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Creator of Ghost Stories talks supernatural inspiration
Friday, 25 February 2011
Ghost Stories at the Duke of York's Theatre has no doubt spooked plenty of audiences and its co-creator has offered some idea about which writers may have inspired him.
Yorkshire-born screenwriter and actor Jeremy Dyson has revealed that Robert Aikman is his favourite deceased author of supernatural tales.
He claimed Aikman almost created a genre for himself with the way he made the reader feel with his short stories, reported the Daily Express.
"If he didn't deal so directly with the spectral he would have been more lauded as a writer in his time but I'll bet he's in print in 100 years," Dyson remarked.
In his opinion, it is the truth and poetry that Aikman achieves, as much as the haunting and surreal nature of his literature, that sets him apart from the rest.
Ghost Stories, which Dyson co-wrote with Andy Nyman, has been such a success at its Duke of York's Theatre home that its run was extended to June 26th 2011.