Finally a bit of good old-fashioned nastiness. A customer recommended this story to me not long ago, and I’m very glad they did. Johnnie, a somewhat isolated boy, makes friends with two rather peculiar old ladies at Pooter’s Farm… Shall we just leave it at that?
(1946; now in The Wrong Set and Other Stories, Faber.)
A Personal Anthology 
This was one of the most horrific and unsettling stories i have ever read. Has haunted me since the first time I read it 40 years ago. Couldn’t ever read it a second time.
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