Each story in this collection is a small masterpiece of unease and psychological perplexity.Aickman's stories present dreamlike, inexplicable realities in prose both strangely sensual and entirely disarming, making this collection a treasure for fans of Poe, Kafka, and Lovecraft." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "Aickman was a master of the 'strange story' whose nearly unclassifiable output relies neither on ghosts nor creaking castles. Think Philip Larkin, or Barbara Pym, gone eldritch." -Anwen Crawford, The New Yorker "In Aickman's fiction, peculiarity is intertwined with a drab twentieth-century realism that is very English and sometimes dryly funny. All I know is that he did it beautifully." -Neil Gaiman "Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was.
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