New York: Ballantine, (1984.). First edition - "They were young. They were looking for kicks. They decided to play an innocent game in a strange old house. First it turned ugly, then it turned brutal. Finally it became a nightmare of horror and violence." Second novel by the writer whom Steven King called the "scariest" in America - and whom he cited in his 2003 speech when he received the National Book Award as remaking the field of horror. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-345-312376.

Burton, Michigan Subterranean Press, (2004). SIGNED first edition - A short story featuring Deacon Silvey, one of 400 copies individually numbered and SIGNED by Kiernan. Author's note. 28 pp.

Bangor, ME: Castle Rock Press. 1985. First edition - The first issue of this newsletter produced for Stephen King fans. (The first four issues were mimeographed on plain 8 1/2 by 11 1/2 paper and stapled in the upper left corner this issue was among the earliest and preceded the use of the "original" stamp). Includes informal news of King's forthcoming books, filming of his books, his activities, a word puzzle and more. 6 pp (3 sheets of paper)

New York: Viking, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A dark allegory about the fiction writer's situation, set in Castle Rock, Maine, where a popular writer decides to retire the pseudonym he had been using, only to have his doppelganger embark on a killing spree. ."A parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes, the fratricidal twin who occupies 'the womblike dungeon' of his imagination.' (NY Times) Afterword. 431 pp. ISBN: 0-67082982x.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of revealing interviews with Stephen King that lays bare the inner workings of his teeming imagination. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-07-0657599.

New York: New American Library - NAL, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of King's life and work, which includes some notes towards a biography and a study of his major novels. Chronology, several appendices on his short fiction, television and movie adaptations and a detailed bibliography through 1984. Photographs. Index. xix, 252 pp. ISBN: 0-453004768.

San Mateo, CA: Journalstone, (2011). SIGNED first edition - Thirteen stories selected from the very best of their 2011 Short Story Competition - stories with two common themes: a timed demise and a lock of hair. . . Thirteen divergent tales of horror, desperation, panic, helplessness - even glory. INSCRIBED on the dedication page by Nu Yang, author of "Baby Girl." Other contributors include John La Rue, Brad Carpenter, Bruce Golden and more. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1936564330.

New York: Viking, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of satanic intrigue - "Graduate student Jeremy Freirs and aspiring dancer Carol Conklin, summering in the New Jersey village of Gilead, are trapped in a nightmare of terror, with an evil force emanating from a place once called Maquineanok, the Place of Burning." 502 pp. ISBN: 0-670209821.

New York: Bantam, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller introducing Christopher Snow who suffers from a rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light, set in small secluded community on California's coast. INSCRIBED by Koontz on the half title page "To Robert - Seize the day!" and dated in the month of publication - 1/16/98. 391 pp plus author's note. ISBN: 0-553-106643.

New York: Bantam, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Gripping novel of psychological suspense from a master of the genre. INSCRIBED on the half title page "To - welcome to life after doomsday" and dated in Jan 2000. 627 pp. ISBN: 0-553-10666x.

New York: Putnam, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Suspense novel featuring police detectives Harry Lyon and Connie Gulliver - who see their rational world transformed into a place of bizarre surprises. Great opening sentence: "Tuesday was a fine California day, full of sunshine and promise, until Harry had to shoot someone at lunch." 377 pp. ISBN: 0-399-137734.

