title: Pale
author: Night Write
description: <B>Night Write</B> enjoys a good spook.</P> <P>He is a new, inspiring author, who writes solely by imagination.</P> <P>Night Write has many more tales to share.</P> <P><I>Pale</I>All thanks 2 God.</P>
zlib_text: **Summer of Night**
  
   **By**
  
   **Dan Simmons**
  
  ![](Images/image00418.jpeg)
  
  PROLOGUE
  
  ONE
  
  TWO
  
  THREE
  
  FOUR
  
  FIVE
  
  SIX
  
  SEVEN
  
  EIGHT
  
  NINE
  
  TEN
  
  ELEVEN
  
  TWELVE
  
  THIRTEEN
  
  FOURTEEN
  
  FIFTEEN
  
  SIXTEEN
  
  SEVENTEEN
  
  EIGHTEEN
  
  NINETEEN
  
  TWENTY
  
  TWENTY-ONE
  
  TWENTY-TWO
  
  TWENTY-THREE
  
  TWENTY-FOUR
  
  TWENTY-FIVE
  
  TWENTY-SIX
  
  TWENTY-SEVEN
  
  TWENTY-EIGHT
  
  TWENTY-NINE
  
  THIRTY
  
  THIRTY-ONE
  
  THIRTY-TWO
  
  THIRTY-THREE
  
  THIRTY-FOUR
  
  THIRTY-FIVE
  
  THIRTY-SIX
  
  THIRTY-SEVEN
  
  THIRTY-EIGHT
  
  THIRTY-NINE
  
  FORTY
  
  FORTY-ONE
  
  FORTY-TWO
  
   ** _PROLOGUE_**
  
  Old Central School still stood upright, holding its secrets and silences
  firmly within. Eighty-four years of chalkdust floated in the rare shafts of
  sunlight inside while the memories of more than eight decades of varnishings
  rose from the dark stairs and floors to tinge the trapped air with the
  mahogany scent of coffins. The walls of Old Central were so thick that they
  seeded to absorb sounds while the tall windows, their glass warped and
  distorted by age and gravity