- 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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