Robert Aickman, Dark Entries: Curious and Macabre Ghost Stories1964 / Ebook / 173 pages / UK
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A mixed bag of vague strangeness in varied settings.
Faves: 'Choice of Weapons,' 'The Waiting Room.'
Worsties: 'The School Friend,' 'The View.'
1971 / Ebook / 256 pages / UK
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Comprehensive context for the pretty playing cards, but not much in the way of divination tips, if that's your thing. The rules seem flexible to the point of being meaningless.
1976 / Ebook / 224 pages / USA
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A surprisingly straightforward historical detour for the master of dark science fantasy, unless I'm missing something. The casually evil baddie is pretty chilling, but my enjoyment waned as it went along and the chance of it suddenly getting a lot more interesting got ever slimmer.
2011 / Ebook / 235 pages / UK
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The album didn't do much for me, but this exhaustively in-depth write-up – a song-by-song listen-along that works in all the context of its creation, composition and legacy – is the standard all 33⅓ writers should aspire to. It'd be a much briefer series if they had to bother.
2019 / Ebook / 224 pages / Australia
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Useful and less useful tips, some more patronising than others, some such as the reverse hoodie food trough presumably jokes, though it's not clear whether the credited "researcher" realised this when sourcing tips from reddit via Buzzfeed.
