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A Winter Haunting
by Dan Simmons
ISBN: 0380817160
ISBN-13: 9780380817160
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Dale Stewart, the protagonist in Simmons's 1991 horror novel SUMMER OF NIGHT, returns. Now he's 51, with his university career and marriage in shambles after an obsessive affair, and he's off to his boyhood home in Illinois to hole up in an isolated farmhouse and attempt to write through the winter. Eerie messages begin to show up on his computer screen, and packs of black dogs stalk the property. Throw in a gang of neo-Nazis, a bully from Stewart's past, and Michelle Stafney, the former object of his adolescent fantasies, and Stewart is in for a long, bleak winter.
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"[A] tense, densely detailed novel....Simmons's capacity to articulate the reality of acute melancholia is both impressive and unsettling....[A]n intelligent, uncommonly ambitious novel that offers both the traditional satisfactions of well-made horror fiction and the subtler satisfactions of a first-rate psychological thriller." -- Bill Sheehan
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harper Torch
Published date: 2003
Size: 4.25 x 6.75 inches
Weight: 0.42 pounds
Pages: 371
Publisher's Notes
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 ...
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A Winter Haunting
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New York: Harper Torch, 2003 "One of the scariest and most unnerving ghost stories to come along in quite some time." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This one will have you looking over your shoulder.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. ( more information)
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New York: HarperTorch, 2003. Mass-market paperback. Very Good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. ( more information)
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HarperTorch. January 1, 2003. Paperback. Near Fine. The old saw "You can't go home again" is a chilling understatement for this highly effective supernatural shocker, Simmons's first horror novel since Fires of Eden (1994) and a sequel to Summer of Night (1991). The latter was an eerie chronicle of a summer of lost innocence for a group of preadolesc ent chums who confront an entity of irrepressible evil in rural Elm Haven, Ill. Four decades later Dale Stewart, a survivor of that summer, has return ed to endure a winter of adult discontent: his wife has left him, his sidel ine career as a novelist is sputtering and a disastrous love affair has dri ven him to attempt suicide. Medicated to the gills for depression, Dale see ks inspiration for his next novel in a house that figured in events of the summer of 1960. But remnants of the old malign influence have survived and they manifest as vicious spectral dogs, threatening neo-Nazi punks, cryptic messages that appear magically on his computer screen and delusions that s uggest he's losing his mind. Simmons orchestrates his story's weird events craftily, introducing them as unremarkable details that only gradually show their dark side. In a nod to Henry James, whose psychological ghost story "The Jolly Corner" is repeatedly invoked, he blends jaw-dropping revelation s of spiritual intrusion with carefully manipulated challenges to the reade r's confidence in Dale's faculties and motivations. Though it features its share of palpable things that go bump in the night, this novel is most unse ttling in its portrait of personal demons of despair that imperceptibly emp ower them. ( more information)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Morrow/Avon, 2003. Very light spine and hinge crease - otherwise a nice clean unmarked copy.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good Plus. ( more information)
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Harper Torch, 2003. From the Back - 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 .... Beautiful Brand New - Perfect. Mass Market Paperback. New. ( more information)
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HarperTorch, 2003. Later Printing. Mass Market (i.e. 4" by 7" softcover). New (Condition varies from Fine to Near Fine. Please inquire as to specific condition)/N/A (volume is softcover). Keywords: Novel Ghosts, ( more information)
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