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  - 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

  Pub: 1969

  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

  Actor Character

  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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  Ramsland, Katherine M. Dean Koontz: a Writer's Biography. HarperCollins, 1997.