![]() ![]() (The two writers were, for a time, also lovers.) He published six more books of “strange stories”-his preferred descriptor-before his death, in 1981. ![]() But, quietly, and at an unhurried pace, these modest scenes are infected by miasmas that feel both existential and supernatural, and which linger, for the reader as much as for the characters, like the ineradicable tint of certain dreams.Īickman 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 novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. Somewhere on a Mediterranean-seeming island, an English couple buys a parcel of land. A newly elected councillor is appointed to a committee that oversees maintenance of the local cemetery. ![]() Two young women picnic near a country churchyard. Not a lot tends to happen in a story by Robert Aickman. ![]()
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