nostr:npub1kkpqaymaay95q7h5ytavpud4p77j90x2nd6qyk5ta9k82sccgauss65sfx LMH came up quite a few times in the responses to Andrew's posts.

An interesting question from critic Andrew Male yesterday: who is currently writing quietly unsettling horror fiction in the mode of Robert Aickman? Rather than grimness, gore, cults, abuse, etc.. Like, Aickman has a story about a man whose wife has too many clocks, and someone is coming round to repair the clocks when he's out at work. That sort of thing. #horror #fiction

nostr:npub178h85fgemmdfrtwxq5uehw985m0ve7akcm60z9y5z845dd4hw5ds6rhyhr glad you enjoyed it.

Reading ‘Out of the Darkness’, a collection of weird stories themed around mental health, edited by Dan Coxon. It's hard going, even though the stories are good – so much trauma; so many suffering people. I do sometimes think modern weird fiction has a bleakness problem. (My own included.) M.R. James is escapism, dark in mood as the stories can feel. This book is not. #fiction #horror #WeirdFiction