Dark Entries - Brossura

Aickman, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571311776 ISBN 13: 9780571311774

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2014

Riassunto

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 realizes 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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Recensione:

Robert Aickman's literary reputation, like that of M.R. James, rests on the few dozen horror stories he published during his lifetime. Like James, Aickman was a cultured aesthete, delivering scares in a precise, somewhat lofty style as though addressing the reader from behind a veil of erudition. But Aickman belonged to a later, more liberated generation, and was freer to introduce deep, swirling undercurrents of sexuality into his haunting tales. (James Lovegrove Financial Times)

Descrizione del libro:

Dark Entries by Robert Aickman: a reissue of this classic horror collection from the hugely revered 'master of horror'.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0571311776
• ISBN 13: 9780571311774
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256