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Robert Aickman Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Late Breakfasters (1964)
  2. The Model (1987)
  3. Go Back at Once (2020)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. The Inner Room (1968)
  2. Compulsory Games (2018)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Dark Entries (With: ) (1964)
  2. Powers of Darkness (1966)
  3. Sub Rosa (1968)
  4. Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories (1974)
  5. Tales Of Love And Death (1977)
  6. Painted Devils: Strange Stories (1979)
  7. Intrusions: Strange Tales (1980)
  8. The Wine-Dark Sea (1988)
  9. The Unsettled Dust (1990)
  10. The Collected Strange Stories of Robert Aickman: v. 1 & 2 (1999)
  11. Night Voices: Strange Stories (2013)
  12. The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories (2016)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Attempted Rescue (1966)
  2. River Runs Uphill (2014)

The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964)
  2. The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
  3. The Third Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1967)
  4. The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1968)
  5. The 5th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1969)
  6. The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970)
  7. The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1980)
  8. The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1982)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964)
  2. The Second Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
  3. The Third Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1967)
  4. The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1968)
  5. The 5th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1969)
  6. The Sixth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970)
  7. The Seventh Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1980)
  8. The Eighth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1982)

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Robert Aickman Books Overview

Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories

Cold Hand in Mine was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story ‘Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal’ won the Aickman World Fantasy Award in 1975. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1973 before appearing in this collection. Cold Hand in Mine stands as one of Aickman’s best collections and contains eight stories that show off his powers as a ‘strange story’ writer to the full, being more ambiguous than standard ghost stories. Throughout the stories the reader is introduced to a variety of characters, from a man who spends the night in a Hospice to a German aristocrat and a woman who sees an image of her own soul. There is also a nod to the conventional vampire story ‘Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal’ but all the stories remain unconventional and inconclusive, which perhaps makes them all the more startling and intriguing. ‘Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever…
His tales literally haunt me; his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments.’ Russell Kirk

Painted Devils: Strange Stories

The collection delves into nightmare and madness, death and the supernatural. stories are as follows:Eavissante House of the Russians The View Ringing the changes the school friend the waiting room marriage Larger than one self my poor friend

The Wine-Dark Sea

Peter Straub called Robert Aickman ‘this century’s most profound writer of what we call horror stories.’ Aickman’s ‘strange stories’ his preferred term for them are a subtle exploration of psychological displacement and paranoia. His characters are ordinary people that are gradually drawn into the darker recesses of their own minds. First published in the USA in 1988 and in the UK in 1990 ‘The Wine Dark Sea’ contains eight stories that will leave the reader unsettled as the protagonists’ fears and desires, at once illogical and terrifying, culminate in a disturbing yet enigmatic ending. For fans of the horror genre Robert Aickman is a must read. As Peter Straub notes in his introduction ‘Aickman’s originality was rooted in need he had to write these stories, and that is why they are worth reading and rereading’. ‘Superb tales of suspenseful unease…
a contemporary master of the genre.’ ‘Publishers Weekly’. ‘Aickman’s effects are so concentrated you’ll be well advised not to read more than one story at a time.’ ‘Books’.

The Unsettled Dust

Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories where strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle aged but all have the same thing in common they are all brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly fragile our piece of mind actually is. ‘The Next Glade’, ‘Bind Your Hair’ and ‘The Stains’ appeared together in ‘The Wine Dark Sea’ in 1988 while ‘The Unsettled Dust‘, ‘The House of the Russians’, ‘No Stronger Than a Flower’, ‘The Cicerones’ and ‘Ravissante’ first appeared in ‘Sub Rosa’ in 1968. The stories were published together as ‘The Unsettled Dust‘ in 1990. Aickman received the British Fantasy Award in 1981 for ‘The Stains’, which had first appeared in the anthology ‘New Terrors’ 1980, before appearing in the last original posthumous collection of Aickman’s short stories ‘Night Voices’ 1985. ‘We are all potential victims of the powers Aickman so skilfully conjures and commands.’ Robert Bloch.

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