A Winter Haunting, Dan Simmons
A Winter Haunting, Dan Simmons
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A Winter Haunting

Author: Dan Simmons

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2015

Synopsis

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.

About Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons is the Hugo Award-winning author of several novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Olympos and The Terror. He lives in Colorado.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on April 15, 2019

oh my god thank you dan simmons! ....................................................................... oh, dan simmons, i wish you had dedicated the terror to me instead of this one. spooky month is not going as well as i had hoped... this is fine. it is a very straightforward, classic-feeling horror......more

Goodreads review by Johann (jobis89) on December 12, 2018

“All good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.” Following his divorce and suicide attempt, Dale Stewart moves back to Elm Haven, deciding to live in the house his childhood friend lived in, to work on a new novel. How, oh how, was this book going to live up to Summ......more

Goodreads review by Maciek on November 08, 2011

This was a really pleasant surprise. As I was not extremely impressed with Summer of Night, I didn't exactly rush to read A Winter's Haunting, which was said to be a sequel. I wish I didn't, as it's not a direct sequel, only uses certain events and characters from the first novel. It's an excellent t......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on February 10, 2017

A really enjoyable follow-up to the brilliant Summer of Night! We revisit some characters from that summer of 1960 at a much later date - however, I'm pretty sure there's no problem at all reading this one stand-alone. That said, it must be noted that having read the first book really adds a dimensi......more

Quotes

“I am in awe of Dan Simmons.” Stephen King

“Dan Simmons is brilliant.” Dean Koontz, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“A mix of Henry Jamesian and Stephen King–style scariness…Simmons’ strength as a writer and storyteller of exceptional originality shines brightly through, making this novel another personal high point in a career chock-full of them.” Denver Post

“A Winter Haunting further demonstrates Simmons’ talent as a literary stylist. It is a frightening ghost story, one that will keep readers guessing until the last page.” Denver Rocky Mountain News

“One of the scariest and most unnerving ghost stories to come along in quite some time.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Seriously well written…A rich read” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Simmons orchestrates his story’s weird events craftily…he blends jaw-dropping revelations of spiritual intrusion with carefully manipulated challenges to the reader’s confidence in Dale’s faculties and motivations.” Publishers Weekly

“Good spooky fun that teens will love—but may not want to read when alone, at night, during a storm, etc.” Library Journal

“Simmons’ writing is tight and delirious, spinning an engrossing spiral of madness and fear, and the titular haunting is a beauty, supported by an exquisite selection of classical references.” Booklist

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