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Contemplating evil: novelist Dean Koontz on Freud, fraud, and the Great Society.

Publisher Reason Foundation
Publication Reason
Subject Humanities
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 0048-6906
Issues per Year 11
Volume v28
Issue n6
Published 1996-11-01

Role Type Name
Author n/a Nick Gillespie
Person Interviews Dean Koontz
Author n/a Lisa Snell

For over two decades, Dean Koontz has been one of the most prolific and popular writers in America. The author of more than two dozen novels, including the recent bestseller Intensity, his books have been published in 38 languages and have sold more than 150 million copies. Often pigeonholed as a "horror" writer, Koontz's work defies pat generic labels and deftly blends Gothic, fantastic, tragic, and comic elements into narratives that entertain, terrify, and exhilarate. Whether exploring the boundaries of identity (Mr. Murder), the vagaries of intelligence (Watchers), or the limits of...

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