A review by becka6131
Dark Entries by Robert Aickman

4.0

I enjoyed these, but I kept running into the stumbling block of expecting something to happen like in a conventional horror story, where Aickman's stories are more like impressions or ideas, and the story is spent painting a very careful picture of that idea, and then it ends. Most of the stories in this volume left me flipping the page, going 'is that it?' It's not necessarily a bad thing, to be reminded that weird fiction and horror don't have to all be about the payoff, but they did all leave me with a lot of questions, and the desire to google the story title until I found someone who told me what happened next.