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Robert Aickman

(Robert Fordyce Aickman)

(1914 - 1981)
Grandson of Richard Marsh

Robert Aickman is considered by many to be one of the finest modern writers of ghost stories. But Aickman himself refered to his tales as "strange stories", for they are often open to more complex interpretations. The writing is subtle and poetic, presenting us with both psychological and more material terrors.

Awards: BFA (1981), WFA (1975) see all

Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Literary Fiction

Novels

   The Late Breakfasters (1964)
   The Model (1987)
   Go Back at Once (2022)

Collections

   We Are for the Dark (1951) (with Elizabeth Jane Howard)
   Dark Entries (1964)
   Powers of Darkness (1966)
   The Unsettled Dust (1966)
   Sub Rosa (1968)
   Cold Hand in Mine (1975)
   Tales of Love and Death (1977)
   Painted Devils (1979)
   Intrusions (1980)
   Night Voices (1985)
   The Wine-Dark Sea (1988)
   The Collected Strange Stories of Robert Aickman, Volume II (1990)
   The Collected Strange Stories of Robert Aickman Volume 1 (2001)
   The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories (2016)

Novellas and Short Stories

Compulsory Games (1976)

Series contributed to

Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories
   1. The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964)
   2. The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
   3. The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
   4. The 4th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1967)
   5. The 5th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1969)
   6. The 6th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1970)
   7. The 7th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1971)
   8. The 8th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1972)

Faber Stories
The Inner Room (1965)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Robert Aickman

Sunless Solstice (2021)
Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 27)
edited by
Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk

Mortal Echoes (2018)
Encounters with the End
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 4)
edited by
Greg Buzwell

Ghosts of Christmas Past (2017)
edited by
Tim Martin

More books

Awards

	1981 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : Stains
	1975 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : Pages from a Young Girl's Journal

Award nominations

	2000 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Collected Strange Stories of Robert Aickman Volume 1
	1989 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Wine-Dark Sea
	1978 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Growing Boys
	1975 World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement (nominee)

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