I
had a strange and haunting dream, in which darkness had come to
the world, a strange blackness
from Outside. I was riding in a train through a desolate landscape.
No people anywhere. Buildings stood, and leafless trees, but the
colours were wrong and the sky was dark grey. There was a man in
the train with me, someone I couldn’t see, telling me that
this would happen when the darkness came, that I was being shown
the future and I should be on my guard. Then the train stopped,
and the doors hissed open onto the world, which darkened slowly
and terrifyingly to complete blackness...
