MASTERS OF THE WEIRD TALE: ROBERT AICKMAN

Limited edition. Two volumes. Signed by the editor and the artist. Publisher's original black cloth with illustration inlaid to the upper board and silver titles to the spine, in the John Kenn Mortensen illustrated dustwrapper, housed in a black and brown cloth slipcase. Ribbon page markers. Illustrated throughout by John Kenn Mortensen. Both volumes are in fine condition, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the very lightly rubbed dustwrappers that are without fading, loss or tears, and fine, structurally sound slipcase.

A collection of 48 stories over 1,300 pages. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies, this example is numbered 294 and signed by S. T. Joshi and John Kenn Mortensen in ink and Robert Aickman's signature printed in facsimile to the colophon in volume two. Robert Aickman (1914-1981) has come to be recognised as among the leading writers of weird fiction in the second half of the twentieth century. His subtle, allusive tales, written in prose of impeccable precision and mellifluousness, have influenced an array of writers who followed in his wake, notably Ramsey Campbell, T. E. D. Klein, and Peter Straub.