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Carregando... Painted Devils: Strange Stories (1979)de Robert Aickman
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Aickman is a master storyteller with a sly wit and an ability to craft memorable passages of insight and detail. For example: concerning interpersonal relationships: "... associations that are not alive are best amputated as skillfully as possible before the rot infects too much of one's tissue and unnecessarily lowers the tone of life.", and "There were many seats, made years ago of wooden beams set in green cast iron frames, some almost perpendicular, some sloping lasciviously backward."
I will also note that this collection includes perhaps the only Aickman story of the few dozen I've read so far that did not really intrigue me. "My Poor Friend" is a rather bland tale which draws on the author's interest in Britain's waterways (he was a co-founder of the Inland Waterways Association), skewers the conventions and machinations of Parliamentary government, but ultimately offers little of his signature strangeness. ( )