Cold Hand in Mine: 'Genius' (Sarah Hall) - Couverture souple

Aickman, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571311741 ISBN 13 : 9780571311743

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2014

Synopsis

For fans of Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen -- with an introduction by Reece Shearsmith

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.

Cold Hand in Mine, first published in 1975, stands as one of Aickman's finest collections and contains eight tales including 'Pages from a Young Girl's Journal' which won the World Fantasy Award.

'He had the ability to invest the daylight world with all the terrors of the night, and specialised in subverting notions of safety and sunshine into something sinister and unforgiving.' Christopher Fowler, Independent

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. He was married to Edith Ray Gregorson from 1941 to 1957. In 1946 the couple, along with Tom and Angela Rolt, set up the Inland Waterways Association to preserve the canals of Britain. It was in 1951 that Aickman, in collaboration with Elizabeth Jane Howard, published his first ghost stories in a volume entitled We Are for the Dark. Aickman went on to publish seven more volumes of 'strange stories' as well as two novels and two volumes of autobiography. He also edited the first eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. He died in February 1981.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571311741
• ISBN 13: 9780571311743
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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