Night Vision: Death Takes a Number

by Charles F Millhouse

54 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2025

Reviews

[Dale Russell · Rating 5 out of 5]

The visions had always come unbidden and unannounced. Simon Rook's life had changed the day that he had discovered that the abuse and the beatings he had taken as a child, while making it almost painful to walk around in the light of day, had given him the ability to see future events. Events that were always about tragedy and death. But the frustration was that the visions had always been incomplete. A hint of a location...the victims being ravaged...shadows of the one committing the horrors. The visions had been frustratingly limited...until now. A new one had come to him and in its revelations the face of the killer was clearly visible and identifiable. Even with this newly found ability, though, Rook, in his costumed identity as the vigilante NIGHT VISION, still was unable to prevent the death he had foreseen and, while unable to save the life of the victim, he took down the murderer. But the wheels of justice don't always roll smoothly and soon a growing storm of hate and terror that had arisen in the depths of another continent began to pour its rains of horror upon American soil. And while this may be only the first battle in the war that was to come, Simon Rook wonders who, or what, has begun to manipulate his visions...and why.

Author Charles F. Millhouse once again gives pulp readers, new and old, a wonderful story in the New Pulp tradition with this the 2nd story of Simon Rook, The Night Vision. The story itself, while set firmly in the early beginnings of the US's involvement of the second World War, has many shadows and ghosts of what are occurring right now in modern day America. Millhouse crafts the story well and sets this up to be a continuing story line within the Night Vision universe.