Роберт Эйкман (Robert Aickman)
COLD HAND IN MINE
Strange Stories
by ROBERT AICKMAN
Copyright © 1975 Robert Aickman
Printed in the United States of America
By the same author:
THE LATE BREAKFASTERS
SUB ROSA
DARK ENTRIES
POWERS OF DARKNESS
WE ARE FOR THE DARK
THE ATTEMPTED RESCUE
THE STORY OF OUR INLAND WATERWAYS
KNOW YOUR WATERWAYS
For MARY GEORGE and ANN PYM
who lent me a beautiful apartment without which this book could in no wise have taken form
CONTENTS
THE SWORDS
THE REAL ROAD TO THE CHURCH
Niemandswasser
PAGES FROM A YOUNG GIRL'S JOURNAL
THE HOSPICE
THE SAME DOG
MEETING MR MILLAR
THE CLOCK WATCHER
In the end it is the mystery that lasts and not the explanation.
— SACHEVERELL SITWELL "For Want of the Golden City"