Dean Koontz

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blunthead

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I like Koontz very much. He introduced me to horror along with John Saul, Robert McCammon, and Peter Straub. I'm not up to date (at all) with his work now, but I always enjoyed the books of his that I did read. Demon Seed, Tick Tock, Intensity, Strange Highways, Dark Rivers of the Heart, Mr. Murder, Night Chills, and Shadowfires are all great books. The last book of his that I read was Odd Thomas. I'm not sure why I drifted away. His older books will always be nostalgic for me though.
My favorites are False Memory, The Taking, The Bad Place, Tick Tock, Midnight, and Lightning.
 

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blunthead

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...I do, and have all of his novels from The Funhouse on, but have a long way to go to collect his work from the 60's and early 70's...can't wait for Saint Odd...if you have a Kindle, download You Are Destined To Be Together Forever...it's an Odd short, just recently released...(and pay no mind to KRF, he's just pissed he didn't think of the brainy dog gambit)....
He used to use the following pen names...

PEN NAMES

Why did Dean Koontz use pen names? His early novels brought in very little money, so he wrote several each year. When an unknown author writes in that fashion, publishers urge him to use a pen name, since they feel prolific works from the same author in a short timeframe won't receive appropriate attention. Sometimes, too, when an author writes in different genres, publishers encourage the use of a pen name for each one. Koontz no longer uses pen names.

Pen Names
Book Title(s)
David Axton
Prison of Ice (re-released under Koontz as Icebound)
Leonard Chris Hung!
Brian Coffey Blood Risk
The Face of Fear (re-released under Koontz)
Surrounded
The Voice of the Night (re-released under Koontz)
The Wall of Masks
Deanna Dwyer Children of the Storm
Dance with the Devil
The Dark of Summer
Demon Child
Legacy of Terror
K.R. Dwyer Chase (re-released under Koontz)
Dragonfly
Face of Fear (UK) (re-released under Koontz)
Shattered (re-released under Koontz)
John Hill The Long Sleep
Leigh Nichols The Door to December (re-released under Koontz)
The Eyes of Darkness (re-released under Koontz)
The House of Thunder (re-released under Koontz)
The Key to Midnight (re-released under Koontz)
Twilight (re-released under Koontz as The Servants of Twilight)
Shadowfires (re-released under Koontz)
Anthony North Strike Deep
Richard Paige The Door to December (re-released under Koontz)
Owen West The Funhouse (re-released under Koontz)
The Mask (re-released under Koontz)The Pit (never published; renamed Darkfall and published under Koontz)
Aaron Wolfe Invasion (revised/re-released under Koontz as Winter Moon)
 

kingricefan

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He used to use the following pen names...

PEN NAMES

Why did Dean Koontz use pen names? His early novels brought in very little money, so he wrote several each year. When an unknown author writes in that fashion, publishers urge him to use a pen name, since they feel prolific works from the same author in a short timeframe won't receive appropriate attention. Sometimes, too, when an author writes in different genres, publishers encourage the use of a pen name for each one. Koontz no longer uses pen names.

Pen Names
Book Title(s)
David Axton
Prison of Ice (re-released under Koontz as Icebound)
Leonard Chris Hung!
Brian Coffey Blood Risk
The Face of Fear (re-released under Koontz)
Surrounded
The Voice of the Night (re-released under Koontz)
The Wall of Masks
Deanna Dwyer Children of the Storm
Dance with the Devil
The Dark of Summer
Demon Child
Legacy of Terror
K.R. Dwyer Chase (re-released under Koontz)
Dragonfly
Face of Fear (UK) (re-released under Koontz)
Shattered (re-released under Koontz)
John Hill The Long Sleep
Leigh Nichols The Door to December (re-released under Koontz)
The Eyes of Darkness (re-released under Koontz)
The House of Thunder (re-released under Koontz)
The Key to Midnight (re-released under Koontz)
Twilight (re-released under Koontz as The Servants of Twilight)
Shadowfires (re-released under Koontz)
Anthony North Strike Deep
Richard Paige The Door to December (re-released under Koontz)
Owen West The Funhouse (re-released under Koontz)
The Mask (re-released under Koontz)The Pit (never published; renamed Darkfall and published under Koontz)
Aaron Wolfe Invasion (revised/re-released under Koontz as Winter Moon)
Let me add to the list:
Jan Cheaux
Gracie Amber
Dniel Weber
Hector Lamar
Ann Griffin
Richard Young
Linda Mitchell
Henry Panzer
Bob Warner
These are names he used for pornographic paperbacks. Some titles are:
Swappers Convention, Underground Pig Society, Lifestyles, Bounce Girl, Always Hard, Cursed, A Witches Mouth, Aphrodisiac Girl