In a tight, smartly-written novella, readers get the Trevor Lawson’s back story, his quest, the limits of his abilities and lots of glimpses into the larger world that McCammon is building. "That sensibility is all over his latest book from Subterranean Press, I Travel By Night. He took his work seriously enough to make it real, and the resulting books were the very essence of the eighties horror ripping yarn. McCammon’s novels were unabashedly commercial, generally available first as mass-market paperbacks and one hundred percent fun. To these and other novels, he brought a rich, atmospheric imagination, vivid characters and an expertly paced plot. His vampire novel, They Thirst unleashed vampires in Los Angeles his werewolf novel, The Wolf’s Hour, pitted an allied spy who was a werewolf against the Nazis. "In the 1980’s, McCammon turned a lot of heads with a string of novels that, in many ways, perfectly refined the best elements of American horror fiction.
“Southern gothicist and paranormal historian McCammon ( Gone South The Wolf’s Hour) combines the two genres in this fun, fast novella… An explosive confrontation with the Dark Society in a bayou ghost town opens the door to more stories of Lawson and his companions, deftly sketching the wider world’s parameters without shortchanging personal conflicts.” Trade: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition Limited: 474 signed numbered copies, housed in a custom slipcase Lettered: 26 signed leatherbound copies, housed in a custom traycase Readers will not want to miss this thrilling new dark novella from a master storyteller.
In the tornado-wracked ghost town of Nocturne, Lawson must face down monstrous enemies, the rising sun, and his own nature. That key lies with his maker, and now Lawson hopes to find LaRouge at the heart of a Louisiana swamp with the aid of a haunted priest and an unexpected ally. In the decades since, he has roamed late nineteenth century America, doing what good he can as he travels by night, combating evils mundane and supernatural, and always seeking the key to regaining a mortal life. After being forcibly given the gift of undeath by the mysterious vampire queen LaRouge, Lawson chose to cling to what remained of his humanity and fought his way free of the Dark Society’s clutches. The terrors of the Dark Society, the gothic sensibilities of old New Orleans, and the tortured existence of the unforgettable vampire adventurer Trevor Lawson all combine into a heady brew that will thrill McCammon’s loyal readers and earn him new ones as well.įor Lawson, the horrors that stalked the Civil War battlefield at Shiloh were more than just those of war. I Travel by Night marks Robert McCammon’s triumphant return to the sort of flamboyant, go-for-broke horror fiction that has earned him an international reputation and a legion of devoted fans.
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