![]() ![]() As I was reading it, the “movie” playing in my head was in black and white.Įxcept where April Bell was involved. I’ve read very little fiction from the 1940s, but I’ve seen plenty of movies from that era. But none of this really detracts from the story.ĭarker Than You Think is a fascinating story. Some of the anthropology and paleontology is outdated. The witches are presumably the bad guys, but as the story progresses it becomes clear things aren’t so black and white. The story that unfolds is one of witches and werewolves, and a prehistory of not one but two human species and a long-forgotten war between them. ![]() When the professor flies home after two years’ field work in Mongolia with an announcement that will shock the world, Barbee covers it… only to see the professor drop dead on the tarmac before he can share his news. ![]() It centers around Will Barbee, a reporter who drinks too much, in large part because he was kicked out of an anthropology program by a professor he considered a mentor and friend – for reasons that were never explained. In 1948 it was expanded to novel length and published as a stand-alone book. ![]() Darker Than You Think was first published in 1940 in Unknown magazine. ![]()
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