SHORT STORIES
1966-Present

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  Dean Koontz has written many short stories throughout the years.  Here is a listing of post college days stories and the various magazines, books, etc. they were published in.  Listed by date.

 

Kittens
"She looked up at him out of eyes that were far away in distant mists.  "Walt! My good God - Walt - our precious angels.  The bathtub - our precious angels!""

1966   May/June issue of  Readers & Writers magazine.   Although this was written in college, it was his first published story, so I'll list it here.  He made $50.00.
1994 Dean Koontz Companion.  Berkley tpb.
1995 Strange Highways.  Short story collection.
2002 Scary! 2.  Souvenir Press UK trade paperback.  ISBN 0-285-63648-0, 6.99 GBP, 207 pages.  Edited by Peter Haining.
2003   Barnes & Noble hardback edition of Scary! 2.  ISBN 0-7607-3762-2.  No price given, and is BCE size.  But, does have numberline ending in 1.  B&N also did a re-issue of Love of Goldens.
 
 
 

Soft Come the Dragons
"And what will you do when the soft breezes come and the dragons drift in to spread death?"
1967   Dean Koontz' first published story as a professional writer, SOFT COME THE DRAGONS, was in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.  August 1967, Volume 33 Number 2 Issue 195, 50 cents.  Cover by Ronald Walotsky.  Includes stories by Tom Purdom, Thomas M. Disch, J W Schutz, R. Brentnor, Charles Harness, Joe Hensley and Avram Davidson.
1970 Soft Come the Dragons.  Ace Double short story collection.  Backed by "Dark of the Woods" by DK.
1974 The Liberated Future: Voyages into Tomorrow.Fawcett-Crest paperback.  No previous hardback.  SBN 449-02329-150, $1.50.  December 1974.  Edited by Robert Hoskins.  Includes stories by Barry N. Malzberg, Anne McCaffrey, Poul Anderson, Robert Sheckley and others.
1982 Dragon Tales: Fire-Breathing Fiction of the Fantastic.  Fawcett- Crest paperback.  No previous hardback.  ISBN 0-449-24523-3, $3.50.  First Ballantine Books Edition: July 1982 and 1-10 numberline indicate first edition.  Edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh.  Includes stories by L. Sprague de Camp, David Drake, Orson Scott Card, Gordon R. Dickson, Anne McCaffrey and others.
 
 
 
 

To Behold the Sun
"The Sun is one great god-eye.  The Sun taketh away, and only the Sun can returneth."
1967   December issue F&SF.  Volume 33, number 6, issue 199; 50 cents.  Cover by Jack Gaughan.  Contains stories by Algis Budrys, Gahan Wilson, Stuart Palmer, J G Ballard and others.
1970 Soft Come the Dragons.  Ace Double.
 
 
 

A Darkness in My Soul
"I wonder if Dragonfly is still in the heavens and whether the Spheres of Plague still float in airlessness, blind eyes watching.  There is no way to find out, for I live in Hell."
1968   January issue Fantastic Stories Magazine.Volume 17, Number 3; 50 cents.  144 pages.  Story illustrated by Jeff Jones.  Includes stories by Theodore Sturgeon, John Wyndham, Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber and more.
1970 Soft Come the Dragons.
1972   DAW Books paperback of the same title.
 
 
 

Love 2005
1967   November issue of  Mr. mens magazine.
 
 
 

The Psychedelic Children
"He unleashed the phsychic forces at them, watched them go up in flames, watched their faces melt, their insides smoke.  But there were more of them..."
1968 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.July 1968, Volume 35 Number 1 Issue 206, 50 cents.  Cover by Jack Gaughan.  Stories by Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, Hayden Howard, Larry Brody and John Sladek.
1970 Soft Come the Dragons.
 
 
 

The Twelfth Bed
"Now with Death hovering near me and now that I have to face him alone, I have decided to record the whole marvelous affair."
1968 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.  August 1968, Volume 35 Number 2 Issue 207, 50 cents.  Cover by Gahan Wilson.  Stories by Piers Anthony, Sterling Lanier, Brian Cleeve and Robert Taylor.
1970 Soft Come the Dragons.
1974 Wondermakers 2.Fawcett Premier paperback.  No previous hardback.  Printed in the United States of America  February 1974 indicates first edition.  SBN 449-00635-125, $1.25.  Edited by Robert Hoskins.  Includes stories by Poul Anderson, Frederik Pohl, Roger Zelazny, Samuel R. Delany, John Brunner, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Silverberg and others.
 
