Cannibalism in Aickman



A reprise of John Magwitch's discovery of a possible cannibalism theme in Robert Aickman's stories. NB: in the comments to the blog link below, I discovered that the Magwitch character showed cannibalistic tendencies in Great Expectations!
http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/john-magwitchs-thesis-on-robert-aickman-cannibalism/

Disarming Strangeness

I like TS Eliot's concept of 'objective correlative'.
But I prefer my own term of 'disarming strangenesses'
I've coined for describing Aickman's objective correlatives.

Aickmania

I've just completed a review of SHRIKE by Quentin S. Crisp started here http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/shrike-quentin-s-crisp/ and finished here http://zencore2007.wordpress.com/111-2/

Contains the first recorded use of the word 'Aickmania' in the comment today on the second link above.

EDIT: Maybe not the first recorded use as someone may have used it before on Googlegroups.