"There Shall Be No Darkness" is a horror story by the American writer James Blish that was published in 1950. It concerns a group of people at a remote country manor who discover that one of their number is a ravenous werewolf. The story was adapted for the screen in 1974 as The Beast Must Die. Blish himself described the story as "a schoolboy pastiche of Dracula". The story originally appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories. It was first published in book form by Twayne Publishers in 1952 in the fantasy anthology Witches Three, a volume that also included Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife and Fletcher Pratt's The Blue Star. The story attempts to offer a scientific explanation for lycanthropy.
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There Shall Be No Darkness was adapted into a 1974 film.
The Beast Must Die1974 · film · 93 min · dir. Paul Annett · IMDb ↗Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.
