Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz is a bestselling American horror, science fiction and suspense author.

Dean Koontz's first novel, Star Quest, was published in 1968 while he worked as a high school English teacher. After writing over a dozen science fiction novels, he branched out into suspense and horror fiction, usually under pseudonyms. Since his 1980 novel Whispers, Koontz has had more than two dozen books on The New York Times bestseller list.

In 1997, psychologist Katherine Ramsland published a biography on Dean Koontz based on interviews with him and his family. It often showed the conception of his Koontz's plots and characters from events in his own life.

His latest novel, released in November 2009, was Breathless. The fourth of his Frankenstein series, titled Lost Souls will arrive in stores June 15th.http://www.deankoontz.com/books/frankenstein-book-4-lost-souls

• 1973: Demon Seed
• 1987: Watchers
• 1990: The Bad Place
• 1994: Dark Rivers of the Heart
• 1997: Sole Survivor
• 2000: From the Corner of His Eye
• 2001: One Door Away from Heaven
• 2002: By the Light of the Moon
• 2003: Odd Thomas

• Deanna Dwyer
• Aaron Wolfe
• David Axton
• Brian Coffey
• John Hill
• Leigh Nichols
• Owen West
• Richard Paige
• Leonard Chris
• Anthony North

"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid." — Dean KoontzBrainyQuote.com: Dean Koontz quotes

"I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work." — Dean KoontzBrainyQuote.com: Dean Koontz quotes

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment - which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people." — Dean KoontzBrainyQuote.com: Dean Koontz quotes

In 2007, Koontz released the novel Fear Nothing. The book is the first installment of what is supposed to be a three part series, the Moonlight Bay Trilogy, featuring Christopher Snow, who suffers from the rare but real disease called XP (xeroderma pigmentosum) which leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. The second of the series is Seize the Night'released in 1998. There is no release date yet for the third installment.

Fear Nothing follows 24 hours of Christopher Snow's life as he discovers and attempts a mysterious conspiracy centered around a military compound called Wyvern while investigating the death of his mother. He discovers she was engaged in secret experiments at the nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and produced monsters (strange rhesus monkeys).

In Seize the Night children start disappearing. Christopher Snow believes they are still alive and their disappearance has something to do with the military experiments and he sets out to find the missing children, including the son of a former sweetheart and in doing so his genetic handicap becomes his greatest advantage.