Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert Aickman

Episode 88 Occupied by Tim Rich   Tim Rich reads ‘Occupied' and discusses the poem with Mark McGuinness. https://media.blubrry.com/amouthfulofair/media.blubrry.com/amouthfulofair/content.blubrry.com/amouthfulofair/88_Occupied_by_Tim_Rich.mp3 This poem is from: Dark Angels: Three Contemporary Poets Available from: Dark Angels is available from: The publisher: Paekakariki Press Amazon: UK   Occupied by Tim Rich We buttered the cat's pawsand baked bread in borrowed tinsto make the unfamiliar speak of pleasureand our intentions to remain All that first daythe house talked to itselfabout us Later than I expected, light withdrew across our table, unopened cratesback through thin glasstowards tomorrow So the room released its formand we sat among one anothergiving our ears to the conversation:inner doorways muttering behind flat hands; oak floors—masonic in their black treacle gloss—deciding whether to settleunder our presence Later still, in bed, I stared sideways into an unlit universe, absentlymindwalking the bounds,relocking iron door-bolts like an old rifle, drawingdrawn curtains a little closer,charting the evaporating pathbehind that plane's descent In time, each stray thought went to its home, leaving this accommodation to take place: the air held here sighing gently,like contented tortoise breaths; the softening percussion of bodies sleeping; the punctuating crack and hiss as fresh eggs are brokeninto a smoking pan; someoneopening a window   Interview transcript Mark: Tim, where did this poem come from? Tim: So, almost always for me, poems just emerge out of some sort of inner dusk. I'm not someone that can go to their desk with a plan to write about a particular message or topic or piece of content. The poem just presents itself to me. And actually I don't really have any choice in the matter. I'm sort of just forced to be a transcriber in that moment. And I was looking at the sea the other day, and I had this moment when I just thought my poems are a bit like strange sea creatures that live on the seabed. And at a particular point in their life, they decide that they just want to go to the light and they start floating up through the murky water and explode in bubbles on the surface. And, you know, hopefully I'm there sitting in the poet's boat ready to haul them on board. So, that's almost always how poems start for me. And this poem very much began that way. I was at home on a winter's evening, and it just began to come through me, as it were. And the context for that was that after many years of living in the same house, my wife and I were starting to think about the possibility of moving. And, you know, it was a really exciting prospect but also it definitely was stirring up the sediment of my unconscious. I'm someone that really feels the need for a settled home, a settled place, and this unsettled me. So, I think that that was what was giving the raw energy to the content. And there was something else, which is what informed the scenery of the poem, if you like, which is this idea of light withdrawing from a space and what that does within the space. And when I was 11, I was living just with my dad, and he would come home from work later than I would get home from school. So, for the first year or so, he arranged for me to go to some elderly neighbours on the way home from school. So I was, sort of, watched, and we would sit in their front room, and they would load up their coal fire. And through the windows, the sun would set slowly, and they were so calm. They would hardly speak. When they did speak, it was about these, kind of, wonderful domestic details like, you know, what needs to be chopped for dinner, or are there any windfalls in the garden that we can harvest tomorrow? It was very, very calm. And, you know, the coals in the fire were glowing red, but the rest of the room just lost its light. And I remember the shape of their very heavy old furniture, and the picture frames, and the curtains all began to disappear. And that must have just lodged somewhere deep within me, because that's very much, as the poem came out, where I was also taken to in my mind. Mark: So, I like this. So, I mean, to put it bluntly, it's not like you moved into a house and then you wrote this. You were thinking about moving and then a house emerged from your unconscious, from memories of other houses and so on. Tim: Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Mark: And I think that's kind of a salutary thing to hear because… And this is a poem that really you read it and you totally believe it. It feels like a first-hand account of, well, we did this and this is what happened. And yet you're, kind of, pulling the rug from under our feet here, which is a nice thing in poetry. I think that you can't necessarily take it literally or face value. Tim: Well, we moved house… Yeah, we moved house about six months after I wrote the poem. So, I went through the experience of living the poem, which seems to be quite a good way around. Mark: Did you conjure the house, Tim? Tim: Actually, it was wonderful because it confirmed to me part of what motivated the poem, which is that I think we can all become a little bit… I don't know. Complacent seems to be too loaded a term, but we get so used to how our houses speak that we stop hearing them. And actually, there's this kind of wonderful symphony going on the whole time, you know, radiators making those strange percussive noises, and the way that the door squeaks, or suddenly, you know, how your staircase gets to a particular temperature in the middle of the night and decides to squeak. And they're constantly making these noises. And when you're living there, you stop hearing them. But when you move to somewhere for the first time, or sometimes if you go and stay in a haunted Airbnb in the woods, that first night particularly, everything's coming to you fresh. So, I think there's a strong sense of what's it like when a person moves into a space for the first time and that space has a character, and an energy, and a being of its own. Mark: So, really it's that state of heightened awareness, isn't it? You know, apparently this is how the mind works. If you've got a constant stimulus, the mind will tune it out. It's that Heaney line, you know, ‘The refrigerator whinnied into silence,' which is just that moment of… You only hear the fridge when it stops. Tim: Yeah. Mark: And what you're describing is the reverse of that. When you're in the house for the first time and everything is new and you're on hyperalert for the voices of the house. Tim: Yeah. And we're listening to our houses right now because there's a 1066 Line train from Hastings that's just gone into the tunnel over there. But we probably can't quite hear it on the microphones, but it's in the air and it's just touching elements of the house. And we're surrounded by this the whole time. And I think it's important to say, as soon as the poem had laid itself out on the page for the first time, it was clear to me that this poem was about people moving into a home for the first time, but it is also quite a vivid description, I think, of what was going through me at the time in terms of that unsettled nature. You know, I was quite surprised by the nature of the metaphors that my unconscious had presented me with. I mean, it's quite a portrait of anxiety to double-check the curtains, to lock a bolt as if it's an old rifle. You know, this is partly a portrait of an unsettled, anxious mind, which is, I think, something that I was going through at the time. Mark: And you've got some great similes, you know, the iron door bolts like an old rifle. And there's this lovely bit where you talk about ‘drawing drawn curtains'. And if you look on the website, then you can see that there's a line break after drawing, so it's drawing, line break, drawn curtains, which really just emphasises it's already drawn. You don't need to do it. This is the OCD kicking in, which really speaks to that anxiety you're describing. And I really love the second section where you say, ‘All that first day, the house talked to itself about us,' which is just a wonderfully unsettling idea that we are the intruders and the house has an opinion. Tim: Yeah, I definitely wasn't being sort of whimsically mystical about infrastructure and materials. It was definitely the feeling that there is an exchange when animals, human and other, come into a space. There's a change in energies and temperatures and sound and smells. And, you know, the dynamism of creatures come into a space that has been unoccupied, which is what generally most houses are, you know, sometimes for days, sometimes for months, and years before the new occupants come in. And I was just really taken with that idea that the house also needs to find its way of settling under these new occupants. And that seemed like a moment of 24 hours of the two parties eyeing each other and listening to each other and wondering about, ‘Who is this that I need to live with for these next years?' Mark: And it's quite a humbling poem, isn't it? Because, you know, when you think of owning the house or occupying the house, it's like you're the one in charge. But this poem just kind of subverts that idea that it's the house that's weighing us up, as in the people in the poem. It made me think of that TV series David Olusoga does, A House Through Time, where he gets an old house, and he goes through the records, and he looks at all the people who lived in the house and tells their story. And there's quite a lot of them, like, much more than I would have expected. You know, each episode goes on and on and on, and you just realise the house is staying there. The house is constant. These people, they're temporary. They might think they're the owners, but we're just passing through. Tim: We are passing through. It is a reminder of our mortality and our houses often way outlive us. Also, in recent years and decades, there's been an increase in the way in which people work from home, but that isn't a new thing. So, I wrote this poem in the house we lived in before, which was built to be a weaver's cottage, a live/work weaver's cottage. And, you know, they would find their living accommodation in quite modest corners of the house because a lot of it, at different times in the process, was given to equipment and storing material and a very intense version of live/work and working from home. And, you know, I think that part of when people suddenly a whole generation through particularly lockdowns but also just this change in working habits are spending much more of their life within the home quite often and what that means in terms of their relationship to the space and how the house relates to that. Tim: I think, just as I'm speaking, it occurs to me that perhaps also part of the influence of the atmosphere in the poem is around some of the fiction that I enjoy. And I haven't thought about this until we were talking now, but I like an M. R. James novel, or, you know, The Haunting of Hill House has just come to mind, and buildings and atmospheres that speak, as sort of some of the atmospheres you get in a Robert Aickman type horror novel. So, some of the classic British horror novels and that type of fiction. And just as we were talking about that, and I was also casting my eyes down the poem, there's some of the dusk that you get with those places, which is in this poem. And it's great, isn't it, coming back to one of your own poems quite a while after you wrote it, and you perhaps see some of the reasons for its being in a slightly different way. Mark: I mean, that's the basic premise of the haunted house is that the house is alive. I mean, you've not gone full Hammer Horror with this one. It's maybe a little more subtle, but you've definitely got some really wonderfully suggestive details. I loved ‘inner doorways muttering behind / flat hands, oak floors – masonic / in their black treacle gloss'. And that's so true. There are so many of these old houses. It's like, what happens to the wood? How does it get to be like treacle? And there's that heaviness and that opacity about it that you convey really well. Tim: Yeah. I was taken with the idea of the house being almost quite an august figure in some ways. It would be wrong to say it's proud of itself, but deciding whether to settle under our presence is quite… Mark: It's not aiming to please, is it? Tim: It's not. It's not easily won over. I mean, you know… Yeah, let's see what these new occupants are like. You know, what do they get up to? What are their tastes? What do we think of the prints that they put up on the wall? Mark: Yeah. Will they get it? Will they behave themselves? So you've got this lovely line in the third paragraph, ‘So the room released its form / and we sat among one another.' Well, thinking about the form of the poem, how close is this to, say, the first draft when you were hauling the sea creature out from the depths over the side of your poetic boat? Tim: Yeah, when the poem came out onto the page, it actually made a demand of me. It said, ‘I don't want you to put me into very organised type measures. I don't want to be sorted into regular stanzas. And also, I want you to be quite careful about any linguistic bells and whistles.' It just was a bit like the house. It had almost a sort of slightly stern feeling to it as a poem. It was very clear, and it was saying each of these stanzas, or scenes maybe, has to be as long as it wants to be. ‘I don't want you to spend time evening things up or creating consistency.' And there are many other poems that I've written where, of course, I'm deliberately very measured, very consistent. At the moment, a lot of the poems I'm writing have a lot of half rhymes but particularly a lot of internal rhymes. And, goodness, audaciously, you know, I even have a rhyming couplet in a poem that I'm working on at the moment. But this poem just said, ‘I don't want any of that.' Now, that's not to say that there aren't some half rhymes or suggestions of rhymes, and certainly some lovely withholding with words at the end of the line that only resolve as you move through into the next line, the enjambment of the word and the meaning falling over into the next line. Definitely that happens. But I tried to edit this into different shapes. I probably tried it five different ways, and each time it just felt wrong quite quickly actually. I tried to give it a consistent number of lines per stanza, and it repulsed me as a poem. It just said, ‘No, I need to be this free form.' And also, I had to accept that it's probably a little bit messier than I normally feel comfortable with. And it was good. I was like, ‘Actually, you know, just stop fighting. Just stop fighting it.' Sometimes your poems can be more irregular, more free, less obviously organised. And I think it has its rhythms that hold it together. It does for me. And listeners will decide, when they hear it, whether those rhythms are actually holding it together. Mark: Well, for me, it feels a bit like one of those old houses where you go in and there's not a right angle in sight. You know, the floors are sloping. The doors have to be a kind of trapezium to open and close, which I think is obviously true to the spirit of the thing. And it's like the house itself. It's not trying too hard. You can read it quite quickly, and it seems quite plain-spoken and spartan. But when you look, you notice the little details. Like, you know, there's the door bolts like a rifle, and the ‘nasonic', a wonderful adjective. And I've just noticed now, as we were talking, in the final verse, ‘In time, each stray thought / went to its home, leaving this / accommodation to take place'. And that's a lovely reframing of ‘accommodation', because the everyday sense is a place where you go and live, but it's an accommodation in the sense of a mutual alignment, almost like a negotiation or getting used to each other, which I think is really delightful. Mark: Okay, Tim, so I have to ask, looking again at the poem, what on earth is going on with buttering the cat's paws at the beginning? Tim: So, buttering the cat's paws is a bit of folk wisdom. And the idea is that when you move to a new house, if you have a cat or cats, that you actually put lovely, creamy butter on their paws and that they, you know, as cats do, will then spend time licking and licking and licking. And it means that more of their scent is put into the floor and the grounds of the place so they feel at home quicker and sooner. So they're sensing the place much more actively sooner. Now, I don't think there's any scientific evidence to suggest it works. But, you know, if anyone has any experience with this, I would love to hear it. But I don't really care, because the whole image of spreading beautiful, creamy butter onto the paws of the cat and that somehow just inviting them to feel that this place is home is more than enough for me. And I'd heard the phrase years and years and years before. And again, I think it was just the very first phrase that came out as the poem emerged. I think it was opening the doorway to the poem, and it felt very natural for it to be the beginning of the poem. I wonder now, looking back, whether there's something to do with the eye opened with an animal spirit. And so much of this poem really has come up from the unconscious. And I'm not starting with a very measured, conscious human, you know, activity or… I'm not saying, you know, ‘we made the decision to move'. It's not a person-led piece in the sense that, okay, we're doing the buttering, but it's the cat that's front and centre in that open line. And that's not something that I particularly thought about consciously at the time. But looking back, I think there's a hint there that we're not just talking about a straightforward human, rational response to living in a place. There are animal spirits too. Mark: Yeah, and it feels like a wonderful piece of folk magic. I mean, cats are magical creatures like witches' familiars. And, you know, maybe there's a magical aspect to that. It's a little ritual, isn't it? Tim: It is. I had a question for you, but it just came out of part of my experience of this poem going out into the world, which is that I've just been surprised, in a wonderful way, by how diverse and often surprising people's responses are to poems, how I can never really tell what it is about a poem someone's going to pick up and come back to you about. You know, for example, someone has given copies of this poem to friends when they move house. Mark: Oh, lovely. Tim: …as a housewarming present, a printed letterpress, which is very, very beautiful. Someone else said that they really loved sort of, what did they say, the soft absurdity around the house being almost this grand piece. And others have responded in different ways. And I think it's one of the wonders of poetry, maybe something that doesn't get talked about quite so much, which is that we interrogate the meaning for ourselves. And if you work with your editor and sometimes reviewers, meaning is discussed. But actually, my experience, when poems go out into the world, is it's just incredible how broad the range of response is and what people pick up on. And I suddenly think, well, is that just my experience? So what's it like for you? Are you constantly surprised by what people pick up and come back to and focus on with your poems? Mark: Yeah, it's a little bit like a Rorschach test, isn't it? People see themselves in it to a degree, or they see something that will resonate for them. And to me, it's the sign of a real poem if it can do that, if different people see different things in it. If it was too obvious and too, you know, two-dimensional, then that's fine, but it's not really a poem. And I think this is part of the magic of why poems can persist over time. Society is shifting all around them. Maybe a few of the houses are constant, but the poem still inhabits the space, and people still relate to it for decades or hundreds or even thousands of years sometimes. Tim: Yeah, I think there's an important point for poets that you have to maintain your confidence in ambiguity and what might feel like potential confusion. Of course, you need to think through how you're writing it and avoid unintended, poor consequences. But there's also a point in which I think you have to protect some of the messiness of meaning and not try to pin things down too much. Of course, there are different types of poets, and some poets need to be very clear and very message-driven. But I'm thinking, for me, there are sometimes moments when I think, ‘Am I just leaving this hanging and ambiguous and a bit dusky in terms of meaning?' And that's the point at which I think, ‘No, quite often just trust that people will find their own way into the poem.' Mark: Yeah, absolutely. And this is something I've seen a lot in classes, and it certainly happened to me very often. You know, the teacher will say you can cut the last line because we already get it. You don't need to underline the message of the poem. Sometimes we feel a bit nervous just leaving it hanging. And you've absolutely had the confidence to do that with the wonderful ending of this, where you talk about ‘the punctuating crack and hiss / as fresh eggs are broken / into a smoking pan. Someone / opening a window' – and that's it. I mean, tell me about that ending. How did you arrive at that? And did you go back and forth? Did you think, ‘Can I leave that window open, that line?' And by the way, listener, there is no full stop either to hang on to at that point! Tim: Yeah. I have to say, I do find myself clearing away more and more of the furniture of the poems. And there is a very deliberate lack of a full stop there. It was all there in the first draft that came out. It wasn't a constructed or reconstructed ending later on. Again, the poem seemed to want to open into something rather than close itself down and make a point. I think that in the action of the poem, we've moved through this dusky night, including a sort of bout of insomnia, of staring into the darkness. And then morning is coming, and it's full of new things. And there is something about that morning of waking up in a new house. What a moment in someone's life that is. Mark: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tim: It's just extraordinary. And there's a natural link there into the egg as a symbol. Something new, something is being born. And yeah, there may be many reasons why that window needed to be open. The smoke from the pan is one thing, which is all about the… Mark: Right, right. Setting the smoke alarm off! Tim: Yeah, it goes off in our kitchen quite often. And of course, the cooking is, again, this thing of humans being in a house and occupying it and all of the energy and dynamics. And how are you most going to make a new home your own? You're going to get out and start cooking and making a mess and eating together and getting things moving. I have no idea who the someone is, and I don't know what their motivation is for opening a window. And I like that. Mark: Okay. Well, let's have another listen to the poem and maybe, you know, each of us, as we listen to this this time, just see what associations come up for you. You know, houses you've lived in, places you've been, memories it conjures up. Thank you very much, Tim. What a lovely space to explore with this poem.   Occupied by Tim Rich We buttered the cat's pawsand baked bread in borrowed tinsto make the unfamiliar speak of pleasureand our intentions to remain All that first daythe house talked to itselfabout us Later than I expected, light withdrew across our table, unopened cratesback through thin glasstowards tomorrow So the room released its formand we sat among one anothergiving our ears to the conversation:inner doorways muttering behind flat hands; oak floors—masonic in their black treacle gloss—deciding whether to settleunder our presence Later still, in bed, I stared sideways into an unlit universe, absentlymindwalking the bounds,relocking iron door-bolts like an old rifle, drawingdrawn curtains a little closer,charting the evaporating pathbehind that plane's descent In time, each stray thought went to its home, leaving this accommodation to take place: the air held here sighing gently,like contented tortoise breaths; the softening percussion of bodies sleeping; the punctuating crack and hiss as fresh eggs are brokeninto a smoking pan; someoneopening a window   Dark Angels: Three Contemporary Poets ‘Occupied' is from Dark Angels: Three Contemporary Poets, published by Paekakariki Press. Available from: Dark Angels is available from: The publisher: Paekakariki Press Amazon: UK     Tim Rich Tim Rich grew up in the woods of Sussex and now lives and writes by the sea in Hastings. His poems have been published in numerous anthologies and journals, including Dark Angels: Three Contemporary Poets (Paekakariki Press) and Poet Town (Moth Light Press). The Landfall series – exhibited at the Bloomsbury Festival, London — brought together his poetry and photography. He has five poems in the anthology Family Matters, a collection of poetry about family, to be published in 2026. Alongside poetry, Tim writes, edits and ghostwrites books.  timrich.com Photograph by Maxine Silver   A Mouthful of Air – the podcast This is a transcript of an episode of A Mouthful of Air – a poetry podcast hosted by Mark McGuinness. New episodes are released every other Tuesday. You can hear every episode of the podcast via Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts or your favourite app. You can have a full transcript of every new episode sent to you via email. The music and soundscapes for the show are created by Javier Weyler. Sound production is by Breaking Waves and visual identity by Irene Hoffman. A Mouthful of Air is produced by The 21st Century Creative, with support from Arts Council England via a National Lottery Project Grant. Listen to the show You can listen and subscribe to A Mouthful of Air on all the main podcast platforms Related Episodes Occupied by Tim Rich Episode 88 Occupied by Tim Rich  Tim Rich reads ‘Occupied' and discusses the poem with Mark McGuinness.This poem is from: Dark Angels: Three Contemporary PoetsAvailable from: Dark Angels is available from: The publisher: Paekakariki Press Amazon: UK... 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Here’s the audio from the Dec 10th Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading, with guests Daniel Braum & Martin Cahill. Both read from their work on a rainy evening to a packed enthusiastic house. Support the Fantastic Fiction at KGB series by clicking here!​​​​​​​​​​​​ ​ Daniel Braum Daniel Braum writes short stories that explore the tension between the supernatural and the psychological. He intentionally adopts the term “strange tales” for his “Twilight Zone-like” stories in homage to author Robert Aickman and the intentional ambiguities in his work. His most recent books are the illustrated short story collections Creatures of Liminal Space (Jackanapes Press) and Phantom Constellations: Strange Tales and Ghost Stories (Cemetery Dance). His stories also appear in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Shivers 8, and the Best Horror of the Year Volume 12. Braum is also the host of the Night Time Logic Series which has entered its tenth year of interviews and spotlighting dark fiction. & Martin Cahill Martin Cahill is the author of the USA Today bestselling book, Audition For The Fox, released in September from Tachyon Publications. He is also the writer of Critical Role: Armory of Heroes, and contributed to Critical Role: Vox Machina – Stories Untold. Martin was a 2022 Ignyte Award nominee for Best Short Story and a graduate of the 2014 Clarion Writers’ Workshop. He has published fiction with Reactor, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed Magazine, appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019, and much more. Martin also writes, and has written, book reviews, articles, and essays for Reactor, Writer’s Digest, Catapult, and others.

