#78 in Horror
Summer of Night
- 597
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
- Locus Award for Best Horror Novel
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Our view
“Summer of Night” earns its frequent comparison with Stephen King’s “It”: a long small-town horror novel about a band of children. Dan Simmons builds it around friends and the town they are growing up in, and the characters are a strength. Some readers find the first half slow in setting its stage, while others feel the nearly six hundred pages keep their pace, even if the two halves read like different books.
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About the book
Summer of Night is the first in a series of horror novels by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1991 by Warner Aspect. It was nominated for a British Fantasy Award in 1992. The subsequent books are Children of the Night (1992), Fires of Eden (1994) and A Winter Haunting (2002).
Reading order · Seasons of Horror
Full order & progress →- Summer of NightThis book
7.77.7 / 10 - Children of the Night
–Not ranked yet - Fires of Eden
–Not ranked yet - A Winter Haunting
–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 128 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 47% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 128 | 100% |
Frequently asked
How long is Summer of Night?
It has 597 pages — longer than 83% of the ranked books in Horror.
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