title: Other People's Darkness: And Other Stories
author:  Nicholas Vince 
description: &quot;Love, relationships, passion and jealousy all intertwine their way through this collection to produce a tapestry of terror that will shock you, bring you to tears and linger in your subconscious for days.&quot; <i>- gingernutsofhorror.com</i><br /><br /><span>"Laced with uneasy comedy, each tale shows us that our monsters within are perhaps to be feared as much as any that may or may not be lurking out there in the darkness, and that every action we take has its consequences." - <i>Starburst Magazine</i></span><br /><br /><span>"Other People's Darkness' is a collection of short stories very much in the vein of 'The Books of Blood' by Clive Barker, or even some of the earlier short-story work of Stephen King. The stories move from touching to ghastly, and all the while have a sort of whimsical moral reverence that serves them well." -</span><i>horror-punks.com</i><br /><br /><span>"This collection of intelligent and frightful stories will leave you sleeping with the lights on, questioning all your motives, and not pissing off love struck fools." -</span><span><i>traumaticcinema.com</i></span><br /><br />"Other People's Darkness takes a long unflinching look at the darkness deep inside each and every one of us, and the monsters in these stories are very human.<br> Without a doubt, supernatural and strange events occur throughout these five stories, but in the end the theme seems to be that the most horrible things are the things we do to each other." - <i>horrorhomework.com</i>
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  ### No Darkness as like Death
  
  
    
  
  
  Few in San Francisco were troubled by the
  
  
  news that Ambrose Shaw had been found dead at a local health
  
  
  institute—the prominent banker had recently turned to politics and
  
  
  was reviled by many for his incendiary views. But when Celia Davies
  
  
  learns that his death is considered suspicious by the police and
  
  
  that a damning piece of evidence points to a patient of hers as the
  
  
  culprit, she feels compelled to prove the woman’s innocence.
  
  
    
  
  
  Teaming up with Detective Nick Greaves, Celia
  
  
  soon discovers there’s no shortage of suspects, including the
  
  
  victim’s many political enemies, his disaffected son, who may have
  
  
  been too eager to receive his inheritance, and even the dead man’s
  
  
  fellow patients at the institute, whose founder promises miracle
  
  
  water cures but has been covering up numerous burglaries of his
  
  
  well-to-do clients.
  
  
    
  
  
  As Celia and Nick struggle with their
  
  
  feelings for each other as well as the many 