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.