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I lost my taste/tolerance for Koontz after adolescence, but I probably read Watchers 4-5 times as a teen. Midnight also had some really memorable horror imagery.
I don't know exactly what it is--I still read lots of pulpy genre fiction (currently reading a novel about superheroes fighting zombies), but whenever I've picked up Koontz as an adult, I can't get more than a few pages into it. The strokes are a little too broad, the premises too gimmicky, and the prose too simple and repetitive. Taken together with an underlying world-view that starts out simplistic and never evolves, I'm just left feeling like I've been there and done that, and there's nothing to see here.
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