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title: "Dark Entries"
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# Dark Entries

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## Customer Reviews

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    The Unsettled
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 4, 2014*

Though often categorized as horror fiction, Robert Aickman's stories are so distinctive and so great that the only productive analogies people use for him are not the typical horror fiction writers (who often hugely admire him) but such actual literary greats as Poe, Kafka, and Dinesen. You often finish his stories not knowing quite what happened until you re-read them, and even then the strange ambiguities are so deeply unsettling that it's hard to explain the effect Aickman has had on you. For years he has been a well-kept secret among fantasy and horror fans, but Faber Finds's plans to reissue his stories and his one novel (THE LATE BREAKFASTERS) and one novella (THE MODEL) in 2014 in honor of his centenary should make him much more widely known, at least in the UK. DARK ENTRIES, which sports a gorgeously illustrated cover, is a fine place to start with Aickman because it was his first solo collection published in his lifetime (he had published a collection of stories with his one time girlfriend Elizabeth Jane Howard in the 50s), and features some of his finest stories, such as his deepest exploration into gender differences, "Choose Your Weapons," and the most famous (and anthologized) of all his stories, "Ringing the Changes."The latter is a beautiful example of Aickman's mastery of the genre of the "strange tale" (as he preferred to call his work--he didn't care at all for the descriptor "horror fiction"). The story opens with a couple, mismatched in age, making a vacation trip to an out-of-the-way town in East Anglia that had been an important seaport in medieval times, before the harbor had silted up and pushed the town away from the sea. The town is largely deserted, and the few citizens the couple come across make oblique references to the couple being in danger; in the mean time a local old church begins ringing its bell for no apparent reason, and as the day wears on and the mystery of the town deepens, the ringing bell is joined by others, which intensify the overall sense of dread. When the truth about the town's abandonment and the reason for the bells is finally revealed, it is so almost offhandedly, as a kind of throwaway cliche: but then the truth of the statement (and the inability to turn back) digs in for both the couple and for readers. As is typical for Aickman's fiction, no other explanation is overtly given for the horrific event other than that it is happening, and the reader must try to make sense of it based on the circumstances of the story: the city's position almost displaced from time, the couple's age gap, the psychological condition of the husband and wife, etc. Even then you're never sure--and thus Aickman's story lingers longer in the imagination than the basic plot might in the hands of another fantasy writer (even H. P. Lovecraft, who also deals with a visitor stumbling onto the horrific truth about a seemingly nearly-deserted coastal town in his fine story "The Shadow over Innsmouth"). Robert Aickman is one of the finest British writers (and international masters of the strange tale form) in the 20th century: it is terrific seeing him made available to a broader audience.

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    4 AND 1/2 STARS
  

*by W***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 10, 2020*

Ever since I read a short story by Robert Aickman in an anthology, I have actively sought out all his work.  Not only is his prose absolutely gorgeous, but his immense talent for writing what appears to be an ordinary story that slowly dissolves into a chilling, dreamlike nightmare puts him in a league of his own.  While not all the stories in this collection, Dark Entries, are a home run, the ones that work, really work.  Of the six stories, my favorite are "The School Friend", "Ringing The Changes", and "Bind Your Hair", all of which are quite unnerving at times, and worth a second and third read.  I love taking my time with his work, reading it slowly, devouring it like a fine wine.  Aickman is really an incredible talent that finally, in the last decade, is getting the recognition he deserves.  He doesn't have a large body of work, but what he has, for the most part, is something to treasure.  For readers wanting to avoid jump scares, violence, and gore, the subtle maturity and delicate frights of Aickman should be a welcome discovery.

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    Maze of Mystery; Depth of Symbolism: Robert Aickman's "Dark Entries"
  

*by W***W on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 22, 2018*

Aickman is one of those writers who has his counterparts in screenwriters for those indie films that are best described as surreal or "symbolist" -dark-mysteries. There's no what I call fundamentalist horror - with the supernatural grossly imposed on physical reality, such as epitomized in Stephen King (thank god!). On the other hand the trademark British toned-down action woven through the labyrinth of Mystery, whose elements have in turn been transmuted into symbols, amount to each story's requiring a second read.At least a second read. Otherwise, each piece ends with an abrupt fall from the stratosphere of the disturbingly possibly-supernatural, back onto the surface of the mundane with a very anticlimatic bump."Dark Entries" was my first reading of Aickman; and I can't criticize him down to fewer than 4 Stars: For part of me must have much affinity with the Euro-style of dark, symbol-driven story, inasmuch as I myself have written at least one short story with a texture and paradigm so much like Aickman's that, if not for the "American" tint of greater intensity in the symbolism itself, could pass for one of his. If Euro-subtlety, and an ability to navigate the longitude of Mystery with the depth of symbolism is your thing, Robert Aickman is for you.

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