The Unsettled Dust

Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight of his self-proclaimed strange stories. The stories in this collection 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 realizes that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged, but all have the same thing in common - they are all brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly fragile our piece of mind actually is.

Author: Robert Aickman
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 04/11/2017
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780571311736
ISBN10: 0571311733
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary

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.