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When two friends hiking in the Pennines become lost, they think their fortunes have changed when they find refuge in the old Roper house. But as the night draws in and the house begins to reveal its dark secrets, they discover all is not what it seems.This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted Horror. “THE TRAINS” by Robert Aickman (1951). Compiled in “The Wine-Dark Sea” by Robert Aickman. Published by Faber & Faber. Read with permission.

Listen in as we discuss Robert Aickman's strange short story of sexual trauma, The Swords.

In the remote Canadian wilderness, an ill-fated hunting trip turns into a nightmare when one of the guides vanishes into the night, leaving behind only his screams of burning feet and a trail of something far more terrifying than any beast of the forest.Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version. https://weirddarkness.com/syndicateInfo on the next LIVE SCREAM event. https://weirddarkness.com/LiveScreamInfo on the next WEIRDO WATCH PARTY event. https://weirddarkness.com/TVIN THIS EPISODE: “The Wendigo” is a novella written by Algernon Blackwood. It was originally published in the 1910 collection “The Lost Valley and Other Stories” which I've placed a link to in the show notes. The story involves a hunting party that gets separated in the Canadian wilderness in search for moose. One of the party members is abducted by the legendary Wendigo. Fellow author Robert Aickman once said of the story, it's "...one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field". Here's hoping you agree with him.CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Disclaimer and Lead-In00:02:32.616 = Show Open00:04:33.284 = A Brief Look At The Author00:07:38.615 = The Wendigo, Part 100:22:54.738 = The Wendigo, Part 200:48:19.248 = The Wendigo, Part 301:09:00.423 = The Wendigo, Part 401:33:13.209 = The Wendigo, Part 501:54:15.127 = The Wendigo, Part 602:00:44.066 = Show Close02:01:49.052 = BloopersSOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…Episode Page at WeirdDarkness.com: https://weirddarkness.com/TheWendigo“The Wendigo” by Algernon Blackwood: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/n8bff63y=====(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: April 09, 2020TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5n7vkx8c

Henry Fern, an elitist who nevertheless lives a most un-elite life, finds himself drawn to Venice by a recurring dream of romance and connection. His arrival in the famed city brings not the fulfillment of his fantasies, but a stark confrontation with decay and disillusionment. As Fern grapples with his shattered expectations, a mysterious encounter leads him on a haunting gondola ride through Venice's shadowy canals. What begins as a journey to reclaim a lost dream soon unravels into a chilling exploration of desire, mortality, and the thin line between reality and nightmare. This narration delves into the depths of human longing and the sometimes terrifying consequences of pursuing our deepest wishes. ⭐ Join my Patreon ⭐ https://patreon.com/barcud Go here for a library of ad-free stories, a monthly members only story and early access to the regular stories I put out.  You can choose to have ghost stories only, or detective stories or classic literature, or all of them for either $5 or $10 a month.  Many hundreds of hours of stories. Who needs Audible? Or, if you'd just like to make a one-off gesture of thanks for my work https://buymeacoffee.com/10mn8sk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This time, we listened to and read Ringing the Changes by Robert Aickman. Robert Fordyce Aickman was an English conservationist and writer. As a conservationist, he played a key role in preserving and restoring England's inland canal system. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories."On his mother's side, Aickman was the grandson of the prolific Victorian novelist Richard Marsh. Marsh is known for his occult thriller The Beetle, a book as popular in its time as Bram Stoker's Dracula. Aickman is best known for his 48 "strange stories," published across eight volumes.Podcast favorite Jeremy Dyson has adapted Aickman's work in various forms. Listen to episode 8 for our most in-depth look at Jeremy's work. A musical version of Aickman's short story The Same Dog, co-written by Dyson and Joby Talbot, premiered in 2000 at the Barbican Concert Hall.In 2000, Dyson, along with his League of Gentlemen collaborator Mark Gatiss, adapted Ringing the Changes into a BBC Radio Four play, airing exactly twenty years after the CBC adaptation. This adaptation was intended to start a tradition of 'An Aickman Story for Halloween,' but unfortunately, it did not continue. Dyson also directed a 2002 short film based on Aickman's story The Cicerones, with Gatiss as the principal actor.It is this Dyson/Gatiss adaptation that we listened to for this episode. (Thanks to ‘Mysterious Magpie' for putting this up on YouTube so we could listen to it)The cast includes George Baker as Gerald. Baker is known for his roles in The Dam Busters as Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, Tiberius in I, Claudius, D.C.I. Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Decider Logrin in the Doctor Who story Full Circle, and appearances in two James Bond films. Fiona Allen plays Phrynne. Allen is an actress and writer known for 24 Hour Party People, Smack the Pony, and Poirot. She has been married to Michael Parkinson since April 2001. This surprised Ross when writing this until he discovered it wasn't ‘That' Michael Parkinson (see episode 18 of this podcast for more about him). Instead, it's the patronymic son of the chat show legend, whom she met while he was working as a location manager on Smack the Pony. Confused? I am! Friend of the show Mark Gatiss appears as the Narrator and Mr. Pascoe, the landlord. Commandant Shortcroft is played by Michael Cochrane, known for his role in 280 episodes of The Archers, Arnold (Private Godfrey) Ridley in We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story, and for playing three different characters in three different episodes of Heartbeat.Barbara Shelley plays Mrs. Pascoe. Known to our podcast listeners for her portrayal of Barbara Judd in the Hammer version of Quatermass and the Pit (reviewed in episode 34), she also starred in The Village of the Damned (which we need to review soon), Dracula: Prince of Darkness (one of the Dracula films we still need to cover), Rasputin: The Mad Monk, The Gorgon, and the 1958 Hammer wannabe Blood of the Vampire, written by Jimmy Sangster. She also appeared in both Blake's 7 and Doctor Who— as I'm sure James is dying to know, we can tell you she played Sorasta in Planet of Fire and was considered for the role of Tanha in Snakedance… but that's enough Doctor Who for now… Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/general-witchfinders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🖤Páginas del diario de una adolescente es un relato de vampiros del autor Robert Aickman, con el que ganó el Premio World Fantasy en 1975. El relato consiste en las entradas del diario de una joven que cuenta su progresiva transformación en vampira, permaneciendo ignorante de lo que ocurre y adquiriendo un carácter cada vez más perverso. El relato apareció por primera vez en 1973 en The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction y dos años después en el libro Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1975). A comienzos del siglo XIX una joven inglesa y sus padres realizan un viaje de placer por Italia, deteniéndose en la ciudad de Rávena donde disfrutan de la hospitalidad de una condesa local. La joven anota en el diario su hastío y sus impresiones del lugar, pero en una fiesta celebrada por la condesa conoce a un enigmático caballero de edad indefinida por el que se siente irresistible atraída. En los días siguientes la joven descubre una pequeña herida en su cuello al mismo tiempo que provoca desasosiego entre quienes la rodean. La condesa y la madre de la joven discuten, y la familia inglesa abandona el palacio, dirigiéndose a la ciudad de Rímini. La joven comienza a tener extraños sueños con el caballero que conoció en la fiesta, al mismo tiempo que se siente cada vez más cambiada. Finalmente terminará esperando el momento de unirse a las criaturas de la noche. Audio y sonido remasterizado: Olga Paraíso, marca registrada Historias para ser Leídas La base musical pertenece a Epidemic Sound con licencia Premium autorizada Art by María Kuzmícheva 🛑BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas ▶️Canal de YouTube Historias para ser Leídas con nuevo contenido: https://www.youtube.com/c/OlgaParaiso 📢Nuevo canal informativo en Telegram: https://t.me/historiasparaserleidas Canal WhatsApp Historias para ser leídas: ✅https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaCmoVmLtOjEBDYgYc00 🚀❤️ Si esta historia te ha cautivado y deseas unirte a nuestro grupo de taberneros galácticos, tienes la oportunidad de contribuir y apoyar mi trabajo desde tan solo 1,49 euros al mes. Al hacerlo, tendrás acceso exclusivo a todos las historias para nuestros mecenas y podrás disfrutar de todos los episodios sin interrupciones publicitarias. ¡Agradezco enormemente tu apoyo y tu fidelidad!. 🖤Aquí te dejo la página directa para apoyarme: https://www.ivoox.com/support/552842 🚀 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

