title: The Terror: A Novel
author:  Dan Simmons 
description: "THE TERROR is both dazzling history and a sparkling chiller."<b>Caroline Leavitt</b>, <b><i>People</i></b><br /><br />"The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years."<b>Katherine A. Powers</b>, <b><i>Boston Globe</i></b><br /><br />"THE TERROR is nothing less than a revelation. Dan Simmons is a giant among novelists, and I am in awe of his achievement."<br /><b>Lincoln Child</b>
zlib_text: SONG OF KALI
    by Dan Simmons
  A MASTERPIECE OF SHEER TERROR
  When _Song of Kali_ was published in 1985, Dan Simmons was virtually
  unknown, having published only a few short stories. But this sharp, vivid
  novel struck a raw nerve. A startled and amazed readership could only gasp in
  wonder and horror at the apparent ease with which the author made readers feel
  that they were living the nightmarish reality he so potently conveyed in the
  pages of this blood-curdling novel.
  Here is Calcutta, perhaps the foulest and most crime-ridden city in the
  world: filthy, stench-ridden, crawling with vermin both human and otherwise,
  possessed of evils so vile that they beggar description.
  In this steaming, fetid cradle of chaos, the ordeal of an American man
  and his family plays out, moment by moment, page by page, in a novel so truly
  frightening that otherwise jaded readers will quail in fear at its
  gut-wrenching finale.
  One of the great masterpieces of horror of this century, _Song of Kali_
  will leave 