A Night of Blacker Darkness
Being the Memoir of Frederick Whithers As Edited by Cecil G. Bagsworth III
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A Night of Blacker Darkness
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Sean Barrett
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Dan Wells
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No one else has Dan Wells’ hilarious new novella - it’s not available in print, in ebook, by mobile phone text or Victorian phonograph. Audible is bringing it to you exclusively, for a limited time.
The basic premise is this: it's 1817, and a man named Frederick Whithers is wallowing in jail for a crime he didn't commit, desperate to get out so he can go and commit it for real. He fakes his own death and escapes in a coffin, but when he gets to the graveyard and crawls out of the coffin, somebody sees him and assumes he's a vampire. It's pretty much all downhill from there. Frederick spends the rest of the book doing everything he can to steal a massive inheritance from a dead man, all the while running from constables, vampire hunters, ghouls, poets, proper young ladies, highly improper young ladies, morticians, mysterious figures, and the most pathetic collection of vampires to ever disgrace a work of fiction.
The book is Extremely Silly: imagine a horror story, as written by Monty Python, in the style of the old screwball comedies like The Producers, What's Up Doc?, and Some Like it Hot, and then imagine that for some reason it's also in the style of a Victorian frame story starring John Keats and presented by a fake historian. A delightfully funny novel full of witty dialogue brought to life by the narrative voice talents of Sean Barrett.
©2011 Dan Wells (P)2011 Audible Ltd"Ich bin kein Vampir!"
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A nice nibble of a novel
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I read reviews criticizing this never ending stream of confusion but I personally liked it, and I didn’t feel it overstayed its welcome (except at one point but it’s hardly worth mentioning).
My main issue is the fact that the narrative did not culminate in a climax. The ending blends in with the rest of the jokes and it all just peters out. There is a final showdown, a final reveal, a portrayal of ultimate confusion, but it all seems mundane compared to the rest of the story.
The performance is great.
A really funny novelette that in the end struggles to outdo its own premise.
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