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The Late Breakfasters And Other Strange Stories Valancourt 20th Century Classics
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Author : Robert Aickman
language : en
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Release Date : 2016-10-04
The Late Breakfasters And Other Strange Stories Valancourt 20th Century Classics written by Robert Aickman and has been published by Valancourt Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Fiction categories.
"An omnibus collection featuring some of the finest works of a master of weird fiction" One of the preeminent writers of weird fiction, Robert Aickman is celebrated for his unsettling and often ambiguous "strange stories," but he once wrote that "those, if any, who wish to know more about me, should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of "The Late Breakfasters,"" his only novel, originally published in 1964. In "The Late Breakfasters," young Griselda de Reptonville is invited by Mrs. Hatch to a house party at her country estate, Beams (which, incidentally, is haunted). There, amidst an array of eccentric characters and bizarre happenings, she will meet the love of her life, Louise. But when their short-lived relationship is cruelly cut short, Griselda must embark on a quest to recapture the happiness she has lost. Never before published in the United States and long unobtainable, Aickman's odd and whimsical novel is joined in this omnibus volume by six of his finest weird tales (three of them making their first-ever American appearance): "My Poor Friend," "The Visiting Star," "Larger Than Oneself," "A Roman Question," "Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale," and "Rosamund's Bower," as well as a new introduction by Philip Challinor. "A master of the creepy, the uncanny and the strange." - "Wall Street Journal" "Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work." - Neil Gaiman "Robert Aickman at his best was this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories." - Peter Straub
The Late Breakfasters And Other Stories
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Author : Robert Aickman
language : en
Publisher: Valancourt Books
Release Date : 2016-10-04
The Late Breakfasters And Other Stories written by Robert Aickman and has been published by Valancourt Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with Fiction categories.
An omnibus collection featuring some of the finest works of a master of weird fiction One of the preeminent writers of weird fiction, Robert Aickman is celebrated for his unsettling and often ambiguous "strange stories," but he once wrote that “those, if any, who wish to know more about me, should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of The Late Breakfasters,” his only novel, originally published in 1964. In The Late Breakfasters, young Griselda de Reptonville is invited by Mrs. Hatch to a house party at her country estate, Beams (which, incidentally, is haunted). There, amidst an array of eccentric characters and bizarre happenings, she will meet the love of her life, Louise. But when their short-lived relationship is cruelly cut short, Griselda must embark on a quest to recapture the happiness she has lost. Never before published in the United States and long unobtainable, Aickman's odd and whimsical novel is joined in this omnibus volume by six of his finest weird tales (two of them making their first-ever American appearance): “My Poor Friend”, “The Visiting Star”, “Larger Than Oneself”, “A Roman Question”, “Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale”, and “Rosamund's Bower”, as well as a new introduction by Philip Challinor.
The Late Breakfasters
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Author : Robert Aickman
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-06-19
The Late Breakfasters written by Robert Aickman and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-19 with Fiction categories.
'Griselda de Reptonville did not know what love was until she joined one of Mrs. Hatch's famous house parties at Beams, and there met Leander...' The Late Breakfasters (1964) was the sole novel Robert Aickman published in his lifetime. Its heroine Griselda is invited to a grand country house where a political gathering is to be addressed by the Prime Minister, followed by an All Party Dance. Expecting little, Griselda instead meets the love of her life. But their fledgling closeness is cruelly curtailed, and for Griselda life then becomes a quest to recapture the wholeness and happiness she felt all too briefly. 'Those, if any, who wish to know more about me' - Aickman wrote in 1965 - 'should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of The Late Breakfasters.' Opening as a comedy of manners, its playful seriousness slowly fades into an elegiac variation on the great Greek myth of thwarted love.
Robert Aickman
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Author : Gary William Crawford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Robert Aickman written by Gary William Crawford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Ghost stories, English categories.
A biographical and critical study of Robert Aickman.
Cold Hand In Mine
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Author : Robert Aickman
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-07-01
Cold Hand In Mine written by Robert Aickman and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Fiction categories.
'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of Inside Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen -- with an introduction by Reece ShearsmithAickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. Cold Hand in Mine, first published in 1975, stands as one of Aickman's finest collections and contains eight tales including 'Pages from a Young Girl's Journal' which won the World Fantasy Award. 'He had the ability to invest the daylight world with all the terrors of the night, and specialised in subverting notions of safety and sunshine into something sinister and unforgiving.' Christopher Fowler, Independent
Dark Entries
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Author : Robert Aickman
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Dark Entries written by Robert Aickman and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with Fiction categories.
'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of the BBC's Inside Number 9 and The League of GentlemenAickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. Dark Entries was first published in 1964 and contains six curious and macabre stories of love, death and the supernatural, including the classic story 'Ringing the Changes'. Robert Aickman (1914-1981) was the grandson of Richard Marsh, a leading Victorian novelist of the occult. Though his chief occupation in life was first as a conservationist of England's canals he eventually turned his talents to writing what he called 'strange stories.' Dark Entries (1964) was his first full collection, the debut in a body of work that would inspire Peter Straub to hail Aickman as 'this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories.'
Compulsory Games
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Author : Robert Aickman
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2018-05-08
Compulsory Games written by Robert Aickman and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with Fiction categories.
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 region that grotesquely mimics the quotidian: Is that river the Thames, or is it even a river? What does it mean when a prospective lover removes one dress, and then another—and then another? Does a herd of cows in a peaceful churchyard contain the souls of jilted women preparing to trample a cruel lover to death? Published for the first time under one cover, the stories in this collection offer an unequaled introduction to a profoundly original modern master of the uncanny.
Go Back At Once
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Author : Robert Aickman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-01-11
Go Back At Once written by Robert Aickman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-11 with Fiction categories.
St James Guide To Horror Ghost Gothic Writers
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Author : David Pringle
language : en
Publisher: St. James Guide to Writers Ser
Release Date : 1998
St James Guide To Horror Ghost Gothic Writers written by David Pringle and has been published by St. James Guide to Writers Ser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As a companion volume to St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, this volume concentrates "on those types of fiction which may be labelled as horror novels, dark fantasies, ghost stories, gothic novels, tales of terror, supernatural fictions, occult fantasies, black-magic stories, psychological thrillers, tales of unease, "grand-guignol" shockers, creepy stories, shudder-pulp fictions, "contes cruels," uncanny stories, macabre fictions and weird tales."--Editor's note, p. ix.
The Bell Ringer Of Angel S And Other Stories
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Author : Bret Harte
language : en
Publisher: VM eBooks
Release Date : 2016-02-02
The Bell Ringer Of Angel S And Other Stories written by Bret Harte and has been published by VM eBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-02 with Fiction categories.
Table of Contents Published by VM eBook THE BELL-RINGER OF ANGEL'S CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. JOHNNYBOY. YOUNG ROBIN GRAY. THE SHERIFF OF SISKYOU. A ROSE OF GLENBOGIE. THE MYSTERY OF THE HACIENDA. CHU CHU. MY FIRST BOOK.