The fear jumped at him for the third time like a great animal that had been waiting to spring. It is, oddly, the moment when Will switches on his bedside lamp that is the most telling (and the most recognisable, perhaps, to any of us who have once been afraid of the dark): "The room was at once a cosy cave of yellow light, and he lay back in shame, feeling stupid." Then: "He switched off the light again, and instantly everything was even worse than before. It is a child's anxiety at the blank blackness redoubled stretched to its extreme, because it quickly becomes clear that there is something more to Will's terror than can be explained away by an appeal to the everyday. There's something extraordinary in the way Cooper describes this fear of the dark.
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