The Inner Room

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By Robert Aickman

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The Inner Room by Robert Aickman is a haunting tale within the realm of General Fiction that delves into psychological and supernatural themes. The story follows a young girl's fixation with an elaborate dollhouse that eerily mirrors the complexities and ambiguities of human experiences. As she grows, the interplay between reality and imagination becomes increasingly blurred, revealing the profound influence of the inner world.
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The Inner Room

Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition and the hallucinated life.

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In perhaps the most magnificent of what he called his strange stories, Robert Aickman blurs the lines between memory, premonition, and the hallucinated life.

Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncanny inhabitants entered her dreams. Most chillingly, the geometries of the house didn't add up; there had to be a secret room inside it.

Years later, she comes across a life-size version in a wood not marked on any map...

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571351770

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 January 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 5.0mm

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 160.0mm

Weight: 57g

Pages: 80

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About the Author

Robert Fordyce Aickman was born in 1914 in London. He was married to Edith Ray Gregorson from 1941 to 1957. In 1946 the couple, along with Tom and Angela Rolt, set up the Inland Waterways Association to preserve the canals of Britain. It was in 1951 that Aickman, along with Elizabeth Jane Howard, published his first ghost stories entitled We Are the Dark. Aickman went on to publish eleven more volumes of horror stories as well as two fantasy novels and two volumes of autobiography. He also edited the first eight volumes of The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. He died in February 1981.