Night of Light

During the Night of Light all sensible Kareenans on the Planet of Dante’s Joy took the Sleep, while the powers of Good and Evil roamed the streets and fought bloody battles to determine whether the God Yess or his wicked twin Algul should triumph. Sensible Kareenans barricaded themselves in stone vaults for the Night. But not John Carmody, Earthman, and concocted psychopath. By taking the Chance, Carmody is witness to, and a vital instrument in, the strange and horrifying dramas where men’s real and most subconscious yearnings are played out, where the monstrous personifications of the citizen’s collective will decide the course of the next seven years. * Cover art by Tony Roberts First published in 1966 by Berkley Medallion A shorter version of this novel appeared in the magazine Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1957