We can describe him as a writer whose works have been translated into forty languages, America's most popular thriller novelist, a master of dark dreams, or, as written in The Times, a literary acrobat.
Born in 1945, Koontz entered the world of science fiction by publishing his story 'Soft Come The Dragons' in FSF (Fantasy and Science Fiction) magazine in 1967.
His first novel, 'Star Quest', was published in 1968. After this, Dean Koontz published more than twenty science fiction novels under different names in five years. Pushing the limits of being human in his science fiction stories, Koontz introduces us to the world of monstrous children, mutants, cyborgs, and robots.
Koontz's novel, 'Nightmare Journey', which has a dark tone and was published in 1975 and can be considered within the framework of traditional science fiction, although complex, tells the story of a human being expelled from the stars and imprisoned on Earth by an alien intelligence that is impossible to comprehend, a hundred thousand years after our time. It describes humanity that has regressed into a religious Middle Ages amidst radiation and mutations.
Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author. His novels are billed as suspense thrillers, but frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, with fourteen hardcovers and sixteen paperbacks reaching the number-one position. Koontz wrote under a number of pen names earlier in his career, including "David Axton", "Deanna Dwyer", "K.R. Dwyer", "Leigh Nichols" and "Brian Coffey". He has published over 105 novels and a number of novellas and collections of short stories, and has sold over 450 million copies of his work.
Koontz, who started his career with science fiction, concentrated on horror after 1975 and became one of the best-selling authors of this genre.
All of Koontz's works, published many novels using the names mentioned above, began to be republished under the name DRK or Dean Koontz from the 1980s onwards. Koontz, who lives in Southern California, has been living solely as a writer since 1969, and whose books have sold nearly one hundred and fifty million copies, has a wide range of works ranging from comedy to fantasy, from science fiction to horror. Not content with these, Koontz also wrote two essays; In this way, he taught budding writers how to write more than fifty books and become a best-selling author.
The books 'Writing Popular Fiction', published in 1972, and 'How to Write Best Selling Fiction', published in 1981, were written not to sell well, but to do charity for the writer and illustrator.
Life is perhaps a game played on us by Dean Koontz with a thousand and one faces. It is not yet clear why he appears with a different name in each book. This goes to Dean Koontz, or I don't know, Brian Coffey, Deanne Dwyer, KR Dwyer, Leigh Nichols, Anthony North, Richard Paige, Owen West, and David Axton. a, to John Hill, to Aaron Wolfe, to DRK, whoever he really is; It actually suits him...
You become one of the world's most important bestselling authors, your life is in front of everyone's eyes, your books are translated into almost all languages of the world, and yet the veil of mystery over your identity is still not fully lifted. On top of that, your name is even mentioned in encyclopedias as "the portrait of the author is still blurry"...
Tucker Series: (under the name Brian Coffey)
1973 Blood Risk
1974 Surrounded
1975 The Wall of Masks
Santa's Twin Series:
1996 Santa's Twin
2004 Robot Santa
Moonlight Bay Series:
1997 Fear Nothing
1998 Seize the Night
Odd Thomas Series:
2003 Odd Thomas
2005 Forever Odd
2006 Brother Odd
2008 Odd Hours
2008 In Odd We Trust
2010 Odd is on Our Side
2012 Odd Apocalypse
2013 Deeply Odd
2015 Saint Odd
Dean Koontz's Frankenstein:
2005 Prodigal Son (with Kevin J. Anderson)
2005 City of Night (with Ed Gorman)
2009 Dead and Alive
2010 Lost Souls
Jane Hawk Series:
2018 The Bone Farm
2016 The Silent Corner
2017 The Whispering Room
2018 The Crooked Staircase
2018 The Forbidden Door
2019 The Night Window
Novels:
1968 Star Quest
1969 The Fall of the Dream Machine
1969 Fear That Man
1970 Beastchild
1970 The Dark Symphony
1970 Hell's Gate
1970 Anti-man
1971 The Crimson Witch
1971 Demon Child (under the name Deanna Dwyer)
1971 Legacy of Terror (under the name Deanna Dwyer)
1972 A Darkness in My Soul
1972 The Flesh in the Furnace
1972 Starblood
1972 Warlock
1972 Children of the Storm (under the name Deanna Dwyer)
1972 The Dark of Summer (under the name Deanna Dwyer)
1972 Chase (under the name Dwyer)
1972 Dance With The Devil (under the name Deanna Dwyer)
1973 The Haunted Earth
1973 A Werewolf Among Us
1973 Hanging on
1973 Demon Seed
1973 Shattered (under the name KR Dwyer)
1974 After the Last Race
1975 Dragonfly (under the name Dwyer)
1975 Nightmare Journey
1975 Invasion (under the name Aaron Wolfe)
1975 The Long Sleep (under the name John Hill)
1976 Prisoner of Ice / Icebond (under the name David Axton)
1976 Night Chills
1977 Time Thieves
1977 The Vision
1977 The Face of Fear (under the name Dwyer)
1979 The Key to Midnight (under the name Leigh Nichols)
1980 Whispers
1980 The Voice of the Night (under the name Brian Coffey)
1980 The Funhouse (under the name Owen West)
1981 The Eyes of Darkness (under the name Leigh Nichols)
1981 The Mask (under the name Owen West)
1982 The House of Thunder (under the name Leigh Nichols)
1983 Darkness Comes / Darkfall
1983 Phantoms
1984 The Servants of Twilight (under the name Leigh Nichols)
1985 The Door to December (under the name Richard Paige)
1985 Twilight Eyes
1986 Strangers
1987 Watchers
1987 Shadow Fires (under the name Leigh Nichols)
1988 Lightning
1988 Oddkins
1989 The Bad Place
1989 Midnight
1991Hideaway
1991 Cold Fire
1992 Dragon Tears
1993 Mr. murder
1993 Winter Moon
1994 Dark Rivers of the Heart
1995 Intensity
1996 TickTock
1997 Sole Survivor
1999 False Memory
2000 From the Corner of His Eye
2001 One Door Away from Heaven
2002 By the Light of the Moon
2003 The Face
2004 Life Expectancy
2004 The Taking
2004 Robot Santa: The Further Adventures of Santa's Twin
2005 Velocity
2006 The Husband
2007 The Good Guy
2007 The Darkest Evening of the Year
2008 Your Heart Belongs to Me
2009 Relentless
2009 Breathless
2010 What the Night Knows
2011 77 Shadow Street
2013 Innocence
2014 The City
2015 Ashley Bell
2019 Devoted
2020 Elsewhere
2021 The Other Emily
Storybook:
1991 Strange Highways