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A review by ross_maclean
Dark Entries by Robert Aickman, Glen Cavaliero
4.0
Aickman writes in a precise, detailed manner so you’re in absolutely no doubt about the atmosphere he wishes to create for the reader. Minute details linger in the memory and give a somewhat unrelenting sense of each location. But there’s an extent to which some of the stories in this collection feel like they’re all build-up and the payoff somewhat anticlimactic.
While there’s no outright disappointing story in the collection, since so much of the joy in them stems from the richly drawn descriptiveness, it is definitely at its finest in the most overtly folk horror stories from the collection: Ringing the Changes and Bind Your Hair. Both those tales are beautifully realised with a pervading sense of unease instilled in both commonplace and outlandish situations.
While there’s no outright disappointing story in the collection, since so much of the joy in them stems from the richly drawn descriptiveness, it is definitely at its finest in the most overtly folk horror stories from the collection: Ringing the Changes and Bind Your Hair. Both those tales are beautifully realised with a pervading sense of unease instilled in both commonplace and outlandish situations.