Amazing Technicolor Population: One of the spirits that haunt Wilkie Collins is a tusk-toothed woman with green skin.Dan Simmons admitted that he was going for a Mozart-Salieri relationship between Dickens and Collins. Fans of Wilkie Collins won't like this part of the book.When he finally admits that Dickens is a better writer than he is, Collins is even more enraged. Always Second Best / Driven by Envy / Green-Eyed Monster: Collins hates the fact that Dickens outshines him as a writer and that he (Collins) is considered a junior protege.Collins then wakes up in his bed, realizing that the meeting and murder were just a dream, and that he still has time to make them a reality.
All Just a Dream: Late in the book, Wilkie Collins successfully lures Charles Dickens to Rochester Cathedral and, after learning how Dickens plans to end The Mystery of Edwin Drood, shoots him dead.Absurdly-Spacious Sewer / Wrong Side of the Tracks: "Undertown", the maze of sewer tunnels and underground rivers where people live in conditions that make the slums of aboveground London look like the Riviera.Drood is also a mass murderer that inspired Dickens's original tale. The name is taken from the title of Dickens's last, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. It's told from the point of view of his friend and fellow author Wilkie Collins and is about the last 5 years of Dickens's life, written as a memoir by Collins to be read 125 years after his death. Drood is a Historical Fantasy novel by Dan Simmons, featuring Charles Dickens.
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