- Hanging on
Pub: 1973
Publisher: Paperback AAA Dell first printing
All Began When Major Kelly's Army Engineers Were Dropped Into Nazi-occupied France And Ordered to Keep a Bridge Open Until the Allies Arrived. Simple, Except the Mission Was a Secret And Nobody Knew They Were There - Nobody Except the Luftwaffe, Which Kept Bombing the Bridge. which Meant the Gi's Kept Rebuilding It. which Meant the Luftwaffe Kept Bombing It. Which Meant the Tension Was Doing Funny Things to Major Kelly's Men's Minds. which Meant Anything Could Happen - And You Can Bet Your Last C-ration It Did!
Koontz's comic novel of WWII, "written before I realized comic novels don't sell" he says now. * Fantastic
- Warlock
Pub: 1972
Publisher: Lancer
Mankind has forgotten their past glories and only legends remain. Some believed in the legends that men posses sed marvels that conquered the skies and space itself. This is their journey back. * Fantastic
- The Flesh in the Furnace
Pub: 1972
Publisher: Paperback Bantam Books
Early Koontz story of a race of living puppets doing the bidding of the Puppet Master. * Fantastic
- Chase
Pub: 1972
Publisher: Unknown - Random First Hardback
A suspense novel first published in 1985 about a Vietnam war hero with a hard drinking habit and a history of mental breakdown who has to convince people that he is being pursued by a psychopath. By the author of MIDNIGHT and WATCHERS.
* Fantastic
- A Darkness in My Soul
Pub: 1972
Publisher: DAW
"Superman - or Supermonster? Although he was the first successful product of the Artificial Creation laboratory - the government workshop for the production of new talents by tampering with the genes of the unborn - Simeon Kelly would work for them only under compulsion. And the compulsion the generals applied to get him to probe the mind of the thing called Child had to be the greatest. Because Child was anything but that. In that incredibly monstrous infant appeared to be the potential for whole oceans of inventions and an entire cosmos of total creativity. But Child was vicious, insane, and short-lived." * Tiscali
- The Crimson Witch
Pub: 1971
Publisher: Curtis
Movie: No
This is a short science-fantasy novel, written in the short span of two weeks. Koontz considers it among his worst works, and he intends to keep it out of print.
A young man's struggle with destiny and desire in a post nuclear world. Jake Turnet's overdose of the drug PBT had opened the psychic doorway into a world where nuclear disaster had happened in a much earlier century - a world where sorcery had replaced science. * Tiscali
- Hell's Gate
Pub: 1970
Publisher: Lancer
Movie: No
"He came out of the dark night with only another man's name...a man who would soon be found floating in a distant river. He was a man without a past, without a future; he had only a bloody mission. His first act was violent murder! He was a man...or was he? Just who was Victor Salsbury? And if he was not a man, then...what was he? And who were the unseen masters, who issue orders only on whim? What were their plans for the world... plans so horrifying that they could change an unfeeling, nonhuman creature into a frightened human!" * Tiscali
- The Dark Symphony
Pub: 1970
Publisher: Lancer
Movie: No
Mutants from the atomic bomb ridden Earth meet Mankind from the stars who escaped just before the destruction. The mutants won't give up and let space-man rule Earth once again.* Tiscali
- Anti-man
Pub: 1970
Publisher: Paperback Paperback Library
Movie: No
"Sam was an android. His flesh was the ultimate miracle of science, artificially created and completely self sustaining. And he had the unusual power to heal others. In fact, Sam was too good to live." * Tiscali
- Beast Child
Pub: 1970
Publisher: Venture Science Fiction
Later publication by Lancer in the same year.
