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Nocturnes

di John Connolly

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Serie: Nocturnes: Short Stories & Novellas (1)

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"In his first collection of short fiction, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly offers a selection of dark, daring, and utterly haunting tales. Here are lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts. In ""The New Daughter, "" a father comes to suspect that a burial mound on his land hides something very ancient, and very much alive; in ""The Underbury Witches, "" a pair of London detectives find themselves battling a particularly female evil in a town culled of its menfolk. And finally, private detective Charlie Parker returns in the long novella ""The Reflecting Eye, "" in which the photograph of an unknown girl turns up in the mailbox of an abandoned house once occupied by an infamous killer. This discovery forces Parker to confront the possibility that the house is not as empty as it appears, and that something has been waiting in the darkness for its chance to kill again.… (altro)
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Excellent short story collection, horror and supernatural stories that aren’t gory but instead haunting and chilling all expertly well told. ( )
  zmagic69 | May 20, 2023 |
This was an okay read. It's a collection of short stories done by an author I do like. Most of the stories are horror and crime. I'll admit I didn't like some of the stories, so I skimmed read some of the ones I didn't care for. The stores I liked the most were the Erlking, Inkpot Monkey, Miss Froom, and the Charlie Parker novella.

Just a warning if you are expecting these to be anything like his Book of Lost Things or his Gates books, you may or may not like these tales. These are dark and creepy and very serious. ( )
  Ghost_Boy | Aug 25, 2022 |
A really good collection of short stories that I read in the beginning of 2014. Usually, the quality of short stories varies very much, but I think this is one of the best collections of short stories I have ever read. Then again, this is John Connolly, writer of the excellent Charlie Parker series. So of course, these stories must be good! ( )
  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
I really thought I’d enjoy this more but the stories came off as somewhat formulaic, written around mostly conventional ghost story and horror tropes and held few surprises. There were a couple [a:M.R. James|2995925|M.R. James|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1254798756p2/2995925.jpg] stories, the Weird Tales story, the [a:Stephen King|3389|Stephen King|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1362814142p2/3389.jpg] story, you get the idea. It was all okay but not inspiring or original. The Charlie Parker novella was the best but still if you had told me King, or [a:Robert McCammon|19681134|Robert McCammon|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] had written it, I’d believe you.

I read in the afterword that these were mostly written, nine of them, originally for BBC Radio broadcast. They would have fared much better in that format.

My edition is a signed illustrated first. ( )
  Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
This book was exactly my cup of tea. I enjoyed all the stories. This is a book for those of us who enjoy a subtle scare and especially for those who prefer their scares to roam freely rather than being pinned down like a butterfly; quantified, categorized and immutable.

'Nocturnes' is the best single author horror story collection from a modern author that I have ever read. I'm not quite sure how to describe it for recommendation, but I think that by using a film/tv comparison I can provide an accurate assessment. If you loved 'The Wicker Man', you will enjoy this book. If American Horror Story:Asylum is more to your taste, you probably won't like this book.

Some have accused Connolly of misogyny in their reviews of this book, but I have a different take on his attitude towards women. I got the impression that he is fascinated and fearful at the same time; as well he probably should be. For all his ambiguity he seems to be full of respect and admiration; he simply understands that we have our own agendas and motivations incomprehensible to men. I take his fear as a compliment; we can be very powerful and ruthless creatures......it only bothers me when an author marginalizes women.

That said, 'The Erlking' and 'The New Daughter' were two of my favorites in this book; both tales of mysterious and unnamed elemental beings threatening the human interlopers in their territory. 'The Inn at Shillington' is a straightforward traditional ghost story. The Charlie Parker novella in the middle of the book was also very good and makes me want to read some of the mystery novels revolving around him.

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  Equestrienne | Jan 5, 2021 |
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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Connolly, Johnautore primariotutte le edizioniconfermato
Ryan, RobImmagine di copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Viccars, PeterIllustratoreautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
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I watched him draw upon the stem until I could abide the sucking of his lips no longer, then turned my attention to the volumes upon his shelves. I wondered how many of them the bishop had read. He seemed to me to be the kind of man who distrusted books, wary of the seeds of sedition and independent thought that they might sow in minds less disciplined than his own.
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But he never spoke of the Erlking. All that my father would say was that I should not venture into the woods alone, and that I should never stay out beyond nightfall. There were things out there, he would say: wolves, and worse-than-wolves.
There is myth, and there is reality; one we tell, and one we hide. We create monsters, and hope that the lessons wrapped in their tales will serve to guide us when we encounter that which is most terrible in life. We give forged names to our fears, and pray that we may face nothing worse than what we ourselves have created.
We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms.
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"In his first collection of short fiction, New York Times bestselling author John Connolly offers a selection of dark, daring, and utterly haunting tales. Here are lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts. In ""The New Daughter, "" a father comes to suspect that a burial mound on his land hides something very ancient, and very much alive; in ""The Underbury Witches, "" a pair of London detectives find themselves battling a particularly female evil in a town culled of its menfolk. And finally, private detective Charlie Parker returns in the long novella ""The Reflecting Eye, "" in which the photograph of an unknown girl turns up in the mailbox of an abandoned house once occupied by an infamous killer. This discovery forces Parker to confront the possibility that the house is not as empty as it appears, and that something has been waiting in the darkness for its chance to kill again.

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