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First seen by Dickens while searching for survivors at the Staplehurst disaster; yet each person that Drood attends to mysteriously dies.
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It was after this incident, known as the “Staplehurst disaster” – where Dickens could never travel comfortably again, fearing for his life – that the author began his obsession with death, the mysterious, the macabre, and the paranormal.
“Drood” by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown and Company, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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First seen by Dickens while searching for survivors at the Staplehurst disaster; yet each person that Drood attends to mysteriously dies.
“Drood” by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown and Company, 2009) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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It was after this incident, known as the “Staplehurst disaster” – where Dickens could never travel comfortably again, fearing for his life – that the author began his obsession with death, the mysterious, the macabre, and the paranormal.
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In 1865 a steam train derails whilst it is crossing a bridge at Staplehurst in Kent.
Drood by Dan Simmons Adam Whitehead 2010
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The deadly train wreck at Staplehurst takes place early in Mr. Simmons's "Drood."
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He died in 1870, exactly five years after the Staplehurst crash -- and when he was only halfway through "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."
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"Drood" begins with a historical event: an accident in 1865 on a railroad bridge at Staplehurst, England.
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Collins plays a narrative trick on the reader right from the beginning: in the first chapter, he retells Dickens' account of his first meeting with the horrific and mysterious Drood in the aftermath of the Staplehurst railway crash; in the second, he actually describes the conditions under which Dickens told him the story.
Drood 2009
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Collins plays a narrative trick on the reader right from the beginning: in the first chapter, he retells Dickens' account of his first meeting with the horrific and mysterious Drood in the aftermath of the Staplehurst railway crash; in the second, he actually describes the conditions under which Dickens told him the story.
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