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.

Rolt, L.T.C.  The Clouded Mirror.  London: Penguin, 2009.

Reprints an excerpt from Landscape with Canals titled "Canal Crusade."  Contains some information about Aickman.

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."