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Demonic Color

Pauline Dunn

First published 1990
Publisher Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing Corp.
Format Paperback
Type Novel
Pages 351
Price $3.95
ISBN 0821731432

"In 1992, Koontz filed suit against Zebra Books for the misappropriation of Phantoms in two titles Zebra published by author "Pauline Dunn" (in actuality sisters Dawn Pauline Dunn and Susan Hartzell collaborating under a pen name). Spotted by a reader who informed Koontz's publisher, the two books in question - The Crawling Dark and Demonic Color - mimicked Phantoms extensively and even copied passages word-for-word. The legal team for Koontz won, resulting in the sisters returning their advances for both books and Zebra placing an ad in Publishers Weekly acknowledging the plagiarism and withdrawing both titles." [info from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantoms_(novel)]

Year Reviewer Publication
1991 Edward Bryant Locus, #361 February 1991

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