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He is best-known for writing many successful novels that could broadly be described as suspense thrillers, but which also frequently incorporate elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Several of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with ten hardcovers and fourteen paperbacks hitting number one. Early in his career, Koontz wrote under an array of pen names, but since the 1980s has written mostly under his own name. This article is about the literary concept. ... Thriller films are movies that primarily use action and suspense to engage the audience. ... “Horror story” redirects here. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Look up mystery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1867 edition of Punch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular humour, including a good deal of satire of the contemporary social and political scene. ... The New York Times bestseller list is a weekly chart in The New York Times newspaper that keeps track of the best-selling books of the week. ... A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author. ...

Biography

Koontz grew up in poverty under the abuse of an alcoholic father. He started writing at the young age of 25, and sold his works to support his family.^{[citation needed]} Koontz graduated from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (then known as Shippensburg State College). While in college Koontz converted to the Roman Catholic faith. King Alcohol and his Prime Minister circa 1820 Alcoholism is the consumption of or preoccupation with alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the alcoholics normal personal, family, social, or work life. ... Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, commonly known as Ship, Sburg, ShippyU, or SU, is a public university located in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, 40 miles (64 km) west-southwest of Harrisburg. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...

In November 1967 he went to work as an English teacher at Mechanicsburg High School. In his spare time he wrote his first novel, Star Quest, which was published in 1968. From there he went on to write over a dozen more science fiction novels. Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Mechanicsburg Area Senior High is a secondary school located on 500 South Broad Street in the borough of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. ... Star Quest was Dean R. Koontz first novel. ... See also: 1967 in literature, other events of 1968, 1969 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article is about the literary concept. ...

In the 1970s, Koontz began publishing mainstream suspense and horror fiction, under his own name as well as several pseudonyms. Koontz has stated that he began using pen names after several editors convinced him that authors who switched back and forth between different genres invariably fell victim to "negative crossover" (alienating established fans and simultaneously failing to pick up any new ones). Known pseudonyms used by Koontz during his career include Deanna Dwyer, K. R. Dwyer, Aaron Wolfe, David Axton, Brian Coffey, John Hill, Leigh Nichols, Owen West, Richard Paige, Leonard Chris, and Anthony North. As of 2006, many of Koontz's pseudonymous novels are now available under his real name. “Horror story” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Alias. ... A genre [], (French: kind or sort from Greek: γένος (genos)) is a loose set of criteria for a category of literary composition; the term is also used for any other form of art or utterance. ...

Koontz's acknowledged breakthrough novel was Whispers, published in 1980. Since then, ten hardcovers and thirteen paperbacks written by Koontz have reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List. Whispers is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1980. ... The New York Times bestseller list is a weekly chart in The New York Times newspaper that keeps track of the best-selling books of the week. ...

He has often quipped that he encourages fans to collect his novels and stories, as long as they don't actually read them.

As of 2006, Koontz resides in Newport Beach in California, (where most of his novels are set), with his wife Gerda. Newport Harbor redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ...

Early author photos on the back of many of his novels show a balding Koontz with a mustache. After Koontz underwent hair transplantation surgery in the late 1990s, his subsequent books have featured a new clean-shaven appearance with a fuller head of hair.^[1] Koontz explained the change by claiming that he was tired of looking like G. Gordon Liddy. Hair transplantation involves relocating (transplanting) bald resistant hair follicles from the back and sides of the head (the donor areas) to a person’s bald or thinning areas. ... George Gordon Battle Liddy (born November 30, 1930) was the chief operative for U.S. President Richard Nixons White House Plumbers unit. ...

Trixie Koontz

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One of Koontz's pen names is that of his dog, Trixie Koontz. Trixie, a golden retriever born in October 1995, is shown in many of Koontz's book-jacket photos. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... The Golden Retriever is a breed of dog, historically developed as a gundog in the 1800s to retrieve shot waterfowl and upland game during hunting. ...

