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(4.5 stars)What the reviewers who characterize Charles Wilkinson as a poor man's Aickman fail to realize is how he has streamlined the strange tale\modern ghost story. Still using the familiar technique of couching strangeness in thick cushions of intentionally dull realism, Wilkinson's average story, being roughly one-third the length of his famed predecessor's average story, is so symbolically charged and compact as to seem authentically pervaded with a sense of the numinous. If Aickman tends
This is a lovely book to own - a very desirable physical object and further proof that the publisher produces some of the nicest books around. I'm less impressed by the contents, however. This is because:a) a lot of the stories play the familiar weird fiction game of giving you lots of realist detail and then leaving you to ponder whether it has any significance - literal, allegorical, or symbolic. In one story, a character sells military memorabilia online. This has little obvious bearing on th...
There's always a trap: a trap in the mind, a trap by design, a trap that betrays, or that leads astray, traps that transform, traps that are destiny. Pity the poor human and the traps they lay for others - or for themselves; pity the poor human whose path leads to a trap - or who trods on a path that is the trap itself. Alas, the surly sullen bell tolls for trapper and trapped alike! And no one shall heed its warning sound.Charles Wilkinson is a beautiful writer. Of the Aickman school, as has be...
One of 300 copies.Contents: 009 - Introduction by John Howard 013 - "In the Frame"026 - "The Ground of the Circuit"040 - "Slimikins"056 - "Boxing the Breakable"069 - "The White Kisses"085 - "The Lengthsman"094 - "Absolute Possession"111 - "Mr Kitchell Says Thank You"130 - "Drawing Above the Breath"144 - "Aficionado of the Cold Places"157 - "Catapedamania"172 -"The Solitary Truth"183 - "His Theory of Fridays"198 - "An Absent Member"214 - "Might be Mordiford"229 - "Legs & Chair"230 - "The Floaters...
Charle Wilkinson's sophomore outing with the elegant and accomplished Egaeus Press is less of a novelty to me than his first Egaeus book, A Twist in the Eye. My earlier "discovery" of Wilkinson was startling and swept me off my feet. Now that I've become more familiar with his work, it feels more . . . well, familiar. And that's not a bad thing. The ebbs and flows of a reader with "his" author can become a sort of cat-and-mouse game, where some maneuvers lose their surprise and others add a whol...
One of the few books that I have to abandon (for now at least). The stories in here are not working out for me and I liked (sort of) only one. I appreciate mostly the physical aspect of the book and not the essence of it. The stories do not make any sense and they appear to be cryptic just for the sake of it.
Splendid in Ash - a high quality Egaeus Press publication of more than a dozen pieces of weird fiction by contemporary British author Charles Wilkinson.At one point in his Introduction to this collection, John Howard characterizes Charles Wilkinson's weird fiction: "Hard reality, bodied-out in lists of normal everyday objects defined and surrounded by light, can be transformed from the mundane and magnified and distorted. Commonplace actions become significant and sinister, ominous."Although I m...
THE THEORY OF FRIDAYS…which leads me to my theory of Wilkinson. But first, I can tell you this is an increasingly crackbrained portrait of the narrator’s elder brother, and the relationship of both of them with their two sisters, a battle of inheritance and the sororal scorn for both brothers’ behaviour, I sense, even though the narrator brother maintains a level of self-perceived sanity, a sanity that I question. Who to believe? Do we in fact believe that the elder brother takes some outlandish...
