2011 | novel | 451 | |
| Wilderness | 2013 | novella | 30 | |
| Innocence | 2013 | novel | 352 | |
| The Neighbor | 2014 | novella | 32 | |
| The City | 2014 | novel | 416 | |
| Ashley Bell | 2015 | novel | 560 | |
| Ricochet Joe | 2018 | novella | 95 | a Kindle motion book which contains moving pictures and interactive parts |
| 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 | | |

## 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)

## 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 Fence" (1965)
* "The Kittens" (1965) (later revised [1966] as "Kittens") in 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)
* "Where No One Fell" (1967)
* "Soft Come the Dragons" (1967) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
* "To Behold the Sun" (1967) rp in 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 Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded into A Darkness in My Soul
* "The Psychedelic Children" (1968) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
* "The Twelfth Bed" (1968) rp in 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" (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!" (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", 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 {collaboration}" (1986)
* "The Black Pumpkin" (1986) rp in Strange Highways
* "The Interrogation" (1987)
* "Hardshell" (1987) revised rp in Strange Highways
* "Miss Attila the Hun" (1987) rp in Strange Highways
* "Twilight of the Dawn" (1987) 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)
* "The Moonlit Mind" (2011)
* "Odd Interlude" (2012)
* "Wilderness" (2013)
* "The Neighbor" (2014)
* "Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever" (2014)
* "Last Light" (2015)
* "Final Hour" (2015)
* "Ricochet Joe" (2017)
* "The Bone Farm" (2018)
* "Troubled Times" (2018)
* "In the Heart of the Fire" (2019)
* "Photographing the Dead" (2019)
* "The Praying Mantis Bride" (2019)
* "Red Rain" (2019)
* "The Mercy of Snakes" (2019)
* "Memories of Tomorrow" (2019)
* "The Lost Soul of the City" (2021)
* "Gentle Is the Angel of Death" (2021)
* "Kaleidoscope" (2021)
* "Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not" (2021)
* "Corkscrew" (2021)
* "Zero In" (2021)

## 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)