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Robert Aickman

17
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3.7
AVG RATING (6)
2
READERS
London, United Kingdom
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A purple ocean, vast under the sky and devoid of all visible life apart from two minute ships racing across its immensity.

— from The Wine - Dark Sea, 1994

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#1

Dark Forces

5.0 (1)

Contains: The Late Shift by Dennis Etchison The Enemy by Isaac Bashevis Singer Dark Angel by Edward Bryant The Crest of Thirty-six by Davis Grubb Mark Ingestre: The Customer’s Tale by Robert Aickman Where the Summer Ends by Karl Edward Wagner The Bingo Master by Joyce Carol Oates Children of the Kingdom by T. E. D. Klein The Detective of Dreams by Gene Wolfe Vengeance Is. By Theodore Sturgeon The Brood by Ramsey Campbell The Whistling Well by Clifford D. Simak The Peculiar Demesne by Russell Kirk Where the Stones Grow by Lisa Tuttle The Night Before Christmas by Robert Bloch The Stupid Joke by Edward Gorey A Touch of Petulance by Ray Bradbury Lindsay and the Red City Blues by Joe Haldeman A Garden of Blackred Roses by Charles L. Grant Owls Hoot in the Daytime by Manly Wade Wellman Where There’s a Will by Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson Traps by Gahan Wilson [The Mist]( by Stephen King

#2

The Anthology of Ghost Stories

4.0 (1)

The unsettled dust / Robert Aickman -- How he left the hotel / Louisa Baldwin -- Whessoe / Nugent Barker -- The shuttered room / E.F. Benson -- [Inhabitant of Carcosa]( / Ambrose Bierce -- Is there anybody there? / Charles Birkin -- The whisperers / Algernon Blackwood -- Curfew / L.M. Boston -- I'm sure it was no. 31 / A.M. Burrage -- The guide / Ramsey Campbell -- The limping ghost / R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- Mrs. Zant and the ghost / Wilkie Collins -- The house by the tarn / Basil Copper -- In Kropfsberg Keep / Ralph A. Cram -- The ghost in all the rooms / Daniel DeFoe -- The bagman's uncle / Charles Dickens -- The bully of Brocas Court / Arthur Conan Doyle -- In the confessional / Amelia B. Edwards -- The tune in Dan's café / Shamus Frazer -- Beyond the Bourne / John S. Glasby -- The valley of lost children / William Hope Hodgson -- The sand-walker / Fergus Hume -- The real right thing / Henry James -- The haunted dolls' house / M.R. James -- The wall-painting / Roger Johnson -- They / Rudyard Kipling -- The last laugh / D.H. Lawrence -- Robin's Rath / Margery Lawrence -- The dream / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The sundial / R.H. Malden -- The fifteenth man / Richard Marsh -- Brenner's boy / John Metcalfe -- Uncle Abraham's romance / Edith Nesbit -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The next room / Vincent O'Sullivan -- The footstep of the Aventine / Roger Pater -- [William Wilson]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- Courage / Forrest Reid -- The last of Squire Ennismore / Mrs. J.H. Riddell -- The Garside Fell disaster / L.T.C. Rolt -- The tears of Saint Agathé / David G. Rowlands -- The sould of Laploshka / Saki.

#3

Cold hand in mine

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