This is the  50th Anniversary Edition of Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman.

This seminal collection of Strange Stories will contain a new introduction by author and screenwriter Jeremy Dyson (League of Gentlemen, Ghost Stories) and will be illustrated by Elijah John

Originally published in 1975, Cold Hand in Mine collects eight exceptional short stories:

The Swords

The Real Road to the Church

Niemandswasser

Pages from a Young Girls Journal

The Hospice

The Same Dog

Meeting Mr Millar

The Clock Watcher

"Aickman is widely considered amongst aficionados of horror fiction to be one of the true masters of the weird tale, the term 'Aickmanesque' is applied to work clearly influenced by him, and yet there is nothing that has been written before or after, that inhabits the unique, inner room of whispering unease that Aickman does. His uncanny subtlety as an author of weird tales inhabits the ambiguous spaces between what is real and unreal, a freudian, psychological land of dreams and nightmares, which resonates all the more profoundly the longer you are willing to stay.

"Aickman's characters find themselves trapped in a series of events unconnected by logic, or which are connected by nonlinear logic. Very often neither the characters nor the reader can be certain about exactly what has happened, yet the story has the satisfying rightness of a poem-a John Ashbery poem. Every detail is echoed or commented upon, nothing is random or wasted. The reader has followed the characters into a world which is remorseless, vast and inexorable in it's operations'' -Peter Straub

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"The best, the subtlest and creepiest author of ghost stories of his time."- Kim Newman