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“The Cicerones” by Robert Aickman

Posted on May 31, 2022

A British traveler has an unusual tour of a Belgian cathedral.

This is a quietly unsettling Aickman story, with the weirdness building gradually with each morbid piece of artwork in the cathedral until a quite frightening conclusion. The ends are pulled together, but they are never tied off; the conclusion is ambiguous and all the more frightening for it.

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