In the first of an irregular series of short gothic stories set in East Anglia, an unemployed loner is offered a council flat with a sinister history on the outskirts of a remote village. He cautiously befriends an elderly neighbour who reminds him of his father, but this new-found sense of security proves to be short-lived as the surrounding darkness encroaches…
Dr Stephen Carver is a writer, editor and literary historian. He is currently General Editor of the Wordsworth Editions 'Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural' series, before which he was a university lecturer in the UK and Japan. He is the author of the forthcoming book Hell on Wheels: The History of Biker Movies 1953-2023 for Pen & Sword.