6/4/2023 0 Comments Drood by dan simmons![]() ![]() Simmons uses this incident to spin a story that imagines that in train’s wreckage Dickens met a shadowy character named Drood, an unsavory Egyptian who practiced the dark art of mesmerism and who would inspire Dickens’s last, unfinished novel, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.” He never fully recovered from the incident and died five years later, to the day. Dickens, who tended to the wounded and dying, was unharmed physically but badly shaken emotionally. The first seven cars of the train in which he was riding plunged off a bridge. ![]() In June of 1865 the real Charles Dickens was involved in a horrific accident. Rather, he draws heavily on the biographies of both Dickens and Collins to concoct a sort of Victorian fantasy novel as fully rooted in historic fact as it is in flights of fancy. But Simmons does not rely entirely on imagination in his massive new literary thriller Drood. Only in the mind of sci/horror/fantasy writer (“ Olympus” and “The Terror”) Dan Simmons. ![]() What? Charles Dickens was the acolyte of a Master Mesmerist? He and protégé Wilkie Collins made frightening and surreptitious trips to a filthy London underworld lodged in the city sewer? Collins spent years obsessively plotting Dickens’s murder? ![]()
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