Robert Aickman

Budapest isn’t necessarily the place where you expect to find a Robert Aickman gem, but lucky me: while browsing for English book for my daughters, I came across a copy of The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, selected and with an introduction by the great modern English master of the strange tale. Aickman “edited the first eight […]

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From underappreciated minority taste, English weird and dark fiction author Robert Aickman seems on the fast track to resurrected greatness. And one further step in the process is the release by Undertow Publications, publishers of the very wonderful Shadows and Tall Trees, of Aickman’s Heirs, “an anthology of strange, weird tales by modern masters of […]

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This is one more in Faber’s series of reissues to mark the centenary of the birth of Robert Aickman, probably the best English horror writer since World War 2. However, it’s not a direct reissue of an original collection from Aickman’s lifetime. The Wine-Dark Sea was actually compiled from several other volumes in 1988, seven years […]

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As noted previously, Faber & Faber is re-releasing some of Robert Aickman’s short story collections for the centenary of his birth, and Dark Entries is one of the four volumes, and the one that has been unavailable from Faber up until now. Faber sent me the ebook copy on his centenary day, and I read […]

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The legacy of great, and greatly neglected, British horror and dark fiction writer Robert Aickman (1914-1981) has languished without mass market publication for many years. Tartarus Press carries a superb, but unfortunately expensive and hard to come by, series of hardback reprints of his original short story collections, and Faber Finds published three volumes of [...]

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This post celebrates the launch of the Aickman Studies website (http://www.aickmandata.com/aickmanstudies.html), covering the work of Robert Aickman (1914-1981), a highly original yet very typical Englishman, who produced some of the most unsettling – and elegant – dark tales of the post-war era. Well enough established yet little recognized in his lifetime, he has steadily grown [...]

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