New York: Bantam, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A coming of age story of a young boy, a musical prodigy, in "the City, a place where enchantment and malice entwine, courage and honor are found in the most unexpected quarters, and the way forward lies buried deep inside the heart." SIGNED by Koontz on a blank preliminary page. 398 pp. ISBN: 978-0345545930.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From the jacket flap: "The story begins with a catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash. Three hundred and thirty dead, no survivors. Among the victims, the wife and two young daughters of Los Angeles Post crime reporter Joe Carpenter. A year later, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, .. Joe encounters a woman named Rose. She claims to have survived the crash, and holds out a tantalizing possibility: a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before her can ask any questions, she slips away." SIGNED by Koontz on the half title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-679-425268.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - From the jacket flap: "The story begins with a catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash. Three hundred and thirty dead, no survivors. Among the victims, the wife and two young daughters of Los Angeles Post crime reporter Joe Carpenter. A year later, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, .. Joe encounters a woman named Rose. She claims to have survived the crash, and holds out a tantalizing possibility: a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before her can ask any questions, she slips away." 321 pp. ISBN: 0-679-425268.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From the jacket flap: "The story begins with a catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash. Three hundred and thirty dead, no survivors. Among the victims, the wife and two young daughters of Los Angeles Post crime reporter Joe Carpenter. A year later, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, .. Joe encounters a woman named Rose. She claims to have survived the crash, and holds out a tantalizing possibility: a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before her can ask any questions, she slips away." INSCRIBED by Koontz on the half title page - "To Robert, Survive and thrive!" and dated in the year of publication. Ticket to signing event laid in. . 321 pp. ISBN: 0-679-425268.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - From the jacket flap: "The story begins with a catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash. Three hundred and thirty dead, no survivors. Among the victims, the wife and two young daughters of Los Angeles Post crime reporter Joe Carpenter. A year later, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, .. Joe encounters a woman named Rose. She claims to have survived the crash, and holds out a tantalizing possibility: a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before her can ask any questions, she slips away." SIGNED by Koontz on a blank preliminary page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-679-425268.

New York: Bantam, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller introducing Christopher Snow who suffers from a rare genetic disorder that leaves him dangerously vulnerable to light. INSCRIBED by Koontz on the half title page "To -- Are you stalking me?" and dated just one month after its release in February 1998. 391 pp. ISBN: 0-553-106643.

New York: Warner, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of shorter fiction, including the title novel, nine novellas, and six stories, all which explore the variety of human experiences, including failures, triumphs, adventures, terrors, joys, and more. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Notes to the reader. 561 pp. ISBN: 0-44651974X.

New York: Bantam, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel of three young people - Dylan O'Connor, a gifted artist on his way to Santa Fe and his younger, autistic brother Shep, and Jillian Jackson, a comedian - who find themselves caught up in a horror they cannot begin to understand, a story of how evil can destroy us and love can redeem us. INSCRIBED on the half title page with the words "Let's howl" and dated in the year of publication. 431 pp. ISBN: 0-553801430.

New York: Bantam, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller set in California - Bill Wile is an easy going hardworking guy who lives an ordinary life - but then he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. "If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher somewhere in Napa County. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have six hours to decide. The choice is yours." INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-553804154.

New York: Bantam, (2015). First edition - A dark novel of literary suspense by one of the masters of the genre, the story of a girl who said no to death. "Bibi Blair is a fierce, funny, dauntless young woman whose doctor says she has one year to live. She replies, We ll see. Her sudden recovery astonishes medical science. An enigmatic woman convinces Bibi that she escaped death so that she can save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. But save her from what, from whom? And who is Ashley Bell? " 560 pp.

New York: Bantam, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A mix of suspense and horror, as a young woman attempts to save a handicapped girl from her stepfather who claims to have had a vision that by her 10th birthday aliens will either heal her or take her away to a better world. 606 pp. ISBN: 0-553801376.

New York (Ontario): Pocket Books (distributed in Canada by PaperJack), (1982). SIGNED first edition - Third novel written by Koontz under this pseudonym. SIGNED as Dean Koontz on the title page. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-671-432664.

New York: Pocket Books, 1982. First edition - Third novel written by Koontz under this pseudonym. ISBN: 0-671-432664.

New York: Berkley, (1984) dj. Hardcover - Early Book Club edition -the first U.S. hardcover publication of this book originally issued as a paperback original (and intended to be published under his Owen West pseudonym). Features New York City detective Lt. Jack Dawson, who is looking into a string of brutal murders, but is too busy at first to notice that his 10 year old daughter has "horrible things" under her bed. Ends with a poem from The Book of Counted Sorrows. 281 pp.

New York: Atheneum, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Very nice copy of the true first edition of this early Koontz tale of subliminal mind control and the dark side of technology. References. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-689-10660.

Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of three original stories by F. Paul Wilson, and original novellas by Sheri Tepper and Ray Garton. SIGNED by Dean Koontz at his introduction. Illustrated with full page black-and-white drawings by Phil Parks, who also did the striking wraparound painting on the dustjacket. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-913165-352.