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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I'm delighted to say that an unpublished short story by Robert Aickman will appear in the new edition of Wormwood (Issue 5, Autumn 2005).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.

27 March 2005
Locus Magazine is running the 2005 Locus All-time Fantasy Story Poll. Their listing of almost 300 titles includes two by Aickman (Pages from a Young Girl's Journal and The Stains) but you can also vote for unlisted titles. Here is the description from the site:

"What is the greatest fantasy short story of all time? Please vote for your favorite novellas, novelettes, and short stories, published in 1995 or before, in this special category. A selection of nearly 300 titles, drawn from awards winners, classic anthologies, and expert recommendations, is listed below as suggestions, but you may vote for any other titles of your choice by using the write-in boxes at the bottom of the page."

The link to the page is here. Thanks to Adam Walter for encouraging me to announce this here.

26 March 2005
The photograph which now appears on the front page of the site has been licensed from the National Portrait Gallery in London. It was taken during the late 1950s by noted Russian photographer, Ida Kar. My thanks to Matthew Bailey of the Picture Library at the NPG for his assistance.

I have altered the manner in which cover pictures of books are presented on the site. Each of the book pages now has thumbnails of the front and back cover scans, where applicable and available, and larger version of the cover picture will open in a separate window if the thumbnail is clicked.

18 March 2005
A page dedicated to the second German collection of Aickman's stories, Schlaflos: Makabre Erzählungen published in 1992, is now available. This nicely produced volume, which complements the 1991 German collection Glockengeläut: Makabre Erzählungen, contains six further translations and an 8 page Afterword, again in German.

6 March 2005
I've now added front and back cover scans of the proof edition of the US printing of The Wine-Dark Sea: A Collection.

8 January 2005
Happy new year to all. Xavier Legrand-Ferronnière has been kind enough to send details of all Aickman's tales published in French translation. Whilst no dedicated anthology of Aickman's work has ever seen publication in France, eight of his strange stories have appeared in various periodicals and anthologies since 1969. The particular stories are: Bind Your Hair, Ringing the Changes, The School Friend, Pages from a Young Girl's Journal, The Hospice, The Swords, Ravissante and Never Visit Venice.

4 December 2004
Thanks to Chris Ward, I've now added full details and cover scans for the 1991 German collection Glockengeläut: Makabre Erzählungen, which features translations of six of Aickman's better known stories and a 10 page Afterword (in German, of course).

15 November 2004
A cover scan and details have now been added for an advance uncorrected proof copy of The Model.

6 November 2004
I have added the bibliographical details and cover scan for Das Modell, the German edition of The Model, a very strikingly produced book with a number of excellent illustrations by Susanne Ohl.

3 October 2004
A cover image and bibliographic information for the Uncorrected Advance Proof of Powers of Darkness has now been added to the site, courtesy of Jamie Bird.

12 September 2004
I have now added to the site images of the covers of the 1968 paperback edition of Powers of Darkness, the front of which features some rather disquieting artwork. Does anyone have any information on the artist/designer? I have also added the cover and full details for the first edition of The Late Breakfasters, full details and cover scans for The River Runs Uphill and scans of The Collected Strange Stories and the new edition of The Attempted Rescue.

14 August 2004
Adam Walter's article Mrs. Aickman: Edith Ray Gregorson, with images of Gregorson's book for children Lemuel: The Tree Kangaroo, is now available on the new articles page or directly from here.

9 August 2004
The site is now substantially finished, although a number of the pages for individual books require to be completed.

1 August 2004
The site is first published.

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