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31 de out. de 2014 · The Art of Terror: Robert Aickman’s Strange Tales. 1. In “Ringing the Changes,” one of the great Robert Aickman’s best-known “strange stories,” a woman asks her husband why a place in their inn is called “The Coffee Room” when no coffee is served there. He chalks it up to the lucus a non lucendo explanation, which he explains as ...
28 de fev. de 2022 · robert aickman: strange stories Born in 1914, Aickman was the son of architect William Arthur Aickman and worked briefly with his father, a notable eccentric. The younger Aickman was a man of diverse interests (co-founder of the Inland Waterways Association and chair of the London Opera Society included) and did not publish his first stories until 1951, in the collection We Are For The Dark.
20 de jun. de 2022 · Robert Aickman is a British ghost story writer whose stories have had a recent uptick in popularity, though he remained obscure for decades. The Guardian describes his work as focusing on ...
19 de nov. de 2020 · Edited by Simon Strantzas, “Aickman’s Heirs” is an anthology of strange, weird tales by modern visionaries of weird fiction, in the milieu of Robert Aickman, the master of strange and ambiguous stories. Editor and author Strantzas, an important figure in Weird fiction, has been hailed as the heir to Aickman’s oeuvre, and is ideally ...
25 de mai. de 2021 · In this episode, novelist and poet Kathleen Rooney joins hosts Catherine Nichols and Elisa Gabbert to discuss Robert Aickman’s 1988 collection of stories The Wine-Dark Sea, with particular focus on the title story and the uncanny dollhouse story “The Inner Room. ” Aickman’s work is often characterized as horror fiction, but he preferred ...
1 de jan. de 2001 · Robert Aickman is the best modern writer of supernatural stories, as great as--perhaps greater than--the Master himself, M.R. James. Whereas the Master specialized in a few settings (the ancient English cathedral or university town, the rare book auction or library, the academic gentleman's holiday trip, etc.), Aickman is an expert at creating a wealth of distinct settings which he articulates ...
Robert Aickman (1914–1981) was the son of an architect and grandson of the Victorian Gothic novelist Richard Marsh (author of the occult bestseller The Beetle). He did not attend university and subsisted on a small family income in London, working variously as a literary agent, editor, and theater and art critic.
