- Horror, coming of age., Haunted places, Fiction
It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds that a lifetime of changes will never erase. But then a dark cloud threatens the bright promise of summer vacation: on the last day of school, their classmate Tubby Cooke vanishes. Soon, the group discovers stories of other children who once disappeared from Elm Haven. And there are other strange things happening in town: unexplained holes in the ground, a stranger dressed as a World War I soldier, and a rendering-plant truck that seems to be following the five boys. The friends realize that there is a terrible evil lurking in Elm Haven...and they must be the ones to stop it.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Dan Simmons
- First published
- November 1, 1995
- Pages
- 576
- Publisher
- B (Ediciones B), Headline Feature, Warner
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788440641649
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“OLD CENTRAL SCHOOL still stood upright, holding its secrets and silences firmly within.”
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the *Hyperion Cantos* and the *Ilium*/*Olympos* cycles, among other works which span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. A typical example of Simmons' intermingling of genres is *Song of Kali* (1985), winner of the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz. **Source**: [Dan Simmons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons) on Wikipedia.
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