Edge of darkness as physics meet fairytale and folklore in Night Music

ALL good fiction incorporates an investigation of one kind or another, which may account in part for the enduring popularity of the crime / mystery novel. 

John Connolly is best known for his Charlie Parker novels, set in Maine and featuring a private eye who lives in a world tinged by the supernatural.

By contrast, Connolly’s short stories — Night Music is his second collection; the first, Nocturnes, was published in 2004 — tend to foreground the supernatural. Night Music borrows liberally from the traditions of the ghost and horror story, the fairy and folktale, and boldly goes into the unknown realms of quantum physics.