Cara Hunter

'We thought we'd wait for you before we opened it,' says the pathologist. 'And it isn't even your birthday.'
His name is Colin Boddie. And yes, I know, that's not funny. Only it is; of course it is. He's heard the gags so many times he's developed his own brand of pathological humour to go with it. It can sound crass, if you don't know him, but it's just a form of carapace. A way to keep the horror at bay. And what they've got here - despite the daylight and all the busy professional apparatus - is still the stuff of nightmares.