6 must-read paranormal books like Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1) by Dan Simmons

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Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.04

Format: 600 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds tha…

"People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid."

-Dan Simmons, Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

"People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid."

-Dan Simmons, Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

If you liked the paranormal plot in Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1) by Dan Simmons , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Elementals

By: Michael McDowell

4.01

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching… read more

Similar categories in Michael McDowell's The Elementals book and Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Savage mothers eat their children!"

-Michael McDowell, The Elementals

"There's no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown."

-Michael McDowell, The Elementals

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2. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer

By: Sydney Padua

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE. . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the m… read more

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3. They Thirst

By: Robert McCammon

4.38

Format: None pages,

A MASS MURDER. A DISAPPEARANCE. A CEMETERY RANSACKED. It looked like another ordinary day in Los An… read more

Similar categories in Robert McCammon's They Thirst book and Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
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4. The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Robert Bloch , August Derleth

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction have been waiting for: sixteen of H.P. Love… read more

Similar categories in H.P. Lovecraft's The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre book and Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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5. Swan Song

By: Robert McCammon

4.10

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth'… read more

Similar categories in Robert McCammon's Swan Song book and Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
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6. They Lurk

By: Ronald Malfi

3.79

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

COME CLOSER . . . Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the "modern-day … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's They Lurk book and Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
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7. Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

By: Dan Simmons

4.04

Format: 600 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds tha… read more

Similar categories in Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1) book and Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

  • coming of age
  • suspense
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid."

-Dan Simmons, Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

8. Apollo 8

By: Jeffrey Kluger

0.00

Format: None pages,

In August 1968, one short year after three astronauts had burned to death in their spacecraft, NASA… read more

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9. The Fisherman

By: John Langan

3.91

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reser… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You can make an oyster surrender its pearl,"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

"Have you ever been so scared of something you move toward it, try to touch it, that kind of thing?"

-John Langan, The Fisherman

10. Ghost Story

By: Peter Straub

4.09

Format: 372 pages,

In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY For four aging men in the terror-stricken town … read more

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11. Ghoul

By: Brian Keene

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

June 1984. Timmy Graco is looking forward to summer vacation, taking it easy and hanging out with h… read more

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12. The Troop

By: Nick Cutter

3.84

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

Once a year, scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a three-d… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Soldering iron, Max."

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"You’ve never heard of the tapeworm diet?"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"I been to hell ... I ain't afraid to go back"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

"His fear was whetted to such a fine edge that he could actually feel it now: a disembodied ball of baby fingers inside his stomach, tickling him from the inside. That's what mortal terror felt like, …"

-Nick Cutter, The Troop

13. Hell House

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can any soul survive? Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed … read more

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14. December Park

By: Ronald Malfi

3.57

Format: 307 pages,

In the quiet suburb of Harting Farms, the weekly crime blotter usually consists of graffiti or the … read more

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15. Those Across the River

By: Christopher Buehlman

3.71

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whit… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Buehlman's Those Across the River book and Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Violence like that is private, don't you think?"

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

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16. Boys in the Valley

By: Philip Fracassi

4.18

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more

Similar categories in Philip Fracassi's Boys in the Valley book and Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

  • coming of age
  • paranormal
  • fiction
  • horror
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • fantasy
" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"

-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley

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17. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. Boy's Life

By: Robert McCammon

4.39

Format: 625 pages, Kindle Edition

An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the … read more

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  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fantasy
"They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end."

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

"After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation."

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

"See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in …"

-Robert McCammon, Boy's Life

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19. Black Mouth

By: Ronald Malfi

3.96

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

For nearly two decades, Jamie Warren has been running from darkness. He's haunted by a traumatic ch… read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Black Mouth book and Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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20. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's Small Town Horror book and Dan Simmons's Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • supernatural
  • audiobook
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21. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

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Michael McDowell

4.01

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3.50

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Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Michael Crichton

3.91

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Stephen King

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Christina Henry

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