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Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman
Category: Science Fiction
Cold Hand in Mine was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story 'Pages from a Young Girl's Journal' won the Aickman World Fantasy Award in 1975. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1973 before appearing in this collection. Cold Hand in ...Show more
Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman; Victoria Nelson (Editor, Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described ostrange storieso remain confoundingly and uniquely his own. Aickman's superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of the laws of na ...Show more
Dark Entries by Robert Aickman
Category: Fiction
Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realizes that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. Dark Entries w ...Show more
Go Back at Once by Robert Aickman
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Completed by Robert Aickman in 1975, but never before published in the US and not widely in the UK, Go Back at Once is a delicious, delirious comic fantasy about the joys and terrors of a life devoted to resisting the degradations of our technological and conformist age. It tells the story of Cressida H ...Show more
Inner Room (Faber Stories) by Robert Aickman
Category: Fiction | Series: Faber Stories Ser.
In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his strange stories, Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life. Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncan ...Show more
The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman
Category: Short Stories & Essays
Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories where strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged but all have the same thing in common - they are all brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how ter ...Show more
The Wine-Dark Sea by Robert Aickman
Category: Fiction
Peter Straub called Robert Aickman 'this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories'. Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term for them) are a subtle exploration of psychological displacement and paranoia. His characters are ordinary people that are gradually drawn into the dar ...Show more
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