- Divorced fathers, Novelists, Fiction, Haunted houses
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.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- intimateepic
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- Author
- Dan Simmons
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 327
- Publisher
- W. Morrow, HarperTorch, Ėksmo
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- Russian, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780060767594
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Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the *Hyperion Cantos* and the *Ilium*/*Olympos* cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. A typical example of Simmons' intermingling of genres is *Song of Kali* (1985), winner of the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. **Source**: [Dan Simmons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons) on Wikipedia.
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