WE’RE SO CLOSE TO THE END! It’s the penultimate “Dark Descent” story and it’s a whopper! “The Hospice” is quintessential Robert Aickman: it’s creepy, offbeat, weird, strange, chilling and inexplicable. We really loved it and now… only one story to go!

The lives of a young girl and boy are changed irrevocably following an encounter with a strange dog at a mysterious house. But what really happened that day, and was it (as Mary suggests) a “haunted house”? This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted Horror. You can hear me discuss this story by becoming a Patreon or YouTube channel member and listening to episode 14 of The EnCrypted Postmortem. (Due to various issues these will be uploaded in the near future!)

Elizabeth Jane Howard, born on March 26, 1923, in London, England, was a distinguished English novelist known for her versatile literary contributions. Howard began her career as an actress and model before venturing into writing in 1947. Throughout her prolific career, she penned 12 novels, with her most acclaimed work being the five-volume family saga, 'The Cazalet Chronicles.' Her narrative prowess was not confined to family sagas, as exemplified by her collaboration with Robert Aickman on the collection 'We Are For The Dark: Six Ghost Stories,' published in 1951. Although she gained widespread recognition for her family sagas, Howard's foray into the supernatural, as evidenced by 'Three Miles Up' and other stories, showcased her ability to masterfully blend genres and explore the complexities of human relationships. Elizabeth Jane Howard was secretary of the Inland Waterways Association. Ghost stories and the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) share a curious connection, intertwining literature and the preservation of Britain's canal  heritage. This connection is particularly evident through notable figures such as Robert Aickman, L. T. C. Rolt, and Elizabeth Jane Howard, each leaving a unique mark on both realms. Elizabeth Jane Howard's creative collaboration with Robert Aickman resulted in the publication of 'We Are For The Dark,' a collection that marked a significant departure from both authors' conventional works. Released in 1951, the anthology features six ghost stories, three contributed by each author. Notably, the book was published during their romantic relationship. Robert Aickman describes her as “one of the most brilliant [of women]” and a bit of a looker “so beautiful that continuous problems arose, especially when, at a later date, she joined the Association's Council. Little in the way of completely normal business was possible or sensible, when she was in the room. … By merely existing, she promoted loves and hates which, through no fault of hers, left some who felt them, fevered and wasted”. My reading of Three Miles Up is that it is a modern fairy story where Sharon represents one of the fae and leads them into The Perilous Realm. Fairyland is not always a beautiful alluring place, it can be a place of horror and strangeness. We cannot trust the Good People, no matter how fair they seem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PLEASE SHARE THIS EPISODE in your social media so others who love strange and macabre stories can listen too! https://weirddarkness.com/the-wendigo-by-algernon-blackwood/IN THIS EPISODE: “The Wendigo” is a novella written by Algernon Blackwood. It was originally published in the 1910 collection “The Lost Valley and Other Stories” which I've placed a link to in the show notes. The story involves a hunting party that gets separated in the Canadian wilderness in search for moose. One of the party members is abducted by the legendary Wendigo. Fellow author Robert Aickman once said of the story, it's "...one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field". Here's hoping you agree with him. *** (Originally aired April 09, 2020)SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…Visit our Sponsors & Friends: https://weirddarkness.com/sponsorsJoin the Weird Darkness Syndicate: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicateAdvertise in the Weird Darkness podcast or syndicated radio show: https://weirddarkness.com/advertise= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music Library, EpidemicSound and/or StoryBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ) Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and Nicolas Gasparini (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission of the artists.= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =OTHER PODCASTS I HOST…Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymagMicro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrorsRetro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradioChurch of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2023, Weird Darkness.= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/the-wendigo-by-algernon-blackwood/This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3655291/advertisement

"Strange stories" is the way Robert Aickman (1914-1981) described his fiction and to be honest that's putting it mildly. When he wasn't writing fiction that leaves both his protagonists and his readers in some very weird places, he was involved in an investigation into the haunting of Borley Rectory, was a member of The Ghost Club and he also co-founded the British Inland Waterways Association to restore canals. Matthew Sweet is joined by three fans of his work - critic Suzy Feay, writer Andrew Male and publisher R.B. Russell. Producer: Torquil MacLeod Robert Aickman published the following collections of stories: Powers of Darkness (1966), Sub Rosa (1968), Cold Hand in Mine (1976), Tales of Love and Death (1977) and Intrusions (1980) You can find other spooky Free Thinking episodes including a discussion of Ghost Stories with Irving Finkel and Jeremy Dyson, a ghost hunt in Portsmouth and a discussion of Blade Runner and a programme about the TV programme Ghostwatch

We present the horror story “Ringing the Changes,” by Robert Aickman. A British couple taking a seaside holiday encounter a strange seasonal celebration, which changes them forever. Our slightly abridged version is based on Aickman's 1964 story from the collection, Dark Entries, Curious and Macabre Ghost Stories. The post Ringing the Changes appeared first on Bone and Sickle.

Robert Aickman ist selbst in seinem Heimatland England ein vergessener Autor. Der 1914 geborene und 1981 an Krebs gestorbene Schriftsteller ist für Peter Straub der “tiefgründigste Verfasser” von Horrorstories des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine Leserschaft, die ihn über den Kultstatus hinaus brachte, fand er zu seinen Lebzeiten nicht. Der renommierte britische Verlag Faber & Faber hat das zu Aickmans Hundertsten Geburtstag 2014 geändert und veröffentlichte eine Sammlung seiner lang nicht mehr in Druck befindlichen Erzählungen. Bei uns brachte der DuMont-Verlag zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre zwei schmale Büchlein mit willkürlich zusammengestellten Geschichten heraus und bis zum heutigen Tag galt es als ziemlich unwahrscheinlich, dass wir mehr von diesem brillanten Autor bekommen. Doch manchmal geschehen tatsächlich Wunder, und so hat sich der Festa-Verlag der Sache angenommen und bringt in 6 Bänden die Werke des englischen Genies heraus. Folge direkt herunterladen

The bells are ringing! This week the Abyss gang is joined by Daniel Braum to talk about those damn bells in Robert Aickman's Ringing the Changes. Before dancing the night away they chat up Braum's The Serpent's Shadow, God is a Bullet, Kiersten White's Hide, The Changeling, and White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link. Now if only those bells would shut up so you could listen! Buy The Serpent's Shadow

ESPELEOLOGIA (s.f.) “é o estudo das cavernas, de sua gênese e evolução, do meio físico que elas representam, de seu povoamento biológico atual ou passado, bem como dos meios ou técnicas que são próprias ao seu estudo”. Na Raphus Press, no canal RES FICTA, os episódios de “Espeleologia” são comentários sobre questões que escapam do livro, envolvendo discussões teóricas mais amplas de poéticas e formas narrativas. Conheça nossa campanha no Catarse, “Kzradock”: https://www.catarse.me/krzadock Conheça também a campanha de O Grifo que mencionamos, “No caminho para Hades”, volume 1: https://www.catarse.me/persefone1 O livro de Robert Aickman, “Repique Macabro e Outras Histórias Estranhas”, pode ser adquirido aqui: https://www.seboclepsidra.com.br/aickman Entre para a nossa sociedade, dedicada à bibliofilia maldita e ao culto de tenebrosos grimórios: o RES FICTA (solicitações via http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html). Nosso podcast também está disponível nas seguintes plataformas: - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NUiqPPTMdnezdKmvWDXHs - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-da-raphus-press/id1488391151?uo=4 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMDlmZmVjNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw%3D%3D Apoie o canal: https://apoia.se/podcastdaraphus. Ou adquira nossos livros em nosso site: http://raphuspress.weebly.com. Dúvidas sobre envio, formas de pagamento, etc.: http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html.

Robert AickmanRobert Aickman was a British author best known for his highly influential and distinctive contributions to the genre of supernatural fiction. Born on June 27, 1914, in London, England, Aickman spent much of his life exploring his passion for writing and exploring the depths of the human psyche through his unique brand of storytelling.Aickman's early life was marked by a fascination with the strange and macabre. As a child, he developed an interest in ghost stories and the supernatural, which would later become significant themes in his works. He attended Highgate School in London and went on to study law at Cambridge University, although he eventually chose not to pursue a legal career.Instead, Aickman became deeply involved in various literary endeavors. He co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, an organization dedicated to preserving Britain's canal systems, and served as its chairman for many years. This passion for the waterways and their mysteries would find its way into some of his stories, where canals often serve as eerie and unsettling settings.Aickman's writing career began in the late 1940s, and he initially focused on non-fiction. He worked as a critic, reviewer, and editor, writing for magazines such as the London Mercury and the Times Literary Supplement. During this time, he became acquainted with many prominent literary figures, including J.R.R. Tolkien, who became a friend and a source of inspiration.However, it was in the realm of short stories that Aickman truly made his mark. His first collection, "We Are for the Dark," was published in 1951, followed by several other collections over the years. Aickman's stories are characterized by their atmospheric prose, subtle psychological horror, and an emphasis on the uncanny and the unknown. His tales often feature ordinary characters thrust into extraordinary and unsettling situations, where the line between reality and the supernatural becomes blurred.Aickman's writing gained critical acclaim and a devoted following, particularly among fellow authors and aficionados of weird fiction. His unique style and narrative approach set him apart from other writers of his time. His works have been praised for their ability to evoke a sense of unease and disquietude, exploring the hidden fears and desires lurking beneath the surface of everyday life.Although Aickman's writing career was relatively short-lived, spanning roughly three decades, his impact on the genre cannot be overstated. He received numerous accolades for his contributions, including the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1981. Despite this recognition, Aickman's work remained somewhat underappreciated during his lifetime, but his reputation has grown steadily in the years since his death.Robert Aickman passed away on February 26, 1981, in London, leaving behind a rich legacy of unsettling and enigmatic tales. His stories continue to captivate readers with their haunting atmosphere, intricate subtleties, and exploration of the strange and inexplicable. Aickman's unique vision and distinctive voice ensure his enduring place as one of the most original and influential authors in the realm of supernatural fiction.New Patreon RequestBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREESupport the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback

David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks has been a touchstone of Weird Studies since the podcast's inception. Back in 2018, Phil and JF recorded Episode 1: Garmonbozia while still reeling from the series' third season, which aired on Showtime the year before. Now, in preparation for their upcoming course (https://www.nuralearning.com) on Twin Peaks, they watched the third season again and recorded this episode. Their conversation touched on the virtues of late style in the arts, the divergence of knowing and understanding, the fate of Agent Dale Cooper, and the dream logic of the _Twin Peaks _universe. Last change to sign up for The Twin Peaks Mythos (https://www.nuralearning.com/twin-peaks-mythos), a 4-week Weird Studies view-along starting June 8th, 2023. Listen to Meredith Michael and Gabriel Lubell's podcast, Cosmophonia (https://cosmophonia.podbean.com/). Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) and gain access to Phil's podcast on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Download Pierre-Yves Martel's new album, Mer Bleue (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/mer-bleue). Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! REFERENCES Symposium at Lily Dale (https://www.shannontaggart.com/events/lily-dale-2023), July 27-29, 2023 David Lynch and Mark Frost (creators), [Twin Peaks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TwinPeaks)_ David Lynch (dir.), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105665/) Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What is Philosophy? (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780231079891) Chris Carter (creator), [The X-Files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheX-Files)_ Erik Davis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Davis), American scholar, lecturer, and journalist Thomas Ligotti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ligotti), American writer Stephen King (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King), American writer Joshua Brand and John Falsey (creators), [Northern Exposure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorthernExposure)_ James Elkins, Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings (https://bookshop.org/p/books/pictures-tears-a-history-of-people-who-have-cried-in-front-of-paintings-james-elkins/9056115?ean=9780415970532) David Lynch (dir.), Mulholland Drive (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/) Robert Aickman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aickman), English writer of "strange stories" Manuel DeLanda on signification vs significance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnoKUKax9sw) Weird Studies, episode 105 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/105): Fire Walk With Tamler Sommers Kyle McLachlan interview (https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/06/twin-peaks-diner-scene-kyle-maclachlan) in Vanity Fair