 
 

Dreambird
"Everyone wanted to steal the Pheasant for it's Dreams.  But Sloane knew only nightmares..."
1968  September issue of  Worlds of If Science Fiction vol. 18, no. 9 issue 180.  You will find it nowhere else.  Illustrated by Brand.  With stories by Mack Reynolds, Larry Niven, Hal Clement, Larry S. Todd, Thomas J. Bassler and C.C. MacApp.
 
 
 
 

Glunk!
1969   Exact date unknown.  SFopinion published by Dean Koontz.  Includes the ten page short story Glunk!.  DK promised to write a story based on whatever artwork Vaughn Bode provided.  Glunk! is based on the Bode cartoon Junkwaffle.  Within this publication are columns by Gerda Koontz and DK.  Reviews by DK and more.  Includes original artwork by DK himself.
Cover artwork by Vaughn Bode.
Needless to say, this goes well beyond Extremely Rare.
 
 
 

Whoop, The Dead Gerkle
1969   Exact date unknown.  SFopinion published by Dean Koontz.  Includes the two page short story Whoop, The Dead Gerkle.  See above for more details.
 
 
 

In the Shield
"There were three to shape destiny...a Poet; a Mue; and - perhaps - a Man".
1969   January issue of  Worlds of If Science Fiction vol.19, no. 1 issue 134.   Illustrated by Reese.  This story has appeared nowhere else in it's original form.  Later combined with "Where the Beast Runs" to become the novel "Fear That Man".  With stories by Roger Zelazny, William F. Temple and Jacqueline Lichtenberg.
1970 Fear That Man.  Ace Double.
 
 
 

Temple of Sorrow
"His black eyes sparkled like polished coal in his green cotton face, and they were red-rimmed from the fumes of the incence."
1969  The only appearance of the novelette TEMPLE OF SORROW was in Amazing Stories science fiction magazine.  January 1969, Volume 42 Number 5, 60 cents.  One of the more difficult pulp stories by Koontz to locate.  Story illustrated by Jeff Jones.  Includes stories by Richard C. Meredith, David R. Bunch, John Wyndham and Algis Budrys.
 
 
 

Killerbot
"The war was humane, as wars went.  It didn't destroy nations.  It merely destroyed families, wives, children..."
1969   May issue of  Galaxy Science Fiction vol. 28, no. 4.  Only appearance.  By the time the 1970 collection "Soft Come the Dragons" came along, "Killerbot" was re-written and renamed "A Season for Freedom."  DK's only story to appear in Galaxy.  With stories by Keith Laumer, Richard Wilson, Sydney Van Scyoc, Larry Eisenberg, Terry Carr & Alexei Panshin and Bruce McAliister.
1970 Soft Come the Dragons.  As "A Season for Freedom".
1977 The Future Now: Saving Tomorrow.The Future May Be The Tomorrow You Never Want To Happen.  Fawcett-Crest paperback.  As "A Season For Freedom".  See details of this book below.
 
 
 
 

The Face in His Belly
1969   Part 1 in the Jan/Feb issue of Perihelion.
1969    Part 2 in the Summer issue.
 
 
 

Where the Beast Runs
"Bounty hunting is never for the squeamish.  But this Beast was one no sane man could ever kill".
1969   July issue of  Worlds of If Science Fiction vol. 19, no. 6 issue 139.   Illustrated by Adkins.  This story has appeared nowhere else in it's original form.  Later combined with "In the Shield" to become the novel "Fear That Man".  With stories by Keith Laumer, Mack Reynolds, Perry Chapdelaine, Jack L. Alston, Bruce McAllister and Charles Nuetzel.
1970Fear That Man.
 
 
 

A Dragon in the Land
"We invaded China.  No guns...Something had conquered China, but it was not us; it was an unknown killer that had already left eleven million dead in the land of the dragon."
1969   August issue Venture Science Fiction magazine.  Volume 3, Number 2; issue 12.  This story has been in no collection since 1970's "Soft Come the Dragons".  Includes stories by Julius Fast, Larry Eisenberg, Ron Doulart and Edward Wellen.
1970 Soft Come the Dragons.
 