Movie: No
Paper Back Pages: Unknown
"The naoli came to earth as conquerors, while the last men skulked through the ruins of their civilization. The two races, human and naoli, were the most powerful intelligences in the galaxy - and destined to be immediate and perpetual enemies! Then the adult Hulaan met the boy Leo ... and each became a traitor to his race. For it was only through treason that the future of each race could be assured!" * Tiscali
- Fear That Man
Publisher: Ace Double
Paper Back Pages: Unknown
"The Galaxy had forgotten war and evil - until the man without a past intervened." * Tiscali
- The Fall of the Dream Machine
Pub: 1969
Publisher: Ace Double
Movie: No
Paper Back Pages: Unknown
"When all the world's a stage, director Cockley will run it." * Tiscali
- Star Quest
Pub: 1968
Publisher: Ace Double
Movie: No
Paper Back Pages: Unknown
"In a universe that had been ravaged by a thousand years of interplanetary warfare between the star-shattering Romaghins and the equally voracious Setessins, there seemed now but one thing that might bring the destruction to an end..." * Tiscali
- The Movies ***
Frankenstien (Concept) - 2004
Black River (Novella) - 2001
Sole Survivor (TV Series) - 2000
Mr. Murder (TV) - 1998
Watchers Reborn - 1998
Phantoms - 1998
Intensity (TV) - 1997
Hideaway - 1995
Watchers III - 1994
The Servants of Twilight - 1991
The Face of Fear (TV) - 1990
Watchers II - 1990
Wispers - 1989
Watchers - 1988
CHiPs - 1977 (episode "Counterfeit" as Brian Coffey)
Passegers Les - 1977 (Shattered)
- More Movie info
- Black River
Directed by Jeff Bleckner
Teleplay Daniel Taplitz
Actor Character
Jay Mohr Bo Aikens
Susan Bain Frannie Fineman
Paul Batten Peter Duncan
- Sole Survivor
Directed by Mikael Salomon
Teleplay - Richard Christian Matheson
Actor Character
Billy Zane Joe Carpenter
John C. McGinley Yates
Isabella Hofmann Barbara Chrisman
- Mr. Murder
Directed by Dick Lowry
Teleplay Stephen Tolkin
Stephen Baldwin Marty Stillwater/Alfie
Julie Warner Paige Stillwater
Bill Smitrovich Lt. Lowbock
- Watchers Reborn
Directed by John Carl Buechler
Writing Sean Dash
Actor Character
Mark Hamill Murphy
Lisa Wilcox Grace
Stephen Macht Lem Johnson
- Phantoms
Directed by Joe Chappelle
ScreenPlay Dean Koontz
Actor Character
Ben Affleck Sheriff Bryce Hammond
Peter O'Toole Dr.
Timothy Flyte
Rose McGowan Lisa Pailey
Joanna Going Jennifer Pailey, M.D.
Liev Schreiber Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle
- Intensity
Directed by Yves Simoneau
Teleplay Stephen Tolkin
Actor Character
John C. McGinley Edgler Foreman Vess
Molly Parker Chyna Shepherd
- Hidaway
Directed by Brett Leonard
Screenplay Andrew Kevin Walker
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Jeff Goldblum Hatch Harrison
Christine Lahti Lindsey Harrison
Alicia Silverstone Regina Harrison
- Watchers III
Directed by Jeremy Stanford
Screenplay Michael Palmer
Actor Character
Wings Hauser Ferguson
Gregory Cummins Benetti
- The Servants of Twilight
Directed by Jeffrey Obrow
Screenplay Stephen Carpenter
Actor Character
Bruce Greenwood Charlie Harrison
Jarrett Lennon Joey Scavello
- The Face of Fear
Directed by Farhad Mann
Teleplay Dean Koontz
Actor Character
Pam Dawber Connie Weaver
Lee Horsley Graham Harris
- Watchers II
Directed by Thierry Notz
Writing Henry Dominic
Actor Character
Timothy Marlowe Jason
Marc Singer Paul Ferguson
- Whispers
4 Stars out of 10 - IMDB
Directed by Douglas Jackson
Screenplay Anita Doohan
Actor Character
Victoria Tennant Hilary
Jean LeClerc Bruno
Chris Sarandon Tony
- Watchers
4 - 10 stars - IMDB
Directed by Jon Hess
Actor Character
Michael Ironside Lem Johnson
Christopher Cary T.V. Newscaster
- Demon Seed
6 - 10 stars - IMDB
Directed by Donald Cammell
Writing Robert Jaffe
Actor Character
Julie Christie Susan Harris
Fritz Weaver Alex Harris
- Passegers Les (French)
(US - The Intruder)
5 - 10 stars - IMDB
Directed by Serge Leroy
Actor/Character
Jean-Louis Trintignant .. Alex Moineau
Mireille Darc .... Nicole
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