Each story in this collection is a small masterpiece of unease and psychological perplexity….Aickman’s stories present dreamlike, inexplicable realities in prose both strangely sensual and entirely disarming, making this collection a treasure for fans of Poe, Kafka, and Lovecraft.Īmong this year’s most rewarding rediscoveries, for those who treasure the supernatural, there’s Compulsory Games by Robert Aickman, a lifetime’s sinister and uncanny short stories, all ending darkly.Ī collection of dark, eerie tales from a master of weird fiction. Think Philip Larkin, or Barbara Pym, gone eldritch.Īickman was a master of the 'strange story’ whose nearly unclassifiable output relies neither on ghosts nor creaking castles. In Aickman's fiction, peculiarity is intertwined with a drab twentieth-century realism that is very English and sometimes dryly funny.
All I know is that he did it beautifully. 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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