PLEASE LET GO by Johnny Mains

A new story being published in December 2023 in a re-issued ‘Frightfully Cosy and Mild Stories for Nervous Types’.

A REVIEW OF IT AS PART OF MY ‘DESSEMINATION’ PROJECT HERE:-

“…that Aickman, man, he is zipped up way too tightly.”

A story billed as the best story ever written, as gifted this morning to someone older by someone younger, yet the story itself is about the very vice versa or inversion of such an act. This being an as yet secret unread story by a man much younger than the ailing man like me to whom he has given it to review, a story about Robert Aickman and his death, written by a fan herein becoming an arms length confidant of the great writer during his period of  dying, with cameo parts by people who knew Aickman, and involving sickly spurts of blood that never quite erupt in the real church of his fiction, except perhaps in the secret unknown Aickman story that is somehow bequeathed to the younger man using the same title as this alternating-current fiction from the Mains man. 

Aches and pains, the growing pangs of death’s remains.

But spurts of blood can at least be inferred from the pages of PAGES FROM A YOUNG GIRL’S JOURNAL, from which pages are also found these words: “…fiction though it be, could hardly with sense have been written at all.”

My previous reviews of Johnny Mains:  HERE