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Matters are further complicated by the arrival of a rival reporter, April Bell, who seems to be the catalyst for the death of the party of explorers and for Will's battle with himself.
The novel starts off at a leisurely pace but slowly and inexorably, the tension of the novel builds up to a fantastic, explosive and unusual ending. The style and characterisation of the novel contributed to this leisured start. Williamson wrote this novel in 1948 and I found
it quite hard at first to connect with the way that the novel is written. However,
the fast pace of the novel sweeps away any reservations and coldness towards the
characters that I had and was soon immersed in the downfall of Will Barbee. It is a subtly sinister novel, with the evil pervading your brain like
fog into your bones on a cold day. The effect is pervasive and it is only when
you finish the book and you think about what you have read that the chills start
to creep up and down your spine. It is a book that will linger round your brain
for some time. I started off being intoxicated by the period style
of the novel, almost patronisingly laughing at the fashion and culture depicted
by Williamson. Until, imperceptibly, I started to realise how well
crafted the novel is. How Williamson has taken me on an exhilarating journey that
twists and turns and flows and ends up at a destination that I hadn't even considered.
This is a novel that stood up to the test of time and is a darkly enjoyable read. Katie McGivern
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OTHER REVIEWS - November 2003
Told By The Dead by Ramsay Campbell The Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman Robota by Doug Chaing and Orson Scott Card Grass For His Pillow by Lian Hearn Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion by Larry Nemecek The Year's Best Fantasy And Horror The Binder's Road by Terry McGarry Project Orion - The Atomic Spaceship by George Dyson The Word And The Void by Terry Brooks Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine April/May 2003 Time Out Of Joint by Philip K. Dick Buffy the Vampire Slayer Soundtrack Smallville Soundtrack (The Talon Mix) Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds Crossroads Of Twilight by Robert Jordan Mediations On Middle-Earth by Karen Haber and John Howe
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Will
Barbee is a journalist waiting at an airport for the arrival of
a group of explorers. However, this is no ordinary assignment, he
was kicked off of this team with no explanation several years ago.
As
he struggles with nightmares and the search for the Child of the Night, the slow
dawning of who he actually is leads Will down a dark spiral of evil and destruction
As readers, we travel a similar spiral. 
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