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» Powers of Darkness: Macabre Stories
Robert Aickman

Aickman's third collection of tales.

 

Powers of Darkness: Macabre Stories
London: Collins 1966
Original price 18/-
ISBN 0-684-15999-6
8vo—olive green cloth—pp253

» Contents

Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen
My Poor Friend

The Visiting Star
Larger than Oneself
A Roman Question
The Wine-Dark Sea

» Epigraph

I am still of the opinion that only two topics
can be of the least interest to a serious and
studious mind—sex and the dead.
W. B. Yeats

No dedication

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Front cover
Artwork by Peter Barrett
 

 

Powers of Darkness
Uncorrected advance proof
London: Collins 1966
Original price n/a
No ISBN
8vo—mottled red card wrappers with white paper label—pp253

Contains the same stories as the cloth edition

No epigraph or dedication

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Front cover
 

 

Powers of Darkness: Macabre Stories
London: Fontana 1968
Original price ?
Paperback—pp192

Contains the same epigraph and stories as the cloth edition

No dedication

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Front cover
Artist unknown
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Back cover


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