 
 

Muse
"He was the most famous musician in the galaxy, but when he came home all they saw was the hump between his shoulders, the
 symbiote slug..."
1969   September issue of  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction vol. 37, no. 3 issue 220.  You will not find this story in any modern collection, and nowhere since 1982.  Within are stories by Zenna Henderson, Charles W. Runyon, Julian F. Grow, Hoke Norris and Bill Pronzini.  An interesting tidbit to Koontz fans is the mention of the name Leonard Chris in Muse.  Sound familiar?!!
1972 Themes in Science Fiction: A Journey into Wonder.  McGraw-Hill large trade paperback.  ISBN 07-033504-4, 428 pages.  No price given, my understanding is TinSF was a school text.  Edited by Leo P. Kelley.  Includes stories by Norman Spinrad, Chad Oliver, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Fred Saberhagen, Poul Anderson, Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber and many others.
1984 Supermen: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #3. Signet paperback.  ISBN 0-451-13201-7, $3.50.  First Printing, October 1984 and 1-9 numberline indicate first edition.  No previous hardback.  Edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh.  Includes stories by Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison, Gordon R. Dickson, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, Poul Anderson and others.
1988 Supermen UK paperback.  Robinson Publishing.
 
 
 

A Third Hand
"Timothy was not human. Not wholly..."
1970  January issue of  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction vol. 38, no. 1 issue 224.  Later expanded to become the novel "Starblood".  Within are stories by Edgar Pangborn, Gene Wolfe, Larry Eisenberg, Bruce McAllister, Jack Cady, Doris Pitkin Buck and Robin Scott.
1970 Soft Come the Dragons.
1972 Starblood.  Lancer paperback.
 
 
 

The Good Ship Lookoutworld
"It paraded about the cage, blue waves of lubricant washing its lidless orb, clacking its razor teeth together in a mouth that accupied a third of its skull."
1970   The only appearance of this tale was in Fantastic Stories science fiction and fantasy magazine.  February 1970; volume 19, number 3.  Published bi-monthly.  Story illustrated by Ralph Reese.  Certainly one of the more difficult pulp magazines containing a Koontz story to locate.  Includes  Robert Bloch, David R. Bunch, L. Sprague de Camp, Piers Anthony and others.
 
 
 
 

The Mystery of His Flesh
"The mystery of His flesh wrapped us like a blanket and carried us into the New World."
1970   July issue of  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction vol. 39, no. 1 issue 230  This novelette has appeared nowhere else in it's original form.  Later expanded to become the novel "Anti-Man".  With stories by Robert Silverberg, Gary Jennings, Neil Shapiro, Sterling E. Lanier, Barry N. Malzberg and Robin Scott Wilson.
1970 Anti-Man.  Paperback Library.
 
 
 

Beastchild
"The Naoli had struck first, their goal being the complete destruction of the Human race, and they had been almost 100% successful...
For Hullan, a Naoli archaeologist for the occupation force, the battle was no longer with the Humans but with his own guilt, a conflict that would lead him to the terrible truth about the war."
1970  August issue Venture Science Fiction magazine.  Volume 4 Number 3, issue 16; 6o cents.  128 pages.  Cover art by Bert Tanner.  Includes stories by Larry Eisenberg, J.W. Shutz,  Joseph Renard and Basil Wells.
1970   Expanded with Same Title.  Lancer paperback.
1992 Limited Edition hardback by Charnel House.  The only edition containing the as-written text.
 
 
 

The Crimson Witch
"He found himself in a strange world, wherein lived people with unusual Talents, among them the beautiful Crimson Witch of the Eye Mountain.  Taming her was to be only the beginning of his dangerous quest...!"
1970   The  hard to come by novelette in Fantastic Stories science fiction and fantasy magazine.  October 1970; volume 20, number 1.  Published bi-monthly by Ultimate Publishing Co.   Story illustrated by Jeff Jones.  Later released with the Same Title; in his rarest science fiction/fantasy paperback to locate, not to mention most pricey.  The Crimson Witch covers 71 double column pages and over half the entire magazine.  Includes Barry Malzberg, Greg Benford and David R. Bunch.
1971 Same Title paperback by Curtis.
 
