Dean Koontz bibliography

This is a list of every work (novels, short stories, etc.) by American novelist Dean Koontz.

Essays and introductions

 * 1) "Of Childhood" (Reflector, 1966)
 * 2) "Ibsen's Dream" (Reflector, 1966)
 * 3) Introduction to Great Escapes: New Designs for Home Theaters by Theo Kalomirakis (October 15, 2003). ISBN 9607037456.
 * 4) Foreword to Love Heels: Tales from Canine Companions for Independence (October 1, 2003)
 * 5) 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)
 * 6) 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)


 * 1) "This Fence" (1965)
 * 2) "The Kittens" (1965) (later revised [1966] as "Kittens") in Strange Highways
 * 3) "Of Childhood" (1965)
 * 4) "A Miracle is Anything" (1966)
 * 5) "Cloistered Walls" (1966)
 * 6) "Flesh" (1966)
 * 7) "For a Breath I Tarry" (1966)
 * 8) "Hey, Good Christian" (1966)
 * 9) "Holes" (1966)
 * 10) "It" (1966)
 * 11) "I've Met One" (1966)
 * 12) "Mold in the Jungle" (1966)
 * 13) "Sam: the Adventurous Exciting Well-traveled Man" (1966)
 * 14) "Some Disputed Barricade" (1966)
 * 15) "Something About This City" (1966)
 * 16) "The Rats Run" (1966)
 * 17) "The Standard Unusual" (1966)
 * 18) "Where No One Fell" (1967)
 * 19) "Soft Come the Dragons" (1967) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
 * 20) "To Behold the Sun" (1967) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
 * 21) "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter One" (1967; in "SF Opinion #4" (Dean Koontz fanzine))
 * 22) "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Two" (1967; in "SF Opinion #5" (Dean Koontz fanzine))
 * 23) "Love 2005" (1968)
 * 24) "A Darkness in My Soul" (1968) rp in Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded into A Darkness in My Soul
 * 25) "The Psychedelic Children" (1968) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
 * 26) "The Twelfth Bed" (1968) rp in Soft Come the Dragons
 * 27) "Dreambird" (1968)
 * 28) "Glunk" (1969; in "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine, special Vaughn Bode issue)); based on Bode's comic strip "Junkwaffel"
 * 29) "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Three" (1969; in "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine))
 * 30) "Whoop, the Dead Gerkle" (1969; in "SF Opinion #7" (Dean Koontz fanzine)
 * 31) "In the Shield" (1969) combined with "Where the Beast Runs" as Fear That Man
 * 32) "Temple of Sorrow" (1969)
 * 33) "Killerbot!" (1969) rp in Soft Come the Dragons as "A Season for Freedom".  Revised and re-issued in 1977.
 * 34) "The Face in His Belly" Part One (1969)
 * 35) "Where the Beast Runs" (1969) combined with "In the Shield" as Fear That Man
 * 36) "Dragon In the Land" (1969) in Soft Come the Dragons
 * 37) "The Face in His Belly" Part Two (1969)
 * 38) "Muse" (1969) [a "Leonard Chris" story]
 * 39) "A Third Hand" (1970) rp in Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded as Starblood.
 * 40) "The Good Ship Lookoutworld" (1970)
 * 41) "Unseen Warriors" (1970)
 * 42) "The Mystery of His Flesh" (1970) expanded as Anti-Man
 * 43) "Beastchild" (1970) expanded as Beastchild
 * 44) "The Crimson Witch" (1970) slightly expanded as The Crimson Witch
 * 45) "Shambolain" (1970)
 * 46) "Nightmare Gang" (1970)
 * 47) "Emanations" (1970)
 * 48) "Bruno" (1971) [a Jake Ash story] revised rp in Strange Highways
 * 49) "The Terrible Weapon" (1972)
 * 50) "Cosmic Sin" (1972) [a Jake Ash story]
 * 51) "Altarboy" (1972)
 * 52) "Ollie's Hands" (1972) {revised and re-issued in 1987} rp in Strange Highways
 * 53) "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.
 * 54) "Grayworld" (1973) expanded as The Long Sleep as by John Hill
 * 55) "The Sinless Child" (1973)
 * 56) "Wake Up To Thunder" (1973)
 * 57) "Terra Phobia" (1973)
 * 58) "The Undercity" (1973)
 * 59) "We Three" (1974) revised rp in Strange Highways
 * 60) "The Night of the Storm" (1974) {re-issued as a graphic novel in 1976} revised in Strange Highways
 * 61) "Down in the Darkness" (1986) rp in Strange Highways
 * 62) "Weird World" (1986)
 * 63) "Snatcher" (1986) rp in Strange Highways
 * 64) "The Monitors of Providence {collaboration}" (1986)
 * 65) "The Black Pumpkin" (1986) rp in Strange Highways
 * 66) "The Interrogation" (1987)
 * 67) "Hardshell" (1987) revised rp in Strange Highways
 * 68) "Miss Attila the Hun" (1987) rp in Strange Highways
 * 69) "Twilight of the Dawn" (1987) rp in Strange Highways
 * 70) "Graveyard Highway" (1987)
 * 71) "Trapped" (1989) {re-issued as a graphic novel in 1992} rp in Strange Highways
 * 72) "Strange Highways" (1995) short story that appears in the collection Strange Highways
 * 73) "Santa's Twin" (1996)
 * 74) "Pinkie" (1998)
 * 75) "Black River" (2000)
 * 76) "Darkness Under the Sun" (2010)
 * 77) "The Moonlit Mind" (2011)
 * 78) "Odd Interlude" (2012)
 * 79) "Wilderness" (2013)
 * 80) "The Neighbor" (2014)
 * 81) "Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever" (2014)
 * 82) "Last Light" (2015)
 * 83) "Final Hour" (2015)
 * 84) "Ricochet Joe" (2017)
 * 85) "The Bone Farm" (2018)
 * 86) "Troubled Times" (2018)
 * 87) "In the Heart of the Fire" (2019)
 * 88) "Photographing the Dead" (2019)
 * 89) "The Praying Mantis Bride" (2019)
 * 90) "Red Rain" (2019)
 * 91) "The Mercy of Snakes" (2019)
 * 92) "Memories of Tomorrow" (2019)
 * 93) "The Lost Soul of the City" (2021)
 * 94) "Gentle Is the Angel of Death" (2021)
 * 95) "Kaleidoscope" (2021)
 * 96) "Light Has Weight, but Darkness Does Not" (2021)
 * 97) "Corkscrew" (2021)
 * 98) "Zero In" (2021)

Non-fiction

 * 1) "How to Write Best Selling Fiction" (1981)
 * 2) "Writing Popular Fiction" (1972)
 * 3) "A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie" (2009)