Summer of Night - from Dan Simmons, renowned author of The Terror and Drood, Fifth Heart and Dark Game of Death, and the acclaimed Hyperion/Endymion epic. This is a book about the last summer of childhood. About the time when we disappeared in a close group in the forest and on the river, racing bicycles, scaring each other with horror stories about a coffin on wheels and a black hand. After all, a little more - and everyone will go their own way; and then all my life I will remember this special time, when we were recklessly happy and absolutely free, and unprecedented adventures awaited around every corner. Simmons reproduces the atmosphere of a provincial town with the same love and brightness with which Bradbury depicted his Greentown in Dandelion Wine. And now you are ready to believe in evil, ancient as the gods of Egypt, and insidious as the Borja family... The translation is published in a new edition, with the author's preface for the anniversary edition.