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.

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

The hounds of winter, they harry me down.

—Sting, “The Hounds of Winter”