Dan Simmons is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.
Seven pilgrims travel to Hyperion, a world guarded by a terrifying, time-traveling entity called the Shrike. They seek answers from the Shrike before galactic war begins, hoping its mysteries can save humanity.
In the unforgiving Arctic, the ill-fated Franklin expedition faces a chilling descent into madness as a monstrous, unseen predator stalks their ice-bound ships, threatening to devour them long before starvation or the relentless cold can.
In the summer of 1960, five boys in Elm Haven, Illinois, discover a history of missing children and an old evil threatening their town, forcing them to face horrors beyond childhood fears.
A Holocaust survivor hunts a secret society of psychic manipulators who feed on human violence and orchestrate history's darkest atrocities, leading to a confrontation that will decide the fate of mankind.
An American poet's search for a resurrected literary figure in the decaying, Kali-worshipping heart of Calcutta drags him into a nightmarish labyrinth of human sacrifice and ancient, visceral terror.
Overwhelmed by all human thought, a telepathic man flees across the country after his wife, his only mental shield, starts to die, forcing him to face his own fracturing mind, a murder, and the nature of existence.
