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Review

'Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever . . . His tales literally haunt me; his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments.' —Russell Kirk

About the Author

Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. He was married to Edith Ray Gregorson from 1941 to 1957. In 1946 the couple, along with Tom and Angela Rolt, set up the Inland Waterways Association to preserve the canals of Britain. In 1951 Aickman, along with Elizabeth Jane Howard, published his first ghost stories entitled "We Are the Dark." Aickman went on to publish eleven more volumes of horror stories as well as two fantasy novels and two volumes of autobiography. He also edited the first eight volumes of "The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories." He died in February 1981.

Product details

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Faber & Faber; Reprint edition (August 9, 2016)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0571311741

ISBN-13: 978-0571311743

Product Dimensions:

5 x 0.9 x 7.8 inches

Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

3.8 out of 5 stars

28 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#228,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I read this book when it was first published and fell under its bizarre influence. Did Aickman create a new genre with this collection? It might parallel magic realism, but it is distinct from it. Perhaps it is related to "The Metamorphosis," but no. Again, it has a flavor of its own.Aickman has this knack of making his reader feel uncomfortable in the most delicious way. He knows just what image to pop into your head. Not violent images. Not horrific images in the Lovecraftian vein. Images that disturb nevertheless. His stories wriggle back into your head over and over again. There's something going on in these tales, unspoken, potent and beyond understanding.

Since the Robert Aickman books are short-story collections, no single answer (to the above survey questions) is applicable to all stories. But in general, the excellence in writing completely supersedes any need for graphic violence or explicit sex to engage the reader. Certainly, these events are implied, from time to time. But the reader isn't told what's happening; the reader is lured into the depth of events by nibbling about all the edges, with such ravenous attention to each bite, that he finds he has completed the meal a heady morsel at a time, and is never full, but left always salivating for the next course.

As a lover of ghost stories, I took a chance on this book, in spite of certain suspicions, doubts, and misgivings. SUCKER!!! I don't know whether it was Aickman, or his publisher, who concocted the con-job of affixing catchy titles to his collections of drivel, and marketing them as some-kind-of-ghost-stories, but I have to admit that I fell for it. These stories are not even remotely scary, and they have absolutely nothing to do with ghosts. They also have no character development, plot, purpose, or rationale. They merely end (which is the best part) without reaching any conclusion. The only 'disturbing' or 'haunting' thought they leave me with is being annoyed with myself for wasting my time and money on them.The stories are worth only one star out of five, but I'm feeling merciful, so will give the book overall a two-star rating, only because Aickman CAN, when he wants to, string words together like a master craftsman. But a story teller, he is not.

Loved Aickmanâ€™s writing style. Not graphic splattergore horror, instead he is a slow burn story teller, dread constantly growing, restrained old school British, letting these â€œweird storiesâ€ play out in unexpected (and sometimes inconclusive) ways. An excellent introduction to Aickman, and Iâ€™ll read more of his books.

An odd writing style, almost mirroring Edwardian / Victorian horror. Occasionally Aickman does not clarify his ending or climax but you still come away with a spooked out feeling. A fun read for sure.

The thinnest of Faber's three recent collections of marvelous short stories by the undeservedly neglected horror writer Robert Aickman, COLD HAND IN MINE also shows his most obvious debts to Isak Dinesen, as another reviewer writes below. Dinesen's stories, at their best, very often refuse simple explanation exactly like Aickman's, and he seems to acknowledge his debt to her by means of the vaguely aristocratic characters and the Continental settings of two of the finest stories in this collection, "Niemandwasser" and "Pages from a Young Girl's Diary." Although this collection also has "The Swords," Aickman's allegory for the terrors of sexual coming-of-age, and "The Hospice," his nightmarish tale of being unable to get home (which might involve a hellish imagination of the state of being dead), it's not the place to begin with Aickman, and I would best recommend it for completists who have enjoyed his other two collection from Faber, THE WINE-DARK SEA and THE UNSETTLED DUST.

I doubt it is possible to characterize this, or any of Aiken's other books, except as " Strange Stories",But that is to damn them with faint praise. They are above all other things literate-- so, unlessYou are 1) over the age of 45 and 2) exceptionally well educated, you shouldn't even be permittedTo read them. If you are, (and of a certain turn of mind) what glories await you! Don't look forAny of your gratuitous sex/violence crap either-- (FIfty Shades of Grey, Quel merde!) There.That should be enough of a review for anybody. Now can I go?

A real page turner. This author knew how to build and draw out a frightening story line. These stories are spine tingling and disturbing. Good stuff.

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