Re: Robert Aickman
 

An Aickman adaptation is a difficult undertaking. After all, how do you adapt a feeling?

Re: Robert Aickman
 

I don't know if this has been posted somewhere else on the Network but Tartarus just put up the reissue of "Tales of Love and Death" for pre-order. Should be out the end of May.

http://freepages.pavilion.net/tartar...veanddeath.htm

All their other reissues of Aickman have been beautiful. Many thanks to them for their championing of Aickman.

Re: Robert Aickman
 

Hi all,

I'm a huge fan of Aickman's work and love reading and discussing his stories.

Whilst the Tartarus press hard back editions of his collections are great, they are a tad expensive and I would love paperback versions that would be more affordable to me.

I'm sorely tempted by "Tales of Love and Death" though...

Re: Robert Aickman
 

Just got in "Tales of Love and Death." Another VERY beautiful Aickman book by Tartarus. HIGHLY recommended.

Re: Robert Aickman
 

Robert Aickman in the Guardian newspaper today ... about THE HOSPICE:
Scary stories for Halloween: The Hospice by Robert Aickman | Books | guardian.co.uk
Des

PS: I wrote a short blog inspired by seeing this article:
The Hospice by Robert Aickman | The Nemonicon

Re: Robert Aickman
 

Not sure if this has been mentioned. (This thread has way too many posts to check) But The Wine Dark Sea, Cold Hand in Mine, & The Unsettled Dust are now available for Kindle at very reasonable prices. CHG

Re: Robert Aickman
 

After about 90 pages in my re-reading (after 40+ years) of 'The Magic Mountain' by Thomas Mann, I find it absolutely inconceivable that Robert Aickman had not read and been inspired (consciously or sub-consciously) by this book when writing his own canaon of stories.
As an side, regarding the balconies in it, can anyone remember - off hand - if Aickman mentioned any balconies or loggia in his works, to save me looking through them all!

Re: Robert Aickman
 

I wish someone would release Aickman's stories individually for kindle. I would be willing to pay five bucks a pop for the half dozen or so that I haven't read.

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Having completed my month-long real-time review of THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN by Thomas Mann (here: The Magic Mountain | Weirdmonger: The Nemonicon (Prime 2003) ), I am convinced that it must have been an enormous influence, outweighing any other influence, on the fiction of Robert Aickman. This is not only because of the similarity I seem to be the first to observe between The Hospice and The House Berghof, and their residents, and their meals, but also because of many other factors, including tone and beguiling disarming undercurrents and tropes, an absurd-weirdness that borders on nightmare as well as rationality.

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And since writing the above and having completed my review of 'The Magic Mountain', I have now re-read INTO THE WOOD by Robert AickMANN!
This novella seems to house a balustraded Sanatorium equivalent to that in `The Magic Mountain' (except it is for the Half-Sleep not the Half-Lung
Club!) where Mann's `horizontals' have become Aickman's `uprights', ritually walking off into the benighted wood, much like Hans Castorp once tried walking
off into the white-out of snow. Mann's sanatorium conveys tropes for the First World War, and Aickman's for the Second World War. Both `rest cures' of
encroaching death-luxury… Both sleep and hunger unpredictable quantities.
Lord Rosebery we’re told in this novella never got any sleep, and our female protagonist here, Margaret (another politician like Thatcher?) gradually loses the need for sleep as she approaches her own ritual withdrawal from life or her own Strindbergian Dance of Death… Within Mrs Slater’s ‘didactic stare’.