General Studies

Andriano, Joseph.  Our Ladies of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology in Male Gothic Fiction.  University Park, PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 1993.

Studies the single story "Ravissante" from a Jungian point of view.  Sees the ghostly Madame A. as a castration figure for the narrator.

Bolton, David.  Race Against Time:  How Britain's Waterways Were Saved.  London: Methuen, 1990.

A well-researched history of the Inland Waterways Association with much biographical information about Aickman.

De Mare, Eric.  The Canals of England.  London:  Architectural Press, 1950.

A good background sorce for the British canals written by Aickman's friend, Eric de Mare.

Dingwall, Eric J., Kathleen M. Godney, and Trevor H. Hall.  The Haunting of Borley Rectory.  London: Duckworth, 1956.

Contains a few paragraphs about Aickman and his wife's spending in a night the reputedly haunted Borley Rectory.  They had no supernatural experiences.

Haywood, Steve.  Fruit Flies Like a Banana: England by Canal and Classic Car.  Summersdale Publishers, 2004.

This is an earlier retitling of Haywood's other book below.

Haywood, Steve.  One Man and a Narrowboat:  Slowing Down Time on England's Waterways.  Summersdale Publishers, 2009.

Personal, jaunty and entertaining narrative that discusses Aickman throughout.  Also provides commentary about Elizabeth Jane Howard.  An interesting book with a great deal of information about the waterways.

Howard, Elizabeth Jane.  Slipstream: A Memoir.  London: Macmillan, 2002.

Details Howard's affair with Aickman.  Interesting biographical information.

Joshi, S.T.  Classics and Contemporaries:  Some Notes on Horror Fiction.  New York:  Hippocampus Press, 2009.

In this collection of short pieces by Joshi, Aickman is mentioned at several places throughout.

Joshi, S. T. The Modern Weird Tale.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.

The chapter on Aickman is a slight revision of Joshi's article that appeared in Studies in Weird Fiction.

Mackersey, Ian.  Tom Rolt and the Cressy Years. Cleobury, Mortimer, Shropshire: M&M Baldwin, 1991.

Contains some biographical information about Aickman.

Mendleson, Farah, and Edward James.  A Short History of Fantasy.  London:  Middlesex University Press, 2009.

Mentions Elizabeth Jane Howard and Aickman's We are for the Dark and Aickman's anthology appearances.

Price, Harry.  The End of Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England.  London:  Harrap, 1946.

A few pages are devoted to Aickman's stay at Borley Rectory with his wife and friends.  Excerpts from Aickman's report to Harry Price are included.

Scott, Peter.  The Eye of the Wind.  Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press of Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961.

Famous adventurer Peter Scott's biography, who writes of his one-time wife, Elizabeth Jane Howard, who had an affair with Robert Aickman.  Scott was a friend of Aickman and he worked with Aickman in the waterways campaign.  He describes Aickman  as "one of the most erudite of men and most excellent company."