![]() His story “Hand in Glove” begins this way: He takes the recognizable world of seemingly mundane interactions and disassembles its internal logic bit by bit, in ways that feel all too real, just too uncomfortably recognizable, like a nightmare seeping into the quotidian. ![]() Unsettling is a distinct feeling, personal, intimate, and yet it’s the word I come across again and again as I search for other reader’s responses to Aickman’s stories. What I found were stories that felt, as they began, quite mundane, normal but that, with slight shifts in tone, a sentence just slightly off, twisted and flickered into. It struck a chord, and I started reading Aickman here and there. In it, they read one of Aickman’s stories. ![]() I hadn’t read anything by Robert Aickman until listening to a great episode of Backlisted Pod that featured Aickman’s work (see it here). ![]()
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