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Dan Simmons (Author)
From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story of psychic vampires, journey into a world of fear and mystery, a chilling twilight zone of the mind.
A woman returns from the dead with disastrous results for the family who loves her. . . . An old-fashioned barbershop is the site of a medieval ritual of bloody terror. . . . During a post-apocalyptic Christmas celebration, a messenger from the South brings tidings of great horror. . . .
Includes the following stories:
“The River Styx Runs Upstream”
“Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams”
“Vanni Fucci Is Alive and Well and Living in Hell”
“Vexed to Nightmare by a Rocking Cradle”
“Remembering Siri”
“Metastasis”
“The Offering”
“E-Ticket to ‘Namland”
“Iverson’s Pits”
“Shave and a Haircut, Two Bites”
“The Death of the Centaur”
“Two Minutes and Forty-Five Seconds”
“Carrion Comfort”
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A woman returns from the dead with disastrous results for the family who loves her…. An old-fashioned barbershop is the site of a medieval ritual of bloody
terror…. During a post-apocalyptic Christmas celebration, a messenger from the South brings tidings of great horror…. From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story of psychic vampires, journey into a world of fear and mystery, a chilling twilight zone of the mind.
“From the Paperback edition.
Author Biography
Winner of the Hugo Award, several Bram Stoker and Locus Awards, and a pair of World Fantasy Awards,
Dan Simmons, author of 32 novels, is widely accepted as one of the giants of SFF. He passed away in 2026.
Number of Pages: 428Dimensions: 0.96 x 9 x 6 INPublication Date: September 02, 1998
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