Dan Simmons

Dan Simmons's A Winter Haunting returns to Elm Haven, Illinois, in a 2002 supernatural novel published by William Morrow. Dale Stewart, a character from Summer of Night, comes back to his boyhood town after his career and marriage have broken down. He moves into a long-deserted farmhouse formerly occupied by Dale's late friend and tied to the traumatic summer of 1960. There, memories and disturbances blur private fear with supernatural threat as early snow closes around the property. Publishers Weekly calls it a sequel but notes that it can be read independently, placing it in a literary ghost-story tradition. Simmons's broader career crosses horror, science fiction, historical fiction, and crime, with Hyperion among his award-recognized works.