Robert Aickman
Birth date: June 27, 1914
Died: February 26, 1981
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To call those short stories strange is to undersell them. They are beyond strange, yet they are about the human condition. There are also murdering cows. How cool is that? They might not be really cows. The cows are in the short story “Hand and Glove”. There are mushrooms. In many of the stories, a ...
I was supposed to review this in April 2017 and somehow it slipped through the cracks :( I started and stopped this book several times this week. At one point, I had zoned out so much I think I might’ve lost two hours and just started the entire thing over from the beginning. It’s likely me and my l...
When you buy this book from Tartarus Press it comes with a 53 minute DVD, Robert Aickman: Author of Strange Tales, produced by R.B. Russell and his partner Rosalie Parker. I haven't read the book yet so this review at this time is strictly about the DVD. I watched it and it gives a pretty good overv...
1990 Aug 182000 Apr 182008 November 112011 August 09I've read the introduction, which has an interesting digression into authors and other kinds of artists and gender, as well as a further digression on writing for children. Good stuff. The first story, "W.S." by L.P. Hartley is all kinds of creepy ...
Another top notch edition from Tartarus reproducing one of the authors many out of print collections with an introduction by [a:Michael Dirda|72583|Michael Dirda|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1325973240p2/72583.jpg].As for the stories themselves, not among my favourite of his stories I have to say....
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