The Wine Dark Sea - Hardcover

Aickman, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557100357 ISBN 13: 9781557100351

Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co, 1988

Synopsis

Presents a collection of uncanny tales by a well-respected author, offering a large selection of his best horror and suspense fiction in one volume

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. He was married to Edith Ray Gregorson from 1941 to 1957. In 1946 the couple, along with Tom and Angela Rolt, set up the Inland Waterways Association to preserve the canals of Britain. It was in 1951 that Aickman, along with Elizabeth Jane Howard, published his first ghost stories entitled We Are the Dark. Aickman went on to publish eleven more volumes of horror stories as well as two fantasy novels and two volumes of autobiography. He also edited the first eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. He died in February 1981.

From Publishers Weekly:

Since his death several years ago, British writer Aickman's reputation has continued to grow among connoisseurs of the horror story. Unlike much of the current form, full of blood, monsters and melodrama, Aickman's stories achieve a quieter, more subtle and, in several ways, more lasting sense of disquiet. His lucid, finely tuned prose moves imperceptibly from the small crises and celebrations of ordinary life into another sphere. In these 11 stories, the occasion may be a walking tour of Northern England, a birthday present of a Victorian dollhouse or a stay at a Swedish sanatorium for insomniacs, but it simultaneously traps the characters with dread and opens them up to a new awareness of a greater, deeper and more dangerous world. A remarkable collection by an author who deserves to be better known.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Arbor House Pub Co
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 1557100357
• ISBN 13: 9781557100351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388