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31 de oct. de 2014 · The Art of Terror: Robert Aickman’s Strange Tales. 1. In “Ringing the Changes,” one of the great Robert Aickman’s best-known “strange stories,” a woman asks her husband why a place in their inn is called “The Coffee Room” when no coffee is served there. He chalks it up to the lucus a non lucendo explanation, which he explains as ...
Robert Aickman. Según relata su autobiografía, The Attempted Rescue, Robert Fordyce Aickman (1914-1981) tuvo una infancia difícil, minada por las extravagancias de su padre, el arquitecto William Arthur Aickman, y los constantes altercados de éste con su joven esposa, 32 años más joven, Mabel Violet, hija del prolífico autor victoriano ...
25 de may. de 2021 · In this episode, novelist and poet Kathleen Rooney joins hosts Catherine Nichols and Elisa Gabbert to discuss Robert Aickman’s 1988 collection of stories The Wine-Dark Sea, with particular focus on the title story and the uncanny dollhouse story “The Inner Room. ” Aickman’s work is often characterized as horror fiction, but he preferred ...
6 de jun. de 2018 · Robert Aickman. New York Review of Books, 160pp, £12.99. What has come to be known as weird fiction is commonly interpreted as an escape from reality. Writers such as HP Lovecraft, Arthur Machen and Walter de la Mare evoked a world of dreams in order to relieve the sense of oppression that comes with a life ruled by physical laws and social ...
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1 de ene. de 2001 · Robert Aickman is the best modern writer of supernatural stories, as great as--perhaps greater than--the Master himself, M.R. James. Whereas the Master specialized in a few settings (the ancient English cathedral or university town, the rare book auction or library, the academic gentleman's holiday trip, etc.), Aickman is an expert at creating a wealth of distinct settings which he articulates ...
5 de may. de 2018 · Aickman was born in London, in 1914, and made a relatively late literary début, at age thirty-seven, with “We Are For the Dark,” a volume that combined three of his stories with three by the ...
