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Rober Aickman doesn't call his stories horror, but rather “strange stories“, and I think they're exactly that. I loved the eerie atmosphere and Aickman's ideas. I was also surprised to find stories told from a female point of view.
Some stories were a bit too long and too slow for me. But this book was still a positive read to me, and I am glad I got to know Robert Aickman.

Ever since reading his Piñata, I‘ve been on the lookout for this and found it. I was not disappointed. Joaquin runs a radio show called Ghost Radio where people call in telling their spooky stories. Joaquin has been close to death most of his life escaping two close calls. Something has been trying to reach Joaquin and as Joaquin starts to pay attention reality starts to blur and smudge and he has no idea what the hell is going on. It was a ??

Read by Emma Thompson. Fantastic.

Next audible and photo of a rock wall I saw in the middle of nowhere

The Haunted Hotel was OK. I wasn't wowed. I enjoyed that the hotel was in Venice because I went earlier this month and fell in love with the place. Luckily the place I stayed didn't formerly house any of my dead relatives or generate any eerie bad smells.

I would describe the story and writing as quintessentially Victorian through and through. The sort of tale that would probably be scarier read at a time before electric lighting.

#StorySettings Day 12: #HauntedHouse reminded me of this illustrated story I reviewed back in 2010. Kate Culhane, was haunted by spectres that she had no choice but to go through each of the quiet sleeping houses with a ghost whose “weight was heavy as a sack of stones” until they found a house with no holy water in the house. My full review here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-lc

May 12 #StorySettings Hounted House 🏠 @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks