Night & Day
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Following the highly acclaimed Nocturnes and Night Music, Night & Day is filled with eerie surprises and dark delights. Night & Day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters to a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis, from an English marsh haunted by a mother and her son to a country house where a grieving widower finds comfort in a most unlikely source. Concluding with the author's account of how an obscure horror film brought him closer to his lost father, and how nostalgia can help through our hardest times, this is a collection that will move, entertain, and keep you reading late into the night.
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John Connolly; he's a masterful storyteller, isn't he? I enjoy his writing so much I'd probably give his shopping list five stars. But I'm not here to review his shopping list. Instead, allow me to tell you what I thought of Night and Day.
As you've probably guessed, I enjoyed this book immensely. Nine brand new short stories, and an essay on the old Hammer classic, Horror Express; what's not to like?
The short stories were superb, providing chills, a sense of unease, and a little humour. I loved The Bear, and The Mire at Fox Tor. The two stories set in the Caxton Lending Library and Book Depository were my favourites however.
I didn't expect to be entertained by the essay on Horror Express, but I was. I do love a Hammer Horror, but I must confess, I haven't seen Horror Express. I do plan to watch it sometime soon, and then I will read the essay again, and perhaps appreciate it a little more.
So there you have it folks. While Horror Express: Extended Edition might not appeal to everyone, if tales of ghosts and the supernatural are your bag, you can't go wrong with Night and Day.
