~A WINTER HAUNTING~ By Dan Simmons


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Author:	Dan Simmons	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Harper Torch	ISBN-10:	0380817160
ISBN-13:	9780380817160	Subject:	Mystery, Thriller
Publication Year:	2003	Topic:	Ghost, Horror
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Very Good

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Synopsis
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.
Size
Length:	371 pages
Height:	6.8 in.
Width:	4.3 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	6.7 oz.

Publisher's Note
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 ...
Industry reviews
"[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." Locus - Bill Sheehan (12/01/2001)

This has been read.There is shelf wear along edges of book. There is heavy creasing on the spine. A small crease on the front cover near the binding on the bottom of book. The binding and spine is tight. It sounds worse in description then what it actually is! I just want to be as descriptive and informative about my items so there are no questions or problems later. The book actually look a lot better then described. It is a regular size text-print softcover-paperback.

An EXCELLENT BOOK!

Retails $7.99 US/$9.99 CAN.

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A Psychological Thriller!!!