At night, a world of its own awakens. It is the hour of apparitions, transformations, and transgressions. Elisabeth Bronfen's new book deals with such scenes. Because the scenes of the night elude the logic of the day, they cannot be grasped by a single concept but are instead told on stage, in novels, or in cinema. This begins with the creation myths of the early Greeks, moves through Shakespeare and Milton to Romanticism. Psychoanalysis is the first science to systematically make use of the nocturnal logic, while in film noir, the darkness of the cinema merges with the action on the screen. And when the camera moves into the twilight, the audience is enveloped by that magic of the night that this book conjures in a grand narrative.