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A review by robotwitch
Dark Entries by Robert Aickman, Glen Cavaliero
3.0
Only took me 4 years to finish the bloody thing. Not for lack of wanting -- the tone of the writing makes it read very slowly and, after a while, I just sort of forgot to pick it up again.
The School Friend ✭✭✭✭✩ A sufficiently short yet creepy start to these short stories
Ringing the Changes ✭✭✭✭✩ I really liked this one, the suspense is superb. Although, between this and The School Friend, it did prime me for more in-your-face horror than the rest of the stories were.
Choice of Weapons ✭✭✭✩✩ This had a lot of potential, but it lost its threads. It's also the first instance, but not the last, of manic pixie dream girlism in this collection
The Waiting Room ✭✭✩✩✩ Maybe this wasn't a trope back when this was published, but I suspect it wouldn't have been wholly original even then. A throwaway story.
The View ✭✭✩✩✩ Overlong, bland, somewhat pointless. The second manic pixie dream girl, replete once more with a mediocre man who falls prey to her mysteriousness.
Bind Your Hair ✭✭✩✩✩ The dream girl gets to be the perspective of this story, but Aickman throws in a secondary character to be even more MPDG-ish. I really liked the build-up, though, and the conflict, but the ending fell very flat for me.
The School Friend ✭✭✭✭✩ A sufficiently short yet creepy start to these short stories
Ringing the Changes ✭✭✭✭✩ I really liked this one, the suspense is superb. Although, between this and The School Friend, it did prime me for more in-your-face horror than the rest of the stories were.
Choice of Weapons ✭✭✭✩✩ This had a lot of potential, but it lost its threads. It's also the first instance, but not the last, of manic pixie dream girlism in this collection
The Waiting Room ✭✭✩✩✩ Maybe this wasn't a trope back when this was published, but I suspect it wouldn't have been wholly original even then. A throwaway story.
The View ✭✭✩✩✩ Overlong, bland, somewhat pointless. The second manic pixie dream girl, replete once more with a mediocre man who falls prey to her mysteriousness.
Bind Your Hair ✭✭✩✩✩ The dream girl gets to be the perspective of this story, but Aickman throws in a secondary character to be even more MPDG-ish. I really liked the build-up, though, and the conflict, but the ending fell very flat for me.