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Summer of Night by Dan Simmons is currently $2.99 at Amazon US, Kobo, and other etailers.

It's the summer of 1960. The sixth-grade boys of Elm Haven, Illinois, are forging the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will never break. Amid the sun-drenched cornfields and the sly flirtations of the town's young girls, that loyalty will be pitilessly tested.

When a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the night, the townsfolk know it marks the end of their carefree days. From the depths of the Old Central School, an invisible evil is rising. Strange and horrifying events begin to overtake everyday life, spreading terror through the once idyllic town. Determined to exorcise this ancient plague, Mike, Duane, Dale, Harlen, and Kevin must wage a war of blood—against an arcane abomination who owns the night...