Table of Contents

Introduction. "Ravissante", "The Inner Room", "Never Visit Venice", "The Unsettled Dust", "The Houses of the Russians", "No Stronger Than a Flower", "The Cicerones", "Into the Wood".

About the Author

British short story writer, critic, lecturer and novelist. Robert Aickman is considered by many to be one of the finest modern writers of ghost stories. But Aickman himself referred to his tales as "strange stories", for they are often open to more complex interpretations. The writing is subtle and poetic, presenting us with both psychological and more material terrors. He edited The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories between 1964 and 1972, and his own eight books of strange stories were published as The Collected Strange Stories of Robert Aickman in 1999.