What is this horror book about a bell?

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All I remember is that the main characters are kids, the school building is somehow important in the plot, and there's some evil stuff going on.

The one very intelligent kid finds information about The Stele Of Revealing.  It's some evil black magic thing.  It was destroyed centuries ago, but secretly re-cast as a big bell.  This bell somehow ended up in this town.

That's all I remember.

I read this years ago, and just suddenly wondered what it was called.  Any ideas?

charming · Accepted Answer

"Summer of Night"  by Dan Simmons?
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11279.Summer_of_Night

"In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, five 12-year-old boys forge the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. An ancient, sinister evil lurks in the dark, and when a long-silent bell peals in the middle of the deepest night, the people know it marks the beginning of terror..."

"The large-print caption under the last photo read: Mr. and Mrs. Ashley and Mayor Wilson Greet Borgia Bell for New School."

"...was said to have kept the Stele from its Quickening by the mystical murals of a ... and the streets of the city, and tales of the domination of the Stele of Revealing as it worked towards its own quickening."

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What is this horror book about a bell?

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