Essays in Books

Bloom, Harold, ed.  "Robert Aickman."  Modern Horror Writers.  New York: Chelsea House, 1995.

Clute, John.  "Robert Aickman, 1914-1981."  Strokes: Essays and Reviews, 1966-1986.  Seattle, WA: Serconia Press, 1988.

A revised version of Clute's essay in Bleiler's Supernatural Fiction Writers.

Crawford, Gary William.  "The Poetics of the Unconscious:  The Strange Stories of Robert Aickman."  Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II.  Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1988.

Surveys the ghost stories from the perspective of Freud and his influence on Aickman.

Dirda, Michael.  "Walter de la Mare."  Classics for Pleasure.  New York: Harcourt, 2007.

Briefly mentions Aickman's stories as similar to de la Mare.

Ricketts, Martin.  "Enigma Macabre: An Evaluation of the Short Stories of Robert Aickman."  Voices from Shadow.  Ed. David Sutton.  Birmingham, England:  Shadow Publishing, 1994.  pp. 7-14.

An assessment of Aickman for the general reader.