Reading order
Seasons of Horror reading order
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4- 7.77.7 / 10128 ratings
- Score
- 4 volumes
- Volumes
- 1991–2002
- Published
- about 30 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Horror
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
4 volumes1991–2002Completed
- Dan Simmons’s loosely linked horror novels.
- Summer of Night, the one most read, follows a group of boys in a small Illinois town in 1960 as something ancient wakes in their old school; it is often compared to Stephen King’s It.
- Children of the Night takes one of them, now grown, to Romania and vampires; Fires of Eden moves to Hawaii; A Winter Haunting returns to the same town decades later and is a direct sequel.
- Start with Summer of Night.
A plan for the whole series
4 volumes, 1,687 pages, about 30 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 6 weeks.
Stages
2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 13, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.
- Stage 118 habout 3 weeksby November 22, 2026
- 1. Summer of Night
- 2. Children of the Night
- Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.8
- Stage 213 h17 daysby December 13, 2026
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which Seasons of Horror book is the longest?
“Summer of Night” is the longest at 597 pages; the shortest is “A Winter Haunting” with 303 pages.
What should I read after Seasons of Horror?
Other series by Dan Simmons: Hyperion Cantos, Joe Kurtz.
