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Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman

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

Cold Hand in Mine

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    A Paperback / softback by Robert Aickman

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 3 July 2014
      ISBN-13 9780571311743
      978-0571311743
      ISBN-10 0571311741
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      Fiction Horror & Ghost Stories

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman

      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

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