'Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very
often I'm not even sure what the trick was. All I know is that he
did it beautifully.' Neil Gaiman For fans of the BBC's Inside
Number 9 and The League of Gentlemen Aickman's 'strange stories'
(his preferred term) are constructed immaculately, the neuroses of
his characters painted in subtle shades. He builds dread by the
steady accrual of realistic detail, until the reader realises that
the protagonist is heading towards their doom as if in a dream.
Dark Entries was first published in 1964 and contains six curious
and macabre stories of love, death and the supernatural, including
the classic story 'Ringing the Changes'. Robert Aickman (1914-1981)
was the grandson of Richard Marsh, a leading Victorian novelist of
the occult. Though his chief occupation in life was first as a
conservationist of England's canals he eventually turned his
talents to writing what he called 'strange stories.' Dark Entries
(1964) was his first full collection, the debut in a body of work
that would inspire Peter Straub to hail Aickman as 'this century's
most profound writer of what we call horror stories.'
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