- Cold Hand in
Mine
- by Robert
Aickman
- Introduction by Phil
Baker
As Phil Baker writes in his Introduction
to this new edition of Cold Hand
in Mine: ‘Robert Aickman (1914-1981) is increasingly
esteemed as the most subtle and distinctive practitioner of the modern
ghost story, or what he preferred to call the “strange story”: he edited
eight collections of ghost stories for the publisher Fontana, but most of
his own stories have no obvious ghost. Instead the “ghost story”—or
strange story, or uncanny story—was for Aickman essentially “the story of
rare sensations”: a genre “allied to poetry”.’ Contents: 'Introduction' by Phil Baker, ‘The Swords’,
‘The Real Road to the Church’, ‘Niemandswasser’, ‘Pages from a Young
Girl’s Journal’, ‘The Hospice’, ‘The Same Dog’, ‘Meeting Mr Millar’ and
‘The Clock Watcher’. Cold Hand in
Mine is a sewn hardback of 296+ xi pages, printed
lithographically, with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and
d/w. ISBN
978-1-905784-34-9 Limited to 350 copies. £32.50/ $50 inc. p&p.
Review: "Lovers of contemporary dark fiction should not miss
this splendid book, a fully enjoyable , unique reading experience
providing full evidence that life’s dark corners are much more scary than
monsters, zombies and werewolves." Mario Guslandi, The Short Review " Cold Hand in
Mine, the
latest volume of Aickman's stories to be meticulously reprinted by
Tartarus Press, is yet another superb example of how fine literature and
reading can help illuminate a dimly understood part of our everyday
experience. ... They're superb example of written literature, doing
something that can only be done with words extraordinarily well. They're
enjoyable and unsettling. Rick Kleffel, The Agony
Column
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