Drood: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his key mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens — at the height of his capabilities and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the annals of the world — hurtled right into a disaster that changed his life forever.

Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Had been his nightly forays in to the most severe slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the about Drood: A Novel usage of lime pits to dissolve physiques, and a concealed subterranean London- simple research . or something even more terrifying?

Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to make a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historic details of Charles Dickens’s lifestyle and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens’s friend, regular collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the well-known author’s last years and may provide the key to Dickens’s final, unfinished function: The Secret of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and absolutely original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.