Cold Hand in Mine was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story Pages from a Young Girl's Journal won Aickman the World Fantasy Award in 1975. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1973 before appearing in this collection.Cold Hand in...
The wide, swift river and the tall buildings on both banks, the Liver Building, the Cunard offices, and the huge constructions, mysterious in purpose, which sprang up like indestructible molehills when the Mersey Tunnel forced its way from shore to shore, provided a scale, lacking in an open seas...
as he termed them, which were subtle and poetic and concentrated more on the emotions of horror rather than material terror. He also wrote longer fiction as well as non-fiction and was an editor and conservationist. Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in London on June 27, 191...
‘Tomorrow. Tomorrow afternoon.’ He looked into her eyes quite steadily, but he certainly didn’t smile. Noelle did smile. ‘You don’t know where I live,’ she said. ‘I know very well,’ said the man. Obviously, it would have been easy enough for him to have found out from Simon and Mut, whose party i...
LUCIEN It is, indeed, singular that western man, while refusing to place credence in anything he cannot see, while rejecting absolutely omens, prophecies, and visions, should at the same time, as he so often does, deny the evidence of his own eyes. OSBERT SITWELL The first time it occurred to...