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Aickman died in the 1980s, and I found all of these stories difficult to date from the descriptions of dress, technology and general attitude of the characters. Apartments of the most various shapes and sizes led into one another in all directions without doors; and as no two apartments seemed to be decorated alike, the mirrors set up a chiaroscuro of reflections co-existent with but apparently independent of the rich and bewildering chiaroscuro of the apartments themselves.Definitely one of the better Aickman stories, it's subtle, but goes beyond his more subtle stories, with a more direct, horror story ending like "Ringing the Changes. And while that particular tale does not appear in Dark Entries, I was pleased to discover a similar tone with the stories in this collection. Bind Your Hair’ follows a young woman, Clarinda, as visits her fiancé’s family home and develops a fascination with Mrs Pagani, a charismatic woman she meets at a party. E, forse questo è un caso più unico che raro, per la prima volta non mi sento affatto di sconsigliare un autore come Robert Aickman, invero piuttosto atipico nella gestione del weird e capace di tessere atmosfere dall’indubbio fascino grazie a un prosa puntuale e sobria.

Although he falls in love with Ariel and finds the house idyllic, he notices some strange things about the place, in particular a number of inexplicable alterations to the landscape. The story concerns the protagonist a gentleman named Carfax a vulnerable and exhausted man who needs to get away from the hectic life in the city. His sentences are so elegant, so chilling, so clear yet so confusing, that you will find yourself thinking it must be some shortcoming of yours that you did not read between the lines. In contrast to this is the notion of friendship, surviving the vicissitudes of life and time and offering a measure of clemency. usually banal to the point that we don't even acknowledge that they have been read, have now become two of the most horrifying words in the English language.and I cut my teeth on the short stories of King, Straub, Etchison, Bradbury, Rasnic Tem, and other greats.