We previously featured an interview with the author about the book.
"Clear-eyed and dispassionate." Margaret
Drabble, Times Literary Supplement
"Nobody knows more about this author of
beautifully composed, hallucinatory short fiction than R.B. Russell. Robert
Aickman: An Attempted Biography — the subtitle echoes Aickman’s memoir, The
Attempted Rescue — reveals a man, both charming and rabidly opinionated, who
seems to have polarized everyone he met. . . ." Michael Dirda, The Washington
Post
"Masterful. . . Russell is quite aware that a
biography of Aickman can only be attempted because, from moment to moment, what
Aickman experienced and what he imagined are hard to separate. It is a virtue
of this biography that it shows how, for Aickman, experience was what he
imagined." The New York Sun
"...insightful, revealing information about a
true master of horror." Dejan Ognjanovic, Rue Morgue
(Mark Valentine)
Most curious about the minor change in the book's title?
ReplyDeleteHi Jonathan. It was suggested by a number of commentators that my original title was too self-deprecating. And as it has been revised, it made sense to change it :-)
DeleteI have the hardcover edition published a year or so ago by Tartarus Press but this paperback edition mentions a "revised" edition. Are the revisions extensive enough for us to buy this edition also?
ReplyDeleteThere are a number of very minor, small changes. The only significant additions follow a new interview with a friend of Aickman's I hadn't been able to talk to before, and some detail on his interest in Winifred Wagner (which was previously published here: https://tartaruspress.blogspot.com/2022/05/robert-aickman-and-winifred-wagner.html)
DeletePersonally, I'm inspired that a guy with teeth that bad did so well with the ladies.
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