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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 Friday 5 September 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), British
author of strange stories as he preferred to call his disquieting creations which are so much more than just mundane "ghost stories". He was also the founder in 1946, with Tom Rolt, of the Inland
Waterways Association. For more information on Aickman, visit
the biography page. There is more information on
the aims of this site on the
about page and you can join the announcement-only mailing
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Please note that this site 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
updating over time so please feel free to get in touch (brian.lavelle at aickman.com).
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
1 June 2008
It's been some time since there has been positive
Aickman related news to report but I'd like to thank Mark Valentine for
pointing me to a hint that UK publisher Faber may
be about to reprint Aickman. They have a new reprint series of "lost
classics" - Faber Finds - and the series editor, John Seaton mentioned
Aickman in an article in the Telegraph yesterday
(scroll down - it's about 6 paragraphs from end). Whilst he doesn't
definitely say an Aickman reprint is in the offing in this piece, that's certainly
the implication.
On
doing a bit of further digging, I found that it seems Faber plan to
publish a 304 page paperback on 19 June 2008 entitled The Unsettled Dust. Whether or not this will be a volume identical to that published by Mandarin
almost 20 years ago remains to be confirmed. There's nothing yet
on the Faber Finds site but Amazon gives the ISBN as 0571244262.
The number of pages suggests this book will contain the same
stories as the 1990 paperback.
Watch this space for more details.
 In other news:
There is an excellent article by Peter Bell in issue 10 of Wormwood magazine, The Void Behind the Face of Order: Robert Aickman, Anthologist of the Ghost Story.
Peter's contribution is a detailed and thoughtful look at
Aickman's contributions and, more importantly, his introductions to and
the anthological skill displayed in the first eight volumes of the
Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, published between 1964 and 1972.
Click here
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, Peter Bell, 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, Mark Valentine, Adam Walter and Chris Ward.
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