![]() ![]() In addition to eight collections of “strange stories,” as he dubbed them (the first, We Are For the Dark, included stories written by the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard), his writing includes a short novel, The Late Breakfasters (1965), a posthumously published novella, The Model (1987), and various unpublished fiction, dramatic, and nonfiction works. Above all, Aickman wanted to be an author, and he realized this desire with an extensive oeuvre of quasi- supernatural tales. A prominent advocate for preserving and restoring England’s extensive network of canals, he was cofounder, in 1946, of the influential Inland Waterways Association. He did not attend university and subsisted on a small family income in London, working variously as a literary agent, editor, and theater and art critic. ROBERT AICKMAN (1914–1981) was the son of an architect and grandson of the Victorian Gothic novelist Richard Marsh (author of the occult bestseller The Beetle). ![]()
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