An omnibus collection featuring some of the finest works of a master of weird fictionOne of the preeminent writers of weird fiction, Robert Aickman is celebrated for his unsettling and often ambiguous "strange stories," but he once wrote that "those, if any, who wish to know more about me, should plunge beneath the frivolous surface ofhe Late Breakfasters," his only novel, originally published in 1964.Inhe Late Breakfasters, young Griselda de Reptonville is invited by Mrs. Hatch to a house party at her country estate, Beams (which, incidentally, is haunted). There, amidst an array of eccentric characters and bizarre happenings, she will meet the love of her life, Louise. But when their short-lived relationship is cruelly cut short, Griselda must embark on a quest to recapture the happiness she has lost.Never before published in the United States and long unobtainable, Aickman's odd and whimsical novel is joined in this omnibus...