Last December, prolific novelist Dean Koontz purchased a whopper of a holiday gift for himself and his family: a nearly 13,500-square-foot contemporary hacienda dating to 2009. The house was remarkable...

Best-selling author Dean Koontz has been on something of a residential real-estate buying spree in Irvine in the past six months. Just before the high holidays, the writer picked up...

Horror and fantasy novelist Dean Koontz picked up this Edenic estate in Irvine; it’ll make an ideal setting for a California holiday season. The prolific writer paid $11.6 million for...