 
 

Shambolain
"It was Christmas - and all he wanted was to give!"
1970   November/ December issue of  Worlds of If Science Fiction vol. 20, no. 8 issue 151.  You will find it nowhere else.  Comes with a cool illustration of the oval headed Shambolain.  Within are stories by T. J. Bass, Gene Wolfe, Arthur Sellings, Alan Rogers, Joseph Dickinson, Piers Anthony, Juanita Coulson and Donald Franson.
 
 
 
 

Nightmare Gang
"Cottery was a knife man.  He carried six of them laid flat and invisible..."
1970 Infinity One.  Lancer paperback.
1973The Edge of Never: Classic and Contemporary Tales of the Supernatural.  June 1973 Fawcett Premier paperback; M590 - 95 cents.  No previous hardback.  Edited by Robert Hoskins.   Includes shorts by such authors as Fredric Brown, Frederik Pohl, Robert Hoskins, Charles Dickens, Robert Bloch, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson and others.
1995Between Time and Terror.  ROC paperback.  ISBN 0-451-45452-9, $4.99, 382 pages.  Edited by Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz and Martin Greenberg.  Includes stories by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Clive Barker, Dan Simmons, H. P. Lovecraft, F. Paul Wilson, Richard Matheson and others.
 
 
 

Emanations
"He began with the kitchen, for he wanted to work slowly toward the climax...  Aikens ran his hands across the counter - lightly, lightly - feeling the places where Mary Spalding's hands must often have touched"
"When there was nothing more to be sensed from the emanations here, he went into the living room."
1970   July issue of Swank adult magazine.  Volume 17, Number 5.  One of the very rare stories, and as it is not listed in nearly any Koontz reference book, lesser known as well.  Comes with a cool illustration.
 
 
 

Unseen Warriors
"They may one day hide in the woman you love - or in others you cherish..."
1970  The only appearance of the novelette UNSEEN WARRIORS was in Worlds of Tomorrow science fiction magazine.  Winter 1970, Volume 5 Number 2 Issue 25, 75 cents.  Unseen Warriors has never been re-issued, and is one of the more difficult Koontz stories to locate.  It is also the only Koontz story to appear in Worlds of Tomorrow.  Cover by Gaughan.  Story has nice illustration.  Includes stories by Keith Laumer, John Jakes, W. Macfarlane and Neal Barrett Jr.
 
 
 

Bruno
"What kind of man would accept the existance of probability worlds and an intelligent bear, plus take on the job of tracking down a criminal alien?  Obviously a man with a compulsion for action, such as the American private eye.  Afterall, a punk is a punk."
1971 The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.  April 1971, Volume 40 Number 4 Issue 239, 60 cents.  Cover by Kelly Freas.  Includes stories by Poul Anderson, David Locke, William Walling and Michael Bishop.  Jake Ash later appeared in the February 1972 issue of F&SF in the story "Cosmic Sin".
1995Strange Highways short story collection.
 
 
 

The Terrible Weapon
1972   Volume 1, Number 1, January/February issue of Trend.Small print Pennsylvania magazine, thus extremely rare.  After years of searching, I finally have an image to display!!!  You gotta love it.
 
 
 

Cosmic Sin
"Jake assists the probability police in tracking down two enormous and sexy heads of cabbage."
1972   February issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction vol. 42, no. 2 issue 249.  You will not find it anywhere else.  It also marks the last of several Koontz stories that appeared in F&SF, and the only one not reissued later in one form or another.  Within are stories by Poul Anderson, James Tiptree Jr., Bruce McAllister, Kit Reed, Pamela Sargent and Dennis O'Neil.  "Cosmic Sin" is a sequal of sorts to the earlier story "Bruno".  Another adventure with  Jake Ash.
 
 
 
 

Alterboy
1972 Infinity Three.  Lancer paperback.
 
 
 

A Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village
1972 Again, Dangerous Visions.  Doubleday hardback.  A very interesting note to Koontz collectors is the mention of the book Hung!  in the afterword of this story.
1973 Again, Dangerous Visions 2.  Signet pb.
1976Again, Dangerous...UK hb.  Millington.
 
