Dean Koontz has several different pen names, or pseudonyms, that he has used in his writing. According to interviews, these many personages arose because his agents and editors wanted him to create a new identity each time he changed styles of writing. Similar styles would then be grouped together under the same pen name. Later, these pseudonyms were dropped and his works came out under his own name, first as Dean R. Koontz and then simply Dean Koontz. The Questions and Answers page, linked on left, has more information. Below is an alphabetical list of each known pen name and what books were published under that identity.


David Axton

Prison of Ice
(later released as Icebound)


Brian Coffey

Blood Risk
Surrounded
The Wall of Masks
The Face of Fear
The Voice of the Night


Deanna Dwyer

The Demon Child
Legacy of Terror
The Dark Summer
Children of the Storm
Dance with the Devil


K. R. Dwyer

Chase
Shattered
Dragon Fly


John Hill

The Long Sleep


Leigh Nichols

The Eyes of Darkness
The House of Thunder
Shadowfires
Twilight
(later released as The Servants of Twilight)


Anthony North

Strike Deep


Richard Paige

The Door to December


Owen West

The Funhouse
The Mask


Aaron Wolfe

Invasion
(later released as Winter Moon)


Much of the work produced under pseudonyms has been
re-released or will be in future.