NO. Just because Mr Koontz and Mr King write similarly themed novels with a comparable tone does not make them the same. American adult neo-gothic writers? Yes. Alike in legendary writer's status? Nuh uh. Would you compare J K Rowling and Franz Kafka just because she created a nest of giant talking spiders and he produced a giant talking beetle? No. You would not. Some fun facts: Dean Koontz is allergic to cats, he owns close to 40,000 books because he loves reading, and he dropped the middle initial R out of his name because writing that one extra letter over and over again during a book signing of 8,000 books cost him an additional 133 minutes of time.