 
 

Ollie's Hands
"He thought of Annie, of moments and flesh unshared, futures destroyed..."
1972 Infinity Four: New Writings in Speculative Fiction.  Lancer paperback; 75387-095, 95 cents.  No previous hardback.  Edited by Robert Hoskins.  Includes stories by  Fritz Leiber, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, Barry N. Malzberg and others.  An interesting tidbit for Koontz fans is the story entitled Starblood by William F. Nolan.  Sound familiar?!!
1973   July issue Swank adult magazine.  An interesting sidenote: numerous authors who had their stories published by Lancer later found them in other Magnum publications, including Swank.
1987   Revised in summer edition of  Horror Show magazine.  See details below.
1995 Strange Highways.
 
 
 

Grayworld
"The creature took another step, raising its pale white hand.  It had no face.  Where its features should have been, there was only a smooth sheen of flesh...
It touched him with fingers so cold that they stung his wrist..."
1973 Infinity Five.  Lancer paperback.  SBN 447-75477-095, 95 cents.  Never Before Published stated on back cover indicates first edition.  Edited by Robert Hoskins.  Grayworld can be found nowhere else.  Although the storyline was expanded upon to become "The Long Sleep"; written as John Hill.  Ifive includes stories by Robert Silverberg, William F. Nolan, Terry Carr, Barry Malzberg and others.
 
 
 

Wake Up To Thunder
"Thunder was no God.  He was a demon, a mechanical demon of our own making, a puppet-master built by his marionettes...
I am a renegade.  Thunder is not immediately aware of my existance and may not send the hunters after me for some time...
Either death or triumph awaits me."
1973 Children of  Infinity: Original Science Fiction Stories for Young Readers.  Franklin Watts hardback.  ISBN 0-531-02599-3, $5.95.  1-5 numberline on copyright page and $5.95 price in upper inside front jacket indicate first edition.  Edited and forword by Roger Elwood.  Illustrated by Jacqui Morgan.  Introduction by Lester del Ray.  Includes stories by Barry Malzberg, Poul Anderson, Robert Bloch, Philip Jose Farmer and others.  "Wake up to Thunder" has appeared nowhere other than this very rare book.  No later paperback, although there was a BCE.
 
 
 

The Sinless Child
1973Flame Tree Planet: An Anthology of Religious Science Fiction.  Concordia paperback.  ISBN 0-57003-144-3, 159 pages.  You will find Sinless Child nowhere else, making this one of the hardest Koontz stories to come by.  Edited by Roger Elwood.  Includes stories by George H. Smith, Roger Lovin, Leigh Brackett, Barry Malzberg and others.
 
 
 

Terra Phobia
1973 Androids, Time Machines and Blue Giraffes.  Follett hardback, very rare and pricey.
 
 
 

The Undercity
"Once, when the cities weren't a tenth as large as they are now...we were called the underworld..."
1973 Future City: A Vision of Man's Urban Future.  Trident Press hardback.  SBN 671-27103-2, $7.95.  "First Printing" stated on the copyright page indicates first edition.  Edited by Roger Elwood.  Includes stories by Tom Disch, Ben Bova, Barry N. Maltzberg, William F. Nolan, Frank Herbert, Robert Silverberg, Thomas F. Monteleone, Harlan Ellison and others.
1974 Future City: A Vision of Man's Urban Future.In All New Stories By 22 Leading Writers of Science Fiction.  Pocket Books paperback.  SBN 671-77936-2, 95 cents.  Fairly rare, but easier to come by than the very rare and pricey 1973 hardback edition.  Pocket Books edition published August, 1974 on the copyright page.  Edited by Roger Elwood.  Cover art by Michael Gross.  Afterword by Frederik Pohl.
1974   UK.  Sphere paperback.
1976 The City 2000 AD: Urban Life Through Science Fiction.  Fawcett-Crest paperback.  ISBN 0-449-22829-4, $1.95.  Edited by Ralph Clem, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph Olander.  1-10 numberline indicates first edition.  Includes stories by Thomas F. Monteleone, Robert Sheckley, J G Ballard, Brian Aldiss, Robert Silverberg and others.
1977 Criminal Justice Through Science Fiction.  Franklin-Watts hardback.
1978 Trade paperback.
1997 Cyber-Killers.  Orion UK hardback.  Very rare hardback.  408 pages.  Edited by Ric Alexander.
1997 Cyber-Killers.  Orion/Millenium UK large trade paperback.
 
