And what’s this? There’s someone else sitting in the corner, meal long finished, looking, looking around. Don’t like that, the way he’s looking: who sits in a chicken shop and just looks?
London Burning
Curiouser and Curiouser: A Literary Autobiography
I took a turn through 19th century children’s literature, where the unnerving weirdness of Pinocchio gave me a taste for speculative fiction that sent me spiralling gloriously into Stephen King.