The narrator sets out in his red Renault, which "seemed to know the way," and arrives at the inn only after a harrowing drive "down a lane as long as loneliness, past a cliff beyond forgetting, through a spider-lightning night".
A daytime thunderstorm makes me want to run outside and watch the lightning; a night-time one has me cowering in bed, certain that lightning is going strike the house sooner or later.
He ends it with a strange, short chapter confessing his eccentric Christianity, his "intense moments of belief, like lightning on a dark night" and despite most of what has gone before, and protestations to the contrary, you can't help feeling it's because a fair few of his prayers have actually been answered.
Will Black Lightning save the night?
One night lightning struck the tree travelled down the trunk, struck his helmet under which he kept a Luger.
Lightning flashes and night airglows are also observed by a dedicated sensor.
Moving clouds by daylight and lightning flashes by night told them how much warm air was rising.
What kind of lightning struck Davis that night?
His "Lightning and Thunder at Night" (1920) is a near-abstraction that describes what the storm feels like.
A society highly paradoxical, with alarming inequities, but with the private honor of thousands of persons winking like lightning bugs through the night? . . .
Magorian, whose latest novel, Just Henry, won the Costa Book Award for children's fiction in 2008 (it came to her in a similar lightning flash, after a night of insomnia), feels that the distinction between children's and adult's stories can be very artificial.
