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A gloriously eccentric fantasy by the "most profound writer of what we call horror stories." -Peter Straub

In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his "strange stories, " Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition, and the hallucinated life. Lene recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncanny inhabitants entered her dreams. Most chillingly, the geometries of the house didn't add up, there had to be a secret room inside. Years later, she comes across a life-size version.

Uno sguardo nei meandri più oscuri dell'essere umano, un viaggio tra terrore e stupore, è questo che i racconti di Robert Aickman propongono ai lettori, sbalorditi come naufraghi che odono il richiamo delle sirene, orribile e affascinante allo stesso tempo. Il racconto di fantasmi nella tradizione di M. R. James si rinnova con la scoperta dell'inconscio, dell'orrore che si nasconde all'interno dell'essere umano: dalle calde spiagge di un'isola...

The best and most interesting stories by Robert Aickman, a master of the supernatural tale, the uncanny, and the truly weird.Robert Aickman's self-described "strange stories" are confoundingly and uniquely his own. These superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of the laws of nature and everyday life. His territory of the strange, of the "void behind the face of order, " is a surreal r...

Contains eight stories that show off the author's powers as a 'strange story' writer to the full, being more ambiguous than standard ghost stories. This title includes stories that introduces the reader 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.

Contains eight stories that can leave the reader unsettled as the protagonists' fears and desires, at once illogical and terrifying, culminate in a disturbing yet enigmatic ending.

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Brings together eight stories where strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. This title features characters that are often lonely and middle-aged but they have the same thing in common - they are each brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly fragile our piece of mind actually is.