Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
Book info: Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories (Hardcover, 296 pages – Tartarus, 2011) – Tartarus, 2011. Language: Eng.
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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.Contains: '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', 'The Clock Watcher'.