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I read this book when it was first published and fell under its bizarre influence. Did Aickman create a new genre with this collection? It might parallel magic realism, but it is distinct from it. Perhaps it is related to "The Metamorphosis," but no. Again, it has a flavor of its own.

Aickman has this knack of making his reader feel uncomfortable in the most delicious way. He knows just what image to pop into your head. Not violent images. Not horrific images in the Lovecraftian vein. Images that disturb nevertheless. His stories wriggle back into your head over and over again. There's something going on in these tales, unspoken, potent and beyond understanding.


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Cold Hand in Mine Robert Aickman 9780899684161 Books Reviews

Strange tales indeed. Aickman's stories makes you feel uncomfortable in a way that you might not necessarily like, but you can't stop reading.
A real page turner. This author knew how to build and draw out a frightening story line. These stories are spine tingling and disturbing. Good stuff.
I doubt it is possible to characterize this, or any of Aiken's other books, except as " Strange Stories",
But that is to damn them with faint praise. They are above all other things literate-- so, unless
You are 1) over the age of 45 and 2) exceptionally well educated, you shouldn't even be permitted
To read them. If you are, (and of a certain turn of mind) what glories await you! Don't look for
Any of your gratuitous sex/violence crap either-- (FIfty Shades of Grey, Quel merde!) There.
That should be enough of a review for anybody. Now can I go?
The thinnest of Faber's three recent collections of marvelous short stories by the undeservedly neglected horror writer Robert Aickman, COLD HAND IN MINE also shows his most obvious debts to Isak Dinesen, as another reviewer writes below. Dinesen's stories, at their best, very often refuse simple explanation exactly like Aickman's, and he seems to acknowledge his debt to her by means of the vaguely aristocratic characters and the Continental settings of two of the finest stories in this collection, "Niemandwasser" and "Pages from a Young Girl's Diary." Although this collection also has "The Swords," Aickman's allegory for the terrors of sexual coming-of-age, and "The Hospice," his nightmarish tale of being unable to get home (which might involve a hellish imagination of the state of being dead), it's not the place to begin with Aickman, and I would best recommend it for completists who have enjoyed his other two collection from Faber, THE WINE-DARK SEA and THE UNSETTLED DUST.
An odd writing style, almost mirroring Edwardian / Victorian horror. Occasionally Aickman does not clarify his ending or climax but you still come away with a spooked out feeling. A fun read for sure.
Loved Aickman’s writing style. Not graphic splattergore horror, instead he is a slow burn story teller, dread constantly growing, restrained old school British, letting these “weird stories” play out in unexpected (and sometimes inconclusive) ways. An excellent introduction to Aickman, and I’ll read more of his books.
Since the Robert Aickman books are short-story collections, no single answer (to the above survey questions) is applicable to all stories. But in general, the excellence in writing completely supersedes any need for graphic violence or explicit sex to engage the reader. Certainly, these events are implied, from time to time. But the reader isn't told what's happening; the reader is lured into the depth of events by nibbling about all the edges, with such ravenous attention to each bite, that he finds he has completed the meal a heady morsel at a time, and is never full, but left always salivating for the next course.
I read this book when it was first published and fell under its bizarre influence. Did Aickman create a new genre with this collection? It might parallel magic realism, but it is distinct from it. Perhaps it is related to "The Metamorphosis," but no. Again, it has a flavor of its own.

Aickman has this knack of making his reader feel uncomfortable in the most delicious way. He knows just what image to pop into your head. Not violent images. Not horrific images in the Lovecraftian vein. Images that disturb nevertheless. His stories wriggle back into your head over and over again. There's something going on in these tales, unspoken, potent and beyond understanding.