Want to hear a campfire story? Listen carefully as Amy Gramour reads our first part of "The Wendigo" another camper tale, this time set in the Canadian wilderness. A hunting party separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo of legend. Robert Aickman regarded this as "one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Want to hear a campfire story? Listen carefully as Amy Gramour reads our first part of "The Wendigo" another camper tale, this time set in the Canadian wilderness. A hunting party separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo of legend. Robert Aickman regarded this as "one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode, we are very excited to welcome back author Daniel Braum (see episode 18).  Daniel Braum writes “strange tales” in the tradition of Robert Aickman. His stories, set in locations around the globe, explore the tension between the psychological and supernatural.He is the author of the collections Underworld Dreams, The Wish Mechanics: Stories of the Strange and Fantastic, and Yeti Tiger Dragon. The all-new Cemetery Dance Publications edition of his first short story collection The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales is out May 19th.Cemetery Dance Publications will be releasing his novella The Serpent's Shadow in Fall 2023.We talk to Daniel about the re-release of his first short story collection, The Night Marchers and Other Strange Tales. Daniel tells us how it was to revisit these stories and about the gorgeous cover that Dan Sauer created for it. We ask about his hope for the collection.We pick Daniel's brain about changes in the industry that he has seen since this collection first came out. We also chat about story revisions, story endings, and other areas of rewrites that are challenging.We asked Daniel about the reoccurring elements of water and music in his work, the answers may intrigue you. We asked how Daniel creates such rich settings and characters and joins them together for some unforgettable stories.We discuss the power of the liminal space between the supernatural and science and the human condition.Daniel reads from Music of the Spheres, the opening story of the collection.Daniel Braum can be found here: https://bloodandstardust.wordpress.com/and on his Amazon Author Page.Brenda is here: https://brendatolian.com/Joy is here: https://www.joyyehle.com/**When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.*Disclaimer: Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Podcasters. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the podcast does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Views and opinions expressed by guests do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the podcasters.

Join us as we discuss Robert Aickman's award-winning short story The Stains with special guest, writer/director Jeremy Dyson!

The spider tackles Painted Devils, a collection of strange stories (perhaps not horror but darkly surreal in a horror-adjacent way) by the author Robert Aickman. Dense and enigmatic, these stories use the uncanny to explore various themes, particularly the life of the artist. Recorded just in time for Halloween but then posted in the middle of January.

We’re diving back into “The Dark Descent” because watching movies has PROVED DIFFICULT! And, what a story to dive into! It’s Robert Aickman’s “The Swords” and it’s about… sex? Stabbing? Thrusting? It’s fairly explicit and fairly grimy and we talk about it for a WHILE. Enjoy!

Robert Aickman ist selbst in seinem Heimatland England ein vergessener Autor. Der 1914 geborene und 1981 an Krebs gestorbene Schriftsteller ist für Peter Straub der “tiefgründigste Verfasser” von Horrorstories des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine Leserschaft, die ihn über den Kultstatus hinaus brachte, fand er zu seinen Lebzeiten nicht. Der renommierte britische Verlag Faber & Faber hat das zu Aickmans Hundertsten Geburtstag 2014 geändert und veröffentlichte eine Sammlung seiner lang nicht mehr in Druck befindlichen Erzählungen. Bei uns brachte der DuMont-Verlag zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre zwei schmale Büchlein mit willkürlich zusammengestellten Geschichten heraus und bis zum heutigen Tag galt es als ziemlich unwahrscheinlich, dass wir mehr von diesem brillanten Autor bekommen. Doch manchmal geschehen tatsächlich Wunder, und so hat sich der Festa-Verlag der Sache angenommen und bringt in 6 Bänden die Werke des englischen Genies heraus. Musik von Kevin MacLeod. Folge direkt herunterladen

As a prelude to our Halloween history episodes this year, we delve into the world of 1980s radio and unearth a Halloween special from the scarifying Canadian show Nightfall! In this seasonal episode we hear a dramatization of a strange tale from Robert Aickman about a couple who unwisely choose to take a break in a small village on All Hallows Eve...

This story by Nugent Barker comes from his anthology Written By My Left Hand, which I guess is a pointer to the fact that they deal with things that emerge from the night side of the mind, the subconscious. It is a story about the Devouring Mother told in a dream-like way. It's horror for sure. It's short and leaves you scratching your head, yet it is told in a familiar way from ghost stories where gentlemen are sitting in their study around a blazing fire sipping whiskey toddies while they swap scary stories. The content of the story is less than straightforward though. You have the benefit of my thoughts afterwards. Just for you, here's a link to this whole book online as a PDFhttps://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/B/Barker%20-%20Written%20With%20My%20Left%20Hand.pdf## Get All Episodes Ad Free!$1 a month for the whole back catalog of episodes on Patreon. Download at your leisure. https://www.patreon.com/barcud## Buy Dracula Audiobook for DownloadBuy it directly from me at a knockdown price £4.99.  https://ko-fi.com/s/a7a5c648b8## If You Appreciate The Work I've Put In Here You could buy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker or join as a Patron for members only stories for $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/barcud)## Late Night Talk RadioListen to my other podcast! Here [Classic Ghost Stories Episodes – The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast](https://link.chtbl.com/late_night)#audiobook #horroraudiobook #freeaudiobook #horror #classicghoststoriesThe story is reminiscent of Robert Aickman or Bruno Schulz for its uncanny unnerving weirdness.#freeaudiobooks #weirdtales #horror Support the show

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BIBLIOTECA SUBMERSA é a nova série de episódios do Podcast da Raphus Press, uma ironia bastante séria com o conceito de canônico e marginal, de popular e elitista, de aceito e não aceito, a partir das obras de autores que, aparentemente, tinham alguma influência (ou relevância) de certas obras ou autores no passado e que, hoje, parecem ausentes das livrarias, cadernos culturais, canais de vídeo na Internet. Nossa inspiração é Jorge Luis Borges e uma conhecida citação de Virginia Woolf: “Livros usados são selvagens, destituídos; surgem em grandes bandos de penas variadas e possuem certo encanto que falta aos volumes domesticados de uma biblioteca.” Acervo revisto de hoje: O horror do arcontado (assombros ficcionais de Mark Samuels) Obras citadas: “The Prozess Manifestations” e “Posterity” de Mark Samuels. Artigo sobre o conceito, estabelecido por Jacques Derrida, dos “arcontes da verdade”: http://pepsic.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-24302010000200002 Conheça Robert Aickman, o autor citado de forma satírica e terrorífica por Mark Samuels: https://www.seboclepsidra.com.br/aickman Entre para a nossa sociedade, dedicada à bibliofilia maldita e ao culto de tenebrosos grimórios: o RES FICTA (solicitações via http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html). Nosso podcast também está disponível nas seguintes plataformas: - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NUiqPPTMdnezdKmvWDXHs - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-da-raphus-press/id1488391151?uo=4 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMDlmZmVjNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw%3D%3D Apoie o canal: https://apoia.se/podcastdaraphus. Ou adquira nossos livros em nosso site: http://raphuspress.weebly.com. Dúvidas sobre envio, formas de pagamento, etc.: http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html.

Elizabeth and Elliott Firmin's marriage comes under strain as they become increasingly disturbed by their young son's behaviour. This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast. "The Firmin Child" by Richard Blum (1965).

BIBLIOTECA SUBMERSA é a nova série de episódios do Podcast da Raphus Press, uma ironia bastante séria com o conceito de canônico e marginal, de popular e elitista, de aceito e não aceito, a partir das obras de autores que, aparentemente, tinham alguma influência (ou relevância) de certas obras ou autores no passado e que, hoje, parecem ausentes das livrarias, cadernos culturais, canais de vídeo na Internet. Nossa inspiração é Jorge Luis Borges e uma conhecida citação de Virginia Woolf: “Livros usados são selvagens, destituídos; surgem em grandes bandos de penas variadas e possuem certo encanto que falta aos volumes domesticados de uma biblioteca.” Episódio especial: Fábio Waki descreve seus processos de construção narrativa para a criação de narrativas como “A Suspensão”, que será publicada na segunda época de Emissários Sombrios”. Acervo revisto de hoje: Obras citadas: “Repique Macabro e Outras Histórias Estranhas”, de Robert Aickman. O livro “Repique Macabro e Outras Histórias Estranhas” pode ser adquirido aqui: https://www.seboclepsidra.com.br/aickman. Apoie nossa nova campanha no Catarse, para conhecer o conto de Fábio Waki e outras narrativas espetaculares: “Emissários Sombrios, Segunda Época” (https://www.catarse.me/emissarios_segunda_epoca). Entre para a nossa sociedade, dedicada à bibliofilia maldita e ao culto de tenebrosos grimórios: o RES FICTA (solicitações via http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html). Nosso podcast também está disponível nas seguintes plataformas: - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NUiqPPTMdnezdKmvWDXHs - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-da-raphus-press/id1488391151?uo=4 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMDlmZmVjNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw%3D%3D Apoie o canal: https://apoia.se/podcastdaraphus. Ou adquira nossos livros em nosso site: http://raphuspress.weebly.com. Dúvidas sobre envio, formas de pagamento, etc.: http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html.

BIBLIOTECA SUBMERSA é a nova série de episódios do Podcast da Raphus Press, uma ironia bastante séria com o conceito de canônico e marginal, de popular e elitista, de aceito e não aceito, a partir das obras de autores que, aparentemente, tinham alguma influência (ou relevância) de certas obras ou autores no passado e que, hoje, parecem ausentes das livrarias, cadernos culturais, canais de vídeo na Internet. Nossa inspiração é Jorge Luis Borges e uma conhecida citação de Virginia Woolf: “Livros usados são selvagens, destituídos; surgem em grandes bandos de penas variadas e possuem certo encanto que falta aos volumes domesticados de uma biblioteca.” Episódio especial: Oscar Nestarez, escritor, pesquisador e tradutor, tece comentários a respeito de seu trabalho de tradução mais desafiador: trazer ao português a ambígua, labiríntica e perturbadora linguagem de Robert Aickman. Obras citadas: “Repique Macabro e Outras Histórias Estranhas”, de Robert Aickman. O livro “Repique Macabro e Outras Histórias Estranhas” pode ser adquirido aqui: https://www.seboclepsidra.com.br/aickman. Apoie nossa nova campanha no Catarse, “Emissários Sombrios, Segunda Época”: https://www.catarse.me/emissarios_segunda_epoca. Entre para a nossa sociedade, dedicada à bibliofilia maldita e ao culto de tenebrosos grimórios: o RES FICTA (solicitações via http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html). Nosso podcast também está disponível nas seguintes plataformas: - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4NUiqPPTMdnezdKmvWDXHs - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-da-raphus-press/id1488391151?uo=4 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xMDlmZmVjNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw%3D%3D Apoie o canal: https://apoia.se/podcastdaraphus. Ou adquira nossos livros em nosso site: http://raphuspress.weebly.com. Dúvidas sobre envio, formas de pagamento, etc.: http://raphuspress.weebly.com/contact.html.

John J. Miller is joined by Victoria Nelson of Goddard College to discuss Robert Aickman's short stories.

“THE WENDIGO” by Algernon Blackwood #WeirdDarknessIN THIS EPISODE: “The Wendigo” is a novella written by Algernon Blackwood. It was originally published in the 1910 collection “The Lost Valley and Other Stories” which I've placed a link to in the show notes. The story involves a hunting party that gets separated in the Canadian wilderness in search for moose. One of the party members is abducted by the legendary Wendigo. Fellow author Robert Aickman once said of the story, it's "...one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field". Here's hoping you agree with him. (Dark Archives episode, originally posted April 09, 2020)SOURCES AND ESSENTIAL WEB LINKS…“The Wendigo” by Algernon Blackwood: https://tinyurl.com/rsnezpn Subscribe to the podcast by searching for Weird Darkness wherever you listen to podcasts – or use this RSS feed link: https://www.spreaker.com/show/3655291/episodes/feed.Weird Darkness theme by Alibi Music Library. Background music provided by Alibi Music, EpidemicSound and/or AudioBlocks with paid license. Music from Shadows Symphony (https://tinyurl.com/yyrv987t), Midnight Syndicate (http://amzn.to/2BYCoXZ), Kevin MacLeod (https://tinyurl.com/y2v7fgbu), Tony Longworth (https://tinyurl.com/y2nhnbt7), and/or Nicolas Gasparini/Myuu (https://tinyurl.com/lnqpfs8) is used with permission. 

