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A Winter Haunting (Summer of Night, Bk 2)
A Winter Haunting - Summer of Night, Bk 2
Author: Dan Simmons
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 outskirt...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780380817160
ISBN-10: 0380817160
Publication Date: 1/1/2003
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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3.6 stars, based on 69 ratings
Publisher: HarperTorch
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
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 reviewed A Winter Haunting (Summer of Night, Bk 2) on + 148 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
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!!!
reviewed A Winter Haunting (Summer of Night, Bk 2) on + 9 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A nice twist on the ghost story! I really enjoyed it!
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Helpful Score: 1
very scary book I loved it.
bookcrazychick avatar reviewed A Winter Haunting (Summer of Night, Bk 2) on + 76 more book reviews
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Very good book. Creepy and subtle ghost story. I will be reading more of Simmons.
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It was creepy enough to scare me a little.
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 perryfran avatar reviewed A Winter Haunting (Summer of Night, Bk 2) on + 1242 more book reviews
I didn't realize that this is a sequel to Simmons' "Summer of Night." It probably would have been better to read "Night" before "Winter Haunting" but, nonetheless, I found this one to be enjoyable and a great psychological ghost story. I have a copy of "Summer of Night" that I intend to read soon. Many events from it were referred to in "Haunting" but this did not detract from the story. Simmons did a great job of building the suspense when Dale Stewart goes back to his childhood town to spend 9 months in the abandoned farmhouse of his childhood friend who was killed when he was a boy in 1960. These events obviously have haunted Stewart throughout his life. When he returns to his boyhood town, he meets some of the people who he knew as a child including the sheriff who was the town bully and a Hollywood actress who was the young vixen of his youth. But is all as it seems to be? Well not really... I don't want to spoil this for anyone so I won't give away anything -- overall, a great ghost story that I would recommend. There are also references in the novel to Henry James' story "The Jolly Corner" which I also need to now read.
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This book kept me up reading, and that is no small feat! Simmons creates a sense of place I have seldom seen, giving the book overall a scary feel. I did not like the end action scene much, as it resorts to classic King type of horror as opposed to the psychological scare he had used up till then, but most horror fans will like it, I think. As a writer, I appreciate his metaphors.
reviewed A Winter Haunting (Summer of Night, Bk 2) on + 228 more book reviews
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.


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