Even the horizon looks as if it were left in the dryer too long. Then along comes Dan Simmons and his new novel, “Drood,” a big, hairy, smelly, loud, messy behemoth of a book. This richly ...

Scrimping. Saving. Hunkering down. Then along comes Dan Simmons and his new novel Drood, a big, hairy, smelly, loud, messy behemoth of a book, and suddenly, all that smallness, all that caution ...

Simmons’ “Drood” is big, bulky ... novel “The Moonstone” (think of him as Brad Meltzer to Dickens’ Dan Brown). Though jealous of Dickens, Collins is concerned about Dickens’ mental ...

So, Charles Dickens’ great fragment, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” has been finished by a contemporary writer? That’s what I thought, eyeing the titles of Dan Simmons’ and Matthew Pearl ...

And he was composing “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” the darkest and most death-obsessed of his books. Dickens died before he finished it. Simmons takes this material and creates a creepy ...

Over the years, several authors have attempted to complete Dickens’ mystery, but with Drood, author Dan Simmons takes a new tack: His novel features Dickens as its protagonist. In Drood ...

Drood by Dan Simmons; Little, Brown and Co., 771 pp. $26.99. Everything seems skimpy these days. Things look pinched, narrow, watered down, washed out, choked off. So much seems to be shrinking ...

One of the reasons Dan Simmons is such a popular author is that he refuses to be confined by genre. In novels like Song of Kali (1985) or Drood (2009) and those in Simmons' Hyperion series (1989 ...

Simmons’ latest novel is reportedly being turned into a film directed by Pan’s Labyrinth director, Guillermo del Toro. In this sizeable tome, the initially friendly and professionally ...

Since winning the Rod Serling Award in 1982 for his first published story, “The River Styx Runs Upstream,” Colorado-based novelist Dan Simmons has remained a major player in the field of ...

Now Droodmania is upon us again, with Dan Simmons’s Drood and Matthew Pearl’s The Last Dickens. Simmons’s nearly 800-page novel begins with a recreation of one of the key events of Dickens ...