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Bring on the Night
Two serial killers stalk the cops of Chicago, one of them decapitating his victims and carving crosses into their foreheads and hands, the other leaving his victims with their throats torn out. Original.
403 pages, Paperback
First published January 15, 1993
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Jay Davis
51 books3 followersBorn in St. Louis, MO, Jay Davis has spent his entire life immersed in books-as a reader, writer, editor, bookstore clerk and publisher's representative. He was part of the rep team that launched Tor Books in 1981. After co-authoring two best-selling novels--the recently optioned Sins of the Flesh and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Bring on the Night--he turned his literary efforts to suspense novels with a spiritual flavor. Parting the Veil, the first of a loosely-connected trilogy, was written in St. Louis, Seattle and Reno, which provide the trilogy's primary settings. The author currently lives in Reno, NV.
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September 27, 2023
A solid good book. I recommend if found get it if you like a good vampire thriller. It didn't ever get boring it stayed exciting until the very end.. the back cover only mentions one killer the vampire but there's actually 2 kind of hunters in the city. I wont say too much on it but waiting for the inevitable clash of both got me hyped up and thats not even the climax its one of the times. There are some pretty hopeless moments throughout with the victims. If you're looking for a vicious vampire then this one of those reads. Its got a great cover and inner one of the vampire opening the car door and a dead cop on the floor. 🤌🤌🤌🤌 why can't more newer books be this awesome and creative with cover and inner art?
September 4, 2019
"Bring On the Night" is a scary, fun read about a Chicago haunted by a pair of mysterious predators: one, a madman with a sickle and a tortured past; the other, a bloodthirsty vampire. In the end, it's up to an unconventional cop and a beautiful psychic to bring an end to the vampire's reign of terror. Written in an energetic, friendly style, "Bring on the Night" mixes hard-boiled attitude with monster madness to create one of the best vampire novels since "'Salem's Lot."
November 5, 2022
Although Bring on the Night does not reinvent the vampire mythos in any way every page of this book delighted me. The cat-and-mouse between vampire, vampire hunter, and police detective is great. The addition of a female psychic who is linked to the hunter mentally adds an interesting layer and gives us a more hands-on POV during the hunter’s “murders”. Like I said, nothing here is necessarily new, but the book is well written and enjoyable from start to finish. There are a surprising number of grammatical errors, so this gets four and a half stars and a Coffee, Cats, and King recommendation.
January 12, 2010
This was another book that I adored as it blended psychics with vampires and provided another unique insight into the myth. What I loved most about this book was that the author started each and every chapter with a quote from another famous vampire legend. And this book, while it wasn't gory or graphic, did not shy away from the "horror" aspect of the "urban horror" genre.
It was brutal, blunt, and horrific, but written in a way that kept the reader interested and not disgusted. It's a shame this book didn't make it into further circulation. It was a very well-written story.
It was brutal, blunt, and horrific, but written in a way that kept the reader interested and not disgusted. It's a shame this book didn't make it into further circulation. It was a very well-written story.
September 1, 2020
These guys only ever wrote two books together far as I can tell, which is sad, because I think they were masters of their craft. A horror novel with elements of police procedural that has that page-turning, plot-heavy quality that makes you want to see what happens next. Really fun book. Plays with vampire tropes well. Characterization is pretty light here, but you get enough for an investment. The ending hints at a sequel that never materialized.
October 5, 2025
Rounding it up to 5 stars for GR.
Most of the time at Half Price Books, I never see a book locked up in one of those cases where I have to have an employee unlock it for me...until I saw a copy of this book.
Right as I walked in the front door, it immediately caught my eye with the cover art. It was also $18.99 but I knew I had to have it and well, I was selling some other books for cash so why not indulge?
It has been in my TBR stack for a while, so I figured that Halloween seemed a good time to get started on this book. I have rounded it up because after going through such a powerful story...I would have thought the ending would be satisfying. It was but...I still felt like there could have been more and not seem so ambiguous.
The blurb on the back doesn't do this book justice as well.
Yes, it is about hunting vampires in early 1990s Chicago with a police detective at the helm of the investigation thinking he is only dealing with a very human serial killer. Inside the pages, each chapter has a drawing of Tarot cards that play part of this game.
A Fool, A Knight, A High Priestess, A Fool and Death.
Corky Washburn works at the morgue and lets a few crooked cops take the gold and valuables from the bodies. Too bad that one of the bodies isn't exactly dead as it sits up from the table and then rips the throats out of the two policemen, drinking their blood. Now Corky is at the mercy of a vampire, but he always wanted to get out of this dead-end job.
Detective Dennis Coglin and his older partner in homicide Frank Heyward have their own case of some very ritualistic murders. Bodies beheaded, crosses carved into the palms of their hands and the forehead with an extra special surprise. Twenty-four hours later, the body crystalizes into black ash. That detail is staying out of the public knowledge but now the people of Chicago have called the killer: The Reaper.
Alex Castle is a teacher in parapsychology, but she was also born with the gift of premonitions. An incident in her childhood traumatized her and the one time she tried to help the police, a child ended up dead. Now, she takes calls at a radio station and answers questions people have on the more mundane things.
Will I find love? Will the Chicago Cubs win a game? What happened to a priceless family heirloom?
Until Alex starts having the nightmares that keep her awake when she can see through the eyes of a killer. The blade of the sickle severing heads from the bodies as the man responsible asks for confessions of sins and granting absolution whether or not a question can be answered:
Where is Nathan Kane?
