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Something More than Night
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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Something More than Night
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Summary
With his signature wit, the award-winning author of Anno Dracula, Kim Newman, reimagines the lives of Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff in this daring and horrifying tale.
Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters.
Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA’s office who scores high on insubordination, enlists the pair to work a case that threatens to expose Hollywood’s most horrific secrets. Together, Chandler and Karloff will find out more than they should about the way this town works. And about each other. And, oh yes, monsters aren’t just for the movies.
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- HKL
- 17-04-23
Good fun pastiche
It's a fun ride, well paced, and I'm sure I must have missed some of references and 'Easter eggs' liberally sprinkled through it. An easy way to spend the weekend :)
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- Tim
- 09-11-22
Great book, incredible reader
The story is a mystery with something extra to it. Boris Karloff and Raymond Chandler team up Holmes and Watson style to investigate rum goings on in Old Hollywood and encounter more than they expect. Throw in a magnificent narration from the ludicrously talented Tim Campbell and you end up with something special. Highly recommended.
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-03-23
Meh
All the right elements were there & the narration was good but I just didn't engage with this one. Hopefully stuck it out to the end, but no, it just wasn't my cup of tea I guess.
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- Fudgedog
- 18-08-22
Impressed Beyond Measure. 👍
Loved This Fantastical, TwistedHistoryStory. Read Beautifully by Tim and Awesomely Woven by Kim. More please.
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- hdanger
- 15-01-23
Grrr
What if Raymond chandler and Boris Karloff we’re friends and fought the supernatural, you don’t have to imagine Kim Newman has done it for you
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- Dean Teasdale
- 19-02-22
Glad to see a new Kim Newman
There's a conversation in the book about Buck Rogers Vs The Lone Ranger. That kind of forum style conversation is the basis of all Kim Newman books I think 😄
He's so playful, and spins some wonderful stuff in here, and as usual makes me want to go look up old Movies and books and history and gossip, all while telling an entertaining and thoughtful mash of story.
It's a bit confusing in the middle, but it all comes clear, to the extent necessary, leaving me with entertaining questions, the answers to which will amble into my life at random over who knows how long.
The Narrator Tim Campbell, has an excellent range of voices, and a beautiful voice too, which never hurts 🙂
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- RazorGrrl
- 03-12-22
Top Notch Stuff
Kim Newman is extremely good at pastiche. And when recreating a literary style, or a place and time, or simply playing around with a genre that he clearly holds dear, and is knowledgeable about, you can tell he's having as much fun writing it as we the readers get from sharing the resulting book. In mixing reality and fantasy, and writing 'fact-ion' like this, he is just wonderful!
And in "Something More than Night" he is well and truly in his element again, in this instance it's in Golden Age Hollywood; but with a typical Kim Newman twist, this is Raymond Chandler Hollywood, where everyone's linen is dirty, and every closet rattles with more skeletons than the buffet at Rin Tin Tin's birthday party. Full of mad scientists and monsters (not all of them played by Boris Karloff) seedy movie moguls, corrupt officials and deadly, dangerous femme fatales, the plot moves at the rapid pace of a runaway Studebaker, and the narrative is sharp and witty in the finest Chandler-esque mold...
As usual, the plot is so stuffed with references - both literary and cinematic - clues and red herrings that you really need to pay close attention, but that is no chore, believe me... And even though we may never know who killed the chauffeur or why, I can't recommend this rattling good read (as they use to say on the yellow jackets of time store pulp novels!) highly enough!
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- Bob
- 12-05-22
Recording quality poor
Time Campbell seemed to be a good narrator but was often difficult to understand. I cannot quite say what the technical problem was but there felt like a lot of slurred words. Whole sentences were incomprehensible. The story, what I got of it, was also difficult to get.
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- Andrew Hunt
- 29-09-23
Did not enjoy this one
Loving Anno Dracula and the follow ups this follows the same ideas with an alternative history. However despite the narration I found it rather dry and confusing.
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