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Author Heghoulian joins the show to talk about the English author of the supernatural, Robert Aickman. And listen to the After Dark episode for Patreon subscribers at: patreon.com/artofdarkpod twitter.com/heghoulian twitter.com/artofdarkpod twitter.com/bradkelly twitter.com/kevinkautzman https://youtu.be/45am_E-M0BU

Walter de la Mare Walter de la Mare is most famous as a poet. He was born in 1873 in Charlton in south-east London not far from Greenwich. It was then part of the county of Kent but has now been gobbled up by Greater London.  He was offered a knighthood twice but declined. De La Mare died in 1956, aged 83, in Middlesex.   He had a heart attach in 1947 and was left unwell until his death of another in 1956. He was highly regarded as a poet and  T. S. Eliot wrote a poem for his funeral service. His ashes are buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral.  His writings were a favourite reading matter of H P Lovecraft and admired by Robert Aickman and Ramsey Campbell. His family were originally French, from the Protestant Huguenots who fled persecution by the Catholic King of France. His ancestors had been silk merchants, but his father was a banker and his mother was the daughter of a Scottish naval surgeon. He disliked the name Walter and his friends called him Jack. When he was 17, he went to work for Standard Oil in the statistics department, but he was already writing and his first volume of work was published when he was twenty-nine. He married his wife, who was impoverished after meeting her the amateur dramatic society of which they were both members. They lived in Anerley, where I once lived, a rather nondescript part of South London next to the more famous Crystal Palace. They were apparently great entertainers and hosted many parties. Most of the fiction he wrote was supernatural fiction. His style is elegant but his sentences are complex with lots of sub-clauses making him nearly has hard to read out as Henry James. This is a story written to be read rather than read out, I think. Out of The Deep The story unfolds slowly. Jimmie, an orphan boy has not been ill-treated by his uncle and aunt from what we hear, but he disliked their characters and was tormented by their butler Soames. It appears, though were are not told, that after he became a man, he left them and the hated house where he had been so unhappy and was reluctant to go back even after he inherited the house.  As well as the physical torment of his time in the attic he had memories of things coming out of the wardrobe and the crab patterned paper that came alive. (Like the Yellow Wallpaper). He seems to have hated everything about his boyhood, including going to church, fatty meat and the ugly old-age of his relatives.  We learn from his aunt that he's always suffered from anxiety and is timid. There is some tension between him wanting to be good little boy and feeling he never quite managed it. Although in his adulthood, he doesn't seem to do much that's bad. He seems to do his best. But he never rises above the pointless misery of the house. It's all miserable and suffuses the story. He lies awake thinking like a fountain. He has little human company and appears to have cut off what friends he had before moving into the house as he if knew he was preparing for his death. He has his charwoman Mr Thripps who considers the house unpleasant and doesn't want to sleep a night there for a plate of sovereigns, even though she would out of duty to Jimmie. I warmed to Mrs Thripps and though Victorian and Edwardian writers mostly portray the working-classes as idiots, thugs and criminals, there is a warmness to Mrs Thripps that makes her more likeable than Jimmie, though Jimmie does nothing to offend us really. I don't know whether De La Mare intended that. Jimmie uses his witty speech to deflect from the deep despair and unhappiness in him.  He is quite nice to the tradespeople he meets and gives the impression of wanting to be cheerful and good to make up for ht misery of his beginnings.  But ultimately it is a misery he can't escape. Sadly, the tale reminded me of the stories of many of the patients I encounter who have a childhood of abuse they struggle to overcome and struggle to achieve any real...

A vintage radio special of EnCrypted Classic Horror, returning once again to the humorously macabre shaggy dog stories of A.J. Alan. In "The Hair" (1928), Alan recounts a strange sequence of events surrounding a box found in an old curiosity shop. Nottingham-born A.J. Alan (real name: Leslie Harrison Lambert) was a performing magician, radio ham, volunteer coastguard radio operator, and naval intelligence officer who, at the start of World War II was part of the vital military intelligence effort at Bletchley Park. Prior to the war, he was telling stories on BBC radio and became one of the most popular broadcasting personalities of the time. These stories - light, but often strange, and sometimes spooky - found their way into various ghost story collections such as the Fontana series curated by Robert Aickman, although they were meant to be performed and delivered in the rambling, conversational style Alan had made his own. He died in 1941. Archive radio of A.J. Alan is now hard to find, but you can hear some gramophone recordings on the Stars of the Wireless site here: https://rfwilmut.net/wireless/alan.html More great horror stories COMING VERY SOON...

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! INTRO ESPECIAL HAL 9000 para los taberneros galácticos de la nave de Historias para ser leídas. Extracto Odisea 2001 escrita por Arthur C. Clarke en 1968. 🚀 PÁGINAS DEL DIARIO DE UNA ADOLESCENTE Vampiro, de Robert Aickman, considerado por muchos como el mejor escritor inglés de cuentos sobrenaturales de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Robert Aickman era nieto del prolífico novelista victoriano Richard Marsh (1857-1915), conocido por su misteriosa novela The Beetle (1897), un libro que en su tiempo se equiparó en popularidad al Drácula de Bram Stoker. Estudió arquitectura, como su padre, William Arthur Aickman. El Día de Difuntos de 1975 se celebró en Providence (ciudad natal de Lovecraft) la Primera Convención Mundial de Fantasía, en la que, entre otras cosas, se entregaron sendos premios (consistentes en bustos de Lovecraft esculpidos por el famoso dibujante Gahan Wilson) a la mejor novela, al mejor relato, y al mejor libro publicados en el período 1973-1974. El premio al mejor relato fue obtenido por Páginas del diario de una adolescente, una elegante novela corta en la mejor tradición gótica, que muy bien podría llevar la firma de un Sheridan Le Fanu. "Escribo palabras sobre la página, pero ¿Qué digo?. Antes de partir, todo el Mundo me decía que, no importa qué es lo que hiciera, debía de llevar un diario, un diario de viaje. No creo que éste sea un diario de viaje de ninguna manera". 📌Twitter https://twitter.com/HLeidas 🛑BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas 📢Nuevo canal informativo en Telegram: https://t.me/historiasparaserleidas Mención especial a los Taberneros Galácticos que apoyan este Podcast ¡GRACIAS! 🍻🍻 🍻 🚀 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Uma breve conversa a respeito do complexo processo de tradução de Robert Aickman para o português, na primorosa coletânea lançada pela Ex Machina e Selo Clepsidra. O livro pode ser adquirido neste link: https://www.seboclepsidra.com.br/aickman

Welcome back to The Ghost Story Book Club! In Series 2, Episode 6 join me, Adam Z. Robinson, and my guest, Louise Blain as we discuss 'Ringing the Changes' by Robert Aickman.  Louise Blain is a writer and broadcaster working across entertainment, technology, and gaming. She presents BBC Radio 3's monthly Sound of Gaming show - which you can listen to here - and regularly features on BBC Radio Scotland. Her bylines include GamesRadar, NME, and T3. SUPPORT ME ON PATREON www.patreon.com/adamzrobinson A CHRISTMAS CAROL TOUR DATES: www.thebookofdarknessandlight.com/dates Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/GhostClubPod Do you have any suggestions of stories we should cover? Email: theghoststorybookclub@gmail.com The Book of Darkness & Light Facebook page: www.facebook.com/TheBookofDarknessAndLight

For this year's Hallowe'en special we're joined by Backlisted's old fiends Andrew Male and Laura Varnam, following previous guest appearances on episodes dedicated to Beowulf (2020) and Daphne du Maurier's The Breaking Point (2019). Together we explore the work of the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, specifically her ghost stories, tales of horror and accounts of psychological terror: Something in Disguise (1969), Odd Girl Out (1972), Mr Wrong (1975), Falling (1999), and We Are For the Dark (1951), the volume of strange stories she co-authored with previous Backlisted subject Robert Aickman. NB. THIS EPISODE IS PACKED WITH SPOILERS and you may wish to read Something in Disguise before you listen to the podcast. Also this week, Andy is gripped by Heike Gessler's Seasonal Associate (Semiotext), the novelist's account of working in Amazon's warehouse in Leipzig, while John enjoys being unsettled by Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1980-1940, edited by Melissa Edmundson, the first in a series of 'Weird' anthologies published by Handheld Press. For more information visit backlisted.fm. Please support us and unlock bonus material at https://www.patreon.com/backlisted.

John Liley has devoted much of his adult life to boating and the inland waterways. As a teenager, he became involved in early IWA campaigns and he even met its founding members, Robert Aickman and Tom Rolt. In conversation with WW editor Bobby Cowling, he describes the fledging years of the leisure-boating era, and his journey to owning a luxury hotel-barge on France's Canal du Nivernais. 

Join us as we finish up our conversation with writer/director Jeremy Dyson on Robert Aickman's story The Hospice!

We are thrilled to be joined by writer/director Jeremy Dyson to discuss the brilliant author Robert Aickman and his story The Hospice.

A vintage radio special of EnCrypted, returning once again to the whimsical uncanny shaggy dog stories of A.J. Alan. In "The Dream", Alan recounts the strange recurring dream he has had since childhood. But what can it all mean...? Nottingham-born A.J. Alan (real name: Leslie Harrison Lambert) was a performing magician, radio ham, volunteer coastguard radio operator, and naval intelligence officer who, at the start of World War II was part of the vital military intelligence effort at Bletchley Park. Prior to the war, he was telling stories on BBC radio and became one of the most popular broadcasting personalities of the time. These stories - light, but often strange and sometimes spooky - were later to be anthologised in ghost story collections such as the Fontana series curated by Robert Aickman, although they were meant to be performed and delivered in the rambling, conversational style Alan had made his own. He died in 1941. Archive radio of A.J. Alan is now hard to find, but you can hear some gramophone recordings on the Stars of the Wireless site here: https://rfwilmut.net/wireless/alan.html More great horror stories are on their way... Please support my work Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/encryptedpod https://www.buymeacoffee.com/encryptedpod https://ko-fi.com/encryptedpodcast Get in touch! I like to hear from listeners, so feel free to reach out to me on the socials. If you want to discuss the show, talk business, or have any ideas for stories you'd like to hear in future episodes, contact me: encryptedpod@gmail.com Music included: Ghost Story by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3805-ghost-story License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license End theme music: The Black Waltz by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Joan Aiken Joan Delano Aiken was the daughter of Conrad Aiken, whose story Mr Arcularis we read out on The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast. Her elder sister Jane was a writer and her brother John was a chemist. Her father, being a poet presumably appreciated the para-rhyming of their names. Joan was born while her father was domiciled in England,  on Mermaid Street in Rye in East Sussex in 1924. She died in Petworth West Sussex in 2004. She went to a private school in Oxford but did not go to University. Instead she wrote stories. Her first story appeared on the BBC Children's Hour in 1941 when she was seventeen.  After the death of her first husband she went to work as an editor on magazines. She is most famous for her children's fiction, notably The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Black Hearts in Battersea. Her stories have almost a magical realism feel (a term which of course really belongs to South American literature) in that she uses what appear to be genuine historical settings subtly twisted to become fantasy.  Many of her novels have supernatural themes, such as the Shadow Guests and the Haunting of Lamb House. She won many awards for her fiction during her lifetime.  The Lodgers is in her collection of short supernatural stories A Touch of Chill.    Not knowing what to make of it, I went on Good Reads and found it got an average of three stars out of five with most reviewers not being clear about what the story is about. The best I can do is to suggest that this is a mid-20th Century story where small town life is subverted into the weird as people like Robert Aickman were doing. I wonder whether the deliberate cultivation of the irrational is taking place here where the weird is not meant to be understood rationally, but there to create atmosphere. The weird slovenly, drunken Colegates come from the Middle East. They have odd paraphernalia such as the 'collecting jar' which seems to be vaguely occult. The reference to the Egyptians and the black and white pillars put me in mid of the ritual magic of the Order of the Golden Dawn. It seems that the Colegates collect the souls of children. In the end, I think young Bob's soul flies out of the window and Desmond Colegate pursues it like a butterfly hunter into the graveyard where the exertion gives him a stroke of a heart attack. But I may be wrong. The boy, and the vet's boy who the Colegate also taught games of cards to (the cards seem important -- Tarot???) both die of natural causes. Are the Colegates then a drunken version of the Grim Reaper? They don't cause the death, they are just around to harvest the souls? If you know, tell me! If You Appreciate The Work I've Put In Here [Become A Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/barcud (https://www.patreon.com/barcud)) For Bonus Stories Or [buy me a coffee](https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker (https://ko-fi.com/tonywalker)) , if you'd like to keep me working. [Music](https://bit.ly/somecomeback (https://bit.ly/somecomeback)) by The Heartwood Institute Support this podcast

"Los Cicerones" (The Cicerones) es un relato escrito en 1968 por el autor de género fantástico Robert Aickman. El relato narra un caso memorable de estar en el lugar equivocado (una catedral flamenca) en el momento equivocado. Una historia sobrenatural de esas imprescindibles en la literatura sobrenatural moderna. Música: Benjamin Wallfisch "The Invisible Man" Blog del Podcast: https://lanebulosaeclectica.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @jomategu

When Robert Harby is unexpectedly reunited with old university friend Pargiton, he is alarmed to find that Pargiton believes himself haunted by someone or something, and that only Harby can keep him safe. But what dark secrets lie in Pargiton's past? And who haunts him? This audiobook of "Pargiton and Harby" by Desmond MacCarthy is narrated by Jasper L' Estrange for the EnCrypted Classic Horror Podcast, the podcast series that brings classic horror and ghost stories to life with compelling narration, sound effects, and music. ******** Please support my work: Like what I do? Give me the fuel I need to create :) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/encryptedpod https://ko-fi.com/encryptedpodcast NEW! Become a patron on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/encryptedpod Get in touch! If you want to discuss the show or have any ideas for stories you'd like to see in future episodes, contact me: encryptedpod@gmail.com About the episode: "Pargiton and Harby" written by Desmond MacCarthy. First published in 1926 in "The Ghost Book", edited by Lady Cynthia Asquith. Later collected in 1972 in "The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories" edited by Robert Aickman. Credit where credit's due: End theme music: The Black Waltz by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Incidental music: Music used : " THE LAST LETTER " composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek" Music link : https://youtu.be/vjMC2SJjvZo SUBSCRIBE us on YOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/3qumnPH Follow on Facebook : https://bit.ly/33RWRtP Follow on Instagram : https://bit.ly/2ImU2JV Ominous by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4162-ominous License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Spider's Web by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4406-spider-s-web License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Sound effects sourced at Freesound.org https://freesound.org/people/Eelke/sounds/145186/* https://freesound.org/people/alexanderweidner/sounds/424863/* https://freesound.org/people/tyops/sounds/474624/* https://freesound.org/people/Eelke/sounds/145185/* https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/346641/https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/346641/* https://freesound.org/people/inchadney/sounds/57913/* *All effects used with the following licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The recording was created using Audacity and BandLab. Podcast hosted by Anchor. MORE GREAT HORROR AND GHOST STORIES ON THE WAY...

