7 Introduction (The Fifth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories) (1969) essay by Robert Aickman 
11 The Firmin Child (1965) shortstory by Richard H. Blum 
33 Lord Mount Prospect (1965) shortstory by John Betjeman 
45 The Library Window (1881) shortstory by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant ] 
87 The Dancing Partner (1893) shortstory by Jerome K. Jerome 
94 The Swords (1969) novelette by Robert Aickman 
122 The Mysterious Stranger (1823) novelette by Anonymous 
161 A Question Of Time (1969) shortstory by Elizabeth Walter 
172 Venus (1909) shortstory by Maurice Baring 
182 Jerry Bundler (1897) shortstory by W. W. Jacobs 
190 The Great Return (1915) novelette by Arthur Machen

The 5th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories

Robert Aickman

Fontana

Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Berkley Publishing Co.

Sub rosa: strange tales

Genre Fiction

Gollancz

Dark Descent: A Fabulous Formless Darkness v. 3 (The Dark Descent Series)

Joyce Carol Oates

Oliver Onions

Shirley Jackson

GENE WOLFE

Fritz LEIBER

Thomas M. Disch

ROBERT W. CHAMBERS

Ambrose, Bierce

Algernon, Blackwood

Edith, Wharton

Philip, K. Dick

WALTER

De La Mare

GRAFTON

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. The listener 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. 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. This collection includes:"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" Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. In 1951, he published his first ghost stories in a volume called We Are the Dark, written in conjunction with Elizabeth Jane Howard, then went on to publish 11 further volumes of horror stories, two fantasy novels, and two volumes of autobiography. Dubbed ‘the supreme master of the supernatural’, he won a World Fantasy Award and British Fantasy Award for his short fiction, and also edited the first eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. Aside from his writing, Aickman was passionate about preserving British canals and founded the Inland Waterways Association in 1946. He died in February 1981. Reece Shearsmith is a talented actor and writer. He is most famous for co-writing and starring in the award-winning The League of Gentlemen, along with Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, and Jeremy Dyson. In 2009, Shearsmith and Pemberton won Best New Comedy at the 2009 British Comedy Awards for Psychoville. Reece Shearsmith has just finished filming Ben Wheatley’s horror A Field in England, out in July 2013.

Cold Hand in Mine

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Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories in which 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 brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly fragile our piece of mind actually is. The Unsettled Dust, The House of the Russians, No Stronger Than a Flower, The Cicerones and Ravissante first appeared in the Sub Rosa collection in 1968, but the stories were published together as The Unsettled Dust in 1990. Aickman received the British Fantasy Award in 1981 for The Stains, which first appeared in the anthology New Terrors (1980), as well as the posthumous collection of Aickman's short stories, Night Voices (1985). The Unsettled DustThe Houses of the RussiansNo Stronger Than a FlowerThe CiceronesThe Next GladeRavissanteBind Your HairThe Stains Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. In 1951, he published his first ghost stories in a volume called We Are the Dark, written in conjunction with Elizabeth Jane Howard, then went on to publish eleven further volumes of horror stories, two fantasy novels and two volumes of autobiography. Dubbed ‘the supreme master of the supernatural’, he won a World Fantasy Award and British Fantasy Award for his short fiction, and also edited the first eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. Aside from his writing, Aickman was passionate about preserving British canals and founded the Inland Waterways Association in 1946. He died in February 1981. Reece Shearsmith is a talented actor and writer. He is most famous for co-writing and starring in the award-winning The League of Gentlemen, along with Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss, and Jeremy Dyson. In 2009, Shearsmith and Pemberton won Best New Comedy at the 2009 British Comedy Awards for Psychoville. Reece Shearsmith has just finished filming Ben Wheatley's horror A Field in England, out in July 2013.

Unsettled Dust, The

First published in the US in 1988 and in the UK in 1990, The Wine-Dark Sea contains eight unsettling stories that explore protagonists' fears and desires, at once illogical and terrifying, and culminate in a disturbing and enigmatic ending. Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term for them) are a subtle exploration of psychological displacement and paranoia; his characters ordinary people that are gradually drawn into the darker recesses of their own minds. For fans of the horror genre, Robert Aickman is a must read. The Wine-Dark SeaThe Trains Your Tiny Hand Is FrozenGrowing BoysThe FetchThe Inner RoomNever Visit VeniceInto the WoodRobert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. In 1951, he published his first ghost stories in a volume called We Are the Dark, written in conjunction with Elizabeth Jane Howard, then went on to publish eleven further volumes of horror stories, two fantasy novels and two volumes of autobiography. Dubbed ‘the supreme master of the supernatural’, he won a World Fantasy Award and British Fantasy Award for his short fiction, and also edited the first eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. Aside from his writing, Aickman was passionate about preserving British canals and founded the Inland Waterways Association in 1946. He died in February 1981. Reece Shearsmith is a talented actor and writer. He is most famous for co-writing and starring in the award-winning The League of Gentlemen, along with Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson. In 2009, Shearsmith and Pemberton won Best New Comedy at the 2009 British Comedy Awards for Psychoville.Reece Shearsmith has just finished filming Ben Wheatley’s horror A Field in England, out in July 2013.

Wine Dark Sea, The

In this latest edition of THE WORLD S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY you will find CUTTING-EDGE stories by such authors as ROBERT AICKMAN, STORM CONSTANTINE, GEMMA FILES, NEIL GAIMAN, JOHN LANGAN, HELEN MARSHALL and STEVE RASNIC TEM, amongst many others, along with the usual OVERVIEW OF THE YEAR IN HORROR and NECROLOGY of those who have left us.

Best New Horror #27 [Trade Paperback]

Stephen Jones

Steve Rasnic Tem

Helen Marshall

Neil, Gaiman

Kate Farrell

PS Publishing

This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen, alongside lesser-known voices in the field including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence, and popular writers less bound to the horror genre, such as Thomas Hardy and E. F. Benson.These are damnable tales, selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells. They stalk the moors at night, the deep forests, cornered fields and dusky churchyards, the narrow lanes and old ways of these ancient places, drawing upon the haunted landscapes of folk-horror a now widely used term first applied to a series of British films from the late 1960s and 1970s: Witchfinder General (1968), Blood on Satans Claw (1971), and The Wicker Man (1973).But as this collection shows, writers of uncanny fiction were dabbling in the dark side of folklore long before. These twenty-two stories take the reader beyond the safety and familiarity of the town into the isolated and untamed wilderness. Unholy rites, witches curses, sinister village traditions and ancient horrors that lurk within the landscape all combine to remind us that the shiny modern, urban world might not have all the answers

Damnable Tales

E.F. BENSON

Walter De LA Mare

Robert-Louis-Stevenson

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Fiona, Macleod

Eleanor Scott

Edith, Nesbit

Arthur, Machen

M.R.James

Thomas, Hardy

Grant, Allen

Margery Lawrence

H.B. Marriott-Watson

Unbound

The Collected Strange Stories Volumes I & Ii

Tartarus Press

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