Robert Aickman

The Wine-Dark Sea

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contains eight stories that can leave the reader unsettled as the protagonists' fears and desires, at once illogical and terrifying, culminate in a disturbing yet enigmatic ending.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780571311729
• ISBN-10: 0571311725
• Artikelnr.: 40694417

Autorenporträt

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.