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NEW: I have created a DKC Facebook page. We'll see how it goes.
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LATEST BOOK NEWS: 77 SHADOW STREET has debuted at #1 on both the New York Times and Publisher's Weekly bestseller lists for the week of January 9th, bumping Stephen King down to #2 (not that we're counting): http://www.locusmag.com/Monitor/2012/01/weekly-bestsellers-9-january/
The latest original Dean Koontz hardcover release is called 77 SHADOW STREET, and was released on December 27th, 2011. I have finished reading it and can say that it is the finest book Koontz has written in at least ten years!
This is the synopsis from the Amazon.com listing for the title.
I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground. . . .
The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill at the highest point of an old heartland city, a Gilded Age palace built in the late 1800s as a tycoon’s dream home. Almost from the beginning, its grandeur has been scarred by episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse. But since its rechristening in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building, the Pendleton has been at peace. For its fortunate residents—among them a successful songwriter and her young son, a disgraced ex-senator, a widowed attorney, and a driven money manager—the Pendleton’s magnificent quarters are a sanctuary, its dark past all but forgotten.
But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths. With each passing hour, a terrifying certainty grows: Whatever drove the Pendleton’s past occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again. Soon, all those within its boundaries will be engulfed by a dark tide from which few have escaped.
Dean Koontz transcends all expectations as he takes readers on a gripping journey to a place where nightmare visions become real—and where a group of singular individuals hold the key to humanity’s destiny. Welcome to 77 Shadow Street.
Suvudu.com has posted a preview of 77 SHADOW STREET that you can read by clicking HERE.
There will be three more Odd Thomas novels, to round out the series which includes ODD THOMAS, FOREVER ODD, BROTHER ODD, and ODD HOURS. In an interview at TheAuthorHour.com, dated January 21st, Dean Koontz stated this:
"In book four, I suddenly realized what his ultimate destiny was, and so I’ve been really excited about doing three of them in a row and putting them all out within say 14 or 15 months. And that’s my current intention."
Recently, we have learned that the fifth book will be called ODD APOCALYPSE and will be released in the summer of 2012! After that, the next book will be called DEEPLY ODD and then Koontz will probably right another novel before moving on to the 7th and final Odd Thomas novel. (According to Koontz's Useless News newsletter, so you can call that official. Thanks to Snowman for posting the info.)
This brief synopsis was given:
Having fled Magic Beach, where ODD HOURS was set, Oddie finds shelter on a 20-acre estate in Santa Barbara, a place owned by a legendary film director and good friend of Hutch Hutchison (the elderly actor from ODO HOURS). The estate is going to seed, and it is a place of terrible secrets.
ODD APOCALYPSE will be release on July 31st, 2012, and can be pre-ordered at Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble.com (click the cover image below).
DEEPLY ODD will be published in 2013. Odd will begin his journey back to Pico Mundo, where his ultimate fate has always awaited him.
As always, I will try to post more info here as soon as I can, or you can check the Koontz News Forum to find out what everyone else is talking about.
The Fifth and Final Volume of Dean Koontz's FRANKENSTEIN Series, THE DEAD TOWN, is now available! Click HERE for the Barnes&Noble listing for THE DEAD TOWN.
The third book in this planned trilogy, which would have followed FEAR NOTHING in 1998 and SEIZE THE NIGHT in 1999 and been titled RIDE THE STORM, is currently the most delayed and probably the most anticipated Koontz book that has yet to be written. He reportedly reached the halfway point and decided it had gotten too large and epic in size and put it aside to finish it later. Problem with that is, he still has never returned to the book to finish it. Sorry, there is still no definitive information on when Dean Koontz will actually get around to writing RIDE THE STORM. But he has promised us all that it will be written, so hang in there!
On the other hand, there is some information that carries over from new information on the Odd Thomas books, and that is this: Odd Thomas and Christopher Snow will meet. We know this because Dean Koontz himself revealed this information in a Barnes & Noble video blog. You can read the discussion thread about this in the Koontz News and Updates Forum in the Dean Koontz Community Index by clicking HERE.
- WHAT THE NIGHT KNOWS, mass market paperback edition, which reportedly will include the Koontz prequel e-novella DARKNESS UNDER THE SUN for the first time in print, Ocotber 18th, 2011.
- MIDNIGHT, trade paperback edition, November 1st, 2011.
- THE MASK, mass market paperback reprint, March 6th, 2012.
And as if this was just all not enough, it looks like Bantam is going to continue to reprint older Koontz titles which they hold the copyrights for as well, following this past year's publication of THE TAKING. There are currentlty Amazon.com listings for mass market editions of WINTER MOON, ICEBOUND, and DARK RIVERS OF THE HEART, all with release dates of April 26th, 2011. But details on these are vague so I will wait to post more.
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Graphic Novel/Comic/Manga News:
ODD IS ON OUR SIDE is now available.
The publication of the FEAR NOTHING graphic novel had been stalled, but the first volume from Dynamite Entertainment is now available as of November 16th, 2010. I'll post info on the forthcoming second volume here as soon as we hear something about it.
Stu Weaver's Dean Koontz Page - http://koontz.iwarp.com/index2.html - The best online resource for collectors, clicking on a book title provides first edition information on all Koontz books, including the rarest of the rare.
Koontz Bibiliography - http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/koontz/koontz.htm - I don't know who runs this site, but it is very well done, comprehensive, and always up to date. Includes an alphabetical listing with publisher info, book covers, and summaries, as a well as a Timeline.
