Dean R. Koontz Hakkında

Koontz 1945 doğumlu olup halen A.B.D.'de yaşamaktadır. İlk öyküsünü 1967,ilk romanını da 1968 yılında yayımlamıştır.Amerika'nın en populer gerilim romancısı olarak kabul edilir.Eserlerinin ezici çoğunluğu sıradışı konulardır.Fantezi,bilimkurgu ve korku unsurlarını ustaca işler.Koontz,1980 yılına dek eserlerinde yazar olarak değişik isimler kullanmıştır.Yazarın çeşitli deneme yazıları,çocuk kitapları ve sanaryoları da vardır.Pekçok eseri filme çekilen Knootz'un kitaplarından bazıları şunlardır:

The Darkest Evening of the Year (November 27, 2007) (Title and date subject to change.)
? Dead and Alive
? The Good Guy (May 29, 2007)
? Brother Odd (November 28, 2006)
? The Husband (May 30, 2006)
? Forever Odd (November 29, 2005)
? City of Night w/ Ed Gorman (Book two in the Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series) (July 26, 2005)
? Velocity (May 24, 2005)
? Prodigal Son w/ Kevin J. Anderson (Book One in the Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series) (January 25, 2005)
? Life Expectancy (December 7, 2004)
? The Taking (May 25, 2004)
? Odd Thomas (December 9, 2003)
? The Face (May 27, 2003)
? By the Light of the Moon (December 24, 2002)
? One Door Away from Heaven (December 26, 2001)
? From the Corner of His Eye (December 26, 2000)
? False Memory (December 28, 1999)
? Seize the Night (December 29, 1998)
? Fear Nothing (January 14, 1998)
? Sole Survivor (January 29, 1997)
? Demon Seed (1997) (revised)
? Ticktock (1996)
? Intensity (1996)
? Strange Highways (1995) (Includes a collection of short stories)
? Icebound (1995) (extensive revision of Prison of Ice)
? Dark Rivers of the Heart (1994)
? Winter Moon (1994) (extensive revision of Invasion)
? Dragon Tears (1993)
? Mr. Murder (1993)
? Hideaway (1992)
? Cold Fire (1991)
? The Bad Place (1990)
? Midnight (1989)
? Lightning (1988)
? The Servants of Twilight (1988, as Leigh Nichols)
? Shadow Fires (1987, as Leigh Nichols)
? Watchers (1987)
? Strangers (1986)
? The Door to December (1985, as Richard Paige)
? Twilight Eyes (1985) (reissued in 1987 with a second half)
? Darkfall (1984)
? Phantoms (1983)
? The House of Thunder (1982, as Leigh Nichols)
? The Eyes of Darkness (1981, as Leigh Nichols)
? The Mask (1981, as Owen West)
? The Funhouse (1980, as Owen West) (novelization of The Funhouse, a Tobe Hooper film)
? The Voice of the Night (1980, as Brian Coffey)
? Whispers (1980)
? The Key to Midnight (1979, as Leigh Nichols)
? The Face of Fear (1977, as Brian Coffey)
? The Vision (1977)
? Night Chills (1976)
? Prison of Ice (1976, as David Axton), reissued as Icebound (1995)
? Invasion (1975, as Aaron Wolfe), reissued as Winter Moon (1994)
? Demon Seed (1973) (later revised and reissued)
? Shattered (1973, as K. R. Dwyer)
? Chase (1972, as K. R. Dwyer)
? The Flesh in the Furnace (1972)