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The writers are fans of the horror writer Robert Aickman and a number of the episodes lean heavily into his uncomfortable style - as did their earlier shows League of Gentlemen and Psychoville. Last night's episode was based around a curse. There was dark humour and there was a nasty sense of dread.
Há 3 dias · I’m 57, and I don’t think a year has gone by since I was 14 that I haven’t reread at least one Kafka story a year. Most years I read a number of them, and often teach him. There are a few writers I return to again and again: just to name a few, Kafka, Beckett, Muriel Spark, Robert Aickman…
31 de mai. de 2024 · Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake: Life with Picasso. For #NYRBWomen24 we just finished Life with Picasso, by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, a fascinating, rich memoir of Gilot's decade as Picasso's partner. By Trevor Berrett | May 23rd, 2024 | Categories: Book Reviews, Carlton Lake, Françoise Gilot | Tags: 1960s, 1964 | 1 Comment. Read More.
1 de jun. de 2024 · Robert Aickman meets Ramsey Campbell in this jarring collection of off-kilter tales. Suggestion triumphs over exposition, oddball characters lurk, half-seen horrors abound. Beautifully and concisely written, and thick with an atmosphere of doom.
Há 5 dias · While author Howard Waldrop coined the term, the phenomena is certainly on display in the work of British author Robert Aickman. Any of his books of stories are a fine starting place for those looking for recommendations to read what he called “strange tales.”
Há 5 dias · It concerns an author of popular, sentimental romances who creates a dowdy housemaid character for the passing convenience of his plot but finds she is not satisfied with this role and insists on being the heroine and marrying the lord.
Há 4 dias · We go from cosy Edwardian ghost stories (E. F. Benson, Walter De La Mare) to Victorian supernatural mysteries (M. R. James, Elizabeth Gaskell, Bram Stoker, and Charles Dickens) to 20th-century Weird Tales (Robert Aickman, Fritz Lieber, Clark Ashton-Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft) and wander from the Gothic to the Odd, even to the ...
