The Night Mayor In the City, it’s always two-thirty in the morning and raining. Edward G. Robinson is strangling Joan Bennett on a fire escape, James Cagney is bleeding to death in a gutter, Humphrey Bogart is walking the mean streets and the Night Mayor has the power to assume any identity he chooses.
The City is the dream refuge of Truro Daine, alias the Night Mayor, the twenty-first century's Napoleon of crime. The Gunmint can't let Daine escape, even if it's only into his own imaginings, and so Dreamer Tom Tunney, alias Dick Quick, private investigator, is sent to haul the master criminal out. When the Night Mayor's City swallows Tunney whole, reinforcement arrives in the shape of Susan Bishopric, a Dreamer of genius with one more due to pay,
Against the film noir landscape Daine has created, Tunney and Susan must pin the Night Mayor down before his dreams of re-entering their world become deadly reality, 'Kim Newman's prose is a pleasure to read' Sunday Telegraph
'Newman's prose is a delight, his attention to detail spellbinding' Time Out
British Pbk Original - Harmony Books (1988)
Nightmare Movies A Critical Guide to Contemporary Horror Films
From Night Of The Living Dead to A Nightmare On Elm Street, from Rosemary's Baby to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Nightmare Movies is the definitive guide to the contemporary horror film. A new voice in film criticism, Kim Newman reviews hundreds of
famous and obscure horror films with a rare level of critical intelligence, irreverence, and wit.
(American Edition) ‘Nightmare Movies is thrice welcome. As a guide to the current movements in horror cinema, it is indispensable. As a work of analysis, it is insightful and incisive. And as a book of celebration, written by a man who takes a healthy pleasure in his subject, it is a joy.’ Clive Barker
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The Night Mayor
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