 
 

The Night of the Storm
"Halfway down toward the valley floor, the tunnel between the trees narrowed drastically.  The trees loomed closer, spread their boughs lower.  And it was here, in these tight quarters, in the deepest shadows, that they were attacked.
Something howled in triumph, its mad voice echoing above the constant whining of the wind."
1974 Continuum 1.  Putnam hardback.  SBN 399-11283-9, $5.95, 246 pages.  Edited and introduction by Roger Elwood.  Includes stories by Koontz, Philip Jose Farmer, Poul Anderson, Anne McCaffrey, Gene Wolfe, Edgar Pangborn, Chad Oliver and Thomas Scorsia.
1974?  UK hardback.
1975 Berkley Medallion paperback.
1977   Uk Star Books paperback.  ISBN 0-352-39664-4, 60p.
1976 Starstream #2: Adventures in Science Fiction.  Comic format version in a magazine.  Starstream #2 is the 2nd of a four part series.  Western Publishing, 79 cents, 64 pages.  Edited by Roger Elwood.  Includes comic stories by Arnold Drake, Larry Niven and others.
1979 Questar: Illustrated Science Fiction Classics.  Golden Press thick comic format magazine.  Appears to contain all the stories from the entire Starstream series.  ISBN 0-307-11197-0, $1.95, 224 pages.  With "comics" by Jack Williamson, John W. Campbell, Jr.'s classic "Who Goes There"(The Thing), Poul Anderson, Robert Bloch, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg and many others.
1995 Strange Highways.
 
 
 

We Three
1974 Final Stage: The Ultimate Science Fiction Anthology.  Charterhouse hardback.  ISBN 0- 88327-035-8, $7.95, 309 pages.  Edited by Edward Ferman and Barry Malzberg.  Includes stories by Frederik Pohl, Poul Anderson, Brian Aldiss, Philip K. Dick, James Tiptrr, Jr., Harry Harrison, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg and others.
1975 Final Stage.  Peguin paperback.  ISBN 0-1400.4039-0, $2.50, 284 pages.  See above.
1995   Revised in Strange Highways.
 
 
 

A Season For Freedom
"The monster's resting; he's not really dead.  And the idea scares me.  I think we still might one day be capable of the atrocities that form the narrative of this story." - Dean Koontz
1977 The Future Now: Saving Tomorrow.The Future May Be The Tomorrow You Never Want To Happen.  Fawcett-Crest paperback.  ISBN 0-449-23227-1, $1.75.  No previous hardback.  1-10 numberline indicates first edition.  "A Season For Freedom" has not been in any publication since, and comes with an introduction by Koontz.  Edited by Robert Hoskins.  Includes stories by Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Barry N. Malzberg, Edward Bryant, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl and others.  Revised "Killerbot".  This story appeared previously in "Soft Come the Dragons"
 
 
 
 

Snatcher
"He knew what was going to happen to him.  In his racing, fear-swollen heart, he knew..."
1986Night Cry Magazine.  Fall issue.
1993 The Ultimate Witch. October 1993 Dell large trade paperback.  ISBN 0-440-50531-3, $11.95.  First edition indicated by 1-10 numberline.  One of the more difficult Koontz books to find.  As well as Snatcher, includes tales by Tanith Lee, Ray Bradbury, Darrell Sweitzer, Tim Sullivan, Nancy Holder, John Kaiine, Marvin Kaye and many others.
1995Strange Highways.
2002 Witches' Brew. 2002 Berkley large trade paperback.  ISBN 0-425-18609-1, $13.00.  1-10 numberline indicates first edition.  Edited by Yvonne Jocks.  Includes bewitching tales by Erica Jong, William Shakespear, Harlan Ellison, Arthur Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, Brothers Grimm, Ben Franklin, Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Emily Dickinson and others.
 
 
 

Down in the Darkness
"Darkness dwells within even the best of us.  In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns..."
1986   Summer issue The Horror Show.  Volume 4 Issue 3, $3.95.  Includes the story "Weird World" by Koontz and an interview with him where he mentions the name "Guardian" as the name of the book that later became "Watchers".
1987 The Architecture of Fear: Fourteen New Horror Tales.  Arbor House hardback.  ISBN 0-87795-921-8.  First edition indicated by 1-10 numberline, $18.95.  Edited by Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz.  Includes stories by Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant, Gene Wolfe, Joyce Carol Oates, Jack Dann, Robert Aickman and others.
1988   Paperback.
1995   Strange Highways.
 