Trixie was originally a service dog with Canine Companions for Independence (CCI), a charitable organization that provides service dogs for people with disabilities. After her forced retirement at the age of three due to elbow problems,^[2] she was sent to live with the Koontz family. She was a gift from CCI in gratitude of the Koontz's substantial donations, totalling $2,500,000 between 1991 and 2004.^[3] Koontz was taken with the charity while he was researching his novel Midnight, a book which included a CCI-trained dog, a black Labrador retriever named Moose. With the Koontzes, Trixie enjoyed a loving home and was walked for an hour each day and brushed for 45 minutes.^[3] Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) is a non-profit organization with locations throughout the United States that trains assistance dogs and provides them to people with disabilities. ... This article is about charitable organizations. ... Midnight is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1989. ... The Labrador Retriever (also Labrador or Lab for short), is one of several kinds of retriever, a type of gun dog. ...

Trixie began her own "career" in writing in 2004 when Koontz wrote and edited Life Is Good: Lessons in Joyful Living in her name. The book was published by Yorkville Press and released on October 31. In 2005, Koontz wrote a second book credited to Trixie, Christmas Is Good, also published by Yorkville Press and released on October 31.^{[citation needed]} Both books are written from a supposed canine perspective on the joys of life. The royalties of the books were donated to Canine Companions for Independence.^[2] Trixie is also often mentioned in Koontz's official newsletter, Useless News. is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Royalty may refer to either: the royal family of a country with a monarchy royalties the payment made to the owner of a copyright, patent, or trademark, for the use thereof This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In 2007, Trixie contracted terminal cancer creating a tumor in her heart. The Koontzes had her put to sleep outside of their family home on June 30.^[2] Koontz plans to write a book about Trixie and to continue publishing "her" humorous essays on his website, which are to be authored by "totos", meaning "Trixie on the Other Side".^[2] Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ... For malignant tumors specifically, see cancer. ... Put down redirects here. ... is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Common elements

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Koontz is renowned for his skill at writing suspenseful page-turners, crafting memorable characters, and blending elements from numerous different genres. Koontz has a tendency to moralize heavily, and frequently uses similar character types and plot structures. Some of the common elements of Koont'z fiction include: Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... In fiction, a plot is all the events in a story particularly rendered towards the achievement of some particular artistic or emotional effect. ...

Characters

• Until recently, Koontz had only rarely written more than one novel featuring the same characters, the two exceptions being the Black Bat Mystery series featuring Mike Tucker, art dealer and professional thief (Tucker appeared in the novels Blood Risk, Surrounded, and The Wall of Masks, all written under the pseudonym of Brian Coffey); and the Moonlight Bay Trilogy, whose hero, Christopher Snow, appears in the novels Fear Nothing, Seize the Night, and a proposed but as yet unwritten third entry, Ride the Storm. In recent years, however, Koontz has written three novels featuring the character Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, and the latest Brother Odd), as well as the ongoing Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series, based on a concept for a failed television show that Koontz was briefly involved with, but dropped out of due to creative differences. (What would've been the pilot episode for the series was eventually released to DVD as a stand-alone movie).
• An unusually smart, intelligent and beautiful female protagonist who tends to take the dominant and assertive role whilst the male protagonist is more sensitive and the weaker of the two, though invariably the more humorous and easy-going (e.g., the roles of Bobby and Julie Dakota in The Bad Place, Detectives Michael Maddison and Carson O'Conner in Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Tommy and Del in Tick Tock, and Jimmy and Lorrie Tock in Life Expectancy).
• A single mother bringing up her child superbly against all the odds, and a strong male character with the inevitable "love at first sight" (e.g, Laura Shane in Lightning).
• A capable protagonist/co-protagonist male, sometimes a current member of a police force or one with a military affiliation (Dragon Tears, The Bad Place), or other times a mild mannered person who is revealed to have police or military experience in the past (The Good Guy, Dark Rivers of the Heart)
• A protagonist whose upbringing was either abusive (or at least extremely dysfunctional), or conversely, extremely idealistic, but who is in either case financially independent or successful in his or her chosen field.
• One of the primary characters is often a writer (The Taking, Velocity, Fear Nothing, Mr. Murder, The Good Guy).
• A pre-adolescent (more often than not a girl) possessing "adult wisdom" as a secondary protagonist; Leilani Klonk from One Door Away from Heaven is a prototypical example. Mr. Murder has two such characters in the protagonist's daughters.
• An irredeemable, sociopathic antagonist who is invariably destroyed by the story's end; usually someone who considers his or her warped, often delusional worldview to be philosophically transcendent (e.g., Edgler Vess from Intensity, Corky Laputa from The Face, Vassago from Hideaway, Ticktock from Dragon Tears, Vince Nasco from Watchers, Punchinello and his father Konrad Beezo in Life Expectancy, Valis in Velocity and Krait in The Good Guy).
• An unusually smart or precocious child, one who seems extremely wise or mature for their age, but still retain an unmistakable childish aura (e.g., Chris Packard in Lightning, Aelfric Manheim in The Face).
• A sympathetic character, often but not always a child, who suffers from a physical abnormality (e.g. One Door Away from Heaven, From the Corner of His Eye, Moonlight Bay Trilogy, Hideaway, Forever Odd), or mental disability (e.g. The Darkest Evening of the Year, By the Light of the Moon, The Bad Place).

