A
WINTER HAUNTING
DAN
SIMMONS
GENRE:
HORROR
A once-respected
college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career
and his marriage -- and now darkness is closing in on him. In the
last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm
Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation.
But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of
town -- the one-time residence of a strange and brilliant friend who
lost his young life in a grisly "accident" back in the
terrible summer of 1960 -- is only the latest in his long succession
of recent mistakes. Because Dale is not alone here. He has been
followed to this house of shadows by private demons who are now
twisting his reality into horrifying new forms. And a thick,
blanketing early snow is starting to fall ...
MY
RATING: 4 STARS
Dan
Simmons had me not only questioning Dale's sanity, but also my own
while reading this novel. I was confused as to if what he was
experiencing was real, or his imagination.
Let
me clarify something first, if you are tempted to read this novel,
for the love of all that is book worthy, PLEASE read Simmon's Summer
of Night first! I did not read Summer of Night first because I didn't
realize the two were connected. I am reading Summer of Night now, but
well, it would have been helpful if I had known beforehand.
With
that said, it was still a pretty good book :)
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