Darker Than You Think

Name: Darker Than You Think
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Jack Williamson
ISBN: 9781441788375

Author: Jack Williamson

Narrator: Jim Meskimen

Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/15/2012

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Who is the Child of Night? Thats what small-town reporter Will Barbee must find out. Inexorably drawn into investigating a rash of grisly deaths, he soon finds himself embroiled in something far beyond mortal understanding. Doggedly pursuing his investigations, he meets the mysterious and seductive April Bell and starts having disturbing, tantalizing dreams in which he does terrible thingsthings that are stranger and wilder than his worst nightmares. Then his friends begin dying one by one, and he slowly realizes that an unspeakable evil has been unleashed. As Barbees world crumbles around him in a dizzying blizzard of madness, the intoxicating, dangerous April pushes Barbee ever closer to the answer to the question Who is the Child of Night? When Barbee finds out, hell wish hed never been born.

About Jack Williamson

Jack Williamson (1908–2006) published his first short story in 1928 and produced entertaining, thought-provoking science fiction from then on. The second person named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, he was always in the forefront of the field, being the first to write fiction about genetic engineering (he invented the term), antimatter, and other cutting-edge science. A Renaissance man, he was a master of fantasy and horror as well as science fiction.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on August 13, 2016

they don't always howl at the moon but they do only come out at night, in all sorts of shapes, there and not-there, ready to kill and have been ready since the beginning of mankind. The Enemy! to humans and canines alike! masters of atomic probability: turning metal into mist and walking through wal......more

Goodreads review by Althea on July 08, 2016

Read as part of the Retro Hugo Voters' Packet - although it was disqualified as a nominee: "The finalist “Darker Than You Think” by Jack Williamson was mistakenly categorized as a novelette. The story is a novella, but did not receive enough nominations to be a finalist as a novella." Personally, I'd......more

Goodreads review by David on August 31, 2015

I reserve the right to give this one three and a half stars. Ooh boy! This is a toughie. Early on at least, I enjoyed the 'pulpy' style of the writing in Darker Than You Think. The opening airport scene was terrific, and it succeeded in reeling me into the story. I also thoroughly enjoyed the pseudo s......more

Goodreads review by Tim on March 05, 2016

Originally written at the very end of the 1930s and published in 1948, this is a remarkable dream-like (or rather nightmarish) paranoid fantasy about were-people taking over the world - it is also very sexy in that subdued way of the mid-twentieth century. I can imagine this being filmed in 'noir', a......more

Goodreads review by June on November 29, 2018

This book about a race of people (creatures?) with astral traveling abilities has a fantastic plot, and a frenetic pace and pulpy feel to the writing which drives the storytelling along; I loved it. The weak spot, for me at least, was the protagonist. Will Barbee is supposedly a sharp witted, small......more