If you appreciate supernatural French Decadence, then you need look no further than Clarimonde and Other Stories by Théophile Gautier. A pioneer of the genre, Gautier (1811-1872) garnered his initial enthusiasm for supernatural literature from the stories of E.TA. Hoffman, adding an ...

Reality is a thin translucent membrane that separates this world from the one beyond, and that membrane bends and buckles as we thrust ourselves against it. Through the barrier we see distorted visions, the merest glimpse of which is enough to infect our minds. . . .

As Dr Glen Cavaliero states in his introduction to this new edition of Dark Entries, "It is Robert Aickman's peculiar achievement that he should invest the daylight world with all the terrors of the night".

Discovery of Heretics is only available in a slipcased set limited to 200 copies, published with Time, A Falconer.