I'm there when it gets dark, to kill you if I can

I'm there when it gets dark, to kill you if I can:

"It was the accepted wisdom among the kids that, if you were alone in the back court at night, you’d hear the Bogey Man’s song coming from the close. We used to sing it to each other on long summer evenings and scare ourselves shitless. It was an eerie chant which went:

I’m the Bogey, Bogey,

I’m the Bogey Man.

I’m there when it gets dark,

To kill you if I can.

And once, in broad daylight, I was in the back court and he...