So Dark the Night (excerpt)

SO DARK THE NIGHT is, at once, a supernatural thriller and an homage to film noir and the hard-boiled fiction of Raymond Chandler and James Crumley.

The novel features a unique partnership between Cassandra Zinnea and Evgeny Nightstalk, two detectives who specialize in strange cases transpiring between dusk and dawn. Their clientele consists of people who only venture out at night and so it's not unusual for all manner of strange figures (including ambulatory corpses) to show up during office hours.

Their latest case draws them into a conflict with a powerful group of occultists bent on a nefarious scheme to loose an extra-dimensional bestiary on our world, provoking a cosmic apocalypse.

SO DARK THE NIGHT is suspenseful, funny, erotic, a crime novel and work of dark fantasy sure to appeal to a wide cross-section of readers, a thriller they'll find hard to put down.

"I've followed Cliff Burns' career for 25 years and there isn't a finer horror writer in this country."
(Robert Runte, Canadian critic and academic)

"Cliff Burns' writing is sparse, minimalist, but his words are as sharp as knives." (Corey Redekop)

"Burns writes like Hitchcock directs, producing gooseflesh without monsters. And that is the scariest writing there is." (FACTSHEET FIVE, USA)