Dean Koontz bibliography
This is a list of every work by American novelist Dean Koontz.
Short fiction
This list does not include short fiction from the Makani Trilogy, Jane Hawk series, Nameless or the Odd Thomas series.| Title | Year | Notes |
| "This Fence" | 1965 | |
| "The Kittens" | 1965 | Later revised in 1966 as "Kittens" Strange Highways |
| "Of Childhood" | 1965 | |
| "A Miracle is Anything" | 1966 | |
| "Cloistered Walls" | 1966 | |
| "Flesh" | 1966 | |
| "For a Breath I Tarry" | 1966 | |
| "Hey, Good Christian" | 1966 | |
| "Holes" | 1966 | |
| "It" | 1966 | |
| "I've Met One" | 1966 | |
| "Mold in the Jungle" | 1966 | |
| "Sam: the Adventurous Exciting Well-traveled Man" | 1966 | |
| "Some Disputed Barricade" | 1966 | |
| "Something About This City" | 1966 | |
| "The Rats Run" | 1966 | |
| "The Standard Unusual" | 1966 | |
| "Soft Come the Dragons" | 1967 | rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons |
| "To Behold the Sun" | 1967 | rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons |
| "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter One" | 1967 | In "SF Opinion #4" |
| "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Two" | 1967 | In "SF Opinion #5" |
| "Love 2005" | 1968 | |
| "A Darkness in My Soul" | 1968 | rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded into A Darkness in My Soul. |
| "The Psychedelic Children" | 1968 | rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons |
| "The Twelfth Bed" | 1968 | rp in collection Soft Come the Dragons |
| "Dreambird" | 1968 | |
| "Glunk" | 1969 | In "SF Opinion #7" ; based on Bode's comic strip "Junkwaffel" |
| "Little Goody Two-Shoes Chapter Three" | 1969 | In "SF Opinion #7" |
| "Whoop, the Dead Gerkle" | 1969 | In "SF Opinion #7" |
| "In the Shield" | 1969 | Combined with "Where the Beast Runs" as Fear That Man |
| "Temple of Sorrow" | 1969 | |
| "Killerbot!" | 1969 | rp in Soft Come the Dragons as "A Season for Freedom". Revised and re-issued in 1977. |
| "The Face in His Belly" Part One | 1969 | |
| "Where the Beast Runs" | 1969 | Combined with "In the Shield" as Fear That Man |
| "Dragon In the Land" | 1969 | In Soft Come the Dragons |
| The Face in His Belly" Part Two | 1969 | |
| "Muse" | 1969 | A Leonard Chris story |
| "A Third Hand" | 1970 | rp in Soft Come the Dragons. Expanded as Starblood. |
| "The Good Ship Lookoutworld" | 1970 | |
| "Unseen Warriors" | 1970 | |
| "The Mystery of His Flesh" | 1970 | expanded as Anti-Man |
| "Beastchild" | 1970 | expanded as Beastchild |
| "The Crimson Witch" | 1970 | slightly expanded as The Crimson Witch |
| "Shambolain" | 1970 | |
| "Nightmare Gang" | 1970 | |
| "Emanations" | 1970 | |
| "Bruno" | 1971 | A Jake Ash story; revised rp in Strange Highways |
| "The Terrible Weapon" | 1972 | |
| "Cosmic Sin" | 1972 | A Jake Ash story |
| "Altarboy" | 1972 | |
| "Ollie's Hands" | 1972 | Revised and re-issued in 1987, rp in Strange Highways |
| "A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village" | 1972 | In Again, Dangerous Visions; In the original Afterword, Koontz mentions having written Hung, "set in the hippie subculture of a small university", which tried to show that Marshall McLuhan's concept of the global village was "on the right track" and that "our world was already being compressed"; his novel, The Fall of the Dream Machine, and stories, 'A Dragon in the Land', and 'A Mouse..' were extrapolations of the concept. |
| "Grayworld" | 1973 | Expanded as The Long Sleep as by John Hill |
| "The Sinless Child" | 1973 | |
| "Wake Up To Thunder" | 1973 | |
| "Terra Phobia" | 1973 | |
| "The Undercity" | 1973 | |
| "We Three" | 1974 | revised rp in Strange Highways |
| "The Night of the Storm" | 1974 | Re-issued as a graphic novel in 1976; revised in Strange Highways |
| "Down in the Darkness" | 1986 | rp in Strange Highways |
| "Weird World" | 1986 | |
| "Snatcher" | 1986 | rp in Strange Highways |
| "The Monitors of Providence" | 1986 | collaboration |
| "The Black Pumpkin" | 1986 | rp in Strange Highways |
| "The Interrogation" | 1987 | |
| "Hardshell" | 1987 | revised rp in Strange Highways |
| "Miss Attila the Hun" | 1987 | revised rp in Strange Highways |
| "Twilight of the Dawn" | 1987 | revised rp in Strange Highways |
| "Graveyard Highway" | 1987 | |
| "Trapped" | 1989 | Re-issued as a graphic novel in 1992; rp in Strange Highways |
| "Strange Highways" | 1995 | short story that appears in the collection Strange Highways |
| "Santa's Twin" | 1996 | |
| "Pinkie" | 1998 | |
| "Black River" | 2000 | |
| "Robot Santa" | 2004 | |
| "Darkness Under the Sun" | 2010 | 60 pages |
| "The Moonlit Mind" | 2011 | l 102 pages |
| "Wilderness" | 2013 | 30 pages |
| "The Neighbor" | 2014 | 32 pages |
| "Ricochet Joe" | 2017 | A Kindle motion book which contains moving pictures and interactive parts; 95 pages |
Non-fiction
- "How to Write Best Selling Fiction"
- "Writing Popular Fiction"
- "A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie"
Essays and introductions
- "Of Childhood"
- "Ibsen's Dream"
- Introduction to Great Escapes: New Designs for Home Theaters by Theo Kalomirakis..
- Foreword to Love Heels: Tales from Canine Companions for Independence
- Foreword to A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement by Wesley J. Smith
- Foreword to The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything by John D. MacDonald