Something More Than Night by Kim Newman

(Titan Books, 2021)

Reviewed by Estelle Roberts

Set in a gloriously insane late 1930’s Los Angeles, this latest addition to the Newmanverse is an extremely entertaining horror/noir piece of fiction. No vampires here, and only a very oblique reference to Drearcliff Grange, his Malory Towers for unusually gifted young women. There are monsters, though, fictional, human and real.

The two main protagonists are hard drinking writer of detective fiction, Raymond Chandler and William Pratt, better known as Boris Karloff. Drawn together because of, among other reasons, their British connections, the pair begin investigating strange occurrences in the city. Chandler actually has a private detective’s licence. They are eventually hired by Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA’s office, to work on a case that appears to go to the sleazy heart of Hollywood.

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