Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)

by Dan Simmons

the three-month summer vacation is an anachronism, something left over from when kids of all ages were unpaid labor for planting and harvest, branding and roundup, on their families’ farms and ranches.

Argentina was demanding that Israel return the kidnapped Adolf Eichmann.

carrel.

stylized but unmistakable figure of the sacrificial bull of Osiris, the Egyptian god who ruled over the kingdom of the dead.

In the Egyptian, the Stele of Revealing was known as the ‘crown of death’ and its transmogrification had been foretold in the Book of the Abyss.

And then, knowing instinctively that such moments must be observed but not destroyed by observation,