Tonight is a special, terrible night.
A woman sits at her father’s bedside watching the clock tick away the last hours of his life.
Her brothers and sisters - all traumatised in their own ways, their bonds fragile - have been there for the past week, but now she is alone. And that’s always when it comes.
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As the clock ticks in the darkness, she can only wait for it to find her . . .
Sarah Pinborough was a teacher, but now writes full-time. She is developing an original horror screenplay, Cracked, and her supernatural crime series, The Dog-Faced Gods, for TV.
She has also written episodes for the popular BBC crime drama New Tricks. She lives in West London. Sarah has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story and Best Novella, and has been shortlisted for Best Novel.
She has also been shortlisted for the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Awards.