A handful of suspense/thriller novels
Dean R. Koontz wrote under various pseudonyms before he became a brand-name author. I've heard a few of 'em are pretty good even! You can see a few more
here.
Even though I'm not a Koontz fan, they'd probably be worth adding to
my paperback horror collection in the name of completion (I buy
Laymon's old original paperbacks too). It's a curse!
Nice! I have a Leigh Nichols copy somewhere in my boxes of books. I have a copy of the original, unedited 1973 version of Demon Seed.
ReplyDeleteVOICE OF THE NIGHT is the best of the bunch.
ReplyDeleteBrian Coffey? I was reminded immediately of Brian Moore's award-winning The Luck of Ginger Coffey. A coincidence, perhaps, but interesting.
ReplyDeleteI have a copy of each one of these paperback originals. I picked up SHADOWFIRES when it was brand new & news leaked that it was the work of Koontz. Then, I went to a couple local used book shops & got all the rest of them for about fifty cents a piece. No one else seemed to bother with any them until about a year later, when they became much more scarce as they were gobbled up once Koontz became a household name.
ReplyDeleteThis was during the period of time when pretty much everything he published began to become instant bestsellers. Which saw some of his very best work & some of my personal favorite Koontz novels hitting the store shelves consistently like THE VISION, WHISPERS, PHANTOMS, DARKFALL, STRANGERS & TWILIGHT EYES. With the latter title & PHANTOMS being my all time favs.
- Jim Allcorn
The Door to December must have inspired Stranger Things as Eleven's story is the story here to a T.
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