Haldane and Winston have been firm friends ever since their schooldays. Returning to England after some time abroad, Winston is shocked to find Haldane a changed man: nervous, edgy and apparently afraid of the dark...

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Although best remembered today for her children's stories, including 'The Railway Children', Edith Nesbit (1858–1924) also wrote several novels and numerous short stories for adults, many of them with a horror or supernatural theme. She was born in London, but after her father's death, when she was just three years old, she spent her formative years travelling with her family, living for periods in France, Spain, Germany and various parts of the south of England. She married Hubert Bland, a bank clerk, in 1880. She was several months pregnant at the time of the wedding, and they went on to have four children together; she also subsequently adopted two children born to her husband as the result of affairs. The Blands were both active in Labour politics, and were co-founders of the Fabian Society in 1884. She lectured on socialism and politics, and wrote political essays, sometimes in collaboration with her husband under the name Fabian Bland, although she was less active in this area as she grew more successful as a writer of fiction. Her best known ghost stories include 'Man-size in Marble' and 'John Charrington's Wedding'.

'In the Dark' was first published, under the name 'E. Bland', in The Strand Magazine in September 1908, and was later reprinted in the 1910 collection 'Fear'. (Incidentally, Nesbit subsequently wrote another story with the title 'In the Dark', which was also published in The Strand Magazine in 1923. That is a completely different story and unrelated to this one.)

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