Nottingham-born A.J. Alan (real name: Leslie Harrison Lambert) was a performing magician, radio ham, volunteer coastguard radio operator, and naval intelligence officer who, at the start of World War II was part of the vital military intelligence effort at Bletchley Park. Prior to the war, he was telling stories on BBC radio and became one of the most popular broadcasting personalities of the time. These stories - light, but often strange and sometimes spooky - were later to be anthologised in ghost story collections such as the Fontana series curated by Robert Aickman, although they were meant to be performed and delivered in the rambling, conversational style Alan had made his own. He died in 1941. Archive radio of A.J. Alan is now hard to find, but you can hear some gramophone recordings on the Stars of the Wireless site here: https://rfwilmut.net/wireless/alan.html I have tried to recreate the feel of one of those vintage broadcasts with this reading of what is possibly A.J. Alan's most traditional "ghost" story, "The Diver". This special episode is intended as a tribute from one Nottingham "radio ham" to another! You can read more about A.J. Alan in this informative essay: https://tychy.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/premonitory-tales-from-dickens-signalman-to-the-radio-broadcasts-of-a-j-alan-66/ More great horror stories are on their way... Please support my work: Like what I do? Give me the fuel I need to create :) https://www.buymeacoffee.com/encryptedpod https://ko-fi.com/encryptedpodcast NEW! Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/encryptedpod Get in touch! If you want to discuss the show or have any ideas for stories you'd like to see in future episodes, contact me: encryptedpod@gmail.com End theme music: The Black Waltz by Scott Buckley | www.scottbuckley.com.au Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

In this episode, novelist and poet Kathleen Rooney joins hosts Catherine Nichols and Elisa Gabbert to discuss Robert Aickman's 1988 collection of stories The Wine-Dark Sea, with particular focus on the title story and the uncanny dollhouse story "The Inner Room." Aickman's work is often characterized as horror fiction, but he preferred the term "strange stories." His stories take the reader imperceptibly across the gauzy line between mundane reality and surreal terror. As one of his characters says: "Dreams are misleading because they make life seem real." Kathleen Rooney is the author of nine books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her most recent novel is Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. She is also the author of the national bestseller Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and The Listening Room: A Novel of Georgette and Loulou Magritte. She is also a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Na 80ª edição do podcast da Página Cinco: - Entrevista com Cristina Judar, que acaba de lançar o romance “Elas Marchavam Sob o Sol” (Dublinense). - Coletânea de Robert Aickman. - “Nossos Cachorros Tinham Enterro de Gente”, de Lucas Ribeiro (Selo do Burro), “Na Escuridão Somos Todos Iguais”, de Wander Shirukaya (CEPE), e “O Lugar”, de Annie Ernaux (Fósforo), nos lançamentos. Nesses dias, na Página Cinco, tivemos: - Livro, vinho, café… Quando assinar um clube vale a pena?: https://www.uol.com.br/splash/colunas/pagina-cinco/2021/05/17/livro-vinho-cafe-quando-um-clube-de-assinaturas-vale-a-pena.htm - Livro da Juliette, livro da Jout Jout, livro para pintar e outros fenômenos: https://www.uol.com.br/splash/colunas/pagina-cinco/2021/05/19/livro-da-juliette-livro-da-jout-jout-livro-para-pintar-e-outros-fenomenos.htm O podcast da Página Cinco está disponível no Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6QAoDVp8uQgzklw30rlPgH -, no iTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/br/podcast/podcast-p%C3%A1gina-cinco/id1495082898 - no Deezer - https://www.deezer.com/show/478952 -, no SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/paginacinco - e no Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClccqes0_XPegOwEJKgFe-A

Guest host John Darnielle presents favorite works that reflect on life, death and what comes next.   He reads Robert Browning’s chilling poem “My Last Duchess;” Molly Ringwald performs “No More Loves,” by Javier Marias, in which a ghost learns to read.  Kirsten Vangsness performs Neil Gaiman’s “When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, Age 11 ¼.  The heroine of Robert Aickman’s “Le Miroir,” is mesmerized by an antique looking glass.  The reader is Kathryn Erbe.   Join and give!: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/symphonyspacenyc?code=Splashpage See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Music Hath Charms by LTC RoltLionel Thomas Caswall Rolt, was an English writer born in 1910 and who died in 1974, therefore for us, he's a recent writer! He was a prolific writer who had an interest in engineering and that shows in this story in his description of the tunnels and the knowledge of ventilation shafts which are integral to the plot of the story.  In keeping with this love of engineering, he wrote biographies of major engineers such as Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He had a major enthusiasm for vintage cars, heritage railways and was a pioneer of the canal cruising industry.  From 1936, Rolt decided he wanted a life afloat and he converted his uncle's old boat Cressy into a boat he could live in and spent his time mooching up and down the canals of England. During the Second World War, he went to work for Rolls Royce and made Spitfire engines, the Royal Airforce's legendary fighter plan.  After the war, Rolt teamed up with Robert Aickman, another major ghost story writer to form the Inland Waterways Association to promote the use of the canals and restore them.  L T C or Tom Rolt was an accomplished author and an inland waterway enthusiast, and together with the another famous ghost story writer, Robert Aickman, and their wives, formed the Canal Restoration Trust which was responsible for bringing back the industrial waterway network of England and Wales back into service for leisure travel. When we know Rolt's love of machinery we understand the detailed description of how the musical box works in Music Hath Charms. I now know all about them. He also gives more detail than many would to about bus timetables. The story is set in wild Cornwall, which because of its remoteness and its Celtic past is a suitably remote setting for a ghost story. Cornwall has a history of smugglers and wreckers and this is the background to this story. We also see that another author who set her work in Cornwall, Daphne Du Maurier often used smugglers and indeed Frenchmen in her stories.  La Pucelle means a maiden or a girl.  This is of course a Faustian story. The smuggler, the Count Pierre Henneze de Hou. There is a French name Hennezel, and a De Hou, but no Henneze that I could find, so Tom Rolt may have miscopied the name. I suspect the title 'count' is a self-styling. I have often fancied called myself Count Tony Walker, but don't have the brass neck to get away with it. Carn Zawn doesn't exist, though the name is good Cornish. Carn is a heap of stones and Cornish 'sawan' means 'throat' and is used for a narrow inlet of the sea. Trevarthan is a real Cornish surname as well, arising from two separate places in West Cornwall. The only mistake Tom Rolt makes with his Celtic nomenclature is to have his housekeeper called Penrice. It sounds Cornish, but is in fact a Cumbrian surname arising from the place-name Penrith. Of course Cumbric and Cornish were closely related languages, so we can excuse him. Of course, it's also possible that the Penrices were Cumbrian immigrants to Cornwall. In fact, there were many Cornish who came to Cumbria to work in the mines, but not so-much the other way. This is proved by the fact there are two Cornish pasty shops in Keswick alone, but not a single Cumberland sausage shop in Truro, or Penzance. But back to the Devil. We presume that the shadowy creature in the engraving is Old Nick, gamboling and pranking. The Music Box conjures him. Count Pierre is presumed to have traded something, likely his soul as the De'il is found of those, for a life of opulence and the lusty company of La Pucelle, our Jeanne. She has a husky voice after all, surely a euphemism, or at least a sign. Then when the box is found again, James Heneage seems to be possessed by the spirit of Henneze — Heneage/Henneze, a similar name, but is this a coincidence or meant? Is it suggested that James is a descendent Support this podcast

This week, Willow and Phil are barely keeping it together, but they talk about Robert Aickman’s weird weird story “Larger Than Oneself!” Let’s all merge into a glowing ball of light, okay? Anything is better than whatever’s going on here.

This week, Willow and Phil are barely keeping it together, but they talk about Robert Aickman’s weird weird story “Larger Than Oneself!” Let’s all merge into a glowing ball of light, okay? Anything is better than whatever’s going on here.

This series presents famous writers of Gothic/Horror Fiction. This episode introduces Robert Aickman, the English writer and his book, Dark Entries.

The British writer M. John Harrison is responsible for some of the most significant incursions of the Weird into the literary imagination of the last several decades. His 1992 novel The Course of the Heart is a masterful exercise in erasing whatever boundary you care to mention, from the one between reality and mind to the one between love and horror. Recounting the lives of three friends as they play out the fateful aftermath of a magical operation that went horribly wrong, Harrison's novel gives Phil and JF the chance to talk contemporary literature, metaphysics, Gnosticism, zones (see episodes 13 & 14), myth, transcendence, history, and arachnology. Together, they weave a fragile web of ideas centered on that imperceptible something that forever trembles at the edge of our perception, beckoning us to step into its world, and out of ours. REFERENCES M. John Harrison, [The Course of the Heart](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17742.TheCourseoftheHeart ) M. John Harrison, "The Great God Pan" Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/389) Philip K. Dick, Ubik (https://www.amazon.com/Ubik-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0547572298) Philip K. Dick, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (https://www.amazon.com/Three-Stigmata-Palmer-Eldritch/dp/0547572557) Weird Studies, Episode 14 on Stalker (https://www.weirdstudies.com/14) Jonathan Carrol (https://jonathancarroll.com/), American novelist Robert Aickman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aickman), British writer Magic Realism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism), literary genre Phil Ford, “An Essay on Fortuna, parts 1 and 2,” Weird Studies Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) John Crowley, Ægypt (http://johncrowleyauthor.com/magic-and-history/) Jorge Borges," The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Approach_to_Al-Mu'tasim)" Strange Horizons, Interview with M. John Harrison (http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/interview-m-john-harrison/) M. John Harrison on worldbuilding (http://web.archive.org/web/20080410181840/http://uzwi.wordpress.com/2007/01/27/very-afraid/) Thomas Ligotti, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ligotti) American horror writer [Weird Studies subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdStudies/comments/i8h0yk/weirdstudiessynchronicityengine/)_ Albert Camus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus), French philosopher David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/319/the-spell-of-the-sensuous-by-david-abram/) Spiders’ nervous systems (https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-thoughts-of-a-spiderweb-20170523/) Valentinus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinus_(Gnostic)), gnostic theologian Simon Magus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus), religious figure Wiccan goddess and god (https://wiccaliving.com/wiccan-goddess-god/) Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles (https://www.amazon.com/Street-Crocodiles-Classic-20th-Century-Penguin/dp/0140186255) Weird Studies, Episode 37 with Stuart Davis (https://www.weirdstudies.com/37)

Alex BoastAlex Boast is a young British writer, born in Ipswich, raised in Surrey and living in London. He has an MA in Creative Writing and is constantly improving his skills by writing on  Arvon Foundation (https://www.arvon.org/) . He has a love of ghost stories and references H P Lovecraft and Stephen King as influences as well as J R R Tolkein. Alex had been working in health marketing which necessitated frequent global travel and due to the Coronavirus epidemic, he was laid off. Fortunately that made him focus more on his writing, so every cloud has a silver lining. He has just been commissioned to write a horror movie script based on the Irish legends of the Banshee.  This is only the second interview Classic Ghost Stories Podcast has done with a living author, but we figure there are more of you out there, so if you write ghost stories and want to have them appear in Classic Ghost Stories Podcast then get in touch. If you want to read Alex's story, you can get it from Amazon  here (https://amzn.to/2xKaWMO) The Men in the SnowInevitablly when you read a new story, you try to catalogue it with others you have read. On the podcast now we have read a wide range of stories written by authors born in the 18th, 19th, 20th, and soon the 21st centuries. Styles change of course When I read the Men in the Snow, I was struck by the weirdness of it. We don't know if the perceptions of the young girl narrator can be relied on. Some of them seem distinctly odd; her father sitting reading the paper in the kitchen who never moves and never speaks. Her mother who yells at her to stop shaking and later disappears. The newts in the pond, her only friends. So it starts off as purporting to be a naturalistic, realistic story, but then gets shunted off into the odd. This is something I find with  Robert Aickman (https://amzn.to/3dRE05z)  too. His settings are ordinary, mundane almost, and seem to be naturalistic, but he injects the unnervingly odd into them. The other story that popped into my mind was  The House of Leaves (https://amzn.to/3dTK6Cx) by Mark Z. Danielewski. This was because the house in The Men in the Snow changes size. If you don't know the House of Leaves you should read it. In fact, our narrator is growing larger, the house isn't shrinking! And as for the advancing angry eyes... So, it was great to have a modern story and greater still to interview Alex. I hoped you liked it as much as I did. And finally,By the time this episode of the Podcast goes out, we should finally be seeing some light at the end of the tunnel of the Coronavirus epidemic. I hope you and yours (and me and mine) all come through it safely.  Take care Tony Support Us!Ways to support Tony to keep doing the show: Share and rate it! (https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/classic-ghost-stories-923395) Buy Tony a coffee (http://bit.ly/2QKgHkY)  to help with the long nights editing! Become a   Patreon (http://bit.ly/barcudpatreon)  to get additional stuff and allow the show to go on in the long term.  Facebook GroupWhy not join Classic Ghost Stories Podcast on  Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/classicghoststories/)  for the lastest news? MusicBeginning music ‘Some Come Back’ is by the marvellous   Heartwood Institute (https://theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/witch-phase-four)  . The end music is by MYUU Bad Encounter DarkworldsI’ve just launched a new podcast of my book Darkworlds, a horror sci-fi story set in a virtual reality 1927 London. Darkworlds Podcast is here (https://darkworlds-litrpg-horror.captivate.fm) The podcast is free but if you wanted to buy the book, that helps me finance my podcasting both Classic Ghost Stories Podcast and Darkworlds. The book link is below: Darkworlds London USA Amazon link (https://amzn.to/3cHf7c7) Darkworlds London... Support this podcast

