‘They aren’t far away, Dis…Their presence is so strong, yet they’re so confused. Shelly’s clairvoyant, Louise, becomes concerned for his safety and perplexed, too, at the auras of frightened individuals reaching out for help: Nick begins to be plagued by dark and disturbing visions and dreams. ‘And what was it that the poor woman remembered?’ It was barely perceptible, but alterations in moods is another thing I’m good at recognizing – or sending. It was then that I noticed a change in him, a stiffening of body, an even greater sharpness in those cold, blue eyes.
‘It was only later, when she began to remember certain things, that she became upset.’ At the front of the queue to dissuade Nick from pursuing the search for Shelly’s son is the owner Dr Wisbeech: He’s immediately on his guard when the staff are cagey about her receiving visitors. Nick tracks down Shelly’s old midwife, Hildegard Vogel, at the Perfect Rest Nursing Home. When Nick checks the birth and death registers at the General Registrars Office, there’s no record of Shelly’s little boy at all. But she and her clairvoyant are convinced he’s alive. Newly widowed Shelly Ripstone engages his firm to find her baby son, born eighteen years earlier in Dartford General Hospital. Nick Dismas, foundling child and severely disabled, is a Brighton-based private investigator. Then in 2000 I opened the first page of Others and all that was about to change. I loved The Rats, The Fog, The Spear and countless other James Herbert novels so I thought I knew what to expect from one of his heroes.
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