Robert Aickman

Unofficial Twitter account of the dead Robert Aickman

[Robert Aickman @RobertAickman]

You are a newcomer. It is unfortunate that I cannot in all honesty wish you a happy stay.

[Robert Aickman @RobertAickman]

@questingvole

[Robert Aickman @RobertAickman]

Then she became really frightened; because she found she could not move.

[Robert Aickman @RobertAickman]

The country stretches in this direction only.

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There’ve been people before who’ve had to be hidden.

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‘There’s always a fog,’ said the child.

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A wild, bitter misery at his utter loss descended upon him and clung like the shroud about a man who has been hanged.

[Robert Aickman @RobertAickman]

Finished with women, almost with the world.

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We’ll sit it out, no matter what happens.

[Robert Aickman @RobertAickman]

No Rite of Way. Persons Proceed Beyond This Point By Favour Only.

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After examining the binding and the last page (some kind of moral, apparently), he laid the book down as he had found it.

[Robert Aickman @RobertAickman]

Don’t let them see. Oh please don’t let them see.

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From breakfast onwards her spirits once more began to sink.

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In the mild light of an autumn morning the sight of the black and silent toilers was horrible.

[AM @Andr6wMale]

Those searching for further short stories in the spirit of @RobertAickman I can recommend The Tooth by Shirley Jackson and Monte Verità by Daphne du Maurier.

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There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.

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I’m afraid there’s no more. In England the coffee’s bad, but there’s more of it. I expect that’s symbolical too.

[Mr. Thank You @c0mmunicants]

Happy fall, friends.

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I wondered upon the unknown troubles which might have followed my failure to leave the house.

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We never did anything much, except have odd, low-toned disagreements, seldom about anything that could be defined.