L T C RoltLionel Thomas Caswall Rolt, was an English writer born in 1910 and who died in 1974, therefore for us, he's a recent writer! He was a prolific writer who had an interest in engineering and that shows in this story in his description of the tunnels and the knowledge of ventilation shafts which are integral to the plot of the story.  In keeping with this love of engineering, he wrote biographies of major engineers such as Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford. He had a major enthusiasm for vintage cars, heritage railways and was a pioneer of the canal cruising industry. Write what you know, they say, and he did. His father was a bit of a pioneer and had worked on an Australian cattle station s well as a plantation in India and being part of the Yukon gold rush in 1898. Rolt's father and uncle were interested in engineering and machines and his uncle had a horse drawn canal boat which he fitted with a steam engine and then a petrol engine. From 1936, Rolt decided he wanted a life afloat and he converted his uncle's old boat Cressy into a boat he could live in and spent his time mooching up and down the canals of England. During the Second World War, he went to work for Rolls Royce and made Spitfire engines, the Royal Airforce's legendary fighter plan.  After the war, Rolt teamed up with Robert Aickman, another major ghost story writer to form the Inland Waterways Association to promote the use of the canals and restore them.  Bosworth Summit LockAs noted, Rolt was a friend of Robert Aickman, author and editor, due to their shared love of canals. Kai Roberts, compares their work and finds Aickman's work quite radical (it is very unnerving) where Rolt's ghost stories are more traditional. Rolt set a number of his stories on the railways and canals.  What I particularly, loved about this story, Bosworth Pound Lock, is the setting. As well as traditionally moral ghost story; boy messes with girl beneath his station, gets girl pregnant, boy kills girl by dumping her down a ventilation shaft into a canal tunnel, girl gets revenge as a ghost by dragging boy into canal with her, girl and boy are happily reuninted in the grave. But as well as this we have a lovely description of him fishing on his canal boat on a golden May evening, with the fresh leaves, the birds, the gentle flow of the water. It's just what we need in times like this. Of course, the victim's mother is a Gypsy with second sight and she sees the boys murder as a marriage with her daughter. Another little synchronicity (or not) is that I am reading The Stopping Places by Damien Le Bas, which is a book about Damien revisiting the places his Romany family used to stop as they travelled around the country. That's another book which is balm to the soul in these times of Corona Virus when we can't get out. Check out: (https://amzn.to/3bDTQyF) Kai Robert's article on Rolt is here (http://imbolcfire.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-thoughts-on-weird-fiction-of-ltc.html) And finally,I hope you are well, and bearing up. We shall overcome. What is really lovely to me is that the world is united against this enemy. I really hope this sense of unity will remain and that we can then turn to deal with the disasters that seem to be caused by global warming and fix that problem before it's too late! Take care, all. Tony Support Us!Ways to support Tony to keep doing the show: Share and rate it! (https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/classic-ghost-stories-923395) Buy Tony a coffee (http://bit.ly/2QKgHkY)  to help with the long nights editing! Become a   Patreon (http://bit.ly/barcudpatreon)  to get additional stuff and allow the show to go on in the long term.  Website Classic Ghost Stories Podcast (http://bit.ly/ClassicGhostStoriesPodcast) MusicBeginning music ‘Some Come Back’ is by the... Support this podcast

“THE WENDIGO” by Algernon Blackwood #WeirdDarknessIf you like the podcast, please leave a review in the podcast app you listen from, and share a link to the podcast on Facebook and Twitter to invite others to become Weirdos too!IN THIS EPISODE: “The Wendigo” is a novella written by Algernon Blackwood. It was originally published in the 1910 collection “The Lost Valley and Other Stories” which I’ve placed a link to in the show notes. The story involves a hunting party that gets separated in the Canadian wilderness in search for moose. One of the party members is abducted by the legendary Wendigo. Fellow author Robert Aickman once said of the story, it’s "...one of the (possibly) six great masterpieces in the field". Here’s hoping you agree with him. 
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Conrad Aiken Conrad Aiken was an American poet and author born in Savannah, Georgia in 1889 and died in Savannah in 1973 aged 84. His family were wealthy, originally from New England, but his father was an eye surgeon who moved to Savannah.  Most bizarrely and disturbingly, Aiken’s father murdered Aiken’s mother and shot himself in 1901. Aiken was 11 at the time. He heard the shots and ran through to find the bodies. Aiken then went to live with his great aunt in Massachusetts. He went to Harvard where he became a life-long friend of the poet T S Eliot. Aiken was deeply interested in philosophy and was taught by George Santayana. This influenced his poetry as did his admiration for the work of Walt Whitman. Aiken was also heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud and was due to go and meet him but never did, because he had second thoughts and money was running short. Aiken was a prolific writer and very influential in literary circles. It was his influence which led to to the recognition of Emily Dickinson as a great poet. Aiken moved to England with his Canadian wife and had three children there in Sussex. His daughter Joan became a well-known writer of children’s stories, including the famous Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Aiken was divorced in 1929 and then he returned to America. He suffered from nervous problems and was terribly frightened he was going mad. He attempted suicide at least once.  Mr Arcularis Conrad Aiken published Mr Arcularis in 1931. It was selected by the Library of America for inclusion in a two hundred year retrospective volume of American fantastic tales.  Mr Arcularis is a strangely disquieting story. Not quite a ghost story, because he isn’t dead but dreaming until the end. The narrative becomes more dreamlike as it goes on and is threaded with the fantastic. The unsettling oddness has something of Robert Aickman’s stories to it. It’s not a moral story either. I suppose, to me it’s a curiosity — very well put together. And, on reflection if all art is to make us feel something and that is its main purpose - to work in us at the level of feelings rather than thought, then it certainly works. The description of journeys among distant frosty stars is very beautiful.  It actually reminds me of when I was much younger and had some teeth out under general anaesthetic. In those days it was done by gas with a rubber mask clamped on my mouth while I struggled by the dentist. I had weird dreams that morphed in and out of reality and featured hints that I was having teeth out. This story reminds me of that rather unpleasant experience. It’s hard to know what Conrad Aiken meant by calling his protagonist Mr Arcularis. I’s not a common name. An arcularius in Latin is a maker of small chests, boxes and jewel caskets. Is Aiken alluding to this? Or is it merely because, as Mr Acularis says, his name rhymes with Polaris. Polaris the North Star, where the dead go. The first hint we get that everything is not what it seems, to me at least, is when Harry has put him on board and is about to leave and says for Arcularis to bring him a sprig of edelweiss and a postcard from the Absolute.  That may make our minds cast themselves back to when he is in the car and he misses big stretches of the journey, quite plausibly by falling asleep, but certainly the story begins to acquire a more dreamlike quality from here on in. The action jumps from him being cold in his cabin to sitting opposite the freckled girl whom he recalls but can’t think who she reminds him of. Later, he feels she may be his soul — which makes me think of the Jungian concept of the Anima. The Parson, the Doctor and the Freckle-Faced woman seem almost like stock characters from a Mummer’s play. His Old Friend Polaris even has a bit part peeping out from a door. Jackstones are the things you throw on the ground to play a skipping game. Support this podcast

 #Edgar Allen Poe# Needs no real introduction. He was in some senses the man who began the horror genre. There had been Gothic fiction before but Poe made it macabre and strange. I see some influences or commonalities between him and the French poet Baudelaire with his Flowers of Evil, or the French novelist J K Huysman’s with his studies of Satanism and Decandence. The insanity in Poe is also matched in the Austrian writer Gustav Meyrink. I must read some Meyrink for you, though I’m not aware of any short stories of his. Tell Tale Heart is a first person story narrated by someone who is at pains to assure us that he is not crazy, though pretty much as soon as he says it, and certainly with a few sentences further said, we know he is. There is a view that it is the story of a perfect crime, but it seems far from that to me. It seems pretty unhinged. He is never going to get away with this crime. He buries the dismembered body under the planks of the floor. That is going to smell, believe me. Not that I know from personal experience. I had a bit of a disaster this week. I had recorded the English writer Robert Aickman with his longish Zombie story: Ringing the Changes, but the flipping computer packed in after 15 minutes. An hour later I found out the story hasn’t recorded except the first fifteen minutes. So I had nothing. I then recorded this one. I know, I think I know, (I sound like the man in the story) that listeners prefer longer stories that are American. This is short, but it is American which is a compromise.  If you were helpful enough to do some or any of these following things for me, I would be immensely grateful. I swear down I would. ———————— Share the Podcast to your friends Rate the Podcast on Apple or elsewhere Buy me a coffee via Paypal (https://paypal.me/gospatric) Sign up as a Patron for $1 a month to keep me going on  Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/barcud)   Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/barcud) (https://www.patreon.com/barcud) Support this podcast

M R James is known as the father of the English ghost story. He wasn’t the first to write ghost stories, but he was the finest of his generation whose work continues to be published and re-presented as TV shows and radio plays. He was born in 1862 at Goodnestone in Kent. His father was a clergyman and was rector of Livermere in Suffolk. East Anglia features as the setting of many of M R James’s stories.  James’s ‘proper job’ was as an academic and he had a distinguished academic career at King’s College in Cambridge where he became dead in 1889 and finally provost in 1905. He was awarded a doctorate in literature by Cambridge in 1895 and honorary doctorates by Trinity College Dublin and St. Andrews University in Scotland. He moved to become provost of the famous Eton College, supplier of many prime ministers of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in 1918. He was a trustee of the British Museum from 1925. In 1893, James began his tradition of reading ghost stories at Christmas by candlelight to a hushed circle of his colleagues and friends. His geographical background in East Anglia is evident in many of his stories, as well as his bicycling trips to Europe. Many of his heroes are fumbling academics and Latin and old manuscripts and church architecture also features strongly. He clearly had a knowledge of the occult and demonology, though he was not known to be a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, as were other writers of ghost stories such as Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen.  Oh Whistle And I’ll Come To You, My Lad! Is the title of a poem by the Scottish poet Robbie Burns, and James borrowed this title though Burn’s story concerns a jilted lover.  Perhaps he borrowed it because the central item in the story is the ancient whistle found in the sand covered ruins of the old abbey, which when blown, seems to summon the spirit that haunts the narrator. The Latin inscription: Quis est qui venit? Means ‘Who is this who comes?’ The other inscription around the plus sign, or cross, is a puzzle of a Latin proverb: Fur Flabis Flebis which means, ‘Thief, if you blow; you will weep.” And in one sense, though a finder, our man is a thief, and when he blows, he certainly does weep. It is the sheer weirdness of the ghost that is unnerving, and James is the master of this disturbing oddness which is not quite the same as Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror in his weird tales or later Robert Aickman’s unnerving unnaturalness in his ghost stories. The closest parallel I find to James’s inexplicable and disturbing weirdness is in David Lynch’s movies, particularly Inland Empire and the Third Season of Twin Peaks. Support Us! Ways to support Tony to keep doing the show: Share and rate it! (https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/classic-ghost-stories-923395)   Buy Tony a coffee (http://bit.ly/2QKgHkY)  to help with the long nights editing! Become a  Patreon (http://bit.ly/barcudpatreon)  to get additional stuff and allow the show to go on in the long term.  Website   Classic Ghost Stories Podcast (http://bit.ly/ClassicGhostStoriesPodcast)   Music Music is by the marvellous  Heartwood Institute (https://theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/witch-phase-four)   Support this podcast

Kevin’s childhood friend Dave Hampton joins in to discuss ghost stories and religion. What was your first ghost story, and why do the rules matter in classic ghost stories, and when can you break them? Robert Aickman and Blair Witch Project get special nods.

