![]() ![]() The supernatural is never far from the surreal. ![]() He is a weatherman of the subconscious." -Fritz Lieber "Unsettling is a key description for Aickman's writing, not merely in the sense of creating anxiety, but in the sense of undoing what has been settled: his stories unsettle the ideas you bring to them about how fictional reality and consensus reality should fit together. His tales literally haunt me his plots and his turns of phrase run through my head at the most unlikely moments." -Russell Kirk "This century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories." -Peter Straub "Robert Aickman has a gift for depicting the eerie areas of inner space, the churning storms and silent overcasts that engulf the minds of lonely and alienated people. All I know is that he did it beautifully." -Neil Gaiman "Of all the authors of uncanny tales, Aickman is the best ever. "Reading Robert Aickman is like watching a magician work, and very often I'm not even sure what the trick was. ![]()
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