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'Tis the season for lonely men to grow lonelier, for lonely women to lie sleepless in their beds. 'Tis the season for cold woods to get lost in, for sad memories to get lost in, for watery graves and tragic houses, for secrets to be unveiled. 'Tis the season for dreams to come true, alas. 'Tis Robert Aickman season!A collection of strange stories. Not one of my favorites by him, but impressive nonetheless. The dream logic, the disturbing ambiguity, the prosaic details, the chilly formality, the
Aickman è un maestro indiscusso, le cui qualità non si limitano al campo del soprannaturale letterario. "Sub Rosa" è una raccolta ben rappresentativa del valore di uno scrittore che, pur essendo senz'altro debitore verso Henry James e M. R. James, presenta una voce e una personalità riconoscibilissimi e affascinanti. Racconti raffinati ed eleganti, volume imprescindibile.
According to a number of sources, "Sub Rosa" is one of Robert Aickman's best works. The book contains some of Aickman's longer stories. Of the eight stories in the book I'll just talk about a few of them to give a taste of it. Seven of the eight stories in the book concern travel or going elsewhere.The first story in the book titled "Ravissante", which is french for delightful or enrapturing, concerns a young painter who visits the widow of a deceased painter. The widow is old and ugly and quite...
A re-read.This was plucked off the shelf immediately after reading Ray Russell’s Aickman biography (Tartarus Press- see my earlier review) as it occurred to me that I hadn’t read any of his work in a while much as I like it. This is the third of his solo volumes and an excellent introduction to his work.Aickman is renowned for offering multiple interpretations of his work but I tend to think his weird fiction writings are at heart a mix of well articulated dreams, sometimes with a greater or les...
Robert Aickman and MR James are IMHO the finest writers of ghost stories ever and Sub Rosa includes Aickman's best work. I read it in a library edition though I've got some of the stories in Aickman's superb Fontana modern collections. Just as well, since it costs £32!
I've read dozens of books of ghost stories by all the purported greats but somehow this writer has eluded me until now. Aickman's stories are actually a cut above the usual as they don't ever have a moment of relying on a crutch, they are atmospheric to the extreme and carry with them those gentle hints of horror which make them truly terrifying. All of the stories in this collection (except perhaps the slightly disappointing "No Stronger than a Flower") are stylistically similar in creating uns...
The first tale of the collection, Ravissante tells of a curious manuscript of a painter that is being read by our protagonist upon the painter's death. It tells of a strange episode in Belgium, where the artist is visiting the elderly widow of one of his favorite artists. The story seems to thrive on alienation between the characters, nothing can be perceived until it’s too late. Aickman’s prose and turn of phrases through the story create an atmosphere that is so unbelievably unsettling, it’s a...
Wouldst thou like to write sentences deliciously, like this?I might compare them, though a little distantly, with the once controversial last works of the late Charles Sims: apparently confused on the surface, even demented, they made one doubt while one continued to gaze, as upon Sim's pictures, whether the painter had not in truth broken through to a deep and terrible order.Of course, you would. You're tired of Lovecraft's confused, adverb-sodden descriptions. Bored with his hundreds of pale i...
Sub Rosa - Eight tales by Robert Aickman, acknowledged as one of the finest British authors of ghost stories or what he himself termed “strange stories.” As R. B. Russell writes in his Introduction to this high quality Tartarus Press publication, the stories in Sub Rosa represent Aickman at the height of his powers. Although I’m relatively new to Aickman (I’ve only read Compulsory Games and Night Voices), I entirely concur – a reader would have to dig deep to discover tales equal in their sheer
My caveat over Aickman's take on the Magic Mountain aside, superb stuff.
Where is the "masterpiece" button because 5 stars are not enough. Robert Aickman is criminally neglected. A superb writer, one of a kind really. Reading Sub Rosa was a unique reading experience. I have felt the same way when I first read the work of Gene Wolfe (Wolfe also blurbed Aickman's novel "the model" and he really liked it so the connection here is justified). I don't really want to tell anything regarding the stories because i will spoil the overall experience. Read it if you are into st...