In his short story "Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel," contemporary horror author Thomas Ligotti contrasts the chaotic monstrosity of dreams with the cold, indifferent, and no less monstrous purity of angels. It is the story of a boy whose vivid dream life is sapping his vital force, and who resorts to esoteric measures to rectify the situation. In this episode, Phil and JF discuss the beauty and horror of dreams, the metaphysical signifiance of angels and demons, and the potential dangers of seeking the peace of absolute "purity" in the wondrous flux of lived experience. REFERENCES Thomas Ligotti, "Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm1iH6EIMAA)" (read by Jon Padgett) Roger Scruton, The Face of God (https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-face-of-god-9781847065247/) Thomas Ligotti, [Songs of a Dead Dreamer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SongsofaDeadDreamer) Thomas Ligotti, "The Last Feast of Harlequin" in [Grimscribe: His Lives and Works](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimscribe:HisLivesandWorks) Robert Aickman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aickman), English author H. P. Lovecraft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft), American author H. R. Giger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._R._Giger), Swiss artist Jean Giraud a.k.a. Moebius (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud), French comic book artist Donald Barthelme (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barthelme), American author Pierre Soulages (https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/Pierre-Soulages), French artist Bruno Schulz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Schulz), Polish author Thomas Bernhard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bernhard), Austrian author Edgar Allan Poe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe), American author J. F. Martel, "The Beautiful Madness: Primacy of Wonder in the Works of Thomas Ligotti" (Forthcoming in James Curcio (ed.), Masks: Bowie and the Artists of Artifice (https://www.intellectbooks.com/masks) from Intellect Books) Algernon Blackwood, "The Wendigo" (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10897/10897-h/10897-h.htm) Thomas Ligotti, "The Dark Beauty of Unheard of Horrors" in The Thomas Ligotti Reader: Essays and Explorations (https://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Ligotti-Reader-Darrell-Schweitzer/dp/1592241301) Dogen Zenji (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dōgen), Zen master Manichaeism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism) Spencer Brown, [The Laws of Form](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LawsofForm) Ramsey Dukes, Words Made Flesh: Information In Formation (https://www.amazon.com/Words-Made-Flesh-Information-Formation/dp/0904311112) Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/essays-critical-and-clinical) Thomas Ligotti, "Purity," in Teatro Grottesco (https://www.amazon.com/Teatro-Grottesco-Thomas-Ligotti/dp/0753513749) James Joyce, Ulysses (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm) Advaita Vedanta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_Vedanta) Joshua Ramey, The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal (https://www.amazon.com/Hermetic-Deleuze-Philosophy-Spiritual-Religion/dp/082235229X) Lewis Carroll, [Alice's Adventures in Wonderland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27sAdventuresinWonderland)_ and [Through the Looking Glass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThroughtheLooking-Glass) James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld (https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Underworld-James-Hillman/dp/0060906820) P. J. O’Rourke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._O%27Rourke), political satirist

Although he is one of the luminaries of the weird tale, Robert Aickman referred to his irreal, macabre short works as strange stories. Born in London in 1914, Aickman wrote less than fifty such stories before his death in 1981. JF and Phil focus on one of his most chilling, "The Hospice," from the collection Cold Hand in Mine, published in 1975. In it, Aickman uses a staple ingredient of the classic ghost story -- a man is stranded on a country road at night, lost and out of petrol -- to concoct an unforgettable blend of fantasy and nightmare, reality and dream. Indeed, Phil and JF argue that Aickman deserves a place alongside David Lynch and a few others as one of those rare fabulists who can adeptly disclose how reality is more dreamlike, and dreams more real, than most of us would care to admit. Header Image: Detail from photo by Ivars Indāns (Wikimedia Commons) REFERENCES Robert Aickman, "The Hospice" from Cold Hand in Mine (https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Hand-Mine-Robert-Aickman/dp/0571244254) Dante Aligheri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41537/41537-h/41537-h.htm) David Lynch, Twin Peaks: The Return (https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/why-twin-peaks-the-return-was-the-most-groundbreaking-tv-series-ever-115665/) David Hume, [An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problemofinduction#DavidHume)_ Weird Studies, Episode 22 (https://www.weirdstudies.com/22): Divining the World with Joshua Ramey Norman Mailer, An American Dream (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/308/308496/an-american-dream/9780241340516.html)

Class is back in session and this time we are going to try to talk smart about a dumb movie!  Truth or Dare made a whole bunch of money, but it wasn't exactly a deep film.  It did use a very interesting motif in horror called "the liminal space" and today we are going to discuss how that space works and why it made Truth or Dare an engaging movie. Show Notes: 2:20- Tyler just watched the new Blumhouse movie Unfriended: Dark Web, head on over to Signal Horizon and read his review. 3:00- If you haven't heard of author Robert Aickman he comes very highly recommended.  Tyler really liked his short story: Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale.  It has been reprinted quite a bit, most recently in The Late Breakfaster's and Other Strange Stories by Robert Aickman. 3:50- Mike really likes a Brian Evenson story you can find in Aickman's Hiers.   4:10- Mike is reading a new collection that is on Kindle Unlimited called Lost Highways, but it had to take a back burner when get got Vastarien Issue #2 in the mail.  He is always excited to talk about Ligotti and Vastarien, so check out why he thinks the Vastarien Literary Journal is the most exciting thing in horror literature right now. 5:30-  Orrin Grey is an author that both Mike and Tyler really like right now, you can check out the short story "The Granfalloon" in The Best Horror of the Year Volume 10. 6:45-  Dark Corners of the Web: Some free short fiction that goes along with Truth or Dare is the excellent episode of PseudoPod that just came out, The Fainting Game by Nino Cipri. 13:15  Jeff Wadlow was also involved in Kickass 2 and The Strain.  How did he get mixed up in Truth or Dare?  Most likely money. 17:45- The Canadian Journal of Career Development has a great article about liminal spaces entitled Constructing the Future in the Liminal Spaces Between Adolescence and Adulthood: Responsibilities, Careers, and Social Contexts by Amanda Benjamin, José Domene, and Kim Landine.   26:30- Tyler drops his "unified theory of Truth or Dare" at this point.  It is super interesting and believe it or not he did come up with it off the cuff. 35:15-  Yes, there is a periodical named Slayage that is put out by the Whedon Studies Association.  Michael Starr's excellent article about liminality and The Cabin in the Woods can be found here to prove it. 38:00-  Tyler references the Stephen King short story, "The Jaunt" which is easily one of King's greatest short works.  It was written all the way back in 1981 and it is still fresh today, you can find it in his collection Skeleton Crew which is probably on your bookshelf right now.  If it is not, buy a copy over on Amazon. 41:00-  Not going to link to anything by John Edward because he is a fraud.  Don't give him any of your money, but if you would like to support The Horror Pod Class and SignalHorizon.com that would be super cool and you can do it over on Patreon.   44:30-  Mike talks about Ligotti (of course) and Matt Cardin's excellent analysis of "The Shadow at the Bottom of the World."   55:15-  Wan't to give us a shout out?  Maybe a shout down?  You can connect with us over at the Horror Pod Class Facebook group!    

Amanda and Sarah double down on the phenomenon known as the doppelgänger. Sarah goes in deep on Percy Bysshe Shelley, the prominent English Romantic poet who encountered his doppelgänger multiple times before his death. Amanda tells the short but extremely creepy account of Emilie Sagee, a teacher haunted by a double she couldn't see. Other subjects covered include eating hair, German terms for sex acts, and how much Lord Byron sucks. Recommendations:   Sarah recommends the short story "The Fetch" by Robert Aickman, most easily found in the collection The Wine Dark Sea.   If you need a break from the macabre, Amanda recommends reading Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame by Mara Wilson.   Sources:   Atlas Obscura (Tracing the Development of the Doppelgänger) History in an Hour (The Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley) Martian Herald (9 Mystifying Cases of the Doppelganger Phenomenon) Wikipedia - Percy Bysshe Shelley Supernatural Magazine (The Myths and Possible Realities of Doppelgangers) Vice (The Time When You're Most Likely to See Your Doppelgänger) Cool Interesting Stuff (The Very Strange Case of Emilie Sagee)   For updates on future episodes and other fun stuff, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

M. R. James' "The Mezzotint" is one of the most fascinating, and most chilling, examples of the classic ghost story. In this episode, Phil and JF discover what this tale of haunted images and buried secrets tells us about the reality of ideas, the singularity of events, the virtual power of the symbol, and the enduring magic of the art object in the age of mechanical reproduction. To accompany this episode, Phil recorded a full reading of the story. Listen to it here (http://www.weirdstudies.com/11a). REFERENCES M.R. James, "The Mezzotint" (http://www.thin-ghost.org/items/show/145) Robert Aickman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aickman), English author of "strange stories" Edgar Allan Poe, "The Oval Portrait" (https://poestories.com/read/ovalportrait) Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm) Marshall McLuhan, The Book of Probes (https://www.amazon.com/Book-Probes-Marshall-McLuhan/dp/1584232528) Clement Greenberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Greenberg), American art critic J.F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice (https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/reclaiming-art-in-the-age-of-artifice/) Marcel Duchamps, Fountain (http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-fountain-t07573) Henri Bergson, Laughter (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4352) John Cage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage), American composer David Lynch (director), Twin Peaks: The Return (http://www.sho.com/twin-peaks) Gilles Deleuze, [Difference and Repetition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DifferenceandRepetition) Vilhelm Hammershøi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Hammersh%C3%B8i), Danish painter Sigmund Freud, [Beyond the Pleasure Principle](https://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/assets/pdf/freudbeyondthepleasureprinciple.pdf) Martin Heidegger, [What is Called Thinking?](https://www.amazon.com/Called-Thinking-Harper-Perennial-Thought/dp/006090528X/ref=sr11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524419879&sr=1-1&keywords=heidegger+what+is+called+thinking) Stanley Kubrick, [The Shining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheShining(film)) Ferruccio Busoni, Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music (https://archive.org/details/sketchofanewesth000125mbp) David Lynch on why you shouldn't watch films on your phone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0) Nelson Goodman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Goodman), American philosopher Pablo Picasso, Guernica (https://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp) Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-astonishing-power-of-the-master) Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings (http://www.harpercollins.ca/9780061627019/basic-writings) Phil Ford, "No One Understands You" (http://www.weirdstudies.com/articles/no-one-understands-you)

In this little episode Mr Jim Moon takes a look at a doubly rare thing - firstly because it's an episode of an obscure TV horror series hardly ever seen since its first broadcast, and secondly for it is an even rarer beast - a screen adaptation of a Robert Aickman story!

OCTOBER 30th, 2017 The Wine-Dark Sea - Robert Aickman The Work We discuss Robert Aickman's short story "The Wine-Dark Sea" from the story collection by the same name. The print and ebook are both available. The Guest Our guest is writer Sarah Lyon. She is a contributor to Vice's Broadly. Sarah practices witchcraft out of New York.  You can find Sarah at sarahlyons.org and on Vice. You can follow her on instagram @citymystic. Sarah mentions some resources and inspiration: The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley The Witch-Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray Aleister Crowley's Thoth tarot deck Barbara Creed's The Monstrous-Feminine Carole Glover's Men, Women and Chain Saws  Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch Jodorowsky's The Way of the Tarot Arthur E. Waite's Pictorial Key of the Tarot The Rider-Waite Tarot by Waite & Smith Phil Hine's Condensed Chaos Gemma Gary's Cornish Book of Ways The blog of Sarah Anne Lawless Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas Pairings Spirits "The Liquid Rock" There is no soil on the island. 1 oz Brandy 1/2 oz Lemon Juice 1 spoonful Fig Jam 2 dashes Angostura Bitters Shake, top with sparkling Lambrusco Aural Stimuli Visual Stimuli Hellenic Art from Athens. The Grecian island Milos. One of the oldest full Tarot sets, the Sola-Busca Tarrochi. Next House of Leaves, Part One: Overview We're beginning our first novel and with it our first introductory episode. No reading required but feel free to check out Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves for yourself. We will be joined by guest Giaco Furino (@giacofurino) to discuss the genre of horror fiction.

Leah's interview with author Matthew M. Bartlett. Matthew was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1970. At an early age he was given as a gift the novelization of The Omen; not long after that, he inherited a worn copy of Christine by Stephen King. He fell deeply in love with horror: with the Universal monsters, with Hammer films, with the rented videos from the horror section of that almost-gone artifact known as the Video Rental Store. He began writing poetry while in the English program at Central Connecticut State University. An abiding interest in horror fiction led him to start a Livejournal page whose posts were his first forays into fiction: bite-sized tales accompanied by doctored daguerreotypes and his own photographs taken in Leeds and Northampton, Massachusetts. These posts centered around a long-dead coven using radio waves to broadcast disturbing and dangerous transmissions from the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. His inspirations are varied and the foremost are certainly not atypical for the genre: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, T.E.D. Klein. Other authors he admires include Donald E. Westlake, Richard Yates, J.D. Salinger, and Hunter S. Thompson. He also draws inspiration from the radio monologues and shows of Joe Frank; the poetry of Philip Larkin, of Mark Strand, of Stephen Crane; the movies of Wes Anderson, of Ben Wheatley, of the Coen Brothers. He continues to write dark and strange fiction at his home in Western Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife Katie and an unknown number of cats. http://www.matthewmbartlett.com/ https://www.twitter.com/mattmbartlett https://www.facebook.com/matthew.mark.bartlett/ https://www.amazon.com/Matthew-M.-Bartlett/e/B00M5HEX5Y Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/ www.birdscoffeecompany.com/ Use Code Legends10 to get 10% off your order! https://beta.podchaser.com/   Use code legendsoftabletop for access and consider leaving us a review

This month on The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, have decided to look at two books honoured in the recent Shirley Jackson Awards. After some brief words about the Awards themselves, the discussion moves stealthily on to the books themselves: the winner of the Novel category, Experimental Film by Gemma Files [8:45] and the winner of the Edited Anthology category, Aickman's Heirs edited by Simon Strantzas [49:25]. Listeners might like to check out the following links mentioned during the podcast: Nina Allen's review of Experimental Film at Strange Horizons "The Strange Horrors of Robert Aickman" by Matthew Cheney at Electric Lit If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:33:40 for final remarks. Up for discussion on the next episode are two collections of short stories: Get in Trouble by Kelly Link What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

In a special Halloween edition, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by Andrew Male to discuss Cold Hand In Mine, a book of 'strange stories' by British writer Robert Aickman

In this episode Mr Jim Moon takes a journey into the strange stories of Robert Aickman, exploring the life and works of this modern master of weird fiction, and taking a look inside his first collection of tales Dark Entries  

In this episode Mr Jim Moon takes a journey into the strange stories of Robert Aickman, exploring the life and works of this modern master of weird fiction, and taking a look inside his first collection of tales Dark Entries  

We’re back, and we’re in sounder health that the title of this episode may suggest! Although after hearing us sing again (yes, we have a new Patreon backer!) you may disagree. This time we’re looking... The post Robert Aickman’s The Hospice appeared first on Blasphemous Tomes.

Richard Flanagan on why he had to write about the Thai-Burmese Death Railway. A celebration of the cult author Robert Aickman, a tip from Peter Straus and all about Self-Help.

From the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon presents a reading of a brand new tale of the weird - The Artist by Tom Bayham, an eerie story in the traditions of MR James, Arthur Machen and Robert Aickman.

From the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon presents a reading of a brand new tale of the weird - The Artist by Tom Bayham, an eerie story in the traditions of MR James, Arthur Machen and Robert Aickman.