Books like Summer of Night
In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, a gang of eleven- and twelve-year-old boys on bicycles discover that something evil has woken in Old Central, the huge old school that is about to close for good.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Two thirteen-year-old boys in a small Illinois town sneak out to see a carnival that arrives at three in the morning in late October, and discover what its owners can do with people's wishes.
Ordinary Grace
In the summer of 1961 in a small Minnesota town, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum, son of the Methodist minister, sees death come to town in several forms.
Boy's Life
In the spring of 1964 in Zephyr, Alabama, young Cory Mackenson is out on the milk round with his father when a car plunges into Saxon's Lake, and his father dives in after it to find a dead man handcuffed to the wheel.
It
Seven children in a small Maine town confront a shape-shifting evil that feeds on fear, then return as adults to finish what they started.
Phantoms
Jenny Paige, a doctor, brings her teenage sister Lisa home to Snowfield, a ski town in the California mountains, and finds its five hundred residents dead or vanished.
The Traveling Vampire Show
On a hot August day in 1963, three sixteen-year-olds in the small town of Grandville sneak out to the clearing where the Traveling Vampire Show has set up, hoping to see Valeria, billed as the only vampire in captivity.
Fairy Tale
Seventeen-year-old Charlie Reade rescues his reclusive neighbour Howard Bowditch after a fall, and while caring for the old man and his ageing German shepherd, Radar, he learns that the locked shed in the backyard opens onto another world.
The Talisman
Jack Sawyer, twelve, whose actress mother is dying in an off-season New Hampshire resort hotel, sets out across America and the Territories, a world alongside ours, to find the talisman that could save her.
A Dark Matter
In 1966 a group of Madison teenagers followed a charismatic guru into a meadow for a ritual that left one boy dead. Decades later the writer Lee Harwell, married to one of them, sets out to learn what each of them saw.
My Best Friend's Exorcism
In 1988 in Charleston, high school best friends Abby and Gretchen have been inseparable since a roller-rink birthday party in fourth grade, but after a night out goes wrong, Gretchen starts acting strangely, and Abby comes to believe her friend is possessed.
Lone Women
In 1915 Adelaide Henry sets fire to her family's California farm and heads for a homestead in Montana, taking with her a heavy steamer trunk she keeps locked at all times.
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Vic McQueen can find lost things by riding her bicycle across a covered bridge that should not exist, and as a teenager it leads her to Charlie Manx, who takes children in his 1938 Rolls-Royce to a place called Christmasland.