On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London along with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens — at the height of his capabilities and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world as well as perhaps in the history from the world — hurtled right into a catastrophe that changed his lifestyle forever.

Did Dickens start living a dark dual life after the accident? Had been his nightly forays in to the most severe slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the about Drood: A Book use of lime pits to dissolve systems, and a hidden subterranean London- mere analysis . or something even more terrifying?

Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons pulls impeccably from history to make a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens’s lifestyle and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens’s friend, regular collaborator, and Salieri-style key rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author’s last years and may provide the crucial to Dickens’s final, unfinished function: The Secret of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and absolutely original, DROOD is certainly Dan Simmons at his powerful best.