"Alex Hamilton is one of the absolute masters of the sunlit nightmare, the tale of insidious disquiet and relentless unease. He"s a true original, and it"s past time that he took his place in the pantheon of the elegantly macabre." - Ramsey Campbell "Hamilton has a vibrantly wicked imagination comparable to Roald Dahl ... The author is a precise stylist, a talented terrorist." - Kirkus Reviews "He turns ordinariness inside out like a glove to show the darkness inside." - Robert Nye "A Saki-like atmosphere and effect in which the strange is suddenly interjected into the real as if it were really there all the time waiting to be discovered." - Choice Alex Hamilton"s contributions to the famous Pan Books of Horror Stories series quickly secured his reputation as one of the best and most original writers of macabre tales of his generation. Beam of Malice (1966), his first collection, features many of his finest and most unsettling tales and showcases...