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The Inner Room

by Robert Aickman

Fiction, short stories (single author)DollhousesFictionDreamsMemorySecrecy

Lene, a woman now recovering from the losses of the Second World War, recalls a gothic dolls' house of her childhood and the way in which its uncanny inhabitants entered her dreams. Most chillingly, the geometries of the house didn't add up; there had to be a secret room inside it. Years later, she comes across a life-size version in a wood not marked on any map...

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