About the book: 2021 / Robert Aickman is an English horror legend, writer and editor, whose “strange stories” (as he called them) have had an influence to a whole galaxy of horror and fantasy writers, from Neil Gaiman to Peter Straub, from Ramsey Campbell to Adam Neville and John Langan. His elegantly written, nuanced stories shock and frighten not with standard scares or gore, but with radical changes to the laws of nature and everyday life. A Cold Hand in My Hand is one of Aickman's most famous books. Here, at a fair, a young man encounters the most unpleasant and at the same time attractive attraction of his life, a young Englishwoman meets in Italy with something that will completely change her, if not kill her, and a simple traveling salesman finds shelter in a hotel, at first glance so ordinary, but in fact, an ominous and incomprehensible place, more like a labyrinth, where there is terrible heat, and it is impossible to get out. The territory of the strange, created by Robert Aickman, “the abyss in the face of order,” continues to excite the imagination of writers and readers around the world, and the unusual composition of the stories and the special atmosphere of his works still have no analogues. For the first time in Russian.