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Plot

• Attempts at plausible, logically consistent explanations for the seemingly fantastical events that occur in most of his novels (very few of Koontz's novels involve the overtly supernatural), often explained by unique genetic traits and natal conditions.
• Koontz's protagonists often arm themselves with guns to combat the various monsters and madmen they are forced to do battle with. Often a Chiefs Special or Heckler & Koch P7 appear as handguns (Koontz himself is a lifelong gun owner). An exception to this rule, however, is the reoccurring character Odd Thomas who is in fact afraid of guns.
• A protagonist having to hide a dead body.
• A desperate struggle for survival that leads to a final confrontation where good completely vanquishes evil, usually leading to a "happy ending" for the main characters. (an exception would be Dark Rivers of the Heart).

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Themes

• Serious themes about the importance of faith, especially faith in God.
• Characters who follow an unwavering moral compass, but do not conform to organized religion or depend on the law.
• The ideal that love and compassion can save one from the apparent absurdities of existence and the cruelties of life
• Love for children by their parents
• Reflection (sometimes at length) on the decline of modern society in the past twenty to thirty years, either in a dialogue between two characters or in the private musings of the protagonist, sometimes centering the blame on liberal-based tolerance of criminal and/or undesirable activity; free love, drug use, and political correctness are frequent targets (The antagonist of Dragon Tears, for instance, evidently owes not only his superhuman abilities but also his pathological personality to his mother's use of illicit drugs while he was in utero.)
• A particular high respect for humanity and repugnance for those who degrade any human. Sometimes (as in One Door Away from Heaven) takes the form of slams against his apparent pet peeve, Utilitarian bioethics.
• A lack of atonement or redemption from the villains and antagonists, coinciding with main characters who are (eventually) clearly depicted as either good or evil with little moral ambiguity. Little sympathy is elicited for the antagonists.

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Other trademarks

• Koontz is an avid dog lover, and canines (typically an unusually smart Golden or Labrador Retriever) often feature prominently in his works: Fear Nothing, Seize the Night, The Taking, Watchers, Dark Rivers of the Heart, Dragon Tears, One Door Away from Heaven and The Darkest Evening of the Year are prime examples. Cats have often fared worse in his books (Koontz is allergic to felines), though he has occasionally included cats as characters, most notably the smart feline Mungojerrie in the Christopher Snow novel, Terrible Chester in the Odd Thomas novels and Aristophanes in The Mask.
• A setting in southern California.
• A Smith and Wesson .38 caliber Chiefs Special.
• A Ford or Jeep SUV.
• A motorhome, usually owned by the villain.
• An ability to travel by some type of understanding of space/time (such as Deucalion in the Frankenstein novels and Shepherd O'Conner and Jillian Jackson in By the Light of the Moon).
• Vivid, detailed descriptions of the settings' architectural and interior design elements.
• Strange weather - A climax that coincides with the development of an unseasonable or unusual storm, with the penulimate moment of conflict often occurring during the height of the storm's violence.
• Amoral scientists using brutalizing techniques (especially upon children) to further their research (Sole Survivor, Frankenstein, The Door to December)
• References to literature and poetry of which Koontz is a fan. The poetry of T. S. Eliot plays a prominent role in The Taking, and many of the same lines by Eliot are seen in Velocity. Fear Nothing includes a character named Tom Eliot, another reference to the famous poet.
• Plants and flowers are described in great gardener type detail, and bougainvillea flowers often feature in Dean Koontz's books.
• Small references to Japan are often made. Such as plants and characters with a Japanese name, or people having Japanese gardens, furniture or enjoying Japanse food and drink.
• Strange, quirky descriptions, eg. The Darkest Evening of the Year "...but a pair of lamps shed light as lusterless as ashes and the colors were muted as though settled smoke from a long-quenched fire had laid a patina on them."

