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A Winter Haunting
Author: Dan Simmons

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Publisher: HarperTorch
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780380817160 - ISBN-10: 0380817160
Publication Date: 1/1/2003
Pages: 384


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover

Book Description:

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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Cherie H. wrote on 7/27/2006...

1 member(s) found this review helpful.

A very mild mannered book. I kept expecting it to get scary. Some beautiful imagery, the writer is good. But, this book is for the meek at heart, not those that seek a good BOO!!!


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Rhonda W. (smoky) wrote on 11/8/2008...


This is the kind of book that you get afraid to pick up. It is that scary. His writing just creeps you out and keeps you in a psycological terror as to is this real or is it a ghost? Page turning to the last period. You will love it.

Kelly P. (kmp1021) wrote on 8/17/2008...


With this one, I felt that Simmons let me down. I LOVED LOVED LOVED Summer of Night. This book is the sequel, but it doesn't even touch it. AND if you haven't read Summer of Night, you will not "get" a lot of this book as there are a lot of unexplained references to its far superior predecessor. A disappointing read.

Sarah F. wrote on 4/15/2007...


A good book - follow up to Summer of Night. It doesn't come close to the same thrill factor that Summer of Night had but it's still a good read.

Cindy P. (mulesinmo) wrote on 4/6/2007...


This is one of those books that is kind of vague and confusing but then has an unexpected ending that ties everything up.

Richard F. (zinnia4u) wrote on 3/3/2007...


Dan Simmons is a very talented, genre crossing writer., and IMO, this is an absorbing creepy novel!

8/10 stars

Janet C. wrote on 2/28/2007...


Pretty Scary!!!

Jacque D. (Emmaleesmomma) wrote on 11/10/2006...


it wasnt as good as I thought it would be but not all that bad....

Charlee G. (Charlee) wrote on 10/18/2006...


Creepy and unsettling. Much more subtle than Stephen King.

Katie B. (katiem63116) wrote on 9/10/2006...


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Sandra D. (bookcrazychick) wrote on 8/25/2006...


Very good book. Creepy and subtle ghost story. I will be reading more of Simmons.


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