![]() There are several inked notes on contents leaf and a Scribner review slip is affixed to the front free endpaper. This copy was used by Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher of the U.S. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1973 before appearing in this collection. The story ‘Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal’ won the Aickman World Fantasy Award in 1975. Publication date 1975 Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks Digitizing sponsor Kahle/Austin Foundation. Whereas the Master specialized in a few settings (the ancient English cathedral or university town, the rare book auction or library, the academic gentleman's holiday trip, etc.), Aickman is an expert at creating a wealth of distinct settings which he articulates. ![]() Nevertheless their horrors can be ambiguous or obscurely symbolic, giving them a distinctly modern feel." - Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 6-3. Cold Hand in Mine was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. Robert Aickman is the best modern writer of supernatural stories, as great as-perhaps greater than-the Master himself, M.R. Aickman's tales are clearly situated in the classic tradition of supernatural horror and achieve a rich and textured atmosphere of dread through meticulous orchestration of their events to an unsettling crescendo. Included is Aickman's best-known tale, the World Fantasy award-winning 'Pages from a Young Girl's Journal,' which relates through diary extracts its teen-age heroine's coming of age as a woman and a vampire. ![]() "Collection of eight sophisticated stories whose horrors are tastefully understated. ![]()
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