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Film and television adaptations

Though several of his novels have been adapted either as motion pictures or television movies, Koontz is generally unhappy with most of these adaptations. According to a 1996 interview, Koontz was so unhappy with the final cut of the film adaptation of his novel Hideaway that he now insists on keeping creative control over all subsequent films based on his books. For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of...

Film adaptations

• The Husband (2008) - Focus Features [1]
• Frankenstein (2004) - USA Network - starring Adam Goldberg, Parker Posey, Michael Madsen, Vincent Perez, and Thomas Kretschmann (Koontz pulled out of the project midway through production because he did not like the direction the film was headed. He ended up writing his own books with the storyline he had originally created. The project continued without him.) [2]
• Black River (2001) - Fox - starring Jay Mohr, and Stephen Tobolowsky
• Sole Survivor (2000)–Fox - starring Billy Zane, John C. McGinley, and Gloria Reuben
• Watchers Reborn (1998) - Concorde Pictures - starring Mark Hamill
• Phantoms (1998) - Miramax/Dimension Films - starring Peter O'Toole, Ben Affleck, Rose McGowan, and Joanna Going.
• Mr. Murder (1998)–ABC–starring Stephen Baldwin, Thomas Haden Church, and James Coburn
• Intensity (1997)–Fox–starring John C. McGinley, Molly Parker, and Piper Laurie
• Hideaway (1995)–Tristar Pictures–starring Jeff Goldblum, Christine Lahti, Jeremy Sisto, and Alicia Silverstone
• Watchers 3 (1994) - Concorde Pictures - starring Wings Hauser
• The Servants of Twilight (1991)–Trimark–starring Bruce Greenwood
• The Face of Fear (1990)–CBS–starring Pam Dawber and Lee Horsley. Also includes Kevin Conroy.
• Watchers II (1990) - Concorde Pictures - starring Marc Singer and Tracy Scoggins
• Whispers (1990) - Cinepix–starring Victoria Tennant, Chris Sarandon, and Jean LeClere
• Watchers (1988)–Concorde Pictures - starring Corey Haim, Barbara Williams, and Michael Ironside
• The Intruder (1979) - MGM - starring Jean-Louis Trintignant (French film adaptation of Koontz's novel Shattered)
• Demon Seed (1977) - MGM - starring Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, and Robert Vaughn as the voice of Proteus

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Mailing address

Koontz includes his mailing address in the "About the Author" section of most of his books:

 Dean Koontz P.O. Box 9529 Newport Beach, CA 92658 

Bibliography

Novels

• Your Heart Belongs to Me (November 25, 2008)
• In Odd We Trust (Graphic Novel) (June 24, 2008)
• Odd Hours (May 20, 2008) (Book four in the Odd Thomas Series)
• Dead and Alive (Book three in the Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series) (Paperback - To be released in Spring, 2008) This has been announced by Dean Koontz in the Second Life interview on March 15, 2007.
• The Darkest Evening of the Year (November 27, 2007)
• The Good Guy (May 29, 2007)
• Brother Odd (November 28, 2006) (Book three in the Odd Thomas Series)
• The Husband (May 30, 2006)
• Forever Odd (November 29, 2005) (Book two in the Odd Thomas Series)
• 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) (Book one in the Odd Thomas Series)
• 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 (Book Two in the Moonlight Bay Trilogy) (December 29, 1998)
• Fear Nothing (Book One in the Moonlight Bay Trilogy) (January 14, 1998)
• Sole Survivor (January 29, 1997)
• Demon Seed (1997) (revised)
• Ticktock (1996)
• Intensity (1996)
• Strange Highways (Cemetery Dance Publications, 1995) (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)
• 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)
• The Servants of Twilight (1984, as Leigh Nichols)
• 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)
• Whispers (1980)
• The Funhouse (1980, as Owen West) (novelization of The Funhouse, a Tobe Hooper film)
• The Voice of the Night (1980, as Brian Coffey)
• The Key to Midnight (1979, as Leigh Nichols)
• The Vision (1977)
• The Face of Fear (1977, as Brian Coffey)
• 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), revised and reissued (1995)

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