 
 

Weird World
1986 The Horror Show.  Can be found nowhere else, making this issue more collectable than the summer '87 issue.  Particularly with the "Twilight Eyes" cover art by Phil Parks.
 
 
 

The Black Pumpkin
"It raised one thick, twisted, powerful, vinelike arm and thrust a rootlike finger at him.  "YOU," it said, in a deep whispery voice that made him think of wet slush pouring down a drain."
1986   December 1986 issue of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine.  ISSN 0279-6090 Volume 6 Number 5, $2.50.  This issue also has an interview of Koontz by the mojo man himself, Joe R. Lansdale.  "Pumpkin" illustrated  by Frances Jetter.  Also contains an interview with Stephen King, and stories by Rose Rinaldi, John Skipp, David Schow, Charles Sheffield and others.
1995 Strange Highways.
1996Ghost Movies II:  Famous Supernatural Television Programmes.  Severn House hardback.
2000 October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween.  Cemetery Dance hardback.  ISBN 1-58767-011-9, $40.00, 660 pages.  A beautiful, huge collection edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish.  1-10 numberline and "First Edition" stated on copyright page indicate first edition.  Includes stories by Peter Straub, Poppy Z. Brite, Richard Laymon, Charles Grant, Rick Hautala, Ed Gorman, Dennis Etchison, Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell and many others.
2002 ROC trade paperback.
 
 
 

The Monitors of Providence
1986   Free Distribution for World Fantasy Convention. Co-written by Koontz.  Only 1000 copies.  Copyright page states "Copyright by the contributers.  Strictly limited to 1000 copies for free distribution at WorldFanCon 1986, and ten copies each for the contributers".  Written in a round-robin format, with each contributer adding roughly a page to the overall story.  Dean Koontz, Michael Blaine, Dennis Etchison, James Kisner, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Christian Matheson, Robert McCammon, William F. Nolan, Alan Rodgers, David B. Silva, J. N. Williamson and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.
 
 
 

The Interrogation
1987   Summer issue of  The Horror Showmagazine.  Dean Koontz Returns.  ISSN 0748-2914, $3.95, Volume 5 Issue 3.  As well as "The Interrogation", includes a revised edition of "Ollie's Hands" and an interview of Dean Koontz by Leigh Nichols; YOU GOTTA LOVE IT!  Includes stories by Joe R. Lansdale, David Barker and G. Wayne Miller.
1991 Obsessions.   Dark Harvest hardback.  ISBN 0-913165-55-7, $21.95, 317 pages.  Edited by Gary Raisor.  Illustrated by Roger Gerberding.  Includes stories by Dan Simmons, Joe Lansdale, Richard Matheson, Charles Grant, Edward Bryant, David Silva, Stanley Wiater, Ed Gorman and many others.
1992 The Definitive Best of Horror Show. Cemetery Dance hardback.
 

Hardshell
1987 Night Visions 4.  Dark Harvest hardback.  Includes Miss Attila the Hun, Hardshell and Twilight of the Dawn by Koontz.  The Deep End, Life in the Day Of and Best Friends by Robert R. McCammon.  Predators, The Baku, Frat Rat Bash, Haunted, Buggage and Doing Colfax by Edward Bryant.
1988 Hardshell: Chilling New Tales by the Bestselling Masters of Terror.  Re-issue of Night Visions 4 by Berkley in paperback.  ISBN 0-425-12748-6, $3.95, 279 pages.  1-10 numberline indicates first edition.  Introduction by Clive Barker.  See above.
1993 Predators.  ROC hardback.
1993?Trade paperback.
1993?Paperback.
1995 Strange Highways.
 
 
 

Miss Attila the Hun
1987Night Visions 4.  See details above.
1988Night Visions: Hardshell.  See deatails above.
1995 Strange Highways.
 
