Status Updates From The Unsettled Dust

Bind your Hair. 5. Read in Dark Entries

Eight stories to be read out of sequence of the collection, and sometimes from other volumes, so each is 12.5%

Reading selected stories in this book and The Wine Dark Sea as substitute for Sub Rosa in my 2025 Aickman complete chronological re-read

“I felt, most sadly of all, that what I have called harshness in Madame A was simply a blast of life’s essential quality as it drags us all over the stones.”

Average Robert Aickman prose: I said something profound. At least I think I said something profound; there would have been no reason to say anything otherwise. Therefore, I must have. My wife’s expression certainly seemed to indicate so, and it was warranted on such an occasion—OMG GET ON WITH IT ALREADY😂😂😂