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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 6 years ago
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 ...
Bark at the Ghouls
Bark at the Ghouls rated it 7 years ago
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...
Randolph "Dilda" Carter
Randolph "Dilda" Carter rated it 10 years ago
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...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 12 years ago
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 ...
FriedEgg
FriedEgg rated it 12 years ago
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....
MatthewHunter
MatthewHunter rated it 12 years ago
"Aickman at his best was this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories and he, with greater accuracy, called strange stories." -- Peter Straub, "Introduction" to The Wine-Dark SeaThis is my first exposure to Robert Aickman's work, so I can't corroborate the truth of Straub's cla...
Lau
Lau rated it 12 years ago
To be honest, I thought this book was going to be all ghost stories written BY Roald Dahl. Sadly, I was mistaken. (It was my own fault for not reading the blurb properly) But as I read the introduction, I got more excited. Dahl explains that he was supposed to adapt some of the stories in the book f...
Batgrl: Bookish Hooha
Batgrl: Bookish Hooha rated it 12 years ago
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...
Batgrl: Bookish Hooha
Batgrl: Bookish Hooha rated it 12 years ago
Another collection of stories that I've read - but ages ago and October is a good time for a reread. Another great purchase from a used bookstore. Most of these stories are often used in other anthologies, but there are only a few I'll skip or skim. (Like The Monkey's Paw - I really think I've read ...
FriedEgg
FriedEgg rated it 13 years ago
This collection contained two stories I have read before, only one of which I re-read on this occasion, and four others that were new to me.In "Your Tiny Hand is Frozen" Aickman reveals his distaste for telephones and the social sickness they can lead to as people become addicted to their use and th...
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