If you love the idea of Dickens’ Ravens, check out Drood by Dan Simmons. It’s a fictionalized account of the last five years of Dickens life told through the op

If you love the idea of Dickens’ Ravens, check out Drood by Dan Simmons. It’s a fictionalized account of the last five years of Dickens life told through the opioid addled haze of fellow author Wilkie Collins, a Dickensian-David Lynch mashup dripping with Victorian detail and luscious shadows.