Product Description

A second collection of horror tales - following the publication of "The Wine Dark Sea" - by the recipient of the 1981 World Fantasy Award, and author of "Cold Hand in Mine" and "Painted Devils".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6309910 in Books
• Published on: 1990-10-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

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.