As for being a Terror 8 novel... Yeah sure, obviously another good addition, its tropes fall either squarely within the Noir or the Horror camp. Pacing is good though pulpy. At times, there was some genuine suspense where the outcome of one scene or another is left somewhat in doubt leading to surprising moments of gory violence (though not too overly described), which I can always appreciate, and which through good build-up are given some extra emotional weight.
There's also a curious similarity to every novel of the Terror 8 that I've read up until now, where each of these stories has a horror beastie center stage, to then develop a complete all-encompassing mythological framework for them: Fevre Dream, Ghost Story, Something Wicked This Way Comes and now Darker Than You Think.
Song of Kali is the odd book out where this is not applicable, but it does leave me eyeing the remaining three books, and The Green Mile in particular to see if they might follow in these four books' footsteps.
I say Green Mile in particular, because I've seen the movie a few times now, and been swept along for its emotional rollercoaster every time (hey, shut up, Michael Clarke Duncan was gold.), and though initially baffled when I noticed it was included in the Terror 8, I'm interested to see if there's actually more to the novel than the movie made it out to be, whether there's in fact any horror or mythology to be found...
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