 
 

Twilight of the Dawn
"A man might live a hundred years, yet his long life is but the twilight of the dawn"
1987 Night Visions 4.  See details above.
1988 Hardshell.  See details above.
1990 Nal Books hardback.
1990 Mystery Scene: Under the Gun.1990 Plume large trade paperback.  ISBN 0-452-26406-5, $10.99.  First Plume Printing, February 1990 and 1-9 numberline on copyright page indicate first edition.  Although the Plume edition is quite rare, it is much easier to come by than the virtually impossible to find Nal Books hardback.  Edited by Edward Gorman and Robert J. Randisi.  Designed by Sherry Brown.  Includes stories by Stuart Kaminsky, Sue Grafton, F. Paul Wilson, Antonio Fraser, Joe R. Lansdale, Edward Gorman and others.
1990 The Complete Masters of Darkness.  Underwood-Miller hardback, $39.95.
1991 The Complete Masters of Darkness.  Underwood-Miller trade paperback, $15.95.
1991Masters of Darkness III.  TOR paperback.  ISBN 0-812-51766-0, $3.95, 332 pages.  May 1991 and 1-10 numberline on copyright page indicate first edition.  Includes stories by Jack Vance, James Herbert, Brian Lumley, David Morrel, Algis Budrys, Cive Barker, Stephen King and others.
1995Strange Highways.
2000Father: Famous Authers Celebrate The Bond Between Father And Child. Atria Books trade paperback.  ISIN 0671007912, 368 pages, $13.95; May 1, 2000.  Edited and introduction by Claudia O'Keefe.  Includes stories or essays by Jonathan Kellerman, Sylvia Watanabe, Mary Morris, John Updike and many others.
 
 
 

Graveyard Highway
"Mason's sense of dread increased... soon he was running"
1988   Tropical Chills: Fourteen Tales of Scorching Horror to Make Your Blood Run Cold.  1988 Avon Horror paperback  No previous hardback.  ISBN 0-380-75500-9, $3.95.  First Avon Books Printing: November 1988 and K-R 10-1 numberline indicate first edition.  Never issued anywhere else.  Edited by Tim Sullivan.  Includes stories by Gene Wolf, Brian W. Aldiss, Edward Bryant, Charles Sheffield and others.
 
 
 
 

Trapped
"On the night it happened, a blizzard swept across the entire Northeast..."
1989  Stalkers.  Dark Harvest hardback collection.  ISBN 0-913165-47-6.  First Edition stated on copyright page, $19.95.  There was also a signed/limited edition.  Illustrated by Paul Sonju, including one for "Trapped".  Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg.  Includes "A Day in The Life" by F. Paul Wilson, "Mother Tucker" by James Kisner, "The Hunt" by Richard Laymon, "Lizardman" by Robert R. McCammon, "Flight" by John Coyne, "Pilots" by Joe R. Lansdale & Dan Lowry, "The Sacred Fire" by Charles De Lint and others.
1993?  Later ROC hardback.
1993? Trade paperback.
1993?  And paperback.
1993  Eclipsegraphic novel hardback.
1993? UK Trade paperback.
1994  Great Mysteries, Great Writers.  Dove audio.
1995  Strange Highways.
 
 
 

Strange Highways
1995  Title Story for the short story collection.
 
 
 

Pinkie
"My first name is Ishmael. My middle name is Ahab. My mother and father love literature, especially Moby Dick. They're outrageously smart but have no common sense. Ishmael Ahab Potts. Makes you want to puke, doesn't it?"
1998   June 12-14  USA Weekend.  A paralyzed teenager, as well as his troubled sister, discover the healing power of sibling love.
 
 
 

Black River
1999  Mystery Scene magazine.  Issue #63.
2004  Legacies.  Cemetery Dance.  The long-awaited limited edition hardback is finally in the works!  There will be 500 signed/numbered and 52 signed/lettered copies.  The pre-orders are already sold out :(
Besides BLACK RIVER, includes ONE FOR THE ROAD by Stephen King, AGE OF DESIRE by Clive Barker, FINAL RITES by Ray Bradbury, THE DRIPPING by David Morrell, MUTE by Richard Matheson, MR. CLUBB AND MR. CUFF by Peter Straub, SKELETON IN MY CLOSET by Robert Bloch, BROXA by William F. Nolan and THE MAN WITH THE HOE by George Clayton Johnson.
 
 
 

The Scariest Thing I Know
"I didn't realize I was a loser, I thought I was smart and tough..."
2000  Halloween 2000 Special Issue of Martha Stewart Holiday Magazine.  Only appearance.  Written as a childhood story by Nicholas Loffman, and almost sounds like the story of  his own childhood.
 
 
 

 
To be updated as I gather more info.......  I will also add more detailed descriptions as I find the time.
 
 

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