"So you'll stay a while longer? Maybe drink some wine?
Cool. In that case, I'll tell you.
Yeah, I'll tell you all about this one episode of American Hoarder. The one nobody ain't never gonna see. Not even if everything else in all the TV archives gets wiped clean and the networks got nothing left to show. You just need to swear to me, on everybody's lives including your own, that you won't tell a soul.
Okay?"
"This story is brilliantly chilling and has made me clean my room" – comedian Tiernan Douieb
Jason Arnopp is the author of The Last Days Of Jack Sparks (Orbit, 2016). He has written for the worlds of Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Friday The 13th, as well as scripting the 2011 Lionsgate feature film Stormhouse.