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Now it's finally become clear to me why I've seen him so often being talked about in such hushed, reverential tones. It’s very accessible and doesn’t feel like it’s over half a century old (this collection was originally published in 1964). The School Friend - I thought this was a masterpiece, a truly frightening haunted house story with Aickman's vague, somewhat open-ended implications at their creepy best.

A man becomes suddenly obsessed with a woman he sees in a restaurant, he goes after her, contending for her love with a quite sinister figure. can love ever be stronger than such small things when one part of the pair values the latter over the former? My son reads these things in a couple of hours but the ironic thing is that it took months to pull together… What you don’t appreciate before you’re doing it is that you’re effectively playing director of a film. I have retained an impression of ‘Ringing the Changes’ as a real classic, and it was a pleasure to revisit it. The suggestion and hint at supernatural horrors can often be more terrifying than if they are amptly explained, but to my mind only if the endings are properly developed or serve some kind of climatic finale.

These are the “strange stories” (he preferred this description of the horror genre) of Robert Aickman, and this collection, Dark Entries, is pretty good!

A man, Carfax, is on a ferry to ‘the Island’ when he meets an enigmatic woman named Ariel; she invites him to stay at her home, Fleet. Such is his infatuation that he is not deterred by the way the landscape around the house is constantly changing or the weird, shambling figure – like some sort of nameless pagan god – who roams the grounds.

The Waiting Room: Very much a traditional ghost story but masterfully framed for maximum disorientation.

The story is a tightrope walk between the real and the surreal and Aickman slips in and out of both these with consummate ease. A strange place, even stranger people, noise that makes you want to tear your hair out looking for so This is a fine example of the craft involved when it comes to writing an unsettling tale for the horror is in watching on helplessly as things start spiralling out of control. In that respect they speak to a modern reader more vibrantly than, say, James’s donnish, Christmas-sherry entertainments.

One must note here, also that "Ringing the Changes" must have had a profound effect on movie director David Lynch. Last year, I tried reading Ligotti, and after a handful of stories decided to give up on him because the florid and overstrung style of that author sounded to me like an awkward imitation of Poe and more often than not was at variance with the situation described in the stories. g. when he coins a phrase like “the boundless sequacity of love” –, and leaving you at a loss as to what has precedence for him, the exploration of the language or the mood he thereby creates.

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