A Touch of Chill: Tales for Sleepless Nights by Joan Aiken [FIRST EDITION]

A Touch of Chill: Tales for Sleepless Nights by Joan Aiken 

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING [1980] DELACORTE PRESS

Refurbished ex-library copy in very good condition.  Dust jacket is excellent with some very minor edge wear.   Book looks and reads nicely; title page has handwritten note. 

The homely and the exotic mix in fifteen unique tales. The macabre and witty stories are a melange of horror guaranteed to send chills up the spine of any sleepless reader.  Stories include:

The Cat Flap and the Apple Pie
"He"
Time to Laugh
Lodgers
Listening
Sailors' Legends
A Game of Black and White
Elephant's Ear
The Sewanee Glide
She Was Afraid of Upstairs
The Birthday Party
Mousework
A Long Way to Swim
Who Goes Down This Dark Road?
Power Cut