Robert Aickman

Cold Hand in Mine

The Wine-dark Sea

"The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird. Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described "strange stories" 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 nature and everyday life. His territory of the strange, of the "void behind the face of order," is a surreal region that grotesquely mimics the quotidian: Is that river the Thames, or is it even a river? What does it mean when a prospective lover removes one dress, and then another--and then another? Do a herd of cows in a peaceful churchyard contain the souls of jilted women preparing to trample a cruel lover to death? Published for the first time under one cover, this collection offers a generous introduction to a sophisticated, psychologically acute modernist whose achievements have too long been hidden under the cloak of genre"--

Compulsory Games

Dark Entries

Neil Gaiman

Kelly Link

E. F. Benson

E. Nesbit

Louis de Bernières

M. R. James

Jenn Ashworth

Jerome K. Jerome

L. P. Hartley

Frank Copwer

Benard Capes

Muriel Sparks

A present contains a monstrous secret. An uninvited guest haunts a Christmas party. A shadow slips across the floor by firelight. A festive entertainment ends in darkness and screams. Who knows what haunts the night at the dark point of the year? This collection of seasonal chillers looks beneath Christmas cheer to a world of ghosts and horrors, mixing terrifying modern fiction with classic stories by masters of the macabre. From Neil Gaiman and M. R. James to Muriel Spark and E. Nesbit, there are stories here to make the hardiest soul quail - so find a comfy chair, lock the door, ignore the cold breath on your neck and get ready to welcome in the real spirits of Christmas.

A chilling collection of modern and classic Christmas ghost stories

Ghosts of Christmas Past

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 realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. The Unsettled Dust was first published as a collection in 1990. Aickman received the British Fantasy Award for 'The Stains'. 'We are all potential victims of the powers Aickman so skilfully conjures and commands.' Robert Bloch

The Unsettled Dust

Go Back at Once

The Late Breakfasters

"An omnibus collection featuring some of the finest works of a master of weird fiction" One of the preeminent writers of weird fiction, Robert Aickman is celebrated for his unsettling and often ambiguous "strange stories," but he once wrote that "those, if any, who wish to know more about me, should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of "The Late Breakfasters,"" his only novel, originally published in 1964. In "The Late Breakfasters," young Griselda de Reptonville is invited by Mrs. Hatch to a house party at her country estate, Beams (which, incidentally, is haunted). There, amidst an array of eccentric characters and bizarre happenings, she will meet the love of her life, Louise. But when their short-lived relationship is cruelly cut short, Griselda must embark on a quest to recapture the happiness she has lost. Never before published in the United States and long unobtainable, Aickman's odd and whimsical novel is joined in this omnibus volume by six of his finest weird tales (three of them making their first-ever American appearance): "My Poor Friend," "The Visiting Star," "Larger Than Oneself," "A Roman Question," "Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale," and "Rosamund's Bower," as well as a new introduction by Philip Challinor. "A master of the creepy, the uncanny and the strange." - "Wall Street Journal" "Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work." - Neil Gaiman "Robert Aickman at his best was this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories." - Peter Straub

The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Eight stories of the macabre and the occult, including "The Swords," "The Clock Watcher," and "Meeting Mr. Millar."

Strange Stories

The Inner Room

The collected short fiction

La aparición

Wine-Dark Sea

Painted Devils

Strange Tales

Sub Rosa

The Collected Strange Stories

1st printing, a novella. The Inner Room is a classic strange story by Robert Aickman and is open to various interpretations. When Lene chooses an odd and awkward dolls house as a present she finds that the dolls inside are inaccessable.In association with the Halifax Ghost Story Festival, 'The Inner Room' is published as a trade paperback of 51pps. Limited to 200 copies.

Muriel Spark

Bernard Capes

Frank Cowper

Intrusions

Robert Aickman

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