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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.

Genres: Horror

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

The Inner Room (1965)
Compulsory Games (1976)

Anthologies edited

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

Non fiction

The Attempted Rescue (1966)
The River Runs Uphill (1986)

Anthologies containing stories by Robert Aickman

The 3rd Ghost Book (1955)
Best Tales of Terror (1962)
The 4th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1963)
The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1964)
The 4th Ghost Book (1965)
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1966)
Hauntings (1968)
The 5th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1969)
The 7th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1971)
The 8th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1972)
The Year's Best Horror Stories III (1973)
Nameless Places (1975)
The Far Reaches of Fear (1976)
Frights (1976)
Whispers (1977)
Chamber of Horrors (1978)
The Year's Finest Fantasy (1978)
Frights 2 (1979)
The Year's Best Horror Stories VII (1979)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
New Terrors 1 (1980)
Dark Forces (1980)
New Tales of Terror (1980)
Fantasy Annual IV (1981)
Haunted Houses (1983)
The Architecture of Fear (1987)
The Colour of Evil (1987)
Dark Voices (1990)
Horror Story Volume 3 (1991)
Uncanny Banquet (1992)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare (1993)
The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1996)
My Favorite Horror Story (2000)

Short stories

	The Insufficient Answer (1951) (with Elizabeth Jane Howard)
	Left Luggage (1951) (with Elizabeth Jane Howard)
	Perfect Love (1951) (with Elizabeth Jane Howard)
	Three Miles Up (1951) (with Elizabeth Jane Howard)
	The Trains (1951) (with Elizabeth Jane Howard)
	The View (1951) (with Elizabeth Jane Howard)
	Your Tiny Hand is Frozen (1953)
	Ringing the Changes (1955)
	Bind Your Hair (1964)
	A Choice of Weapons (1964)
	The School Friend (1964)
	The Waiting Room (1964)
	Just a Song at Twilight (1965)
	Larger Than Oneself (1966)
	My Poor Friend (1966)
	No Stronger Than a Flower (1966)
	A Roman Question (1966)
	The Visiting Star (1966)
	The Wine-Dark Sea [short story] (1966)
	The Cicerones (1967)
	The Houses of the Russians (1968)
	Into the Wood (1968)
	Never Visit Venice (1968)
	Ravissante (1968)
	The Unsettled Dust [short story] (1968)
	The Swords (1969)
	Meeting Mr Millar (1972)
	Pages from a Young Girl's Journal (1972)		World Fantasy
	The Clock Watcher (1974)
	The Same Dog (1974)
	The Hospice (1975)
	Niemandswasser (1975)
	The Real Road to Church (1975)
	Wood (1976)
	Growing Boys (1977)
	Laura (1977)
	Le Miroir (1977)
	Marriage (1978)
	The Fetch (1980)
	Letters to the Postman (1980)
	Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale (1980)
	The Stains (1980)
	The Next Glade (1983)
	Rosamund's Bower (1985)

Awards

	World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement nominee (1975)
	World Fantasy Best Short Story winner (1975) : Pages from a Young Girl's Journal
	British Fantasy Society Best Collection nominee (1999) : The Collected Strange Stories of Robert Aickman, Volume II

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