Dan Simmons
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 600 pages Rating: 4.02 | 19252 Users | 1347 Reviews
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| Title | : | Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror #1) |
| Author | : | Dan Simmons |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 600 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 1992 by Warner Books (first published 1991) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Thriller. Fantasy. Mystery. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Suspense |
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It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds that a lifetime of changes will never erase. But then a dark cloud threatens the bright promise of summer vacation: on the last day of school, their classmate Tubby Cooke vanishes. Soon, the group discovers stories of other children who once disappeared from Elm Haven. And there are other strange things happening in town: unexplained holes in the ground, a stranger dressed as a World War I soldier, and a rendering-plant truck that seems to be following the five boys. The friends realize that there is a terrible evil lurking in Elm Haven...and they must be the ones to stop it.Point Books In Pursuance Of Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror #1)
| Original Title: | Summer of Night |
| ISBN: | 0446362662 (ISBN13: 9780446362665) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Seasons of Horror #1 |
| Setting: | Illinois(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Novel (1991), Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel (1992), British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1992) |
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Ratings: 4.02 From 19252 Users | 1347 ReviewsEvaluate Out Of Books Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror #1)
If I'd actually read Summer of Night instead of listening to the Audible version, I never would have made it across the finish line. This is a LOOOONG novel. A beast of a book, one might say. But it's a worthy investment, this "beast". As the reader, you are welcomed into 1960's Elm Haven, a small and not even approaching middle class town in rural Illinois. You settle in as a nostalgic resident while a tragic story slowly unfolds. Something is wrong because something was very wrong before. OnlyI loved this! I listened to it on audiobook, and found myself making excuses to run errands so I could listen in the car. It's the tale of a group of young kids and the hellish summer they spend battling the forces of evil in the shape of horrendous monsters. It reminded me a lot of It, but at the same time, it is a completely different story.The mayhem starts quickly as the story opens on the last day of school. As the last bell sounds and the student body rushes out to begin summer, there is
I read "A Winter Haunting" it is the sequel to this book. The characters in this book are a group of friends when they are tweens. In a Winter Haunting, (Dale), one of the boys, returns to this area as an adult. It is not as YA as this one. Anyway, this was a good horror that starts in a soon to be condemned school the day before summer break is to start. After a blood curdling scream the disappearance of a young student, strange sightings and odd deaths, a group of young buddies feel obligated
Dan Simmons' Summer of Night is an engaging and creepy page-turner. The novel follows a small group of friends who are up against a malevolent entity. I enjoyed the characters and the way they came together to battle evil (and save their town). Summer of Night is a satisfying coming of age horror tale. My biggest regret has little to do with the actual book and more to do with reading this almost immediately after reading Stephen King's It (which has a very similar story line and structure). It
First of 2016 - Buddy read with Edward Lorn - first one to enter my favorite shelf in quite some time!In what should be a perfectly normal summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, a group of kids gets aware that a great evil is waking up. On the last day of school, one boy vanishes and other strange things starts happening. All seems to be connected to their school itself, the Old Central. As the kids starts to tentatively investigate some of the odd happenings, sightings and strange behaving townspeople
What all happens during the summer of night? . . . . . . it's not pretty Old Central School still stood upright, holding its secrets and silences firmly within. Eighty-four years of chalkdust floated in the rare shafts of sunlight inside while the memories of more than eight decades of varnishings rose from the dark stairs and floors to tinge the trapped air with the mahogany scent of coffins. the walls of Old Central were so thick that they seemed to absorb sounds while the tall windows, their
It's a rainy, grey, uncomfortable and cheerless Sunday morning in January..This will bring me in the right mood for writting a review about "Summer Of Night" by Dan Simmons.If you love horror novels, then you must be familiar with names like Stephen King or Dean Koontz..So, you can count Dan Simmons also to this club ..I'm sitting here in my living room before my notebook, and asking myself how to review a novel like this!!!What about this:Awesome, gripping, tantalizing, or even a compulsive
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