On the sideboard stood a range of bottles containing vile-coloured liquids, together with numerous clay bowls heaped with lurid powders.A purple cloth covered the round table and opposite sat Dr Irfan Paya, hunched within his hooded robes. A long greying beard poked from his shadowy face, and fro...
Darius stalks in, looking so stern and haughty that she finds herself drawing away from him across the bed. He's dressed a little differently. In a long black frock-coat and black knee boots. He looked much more like a vampire ought to look. Formal, even. Formal for him. Darius stands aside and O...
The scream filtered into a hung-over dream so I couldn’t be sure if it was real or imagined. ‘You hear that?’ I asked him. My mouth was bone dry. He said nothing, his slow, sleepy breath rattling in his throat. ‘Hey.’ I nudged him and he rolled on his side, the muscles in his back slipping and sh...
‘Call you? How?’ I answered. I couldn’t help but feel nervous, though I was determined not to show it. I really wanted to hold my own with this guy. ‘I don’t know who you are,’ I said. ‘I don’t have your number. And anyway, why should –’ ‘Liar,’ he cut in. There was a smile in his voice. ‘You’ve ...