Song of Kali - by Dan Simmons (Paperback)

About the Book

This masterful and terrifying debut novel has earned Hugo- and Bram Stoker Award-winning author Dan Simmons the World Fantasy Award. What begins as an exploration of an exotic and forbidding world turns into a harrowing descent of steadily mounting terror when an American writer travels into the dark underworld of the cult of Kali.

Book Synopsis

Dan Simmon's Song of Kali is a bone-chilling novel that fans of horror fiction won't want to miss

Think you know true fear? You don't.

Think you've read the most chilling book? Not even close.

Think you can't be shocked? Good luck!

Maybe you're ready for the most truly frightening reading experience of your life, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel that's been terrifying readers for over thirty years.

Review Quotes

"The best novel in the genre I can remember. Dan Simmons is brilliant!" --Dean R. Koontz

"Song of Kali is as harrowing and ghoulish as anyone could wish. Simmons makes the stuff of nightmares very real indeed." --Locus

"Dan Simmons understands terror and what it does to readers. Where Stephen King flinches, Simmons doesn't." --Edward Byrant, Mile High Futures

"Shock treatments abound!" --The Chattanooga Times, Tennessee

"An absolutely harrowing experience." --F. Paul Wilson

About the Author

Dan Simmons (1948 -2026) was a recipient of numerous major international awards, including the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Award. Widely considered one of the world's premier multiple-genre fiction writers, his novels included the acclaimed Hyperion Cantos, the Ilium/Olymposas cycle, Song of Kali, as well as several New York Times bestselling standalones like The Terror, Drood, and Black Hills. He lived along the Front Range in Colorado.