{"title":"Robert Aickman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Aickman\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts tales that linger on the boundary between reality and the uncanny, inviting readers into worlds where the ordinary twists into the unsettling. His stories blend subtle horror with psychological depth, often leaving more questions than answers in their wake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTitles such as \u003cem\u003eGo Back at Once\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Inner Room\u003c\/em\u003e exemplify Aickman’s distinctive approach to narrative, where atmosphere and ambiguity take precedence. His writing appeals to those who appreciate fiction that challenges and intrigues, weaving an experience both thought-provoking and haunting.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-inner-room-by-robert-aickman-9780571351770","title":"The Inner Room","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his \u003cem\u003estrange stories\u003c\/em\u003e, Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition, and the hallucinated life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncanny inhabitants entered her dreams. Most chillingly, the geometries of the house didn't add up; there had to be a secret room inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYears later, she comes across a life-size version in a wood not marked on any map...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46554228326636,"sku":"9780571351770","price":9.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11193813482391.jpg?v=1750084513"},{"product_id":"the-wine-dark-sea-by-robert-aickman-9780571311729","title":"The Wine-Dark Sea","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Straub called Robert Aickman 'this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories'. Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term for them) are a subtle exploration of psychological displacement and paranoia. 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It tells the story of Cressida Hazeborough and her friend Vivien, two cuttingly intelligent young women in a misty, inter-war Britain. The pair have little patience for the company of the marriageable men they are meant to endure, yet neither do they possess the means to live as they might wish: together, and apart from the demands of modern society. What's a girl to do?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHaving left school and taken the sorts of London job available to women of their age and station, remarkable arrives: a great foreign poet, playwright, athlete, and soldier named Virgilio Vittore has successfully conquered the tiny country of Trino, on the Adriatic Sea, and is now governing it 'according to the laws of music.' Could this new utopia be a refuge for Cressida and Vivien, and indeed all who seek a life less ordinary? Or should the women, having arrived in this chaotic land, where love, life, and politics must submit to the rules of the beautiful, take to heart the advice of the novel's title?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSnobbish yet humane, reactionary yet camp, strait-laced yet queer, personal yet theatrical, old-fashioned yet radical, \u003cem\u003eGo Back at Once\u003c\/em\u003e reveals Robert Aickman as a master not only of the 'strange story,' but a romantic pessimist of the first order, deserving of a place beside the works of Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, or even Edward Gorey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486093623532,"sku":"9781913505202","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/00b84543afd27c6c5ade4657c18fd504.jpg?v=1775781798"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/robert-aickman.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}