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Robert
Fordyce Aickman by Ida Kar (late 1950s)
National Portrait Gallery, London - NPG x125036
Medium: 2 1/4 inch square film negative
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to Robert Aickman » A Pictorial Bibliography
on Saturday 17 May 2008.
On this site, you'll find a
chronological catalogue of the different editions and printings of the
works of the late Robert Fordyce Aickman (1914-1981), the British
author of "strange stories", as he preferred to call his disquieting creations rather than the more mundane epithet "ghost stories". He was also the founder in 1946, with Tom Rolt, of the Inland
Waterways Association. For more information on Aickman, see
the biography page. You can visit the
about page for more information on
the aims of this site and you can join the announcement-only mailing
list here. The site will
also, over time, feature books about Aickman and foreign language
editions of his works.
Please note that
www.aickman.com is not connected in any way with the estate of Robert
Aickman, his literary executors or with the copyright holders of his
works. The design and content are all my own, and as a result so too
are any errors which might have crept in: I welcome any corrections,
additions, suggestions, further pictures of cover artwork et
cetera. It's likely the story index will need constant
updating so please feel free to get in touch. I am always interested in
unusual Aickman items: signed/inscribed copies of books, proofs,
letters, manuscripts, original photographs etc, so please email me if
you have anything like this. You will find scans of some items on the letters
page.
» news
 15 November 2005
I'm delighted to say that an unpublished short story by Robert Aickman will appear in the new edition of Wormwood (Issue 5, Autumn 2005). The story is entitled The Fully-Conducted Tour
and is relatively short, but apparently complete. An afterword is
provided by Glen Cavaliero. Details have been added to the story index page.
30
March 2005
The letters
page has now been properly uploaded, with scans of a two page letter by
Robert Aickman and scans of four brief postcards. All of these items
were written in a period less than nine months before his death, when
Aickman was clearly quite seriously ill, and there is reference in a
number of the items to his condition. For all that, they reveal a
picture of a charismatic but rather lonely man, perhaps cut off from
the modern world somewhat yet desirous of contact with at least part of
it.
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for older news.
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» acknowledgements
My thanks to the
following people who have been kind enough to assist with, provide
material for or comment constructively on this site:
» Mike Ashley, Matthew Bailey of the National Portrait
Gallery in London, Jamie Bird, Ramsey Campbell, Sandro Caparrini,
Peter Coady, Gary W Crawford, Colin Cutler,
Robin Davies, Tony Fonseca, P. Hamlyn, Paula Hunter, Xavier
Legrand-Ferronnière, Steve Pachuta, Rosemary Pardoe, Gregory Pierce,
Ronan Pronost, Ria, Jim Rockhill, Christopher Roden, Ray
Russell, Adam Walter and Chris Ward.
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