Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson

The first Supernatural Saturday! Darker Than You Think by Jack Williamson!

[BeArtch]

I Wish someone would make a movie out of a Williamson novel, they are so good.

[sgriffin]

Darker Than You Think was a 10/10 for me when I read it. Loved it! Also liked The Humanoids.

[EdToml]

Discovered this one about fifty years ago, it captivated me to the point that my sister had to touch me to get me out of the book's spell. Great book.

[StevenEverett]

Damn! I read that back in the seventies but had totally forgotten about it. Now I've got to find it and read it again!!!

[jamesfetcho]

I never even heard of this. Sounds pretty interesting. I don't think I ever read Jack Williamson. Unless it was in a short story collection .🤷‍♂️
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[jeremyfee]

Great review, as always. It's been years since I read Jack Williamson, but I really enjoyed his novel Legion of Space.

[GinaStanyerBooks]

Great review, and reading, as always.

[CoffeeCatsandKing]

Thanks for reminding me of this classic!

[DDB]

Hmmm not sure about this one. I sense a touch of the Frank Miller about it 😂 Although the perspective from the werewolf's does sound interesting.

[tbritz]

Thanks for the Jack Williamson review. I enjoy him a lot and had started a "read every book" by him and also my other favorite Clifford D. Simak. Some great stories were written by those two.

[NP-Hunt]

Great video as always. Thanks for the recommendation, I've never heard of this one before. It sounds like a really interesting book and I'll definitely be picking up a copy ASAP.

[MsReadsAlot]

I really enjoy your in depth reviews on books! Doubt this would be one I will pick up but still a great review!

[anotherbibliophilereads]

I have a 60s paperback. I’ll check it out someday. What was the funky lighting?

[ThisJustInBookTube]

First! Great review! I’ve never heard of this book. It sounds fascinating. I feel like the synopsis on the back gives something away but there is probably more to it, at least from what you described.

[RodneyAllanPoe]

Excellent review...certainly a bonkers novel. My own review from 2008:
Jack Williamson,  Darker Than You Think
An intriguing failure. Supernatural fiction doyen Jack Williamson posits a rational, scientific explanation for the hoary legends of lycanthropy and shape-shifting. Mind you, this is six years before Richard Matheson took the same approach to vampirism in his classic novel I Am Legend. After a promising start, though,  Darker Than You Think turns into a dog's breakfast. In other words, it just becomes silly – that's the best way to put it. A cabal of archaeologists return from outer Mongolia with a mysterious crate. Their discovery, an ancient artifact, has these academics scared shitless, because it portends a great threat to humankind from hidden forces of darkness. Specifically, from beings who can change from human form to animal by tapping into latent occult energies. They can also walk through walls by manipulating atoms at the quantum probability level. This yarn is told from the viewpoint of hard-drinking journalist Will Barbee, who finds his inner werewolf with the help of a beautiful she-beast called April. Too much of the plot involves this pair's campaign to thwart the protectors of the talisman, which has the power to disrupt the shape-shifter's plans for world domination. Full credit to Williamson for his concise, descriptive prose, some bravura set-pieces, and for his earnest approach to the subject matter. In 1948 Darker Than You Think would have made quite a statement. Sixty years later, it comes across as naïve and ponderous.

[BookBlather]

Great review, as usual… but I think I’ll be skipping this one 😜

[AJ_Dunn]

Who are you calling homo licanthopus? 🤣 Sounds interesting. I might actually like this one.

[Tolstoy]

Not to be a pedant but it's pronounced in-EX-orably. :) It means that which cannot be exorcised.