![]() ![]() Collins really was addicted to opium and was convinced that he was accompanied by a ghostly twin. His best-known works are The Woman in White and The Moonstone.Īgain, it’s difficult to know where the truth ends and the fiction begins. ![]() Today Collins is best remembered as an author who helped develop the mystery genre. Collins was a real person and a close friend of Charles Dickens. He is, “cadaverously thin, almost shockingly pale, and started at the writer from dark-shadowed eyes set deep under a pale, high brow that melded into a pale, bald scalp. That something is named Drood.Īt the accident scene Dickens meets a man that calls himself Drood. And then he adds a little something to the mix. The imagination of Dan Simmons paints a horrific picture of this very real accident. Dickens’s railway car barely made it over the 42 foot gap in the tracks. In 1865 Charles Dickens had a brush with death when the train he was traveling on went over a bridge undergoing renovation. ![]() This work of historical fiction begins at a scene of death and destruction, the Staplehurst railway accident. By Dan Simmons, published February, 2009 by Little, Brown and Company. ![]()
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