‘Something Strange’ – Kingsley Amis
Page Count: 19 Pages Damn I’m getting old now. Here’s a sentence I never saw myself having to write… I’m waiting for my glasses to come back from the optician, with a new set of lenses, and this has rather limited what I’ve been able to read this week; that and the ongoing stuff that has seen me signed off work. I need to be reading though so I’ve been dipping in and out of a few short story collections this week. I’ve never read anything by Kingsley Amis so when I saw his short story ‘Something Strange’, I had the opportunity to do something about that and read another horror short story at the same time. ‘Something Strange’ was originally published in 1960. I found ‘Something Strange’ in ‘The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories’ but if you’re after reading it yourself, you can also find it in Amis’ ‘Collected Short Stories’. Bruno, Clovis, Lia and Myri are the only occupants of a small outpost in space, carrying out their duties whilst waiting for the message from Base tha...