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DAN SIMMONS

A WINTER HAUNTING



This is for Karen

For he was speechless, ghastly, wan,
Like him of whom the story ran,
Who spoke the spectre hound in man.

тАФSir Walter Scott,The Lay of the Last Minstrel , Canto VI, v. 26

The hounds of winter, they harry me down.

тАФSting, тАЬThe Hounds of WinterтАЭ

Contents
Epigraph

One

Forty-one years after I died, my friend Dale. . .

Two

I never left Illinois during my eleven years of life, but. . .

Three

It was snowing when Dale awoke to dull morning. . .

Four

There was more than a shower in. . .

Five

The last time Dale had seen his young lover. . .

Six

I said that I did not know the details of my own death. . .

Seven

Dale had driven only a few miles south out of. . .

Eight