Ramsey aickman biography
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The Haunting in Connecticut
2009 film
The Haunting in Connecticut is a 2009 supernatural horror film directed by Peter Cornwell and starring Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Martin Donovan, Amanda Crew, and Elias Koteas. The film is alleged to be about Carmen Snedeker and her family, though Ray Garton, author of In a Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting (1992), has publicly distanced himself from the accuracy of the events he depicted in the book.[4][5] The film's story follows the fictional Campbells as they move into a house (a former mortuary) to mitigate the strains of travel on their cancer-stricken son, Matt. The family soon becomes haunted by violent and traumatic events from supernatural forces occupying the house.
The film was moderately successful, grossing about $78.8 million at the box office.[3] it received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to Metacritic.[6] In 2010 Gold Circle Films announced the production of a sequel, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (released 2013) They noted, however, that the film wouldn't be a direct sequel to The Haunting in Connecticut and would instead be a self-contained film with unique characters.[7]
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Alexander Glass on a new biography by R.B. Russell
Robert Aickman is not exactly a forgotten figure; collections of his most significant fiction were reissued by Faber & Faber in 2014: The Unsettled Dust, The Wine-Dark Sea, and Cold Hand in Mine. Other reprints have been published by Tartarus Press and New York Review Books Classics. Yet Aickman may be under-appreciated; certainly he himself seems to have thought so. R.B. Russell’s comprehensive Robert Aickman: A Biography (Tartarus Press, 2023) seeks to rectify that.
Aickman had written two autobiographies: The Attempted Rescue in 1966, and The River Runs Uphill, published posthumously in 1986. Russell draws on both, and on copious other sources, ranging from Aickman’s fiction itself to conversations with people who knew him. He can thus compensate for Aickman’s idiosyncrasies, odd omissions, and even odder inclusions; but Aickman’s life is peppered throughout with little unexplained details that would not have been out of place in his own eerie fiction, hinting – but only hinting – at some dark and sinister force operating just beyond the edge of perception.
Aickman was born in 1914. He maintained that his parents had had sex only once, on their honeymoon, and that his mother had wished for a da
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Aickman Biography
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