Summer of Night

Dan Simmons

Headline Book Publishing, 1991 - Fiction - 634 pages

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Review: Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror #1)

User Review  - Robert - Goodreads

All Dan Simmons fans know that he can write successfully in any genre he chooses and that he likes to mix horror into various other genres. Here is his YA/horror novel. It's a bit too horrific ...

Review: Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror #1)

User Review  - Art Griswold - Goodreads

Mid-Northeastern Illinois in the hot summer of 1960. A group of friends in their early teens (one a pre-teen) gather together to fight against an almost unknowable evil and stop an onslaught of ...

About the author

Science fiction writer Dan Simmons was born in East Peoria, Illinois in 1948. He graduated from Wabash College in 1970 and received an M. A. from Washington University the following year. Simmons was an elementary school teacher and worked in the education field for a decade, including working to develop a gifted education program. His first successful short story was won a contest and was published in 1982. His first novel, Song of Kali, won a World Fantasy Award, and Simmons has also won a Theodore Sturgeon Award for short fiction, four Bram Stoker Awards, and eight Locus Awards. He is also the author of the Hyperion series, and Simmons and his work have been compared to Herbert's Dune and Asimov's Foundation series.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Summer of Night
• Author: Dan Simmons
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, 1991
• ISBN: 0747236534, 9780747236535
• Length: 634 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Horror