Dean Koontz

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prufrock21

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I assume collaborations are uniquely challenging in a lot of ways, perhaps especially between artists. Also, I wonder if the process of creating in certain arts doesn't tend to demand attention from only one source.
It's done all the time. However, I suspect that the challenge would be formidable, as King is, well, the King, and Koontz is no slouch, either.
I wonder if they could set egos aside. It would make for a hell of a collaboration.
 

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It's done all the time. However, I suspect that the challenge would be formidable, as King is, well, the King, and Koontz is no slouch, either.
I wonder if they could set egos aside. It would make for a hell of a collaboration.
He did do one with Peter Straub, did he not?

Looks like a definite "bromance" !! :adoration: :biggrin2:
 

kingricefan

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...Koontz's Summer home...
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Koontz' dog house......
 

kingricefan

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I've heard Strangers is really good.

Yea i won't reveal anything but it is def a good story!
Strangers was the first Koontz novel I ever read. It was definately a great book! Kept me going, turning those pages as fast as I could read them. I had to have everything he wrote after that. This was way back when Strangers was first published and I didn't know about all of the non-de-plumes he used.
 

Walter Oobleck

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I've got this paperback, The Dean Koontz Companion...musta picked it up at a used bookstore. Anyway...published in the late 90s maybe. So there's a list of all these stories, probably close to 30-40 of them, published under different names, some brought out under his real name. Looked at various sites, Amazon, Ebay, and many of these titles were selling for big bucks, more than I'd want to spend simply to read one of his first stories. But lately, there are more of them appearing at the same places and I've picked up a few. Don't have a list of titles handy, but a few of them are okay.

So I had to go to the bookcase, refresh memory. Pulled three off the shelf...A Werewolf Among Us, The Haunted Earth, and Fear That Man, an Ace Double, this title on one side and you flip the book over and there's another story, Toyman from E.C. Tubb. All three of these are printed w/the Dean Koontz name, but I don't think you'd see them listed under the "Also By Dean Koontz" list they have toward the front of the "current" stories. Many of these early stories are sci-fi and The Haunted Earth has a comic element.

What's surprising is the number of stories, like I said, around 30-40...34...I just counted them...titles like Warlock, Time Thieves, Star Quest, Starblood, Strike Deep "by Anthony North" and the comments on that one say the publisher went so far as to create an entire false biography for the writer. Story concerns computer security and the vulnerability of electronically storied information...this from 1974. A few others: Invasion, Legacy of Terror, and The Long Sleep from Aaron Wolfe, Deanna Dwyer, and John Hill. Most appear to be from the late 60s through the mid-70s. If you are able to find some of these for 5-cents at the used bookstore, I'd hazard you could sell to collectors for a goodly sum of money. Happy hunting.
 

GNTLGNT

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It's done all the time. However, I suspect that the challenge would be formidable, as King is, well, the King, and Koontz is no slouch, either.
I wonder if they could set egos aside. It would make for a hell of a collaboration.
...Koontz has acknowledged he can't work with a collaborator...it's why the Frankenstein series ended up being just that, instead of a screenplay...he couldn't handle a partner and anyone attempting changes in his "vision"....
 

kingricefan

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I've got this paperback, The Dean Koontz Companion...musta picked it up at a used bookstore. Anyway...published in the late 90s maybe. So there's a list of all these stories, probably close to 30-40 of them, published under different names, some brought out under his real name. Looked at various sites, Amazon, Ebay, and many of these titles were selling for big bucks, more than I'd want to spend simply to read one of his first stories. But lately, there are more of them appearing at the same places and I've picked up a few. Don't have a list of titles handy, but a few of them are okay.

So I had to go to the bookcase, refresh memory. Pulled three off the shelf...A Werewolf Among Us, The Haunted Earth, and Fear That Man, an Ace Double, this title on one side and you flip the book over and there's another story, Toyman from E.C. Tubb. All three of these are printed w/the Dean Koontz name, but I don't think you'd see them listed under the "Also By Dean Koontz" list they have toward the front of the "current" stories. Many of these early stories are sci-fi and The Haunted Earth has a comic element.

What's surprising is the number of stories, like I said, around 30-40...34...I just counted them...titles like Warlock, Time Thieves, Star Quest, Starblood, Strike Deep "by Anthony North" and the comments on that one say the publisher went so far as to create an entire false biography for the writer. Story concerns computer security and the vulnerability of electronically storied information...this from 1974. A few others: Invasion, Legacy of Terror, and The Long Sleep from Aaron Wolfe, Deanna Dwyer, and John Hill. Most appear to be from the late 60s through the mid-70s. If you are able to find some of these for 5-cents at the used bookstore, I'd hazard you could sell to collectors for a goodly sum of money. Happy hunting.
Hi Walter. If you have or run across a copy of Invasion by 'Aaron Wolfe' grab it! It has the destinction of a book, back in the '80's this was, that was rumored to be written by none other than Stephen King. King has said that he didn't write it. But, the entire story takes place in a small cabin in the deep woods of Maine and involves a family of three that are set upon by outside forces. It's a good story, too. I've read it and it does have alot of similarities to what could be an early 'King' story. Koontz wrote alot of his early novels in locations where he actually lived and as far as I know he never lived in Maine. Also, it's not really mentioned alot in that Koontz Companion but he (along with his wife as co-writer) did some paperback original pornography books. Those commands huge prices on the secondary market! HUGE! Dean won't acknowledge them as he says they were re-written by an editor(s) at the publisher after submitting them. Here's a pic of another little gem you might want in your collection- it was at one time also rumored to be written by King (read the author's name backwards.....) :
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Hey, jchanic, ya got one of these?