"Le Miroir" introduces a young woman who falls out of step with her own reflection. "Wood" follows a man entering into a strange marriage with the daughter of a sinister carpenter. hard to recall in their particulars." In "Residents Only," a neglected graveyard becomes walled off from the living by its population of living dead. Other stories feature ancient wooden cabins, reclusive women of mystery, and "dreams. In the title story, a mysterious woman gradually seduces and supplants both a husband and wife in "Hand in Glove" a holiday in the country seems to cross over to a netherworld of carnivorous cows and in "No Time Is Passing," a man discovers a river behind his house that leads to an island seemingly outside of time. Each story in this collection is a small masterpiece of unease and psychological perplexity. Aickman (1914 1981) was a master of the "strange story" whose nearly unclassifiable output relies neither on ghosts nor creaking castles.
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