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Did Family know Aickmann's story The Inner Room?

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Topic: Did Family know Aickmann's story The Inner Room?

Posted By: MagicMoo
Subject: Did Family know Aickmann's story The Inner Room?
Date Posted: January 16 2012 at 03:25

Hi everybody!

Looking at the cover of Family's Music in a Doll's House
makes me freeze at times.
British author Robert Aickmann wrote a much praised weird-fiction story
called The Inner Room, that was published in the spring of 1968.
The plot in short goes like this:
Little girl gets doll's house as a birthday gift.
This doll's house has an inner room,that one can't get
access to. She has nightmares about that situation.
Then the story makes a cut and the second part shows the girl
as an adult walking in the woods one day. Deeper and deeper
she goes until she sees a yellow light. She follows that light
and, yes, comes to the doll's house, now in the proportions of
a normal house. Finally, 'they' lead her to the Inner Room,
saying: "It is the room where we eat".
Now the description of the doll's house inner architecture
reminds me a lot of Family's debut's cover.

Anybody heard anything about a connection between the two?