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Summer of nightDan Simmons

Summer of night

1995576 pages
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12 editions · 3 languages
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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…

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Editions

12 editions · 3 languages
  • Hardcover · English · 1992
    Summer Sketches
    Lord John Press · 175 pages · 9780935716597
  • Hardcover · English · 1992
    Summer Sketches
    Lord John Pr · 9780935716627
  • Other · English · 2011
    St. Martin's Griffin · 498 pages · 9780312550677
  • Other · English · 2011
    St. Martin's Press · 528 pages · 9781429985314
  • Other · English · 1992
    Grand Central Publishing · 600 pages · 9780446362665
  • Other · English · 1991
    Headline Feature · 634 pages · 9780747236535
Horrorcoming of age.Haunted placesFictionFiction, horrorFiction, generalIllinois, fictionHorror tales