The Unsettled Dust by Aickman, Robert

Author: Aickman, Robert

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 4 September 2014 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 384 pages
128 x 198 x 23 | 300g

For fans of the BBC’s Inside Number 9 and The League of GentlemenAickman’s ‘strange stories’ (his preferred term) 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 realises that the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream. The Unsettled Dust was first published as a collection in 1990. Aickman received the British Fantasy Award for ‘The Stains’.

‘We are all potential victims of the powers Aickman so skilfully conjures and commands.’ Robert Bloch