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From John: Master of Horror – Ramsey Campbell

Some 25 years ago, in what I call my “dark period,” I was deeply into horror fiction. Of course Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and others lined my shelves, but it was a British author, Ramsey Campbell that truly inspired night chills. Incarnate, his 1983 masterpiece went...

Now in Stock – Ready to Ship!

VJ Books has received:  Robert B. Parker – Split Image (unsigned),  Dan Simmons – Black Hills,  Hugh Ambrose – The Pacific,  Connie Willis – Blackout,  Noah Boyd – The Bricklayer,  Dean Koontz – Breathless (UK),  James Twining...

Now in Stock – Ready to Ship!

VJ Books has received:  Robert K. Tanenbaum – Capture,  Dean Koontz – Breathless,  Wally Lamb – Wishin’ and Hopin’,  Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen – To Try Men’s Souls,  T. Jefferson Parker – Iron River,  and...

Dean Koontz is Relentless

Megaseller Koontz, no stranger to radio interviews, gives a major shout-out to the interviewers themselves in his latest opus, whose protagonist is an author: “Radio hosts, both talk-jocks and traditional tune-spinners, do better interviews than TV types.  Rare...

Odd Hours was a “gift” to Koontz

Odd Hours, Koontz’s fourth book about this, well, odd character, has more than one million copies in print.  Koontz said in an interview that this unusual protagonist came to him “as a gift, the entire first chapter of his first book having poured out of...

Bestselling Books Hardcover Old and New

(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 23, by Dermot McEvoy and Michael Coffey ) Familiar voices crowd the top in fiction; in nonfiction, the fundamental rules apply—plus all things Obama John Grisham’s aptly titled Appeal had the most of it, as far as the novel-buying...

The 5 Richest Authors in the World

(blogs.thetimes.co.za, Nov. 26) Forbes Magazine has released its list of the world’s highest paid authors. In a year when financial returns are a great source of consternation, some writers have still managed to rake in the cash. Top of the list is unsurprisingly J.K...

Dean Koontz – Your Heart Belongs to Me

(independentweekly.com, Jan 6, Michael Sneyd) The title itself suggests that Dean Koontz may be reverting farther back into his romantic styled writing for this novel. Knowing that it’s a release of the horror/thriller genre spooked me to think that this book...