by Robert Aickman
This particular collection of stories was referred to in one of my books on horror authors (I think it was this one), and (only three stories in when I write this bit) I can definitely say that Aickman is a master of atmosphere. So far all of them seem to have a "Victorian age or older" writing styl...
as far as my love for genre fiction goes, college did a number on me and for many years i scorned my old high school loves of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. silly me; i'm glad i came back to my senses. during college, only a couple authors escaped my new-found scorn - one of them being the am...
I've been looking forward to reading something by Aickman for quite a while now. From what I had heard about his writing it seemed that his style of weird horror was just the kind of thing I'm looking for now. My anticipation and expectations having built up so high, I almost expected to be disappoi...
A marvelous collection, all lovely and creepy. I wonder where my copy is?
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