It was about 10:00 P.M. when Paul Foote decided that there was a monster at Newcliffe's houseparty.
Blish never repeated himself. Themes recurred, but the author's elan rang the changes. "There Shall Be No Darkness" is a case in point: a modern-dress country house comedy of manners, though sans comedy. Tears aplenty, and a host of middle class intellectuals in sore need of the barb. Plenty of the natural-supernatural, red in tooth and claw, is provided to go around.
Fans of T. E. D. Klein's story "Petey" will find much to appreciate here, as will readers of David Case's lycanthropic tales.
Jay
7 June 2022
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Masters Of Fantasy (1981) edited by Terry Carr & Martin Harry Greenberg
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