The Wine Dark Sea (Audible Audio Edition) Robert Aickman Reece Shearsmith Audible Studios Books
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First published in the US in 1988 and in the UK in 1990, The Wine-Dark Sea contains eight unsettling stories that explore protagonists' fears and desires, at once illogical and terrifying, and culminate in a disturbing and enigmatic ending. Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term for them) are a subtle exploration of psychological displacement and paranoia; his characters ordinary people that are gradually drawn into the darker recesses of their own minds. For fans of the horror genre, Robert Aickman is a must read.
Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. In 1951, he published his first ghost stories in a volume called We Are the Dark, written in conjunction with Elizabeth Jane Howard, then went on to publish eleven further volumes of horror stories, two fantasy novels and two volumes of autobiography. Dubbed 'the supreme master of the supernatural', he won a World Fantasy Award and British Fantasy Award for his short fiction, and also edited the first eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. Aside from his writing, Aickman was passionate about preserving British canals and founded the Inland Waterways Association in 1946. He died in February 1981.
Reece Shearsmith is a talented actor and writer. He is most famous for co-writing and starring in the award-winning The League of Gentlemen, along with Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson. In 2009, Shearsmith and Pemberton won Best New Comedy at the 2009 British Comedy Awards for Psychoville.
Reece Shearsmith has just finished filming Ben Wheatley's horror A Field in England, out in July 2013.
The Wine Dark Sea (Audible Audio Edition) Robert Aickman Reece Shearsmith Audible Studios Books
Robert Aickman was one of the greatest—and most original—author of supernatural tales or "weird tales" from the 20th century. For a good number of years, he was the editor of "The Fontana Book of Ghost Stories." As the editor, in each edition of the "Fontana Book of Ghost Stories," he always managed to include one of his own stories. In the first book of the Fontana series, he included a story from this anthology called "The Trains." It begins as a prosaic tale of two young women on holiday taking a "walking tour" in the Midlands of Great Britain. But during their excursion they stop to "put up for the night" in a lonely building that sits next to a very busy set of railroad lines—and from that point on the horror begins. Another superb eldritch story in this anthology is "The Fetch" which is a very haunting (literally) story about the titular character—the Scottish equivalent of the Irish banshee. In these two stories—and in all his other stories—Aickman never "neatly ties up all the strings" at the end of a story and you are usually left scratching your head a little bit as to what was really going on. That might be frustrating to some readers. But it is this very ambiguity that makes his stories so frightening—and so disturbing. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for something out of the ordinary in terms of supernatural horror.Product details
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The Wine Dark Sea (Audible Audio Edition) Robert Aickman Reece Shearsmith Audible Studios Books Reviews
These are eerie, thought-provoking stories ... not exactly scary, but weirdly unsettling. They don't really tie up loose ends, but rather leave the reader with questions. For me, this actually injects some realism into this collection of tales (even though they could be interpreted to be, in some cases, supernatural), since life isn't a neat package of circular story-telling with tidy closure. I even read The Inner Room twice, which you might understand if you read it, too. These short stories can be dissonant, uncomfortable and even off-putting, and yet still personal and compelling. I found there was something of me in all of them, and I love that.
I thoroughly enjoyed this collection and am ready for more.
The British writer Robert Aickman is something of a legend among horror writers, because there has been no one writing like him since or even quite a while before him. His closest antecedents might be Franz Kafka, Isak Dinesen, and Algernon Blackwood--yet none of them are quite the same. His stories always feature very memorable atmospherics and a constant sense of the uncanny; yet although undeniably supernatural events often occur within them they are only rarely named or made explicable. The sense of them is like the dread you find when reading the great creepy stories by Roald Dahl or John Collier or even Rod Serling, but they (happily) lack the simple and too-satisfying "twist" explanations at the end.
Neither of his two novels are currently in print, and most of his story collections have not been; for now the three editions from Faber Finds, rife though they are with proofreading errors, are all that are in print. THE WINE-DARK SEA is certainly the place to begin, seeing as it has some of his very best stories and what Peter Straub calls in his preface Aickman's masterpiece, "Into the Wood." While this superior story about being specially chosen (and alienated) may well be his most profound piece of writing, it's certainly not Aickman's creepiest that award might well belong to two other little gems in this collection, both of which involve his characteristic set-up of travelers going exactly where they shouldn't. "The Inner Room," an allegory of responsibility, reads like a supernatural version of an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel; it's repulsive in the best of senses. "The Trains" may be his most unsettling story, and involves a walking journey of two women through the English countryside that ends up at a manor house where both the house and its inhabitants are not what they appear to be (and are never fully explained). Even the less shattering pieces in the collection, like the title story and "The Fetch" (the most overt ghost story in the collection), are worth your time for the unresolved questions they provoke. Robert Aickman deserves much better critical and popular recognition these three collections from Faber Finds are a great step in that direction.
The Wine-Dark Sea was an American collection of Aickman's absolute best stories. These were NOT his most popular, likeable or entertaining stories, but the ones that had the overall best quality if you were evaluating them from an artistic or psychological perspective. Readers should be aware that the Faber edition is NOT properly a reprint of the 1988 original. Three stories have been dropped from this collection Bind Your Hair, The Stains, and The Next Glade. The first two appear in other Faber reprints, but the latter does not. This is unfortunate because The Next Glade could be Aickman's masterpiece. It's one of the "weightiest" stories he ever wrote - there's a depth and intensity to it stronger than in his other stories, but it's probably his least "entertaining" piece, and the one that confuses and annoys casual readers the most, which might be why it was dropped. If you really enjoy the stories in this collection, you owe it to yourself to hunt that one down. Its omission definitely brings down the overall collection.
Robert Aickman was one of the greatest—and most original—author of supernatural tales or "weird tales" from the 20th century. For a good number of years, he was the editor of "The Fontana Book of Ghost Stories." As the editor, in each edition of the "Fontana Book of Ghost Stories," he always managed to include one of his own stories. In the first book of the Fontana series, he included a story from this anthology called "The Trains." It begins as a prosaic tale of two young women on holiday taking a "walking tour" in the Midlands of Great Britain. But during their excursion they stop to "put up for the night" in a lonely building that sits next to a very busy set of railroad lines—and from that point on the horror begins. Another superb eldritch story in this anthology is "The Fetch" which is a very haunting (literally) story about the titular character—the Scottish equivalent of the Irish banshee. In these two stories—and in all his other stories—Aickman never "neatly ties up all the strings" at the end of a story and you are usually left scratching your head a little bit as to what was really going on. That might be frustrating to some readers. But it is this very ambiguity that makes his stories so frightening—and so disturbing. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for something out of the ordinary in terms of supernatural horror.
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