About the book: 2024 / A tired traveler takes refuge from a storm in a house that suspiciously resembles a dollhouse she once had as a child. A tourist trip to Venice turns into an encounter with the unknown and creepy. A newlywed couple arrives in a seaside town where bells are constantly ringing, the sea cannot be reached, and a sense of disaster is in the air. An ordinary Englishman enters the Cathedral of St. Bavo in Ghent and receives the most sinister excursion of his life, the consequences of which he will remember forever. You'll find all this and more in two classic collections by Robert Aickman, a true master of English prose whose writing has influenced generations of horror and fantasy writers. His influence can be seen in the prose of Adam Neville and Neil Gaiman, John Langan and Peter Straub, Thomas Ligotti and Ramsey Campbell. Aickman's undoubted talent was recognized by such horror classics as Robert Bloch and Fritz Leiber. Aickman gave birth to a whole movement in literature about the supernatural, but his unique style is still inimitable, and no one has been able to reproduce the special atmosphere of his works.