O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother.' It is remarkable that prior to writing this first novel, Dan Simmons had spent only two and a half days in Calcutta, a city 'too wicked to...

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of ...

ALA Reading List Award for History, Short ListA thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The TerrorIt's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highes...

"Simmons writes like a hot-rodding angel." –Stephen King  An evil legacy comes to life in this classic and ultimately human novel about believable vampires, featuring a brand-new introduction by Dan Simmons.  Children o...

"A literary thriller like no other...A hard-charging, edge-of-the-seat tale." -Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Darwin Minor travels a dangerous road. A Vietnam veteran turned reluctant expert on interpreting the wreckage of fatal...

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 a story of love, memory, triumph, and terror, written by the recipient of the World Fantasy Award and author of Hyperion, Raul Endymion is selected as the bodyguard to the next messiah and must rescue the girl from the enigmatic Sh...

In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, a sinister being is stalking the town's children, and when a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the night, the townfolk know it marks the end of innocence. Reprint. PW.

Generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed...an unfailingly inventive narrative that bears comparison with such classics as Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' series, Frank Herbert's 'Dune', and Gene Wolfe's 'Book of the New Sun'.

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams--member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Pres...

A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multiple-award-winning author of ...

The Hyperion saga is an astonishing achievement, overbrimming with adventure, lyricism and insight. A miracle of invention and economy, played out on a dozen and more meticulously created worlds, the tetralogy is surely one of science...