A first person narration by an eleven-year old girl living on an estate in Liverpool. There’s an awful familiarity to the feel of this – unremarkable places that take on Continue Reading →

This one feels a bit throwaway, and probably deserved to be adapted into the second or third segment of one of the less celebrated Amicus portmanteaus, where relatively minor transgressions Continue Reading →

As the oldest thing in Dark Companions (it’s from 1967), ‘Napier’s Court’ isn’t quite as polished as the tales either side of it. A fragile young woman flits about her Continue Reading →