“I’ve rejected Freud entirely…I realized many years ago that I…was writing villains out of a Freudian perspective…I looked…to see who were the greatest characters…in fiction, and they were all pre-Freudian. [T]here’s [not a] whiff of Freudianism in Dickens, and…[the characters] are as alive as any you would ever…find in fiction,” says Dean Koontz, author of What the Night Knows.