The police and Alex don't know that there are two killers roaming about Chicago. Two very different dealers of Death. One is draining the blood from his victims because it is his nature and the other...hunting and destroying other vampires in revenge on an endless search.
The man being dubbed The Reaper is Reverend Christian Danner, a man of God hunting the devil that destroyed his family. He will go through as many of these undead abominations in every city to seek out Nathan Kane not realizing that his once pious soul is now just as damned.
Thrown into the mix is another police officer named Paul Sdolsky covering the deaths of the people drained by Kane, an aging rock star named Adrian Snow and a young teenage girl named Lacey desperate for her mother's love. They stand out more against a couple of one and done characters who find themselves victims of both Kane and Danner.
A few interludes and scenes that start drawing connections between characters are some of the most gruesome, chilling and brutal parts in Bring on The Night. There is some tension that is very sensual, but I wouldn't call it erotic just the standard sexual metaphor in most but downright unsettling in others.
There are a few bits of dialogue between Coglin and Heyward that are funny to ease the story away from being completely somber as well as between Alex and the radio disc jockey that helps out with her show.
All of the characters with the exception of Nathan Kane are worthy of some sympathy but as the book continues, the characters start dissolving down into a nucleus of core characters set to be the heroes in the final fight against the vampire like at the end of Dracula.
If you ever have the luck to stumble across, Bring on The Night out in the wild or locate a copy online for a reasonable price, get it. If you love books about vampires or crime thrillers, this would be the best of both worlds to add to your bookshelf.
A novel you can really...sink your teeth into.
Most of the time at Half Price Books, I never see a book locked up in one of those cases where I have to have an employee unlock it for me...until I saw a copy of this book.
Right as I walked in the front door, it immediately caught my eye with the cover art. It was also $18.99 but I knew I had to have it and well, I was selling some other books for cash so why not indulge?
It has been in my TBR stack for a while, so I figured that Halloween seemed a good time to get started on this book. I have rounded it up because after going through such a powerful story...I would have thought the ending would be satisfying. It was but...I still felt like there could have been more and not seem so ambiguous.
The blurb on the back doesn't do this book justice as well.
Yes, it is about hunting vampires in early 1990s Chicago with a police detective at the helm of the investigation thinking he is only dealing with a very human serial killer. Inside the pages, each chapter has a drawing of Tarot cards that play part of this game.
A Fool, A Knight, A High Priestess, A Fool and Death.
Corky Washburn works at the morgue and lets a few crooked cops take the gold and valuables from the bodies. Too bad that one of the bodies isn't exactly dead as it sits up from the table and then rips the throats out of the two policemen, drinking their blood. Now Corky is at the mercy of a vampire, but he always wanted to get out of this dead-end job.
Detective Dennis Coglin and his older partner in homicide Frank Heyward have their own case of some very ritualistic murders. Bodies beheaded, crosses carved into the palms of their hands and the forehead with an extra special surprise. Twenty-four hours later, the body crystalizes into black ash. That detail is staying out of the public knowledge but now the people of Chicago have called the killer: The Reaper.
Alex Castle is a teacher in parapsychology, but she was also born with the gift of premonitions. An incident in her childhood traumatized her and the one time she tried to help the police, a child ended up dead. Now, she takes calls at a radio station and answers questions people have on the more mundane things.
Will I find love? Will the Chicago Cubs win a game? What happened to a priceless family heirloom?
Until Alex starts having the nightmares that keep her awake when she can see through the eyes of a killer. The blade of the sickle severing heads from the bodies as the man responsible asks for confessions of sins and granting absolution whether or not a question can be answered:
Where is Nathan Kane?
The police and Alex don't know that there are two killers roaming about Chicago. Two very different dealers of Death. One is draining the blood from his victims because it is his nature and the other...hunting and destroying other vampires in revenge on an endless search.
The man being dubbed The Reaper is Reverend Christian Danner, a man of God hunting the devil that destroyed his family. He will go through as many of these undead abominations in every city to seek out Nathan Kane not realizing that his once pious soul is now just as damned.
Thrown into the mix is another police officer named Paul Sdolsky covering the deaths of the people drained by Kane, an aging rock star named Adrian Snow and a young teenage girl named Lacey desperate for her mother's love. They stand out more against a couple of one and done characters who find themselves victims of both Kane and Danner.
A few interludes and scenes that start drawing connections between characters are some of the most gruesome, chilling and brutal parts in Bring on The Night. There is some tension that is very sensual, but I wouldn't call it erotic just the standard sexual metaphor in most but downright unsettling in others.
There are a few bits of dialogue between Coglin and Heyward that are funny to ease the story away from being completely somber as well as between Alex and the radio disc jockey that helps out with her show.
All of the characters with the exception of Nathan Kane are worthy of some sympathy but as the book continues, the characters start dissolving down into a nucleus of core characters set to be the heroes in the final fight against the vampire like at the end of Dracula.
If you ever have the luck to stumble across, Bring on The Night out in the wild or locate a copy online for a reasonable price, get it. If you love books about vampires or crime thrillers, this would be the best of both worlds to add to your bookshelf.
A novel you can really...sink your teeth into.
September 1, 2021
A fantastic vampire novel that revisits a time when the creatures of the night were villainous monsters in an 80s police/serial killer procedural style.
September 17, 2023
3.5 stars
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