![]() ![]() And I was surprised by that because to me, Barker seems a lot more overt. But he makes the comparison in it to Clive Barker and sort of says Clive Barker, one of our contemporary horror writers who’s still living in the 80s and very popular, has this great story called “In the Hills, the Cities,” and Straube is saying that Barker is almost like an inheritor or someone who would really appreciate what Aickman is doing. Kathleen Rooney: The Peter Straub introduction is so good, to the point where it would make sense to try to track it down just to read it. As one of his characters says, “Dreams are misleading because they make life seem real.” ” Aickman’s work is often characterized as horror fiction, but he preferred the term “strange stories.” His stories take the reader imperceptibly across the gauzy line between mundane reality and surreal terror. In this episode, novelist and poet Kathleen Rooney joins hosts Catherine Nichols and Elisa Gabbert to discuss Robert Aickman’s 1988 collection of stories The Wine-Dark Sea, with particular focus on the title story and the uncanny dollhouse story “The Inner Room. Combining literary analysis with an in-depth look at historical context, hosts Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols choose one book for each year of the 20th century, and-along with special guests-will take a deep dive into a hundred years of literature. ![]() Welcome to Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books. ![]()
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