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“The Stains” by Robert Aickman

Posted on August 17, 2022

A widower visiting his vicar brother in the country encounters a strange young woman on the moors and moves into an abandoned house with her, where they are pursued by the girl’s father, who may be some sort of primordial god.

This is peak Aickman, creepy in every sense (the lurking lichens and the leering after a girl of uncertain age) with an ambiguous and unsettling conclusion.

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